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Your Book in Audio

From creating to distribution

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Audio Book Distribution Companies

  • Audible/ACX
  • Findaway Voices
  • Author’s Republic
  • Listen Up Audiobooks

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Choosing the best option

  • ACX
  • Production - yes
  • Distribution - yes
  • Costs - $100 - $300
  • Royalties – 40% or 25%
  • Control - no
  • Support - email
  • Findaway voices
  • Production - yes
  • Distribution - yes
  • Costs - $250 +
  • Royalties – 80%
  • Control - yes
  • Support – email, chat, phone

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ACX

Part of Amazon

Produces Audible and iTunes

No price control

Price fluctuation on different platforms

Royalties – 25% non-exclusive, 40% exclusive

Allows inexperienced narrators

Some SAG-AFTRA union narrators

Extended distribution to nine countries

3 distributors

Free giveaway codes

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Findaway voices

Not part of Amazon

Price control

Offer sales

Royalties 80%

SAG-AFTA narrators

Distribution to 170 countries

40+ distributors

More free giveaway codes

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What does it take

  1. Log in or Open an Account – Includes entering your name, address, how you want to get paid, etc.
  2. Create an audition script – This is a sample from your manuscript.
  3. Listen to narrator auditions – Either select narrators to audition or wait for narrators to find you.
  4. Select a narrator – Select the narrator you feel is appropriate for your audiobook and negotiate a pay rate.
  5. Wait for the 15-minute check point – This is where the narrator will submit the first 15-minutes of the audiobook for your approval.
  6. Approve the audio files – Listen carefully to the narrator’s work and make sure there are no errors.
  7. Wait for the audiobook review – This review is done by the distributor and includes checking that each audiobook file has been edited and mastered properly.
  8. Distributor will automatically send audiobook to partner stores – Wait for confirmation that the audiobook is released.

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Findaway distributers

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How much does it cost to make an audiobook?

  • ��An average audiobook created with Findaway Voices has about 50,000 words and costs between $1,000 and $2,000. We can estimate the cost of your audiobook by multiplying a per finished hour narrator rate with the estimated length of your finished recording. The longer the book, the higher the estimate will be.

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Recommendations

Do your research, chose the best option for you

https://naturallyvoice.com/how-to-market-an-audiobook/

https://findawayvoices.com/

https://www.acx.com/

https://kindlepreneur.com/acx-vs-findaway-voices/

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Presented by

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Brenda M. Spalding

spaldingauthor@gmail.com

www.heritagepublishingus.com

bradenriverconsulting@gmail.com

www.bradenriverconsulting.com

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