OverDrive lets you checkout library books and
audio books right onto your computer or other electronic device.
I don't use
audio books right now, but when I used to have a longer commute in my car — I would just check out audio books (via CDs) from the library.
This allows you to listen to music or
audio books right on the device.
I've downloaded this library
audio book right onto my Kindle Fire!
Not exact matches
No wonder Italian
rights were sold even before the
book was published, and Turkish and
audio rights were sold shortly after publication.
Right now, Audible.com is offering a free
audio book and a one - month trial membership to the Scientific American audience.
The quality of UP
books is clearly demonstrated by coverage from major broadcast and print media coast to coast; numerous literary award nominations; solid
book reviews from professional journals and leading
book industry publications; and growing revenues from translations,
audio and reprint
rights worldwide.
Trident Media Group is a full - service literary agency for authors, handling accounting, legal review, management, foreign
rights (
books in translation),
book - to - film / TV,
audio books, etc..
And so I would then buy that from you and you would retain all of the other
rights,
audio rights to your
book.
Traditional publishers can assist with licensing deals, film
rights, merchandising (toys and lunchboxes), foreign translations, large print versions,
audio books, and more.
Right now,
audio books exceed one BILLION in sales..
Now they're sitting on more money than you'll ever see from your padded cell, complete with overseas
rights, reprints, movie options,
audio book options, 70 % of their royalties (compared to the traditional 16 - 25 %), the whole package.
The CEO of Westland, Gautam Padmanabhan, said, «We made the deal based on Amish's sales record... It's a pre-emptive bid of Rs 5 crore for the
book,
audio, and e-publishing
rights to his next series for the south - Asian region.
Just like print
books, the
books are licensed to only be shared with one patron at a time — I'm on waiting lists
right now for
audio books I want to borrow.
The 44th edition of London
Book Fair — the global marketplace
rights for negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print,
audio, TV, film and digital channels, is, believe me, huge.
• Subrights — TV and film
rights, foreign
rights, reprint
rights,
audio rights, serialization
rights,
book club sales, online electronic
rights.
If you or your company owns over 100 previously produced unabridged audiobooks, or controls the
audio rights to more than 100
books, contact us immediately.
Subsidiary
rights secured by publisher: first serial (90 % author / 10 % publisher); second serial (50 % / 50 %),
book club (50 % / 50 %), permissions (50 % / 50 %), other
book publication (50 % / 50 %), British (80 % / 20 %), translation (75 % / 25 %), electronic (50 % / 50 %),
audio (50 % / 50 %), paper products (50 % / 50 %)
But we know what
audio rights basically are: The
right to read a
book aloud, record it, and distribute that recording.
Just specifically relating to library lending — under PLR (Public Lending
Right) in the UK & Ireland (run by the British Library) authors (and collaborators e.g. narrators for
audio etc.) are paid for * every * loan of their
books (including electronic and
audio).
DAW also gets certain other
rights that they can sublicense, including things like putting them out in
audio, selling them to a
book club (in English), or licensing the UK edition to a UK publisher.
The second question, which is related, is are these talking
book rights separate from
audio rights or even possibly are they even a third kind of
right separate from both text
rights and
audio rights?
The same form handles all our opt ins — do I want BVC to handle
audio rights for the
book, foreign
rights, sending our Advance Reader Copies to reviewers?
Five years later: we've published well over 200 ebooks, we've incorporated, we've doubled our membership, our ebooks are in libraries worldwide, sold by nearly one hundred retailers worldwide, and we've just sold the
audio rights to over one hundred of our
books.
I know I've had no luck getting
audio rights for my trad pubbed
books.
Contact literary agent Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media Group, New York, who represents
book / TV / Film / Foreign
Rights / audio right
Rights /
audio rightsrights, at:
When it comes to the recording of the
audio versions of my own
books, I have had the good fortune to have publishers who seem to take infinite pains to get just the
right reader for the task.
The London
Book Fair continues to be the global market place and leading business -2-business exhibition for
rights negotiation and the sales and distribution of content across print,
audio, TV, film and digital channels.
The current editions will remain available until that time, and since I'm retaining
audio rights, there will be no change in the Steve Carlson - narrated version of the
book.
We sold the
audio rights, international
rights and
book club
rights.
Is there a better way to buy the
audio rights to a
book currently in print?
My «day» job is publisher - I deal with contracts and
rights, vendors, sub
rights deals (translation,
audio, etc), plan ebook sales and promotions, plan our print
books, supervise the cover art department and our ebook production department, provide guidance to the editorial department...
If the copyright is still valid on the
book, you must do research to determine who holds the
audio rights.
I'm not the first narrator to acquire
audio rights and publish an audiobook of a current
book.
I have kept my
audio rights for all my
books.
If you know the author, you can ask her whether she still has the
audio rights to a
book.
Authors could make more money by exercising as many subsidiary
rights as possible for each
book, especially the
audio rights.
This can be bestseller lists or «notable
book» lists, literary awards, featured or guest of honor speaking engagements, new
book contracts, foreign /
audio / movie
rights sales, career reinvention, anthology invitations / appearances, offices in other literary organizations, or other milestones of significance.
The
book has been so successful that Amazon's imprint Thomas and Mercer signed a deal for the worldwide paperback, digital, and
audio rights.
If the
book is still copyrighted, the RH could retain the
audio rights and hire you as an independent contractor to produce the audiobook.
His new venture, Tim Ferriss Publishing, Tim is looking to acquire the
audio rights to existing
books, produce new
audio versions.
After seeing the manuscript, he quickly snapped up the
audio rights in a move that paid off handsomely when the
book was awarded the 2008 Newbery Medal.
As Rowling was savvy enough to retain the digital
rights to all of the
books in the series, and since she will be making the digital editions and
audio downloads available through the Pottermore website, it seems kind of odd that her print publishers would feel any claim to the sales of the ebooks is warranted.
If I remember
right, amazon partner for
audio books has an option wherein an author can get into an agreement where no initial upfront cost is involved, but there will only be royalty sharing.
Tim Ferris, who has launched Tim Ferris Publishing, will be taking a stab at the audiobook market by focusing on
books whose
audio rights have not be realized.
I turned down a five - figure advance on a
book and traded it in for a much lower one — but it was print - only and I was more than willing to take a lower advance to keep my
audio and ebook
rights.
The only
audio rights I hold, actually, are for self - published
books.
Maybe in the indie world that might not always be the readers in the U.S. market, but we also enable them to sell foreign
rights, translation
rights,
audio rights... We also can free their time so they can sell their own
books and do what's most important and that is write more
books.
Foreign
rights is the granting to a foreign publisher legal licensing
rights to translate (or reprint in English in English - speaking countries such as Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and India), publish and sell a «work» (
book content) in its country in specific formats (printed
book, e-
book,
audio, video,
book club, etc.) for compensation in the form of royalties and an advance payment thereof for a specific period of time.
Laura said they currently deal with Hoopla for audiobooks, Atomic for software training, Mango for language learning, Comics Plus for comics and graphic novels, 3M Clod Library for e-
books and
audio books, One Click Digital also for
audio books, Image Quest for
rights - cleared images, AZ Databases — Search for people and companies, Heritage Quest for Genealogy, Newsbank for digital newspapers and they just subscribed to Ancestry.Com for on - site use at the library.