Audiobooks for Success: Guidebook for authors, audiobook publishers, narrators, voice-over artists, and audiobook listeners. Learn how to create, produce, publish, and market your audiobooks
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Are you wondering if you should turn your print and ebooks into audio? Get valuable information, details, and all the necessary links on:
- How to Create and Record Audiobooks
- Audiobook Narration Tips
- How to Find the Right Narrator or - DIY Narrate Your Audiobooks
- Production Cost and How to Plan Your Audiobook
- Equipment for Audiobook Narrators/ Voice-Over Artists
- Where to Find Audiobook Reviewers
- For Listeners: Free Audiobooks to Review
Learn the following and more:
- Why investing in an audiobook is worthwhile
- How to choose an audiobook studio or production company in the USA, the UK, and Canada, and most important: to find the right narrator for your title
- How to set up your own DIY recording spot and which equipment to use for quality recording
--Where to take narration training and learn voiceover techniques or build a career out of your voice
- How to make words on a page come alive for the audience and create a visual image for the listener
- How to find reviewers (including direct links) and how to market and distribute your audiobook
- Where to find info about audiobook sellers and apps, and even where to find free audiobooks on the internet
- All about audiobook industry associations and their awards
Most important: Get step-by-step instructions on how to create, plan, narrate, record, edit, master, proof, market, and sell your audiobook, plus countless tips on finding the best audiobooks and apps.
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Audiobooks for Success - Doris-Maria Heilmann
Audiobooks for Success
A comprehensive guide for authors, audiobook publishers, narrators, voiceover artists, and audiobook listeners on creating, producing, publishing, and marketing audiobooks.
© Copyright 2019 Doris-Maria Heilmann
Publisher: 111Publishing
All rights reserved under international and pan-American copyright conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Print Edition June 2019
ISBN: 978-1-988664-37-8
Electronic Book Edition 2019
ISBN: 978-1-988664-36-1
111 Publishing, 21 Crockett Ct, Antigonish, NS, Canada
About This Book
Discover every aspect of audiobooks with this comprehensive guide for audiobook publishers, narrators, voiceover artists, and audiobook listeners. Get step-by-step instructions on how to plan, narrate, record, edit, master, proof, and sell your audiobook, plus countless tips on finding the best audiobooks and apps and writing an audiobook review.
Learn the following and more:
Why investing in an audiobook is worthwhile
How to choose an audiobook studio or production company in the USA, the UK, and Canada, and most important: to find the right narrator for your title
How to set up your own DIY recording spot and which equipment to use for quality recording
Where to take narration training and learn voiceover techniques or build a career out of your voice
How to make words on a page come alive for the audience and create a visual image for the listener
How to find reviewers (including direct links) and how to market and distribute your audiobook
Where to find info about audiobook sellers and apps, and even where to find free audiobooks on the internet
All about audiobook industry associations and their awards
Table of Contents
About This Book
Why Audiobooks?
The Long History of Audiobooks
Benefits for Authors
Planning Your Audiobook
Finding the Right Narrator
Audiobook Production Companies
Production Costs for Audiobooks
DIY Narration and Audiobook Production
Becoming an Audiobook Narrator
Audiobook Narration Training
Marketing Your Audiobook
Audiobook Reviewers
Audiobook Distribution
Audiobook Library Distributors
Listening to Audiobooks
Finding Free Audiobooks
The Audiobook Industry
A Note to the Reader
About the Author
More books and ebooks by the author:
Links and Resources
Why Audiobooks?
Audiobooks allow you to be productive while you listen and to enjoy books in a whole new way as narrators bring the story to life. In my blog article Split Your Book Apart,
I discuss how authors can use their manuscripts and their copyright and increase their earnings. One of these suggestions is audio. In other words, repurpose your manuscript and wring more out of it than just the print and ebook versions. Why not create an audiobook from your novel or even from nonfiction? Audiobooks are becoming more and more popular!
The Magic of Audiobooks
Forget the snobs who treat the written word as superior. British author Mark Haddon explains why he’s a huge fan: "I would pay good money to listen to Juliet Stevenson read me the terms and conditions of my mobile phone contract.
Despite my reservations about listening to readings of my own work, I am an avid consumer of audiobooks in general and have little time for those who parade their snobbery about the supposed superiority of the written word. Some of the best reading experiences of my life have been listening experiences."
Scott Sigler: Listen during your workout and watch those treadmill miles fly by. Or during the daily commute, and you might find yourself looking forward to heavy traffic that will keep you in the car just a bit longer. Or, just for your own enjoyment.
Listen Up: Why we can’t get enough of audiobooks
Steven Poole wrote in an article for The Guardian recently: "In this time-poor, podcast-friendly world, audiobooks are booming. So what is the science behind them – and do they change our relationship with the written word?
Are audiobooks the new… books? It was recently revealed that audiobook sales rocketed by 43% in 2018, while those of print books declined (by 5%) for the first time in five years. Can people no longer be bothered to read for themselves? Is this, rather than the ebook, the harbinger of the slow death of print, about which we have been warned for so long? And if so, what does that mean for literary culture?
Let us first retain some historical perspective by noting that Homer’s Iliad was essentially an audiobook before it was ever written down. Oral literary culture long precedes the book and there are many reasons for its rising popularity. The surge in audiobook sales seems very likely to be a halo effect of the huge popularity of podcasts, especially the single-theme long-form series such as NPR’s breakout Serial
, first released in October 2014, or ABC’s 2019 The Dropout
, a jaw-dropping investigation into the story of Elizabeth Holmes and her blood-testing tech company Theranos."
Listening is the new reading
Audiobooks, which let you multitask, are a great way to listen to books while driving long distance, walking the dog, cleaning the house or lying on the beach—and they are certainly a wonderful way for blind people to enjoy books. Audiobooks can be listened to on a smartphone, iPod, or MP3 player, on a laptop, and even on most e-readers, such as the Kindle, Tolino, and Nook.
If you have never tried an audiobook, give it a go.