Here’s a good visual step-by-step guide to the process: From Casting a Narrator: To Happily Ever After.How to Make an Audiobook: Publishing on ACX and Audiobook Marketing.I chose ACX (an Amazon platform) to turn my books into an audiobooks. Tips for Turning Your Novel into an Audiobook Using ACX #audibooks Click To Tweet That said, here’s what I gleaned about the process. I also had what I think is a fairly smooth experience with skilled, professional, and cooperative narrators. This post is an attempt to share my experience with the process. I’m no expert. Not convinced? Bookbub enumerates the reasons indie authors should turn their books into audiobooks too. (The neuroses of authors is a subject for another post.) ![]() To be honest, I flitted between being thrilled and cringing, but I’ve done that when reading the paperback as well. Second, I’ll admit to a selfish satisfaction in hearing my book read aloud. With this increase in listeners, more titles are being published: In 2012, just over 16,000 titles were published by 2016, that number had surged to more than 50,000.” ( Bookpage, June 2018) “What do runners, quilters, dog walkers, cooks and people unwinding at the end of the day all have in common? They are among the 24 percent of Americans who listened to an audiobook in the past year – that’s a 22 percent increase over the previous year. The Wall Street Journal calls the popularity an ‘explosion.’ An article in The Telegraph in 2015 said: “Sales of audio books have doubled in the last five years, thanks to the popularity of digital downloads.” In fact, according to the American Publishers Association, audio books saw a 19.5 percent rise in unit sales over just the past year alone ( The National ).” In her newsletter, author Jody Hedlund wrote: The audiobook’s hands-free portability is appealing, and so is the timeless enjoyment of listening to a story. Readers of traditional books and ebooks are listening more, too. Some people have vision problems that preclude reading ebooks or regular books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since my husband spends a lot of time in the car, he has become an audiobook listener. Creating an audiobook edition appealed to me for two reasons.įirst, audiobooks allow authors to reach an entirely different audience.Īn audiobook is the only way some people consume books. In May of 2016, I approved an audiobook adaption of my debut novel.
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