BOOK COVER MAGAZINE - WINTER EDITION - 2017
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proof is in the data:<br />
The<br />
are a i$2.8B<br />
audiobooks<br />
In 2016 ----<br />
industry.<br />
audiobooks were<br />
43,000<br />
up 16 percent<br />
released,<br />
2014 and 53 percent<br />
from<br />
2013. For the first<br />
from<br />
Nielsen is StatShot<br />
time,<br />
audiobook<br />
tracking<br />
subscriptions.<br />
publishers show<br />
Twenty<br />
marketability<br />
audiobooks<br />
1 million copies vs.<br />
by<br />
eBooks.<br />
you are an author who<br />
If<br />
to push your book<br />
wants<br />
as many readers as<br />
to<br />
it’s time to jump<br />
possible,<br />
the audiobook<br />
on<br />
bandwagon!<br />
you’re a self-published<br />
If<br />
this is an<br />
author,<br />
goal. Audible<br />
attainable<br />
Exchange (ACX)<br />
Creation<br />
one of only a few selfpublishing<br />
is<br />
services.<br />
connects authors and<br />
It<br />
to producers<br />
publishers<br />
narrators, and offers<br />
and<br />
options.<br />
payment<br />
or publishers<br />
Authors<br />
pay for an audiobook<br />
can<br />
Prices range<br />
upfront.<br />
$50 – $450 per<br />
from<br />
(dependent<br />
finished-hour<br />
your narrator's<br />
upon<br />
Full-length<br />
credentials).<br />
are hard pills to<br />
novels<br />
full-length novels<br />
Most<br />
10 – 12 hours. ACX<br />
are<br />
a shared royalty<br />
offers<br />
where the<br />
program<br />
assumes no<br />
author<br />
cost but splits<br />
upfront<br />
royalties with the<br />
the<br />
ACX distributes<br />
producer.<br />
or publishers<br />
Authors<br />
browse a plethora of<br />
may<br />
narrators to<br />
talented<br />
book auditions,<br />
request<br />
list your book(s) as<br />
or<br />
This<br />
audition-available.<br />
interested<br />
affords<br />
to submit to<br />
producers<br />
authors/books in<br />
those<br />
they there is<br />
which<br />
Ensure<br />
interest.<br />
include your payment<br />
to<br />
ACX offers<br />
preference.<br />
platforms on<br />
distribution<br />
Audible.com,<br />
Amazon,<br />
iTunes.<br />
and<br />
notes should<br />
Production<br />
information-heavy:<br />
be<br />
pronunciations,<br />
name<br />
ethnicities, and<br />
character<br />
audition scripts<br />
Select<br />
the best<br />
providing<br />
to glean the<br />
material<br />
narrator. If multiple<br />
your<br />
choose scenes<br />
characters,<br />
which, 'all' interact. If<br />
in<br />
characters,<br />
accented<br />
scenes you can<br />
choose<br />
upfront. You will find<br />
see<br />
what you are getting<br />
out<br />
excitement sets in<br />
before<br />
an audition, only to<br />
about<br />
they will not deliver<br />
find<br />
your ebook<br />
everything<br />
experience<br />
Recent<br />
me, this is a<br />
convinced<br />
market that must be<br />
new<br />
Audiobooks<br />
considered.<br />
be a top priority<br />
should<br />
every author. If your<br />
to<br />
base does not listen,<br />
fan<br />
is another group<br />
there<br />
has my vote and<br />
ACX<br />
as my<br />
advocacy,<br />
has been one<br />
experience<br />
enjoyment. Please note<br />
of<br />
ACX serves the<br />
that<br />
States only<br />
United<br />
Authors<br />
(currently).<br />
to be regionally<br />
desiring<br />
should<br />
restrained<br />
Author’s<br />
consider<br />
launched by<br />
Republic,<br />
I guess<br />
Audiobooks.com.<br />
question every author<br />
the<br />
ask when they are<br />
should<br />
if this is an<br />
considering<br />
for them is this:<br />
option<br />
you want people to<br />
Do<br />
read your book or<br />
just<br />
MELINDA MICHELLE<br />
A New Way to Release a Book<br />
swallow,<br />
needs.<br />
funds so there is no fuss.<br />
that exclusively listens.<br />
experience it?<br />
locations.<br />
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