How To Make An Audiobook In 10 Simple Steps

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Audiobooks are great for fiction and are growing in nonfiction. But not all books are well suited to the format, including books that are full of procedures, technical jargon, and supporting images, such as cookbooks and how-to books. Most versions of the OverDrive app have features like bookmarks, a sleep timer, and variable playback speed that let you customize your listening experience. Download and listen to MP3 audiobooks using the OverDrive app . Play the audiobook in your browser with an active internet connection. No software or downloads are required to listen to OverDrive Listen audiobooks.

But there is no talk about a discount on all other titles. With Rakuten owning OverDrive, Kobo users can pick their daily listening from 1.5 million titles. The great advantage of streaming audio content is that it doesn’t require space on your phone or tablet.

You don't learn spelling and what words and sentences should look like....print books for me always. It took about 10 business days to get approval from ACX and for my audiobook to go on sale. There were a few issues with my title's description, which I resolved by contacting ACX support directly.

Here are the exact steps you need to follow, and our suggestions for turning your book into the next big audiobook. “Gain insight from Kindlepreneur on how you can optimize marketing for your books." Facebook Group Everything Audiobook → This group is smaller but still has 3,000 members and its another place you can distribute promotional codes for your audiobook.

I’ve done two more audiobooks since – most recently, last spring – with the gently increasing confidence that comes of never, ever listening back to previous recordings. The first time, I agreed to the challenge only because I was assured it was not unusual for a first-person, non-fiction book to be read by its inexperienced author. But I never met anyone else like that in my three days at the studio. Even with all the benefits of audiobooks, however, they are not for all students.

There are other options out there for audiobook publication, but none as huge as ACX. This means you will receive significantly lower ACX royalties. Until Monday, when I really, really wanted a book, but the only edition the library had was the audiobook. So I gave in, signed in to Overdrive, and checked it out. The average audiobook is 100,000 words, or about 11 hours long . It takes four to six hours to produce one hour of completed audio, or hours per book.

You’ll need Big Dawg079 your audiobook files, your square book cover, and about 5 minutes to get this task completed. Here’s a great little video of the actual recording setup I used in my dining room to record my audiobook version of Recording Audiobooks. Let’s cover these the two methods of producing an audiobook—pay for production vs. recording it yourself and also discuss the pros and cons of each. However, recording your own audiobook—though a fair amount of work—can be done even by novices, and the production cost is not as astronomical as you might think. It’s vital to note here that some types of books do NOT make good audiobooks.