How to switch between reading and listening in kindle apps. How to make an audiobook version of your kindle book for free. Why should you go through the trouble of turning your book into an audiobook. My set up or approach isnt definitive, but it should give you an idea of what to spend on making an audiobook. I must have some evidence that i can recoup my costs from the royalties. You dont need a fancy studio or large budget to narrate and edit an audiobook book. How to turn your novel into an audiobook ny book editors. Heres how to turn a kindle ebook into an audiobook on an iphone 5s. I have a new appreciation for all the folks who have done it. Fireebok audio book gives the facility to the users to convert their ebooks into audiobooks.
You could try to get away with the internal mic on your computer or ipad. Paul wilson uploaded an impressive mutlishelf shelfie through the shelfie app. Here are the steps to creating your audiobook through acx. If there is a chapter of audio that isnt in the kindle book, often its not syncable. Do not add audio content that isnt in the kindle version. What does it take to make your book into an audiobook. You need to have at least five audio books recorded. Encoding to mp3 format i think i would like to try making an audiobook one day, but it looks like a lot of work. If you have a book you have recorded and want on audible, there is more to it than sending audible an email requesting that your book be listed. Last week i announced the release of the audiobook edition of your first copies.
Once your narrator has accepted your offer, the first step in your collaboration is to send them the manuscript for your audio book. This means best practice for driving traffic to your amazon book sales page, such as building an email list and using amazon marketing services ads. I need a narrator and producer to create audio files. It takes both technical expertise and talent to produce a professionalquality audiobook that one might buy through audible or itunes. Why turn to a professional audiobook services company. We can estimate the cost of your audiobook by multiplying a per finished hour narrator rate with the estimated length of your finished recording. Copyright law with an emphasis on audiobook production. To save time, have an expertly crafted product and earn more money. As a musician and video editor, my goal was to create a book that was relevant for our time, interesting, and a topic that people would want to discuss in social media.
So what if i have an e book already on my kindle and i want my iphone to read it to me. Were a new solution for getting your audiobook onto more platforms and in front of more listeners in the easiest way ever. Take action now, get your first audiobook up and selling in no time. Tell them a little bit about your book and yourself. Youll receive 70% of what your audiobook earns across over 30 channels, including major distributors such as. When you record an audiobook, you simply cannot start recording with your iphone or. I have 144 pages for a audiobook not for sale yet i am fielding the waters for a movie and want to make it easy for the script writer. If you want a quick music stinger for your opening credits, or a sound effect here and there, you can find tons of royalty free music beds and sfx on itunes. Make sure the audiobook is edited well and sentences are not inserted twice e. But audiobooks are pretty expensive, and theyre not always available for the books i want. Youll need to confirm that you have rights to the book.
Although for my book, a comedy, i purposely went a bit overthetop. I get that a book is never really finished but aim to narrate a manuscript thats as close as possible t the finished version. As a former competitive public speaker, i always wanted to do an audio version of the book, especially so i could capture the humor and some of the subtext and insinuation with my tone and timing. Quickly and easily narrate and selfpublish your audiobook as a standalone product or a companion to your ebook or print book using audiobook creation exchange acx. This throws people off a little because its paid for the product, not the narrators time directly. How to selfpublish an audiobook the balance careers. Audible is an audio book company that allows customers to download audio books in a variety of formats to a variety of devices. Here you can select the manuscript you wish to send your narrator. Audiobook cover skycastle book 1 so far, my experience with acx was a smooth sailing one.
Youd be amazed how many times ive heard this one problem stop authors from getting their book professionally produced as an audiobook and how much money these authors are. Then they can listen on their ios devices and mp3 player. Discover this new skill and become a better publisher to build the backend of your business. And with the design for the audiobook cover done, i am now patiently waiting for the audiobook to be fully produced. Acx estimates 9300 words per hour in the average audiobook. Set up your equipment in a space that is suitable for recording read. Choosing a sound location finding an acoustically sound location to record your reading sessions is probably the single most important decision you will have to make in this process. So scribblers, download it and see how you like the world of audio, and the possibility of a totally new format for your stories to reach the world. A 90,000word book roughly 350 pages will come out to be somewhere around 10 hours of finished audio. How to make an audiobook everything you need to know to. Sign up for our 30 day free trial, and get your first book free, no strings attached. Click in production projects to bring up the tab below. Fortunately, many audiobook sales can come organically when people see the audiobook edition next to a kindle, softcover, or hardcover edition on amazon or playster. If you find yourself wanting to listen to more books, you can add book credits to your subscription as you go.
Audio book is an excellent way where you can listen to your favorite ebooks on your iphone or mp3 player. I originally had no plans to make an audio edition of your first copies, but my good friend and fellow author josh kaufman insisted on it. How to make an audiobook and self publish on audible today. Step 1 create an audiobook creation exchange account. The following will walk you through the steps necessary to record the spoken word, capture it in digital audio, and convert it into the audiobook format. This is why most of the people reprefer to listen to audiobooks instead of reading ebooks. How to turn your books into audiobooks via the acx service. Its got so many pictures, graphs, charts, and other information that just wouldnt make sense for listeners. Ive been preparing a few of my own, ready to share in a few weeks time when i release my next book. How to turn your paper books into free ebooks and audio books american author f. Search with the amazon asin, the number that amazon assigns to every book on the store, or the book title and then claim your book so it is assigned to your acx account. Our clients have been able to double and triple their monthly workload by hiring an audiobook services professional who can tackle the job and all revisions and turnarounds in record time. I also promised that i would share the behindthescenes look at getting my book into audio format and live on.
Every step in the audiobook production process was well explained. However, if you are good with computers, you are a quick learner. Although audiobooks have been around for some time now, weve witnessed an explosion in sales in the last three years. Here are tutorials that give the nuts and bolts of how to record an audiobook. According to the wall street journal, audiobooks are the fastest growing format in book publishing.
So in the end, youll have a separate track for each chapter. Audio book producers have been increasing their output. You can even import a full book here and convert it into an audio book. Take your word count and divide by 9300 to estimate how long it will be in hours. The longer the book, the higher the estimate will be. Because the book and audio editions stay in sync, youll always be at the right location as you jump back and forth. So, late in 2017, i decided to jump on board and create my first audiobook. I will want to share the ebook audiobook with my customers, but dont want them to be able to reshare.
Once the recording is complete, production costs run. Can you make and sell an audiobook if your book is on kdp. Create an audiobook make your own audio book audio. I am a small business owner and i would like to negotiate the rights to an ebook audiobook to support my customers in exchange for prominently displaying the author book with links to his purchase page on my website. I cant take every royalty share book im offered because its a serious commitment of my time and money to produce an audiobook.
Should you turn your book into an audiobook on audible. You can control the speed of the text being spoken. Which of the following book formats has the highest year over year growth in the last three years. Cancel anytime during those 30 days, no questions asked. Authors republic is more than just an audiobook publisher. It takes both technical expertise and talent to produce a. How can i create a digital audiobook version of my book and make it eligible for whispersync for voice and immersion reading.
What made you decide to selfpublish an audiobook version of your humoirs, your book about being a divorced dad. Prep your book for audiobook recording decide who will record it hire an audiobook narrator record the audiobook yourself work with an audiobook producer create the audiobook at home upload your audiobook to acx. Otherwise, i couldnt make enough money to sustain my business andor might miss the opportunity to take work that pays up front. If you are a self published author or a published author who has retained the audio rights to your book, you have the option of recording your own audiobook and selling it through audible via acx or through dozens of other audiobook retailers via authors republic.
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