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    Audiobooks for Authors
    Audiobooks for Authors
    Audiobooks for Authors
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    Audiobooks for Authors

    By Jamie W Davis

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    Ready to create your audiobook?

    You need this book.

    Jamie Davis, self-published author of more than twenty audiobooks in just two years, shares his lessons learned with you. Audiobook production is the fastest growing market in publishing. Don't get tripped up when there's a resource you can use to ease your path.

    Jamie answers questions on recording your own audiobooks, auditioning and selecting narrators, audiobook financing options, audiobook marketing, and much, much more. Plus, he fills the whole book with his own hard-earned lessons so you don't make the same mistakes he and others have.

    Don't get left behind.

    Get Audiobooks for Authors now.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJamie Davis
    Release dateNov 11, 2019
    ISBN9781393361121
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      Audiobooks for Authors - Jamie W Davis

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      Audiobooks: Are they worth it?

      One day, you’re walking along, minding your own business just thinking about your next book project when a voice calls out to you from a dark alley nearby.

      Hey, kid, you look like you’re an author. Am I right?

      You stop and look around to see if they’re talking to someone else. Everyone passes by as if they didn’t hear a thing.

      You there, you’ve got the look of a wordsmith about you.

      You peer into the alley’s dark shadows, trying to make out the source of the voice.

      You talking to me?

      Who else would I be talking to? You see anyone else around here who writes books?

      You look around. Again, no one else on this busy street seems to pay you or the voice any attention at all.

      Is this some kind of a dream?

      You’re not dreaming, kid. However, I do have a dreamy opportunity for you, if you’ve got the stones for it.

      You’re a self-published author and you weren’t born yesterday. You know better than to believe disembodied voices drifting out of dark alleys. Still, you pause.

      This isn’t my first time around the publishing block. What’s this dreamy opportunity?

      You’re selling books and making a buck, but something’s been bothering you, hasn’t it?

      His presumption angers you, probably because he’s right on target. I’m a self-published author, there’s always something bothering me.

      I’m talking about the gold rush, the opportunity that’ll take you all the way into the century’s third decade in style. They’ll be listening to your books everywhere. You’ll be huge.

      It hits you like an ice-cold codfish to the face. He’s talking about audiobooks. You’ve heard tell of audiobooks and the possibilities, but you didn’t believe it.

      You turn to leave but a hand with skin like tanned leather snakes out of the shadows and snags your wrist in a grip stronger than steel.

      Can’t leave yet, kid. If you leave now, you’ll miss it all and audiobooks will pass you right on by.

      Try as you might, you yank at your arm, trying to break free as the weathered hand pulls you into the shadows. It’s too late. You should have kept walking, you should have never stopped. You’ve been hooked into the dark, mysterious world of audiobooks. There’s no getting free now and no light at the end that offers guidance. You’ll just have to muddle through and do the best you can.

      A bit much?

      Yeah, I’m sorry. That’s what happens when they ask a fantasy author to write a how-to book for other authors.

      No, I’m not the chosen one. I’ve never been chosen by anyone, at least not by anyone but my wife. She married an author, though, so that should tell you something about that particular decision.

      What I am is a guy who decided to make some of my books into audiobooks a few years ago. I also have a background in audio production. I worked for years as a freelance audio engineer in the mid-atlantic TV, news/sports, and indie film markets. I’ve also been an active podcaster since 2005, eventually running a successful sponsored network of more than forty healthcare podcasts including seven weekly podcasts of my own.

      When the time came for me to begin my writing journey in 2014, and eventually look at creating audiobooks in 2017, I had some early success and decided to press forward and make more of my novels into audiobooks. Then, in 2019, I decided to double down and get my entire thirty-book catalog into audiobook format as soon as possible.

      This book came into being after I posted an announcement talking about my plans to go all-in for audio with my fiction. Soon after that post, the questions from my fellow author friends started pouring in.

      I was happy to answer them. I’m always willing to share my pitfalls and mistakes with others so they don’t make them, too. While sharing, more than a few of those I helped said the same thing to me. You should write a book about your audiobook experiences and recommendations.

      After the tenth, or maybe it was the twentieth, person told me the same thing, I took the hint and decided to start outlining what I’d learned since diving into audiobooks in late 2017. That makes this book a lot of things. It definitely is not a creepy voice coming out of a dark alley with mystical information. Maybe, however, it will be an answer to some of your questions and smooth your journey to take your stories from print and ebook to audiobook format, too.

      First, what this book isn’t.

      It isn’t a guarantee or get-rich-quick with audiobooks thing. While audiobook income has become half my total book revenue over the past year, it hasn’t happened by magic. It’s been hard work and required me to invest time, knowledge, and a significant amount of money to make my journey successful in self-publishing my audiobooks.

      This book is a look at some of the options open to independent publishers and authors who want to take their stories and turn them into audiobooks. While the bulk of the book will deal with how to take your ebook self-publishing mojo and apply it to your audiobook production, with or without a narrator, I will spend some time looking at other options open to you, like working with a traditional audiobook producer/publisher. I’ll try to paint the pros and cons of both sides in a fair light, so you can make up your mind what’s right for you. I’ll also touch on some audiobook marketing strategies that have worked for me.

      I don’t ever pretend to believe that my way is the only way. Your journey as an author may be such that you can’t take on any more projects beyond writing your books. You might be the perfect fit for going with a traditional audiobook publishing deal. These are decisions you’ll need to make to make for yourself. I’ll try and present you the information from both sides so you can make an informed decision that’s right for your author business.

      Ready to go?

      Good. Let’s do this.

      The first question you should ask yourself is why you would even want to have audiobook versions of your books. Aren’t ebooks and the occasional print book good enough for indie authors?

      Audiobooks - A Growth Market

      To understand the answer to that question, you need to look at the various sectors of the publishing industry and the growth in the publishing marketplace for readers over the last few years. According to the Audiobook Publishers Association, audiobooks have shown seven straight years of double-digit revenue growth. In 2018, audiobook revenues rose a whopping 24.5% year-over-year and U.S. audiobook sales topped $940 million in 2018. While the U.S. market is the largest single market at this time, I’m seeing steady increases in sales around the world.

      Studies from Pew and Edison Research point to steady growth in audiobook consumption and it appears that these are new readers for your books, separate from existing print or ebook readers. There are people who only listen to books on audio. They don’t read books, only listen to them. It’s a new and untapped market for many indie authors.

      Several factors drive this growth. Part of it is the ever-present mobile devices we have with us all the time. People also spend a lot of time commuting in their cars or engaged in work or chores and have time to listen to a book while they do other things. Their hands are busy while their minds aren’t. An audiobook can help pass the time during an otherwise boring task.

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