I average 140
audiobook copies sold each month and average three bounties.
Not exact matches
It has won readers» awards and jury contests, the last one from The National Indie Excellence ® Awards (NIEA) and has
sold in the excess of 5000
copies, ebook, paperback, and
audiobook combined.
I
sold a total of 217 paperback books, 234
audiobooks and 195
copies on Amazon Kindle during the month.
The
audiobook is now
selling more
copies than his e-book.
Over two thousand
copies of our
audiobooks have been
sold.
For example, of the 40,000 new
audiobooks released in 2014, only 1 % reached over 5,000
copies sold.
Speaking of
audiobooks, Fire tablets will use the
audiobook to read aloud instead of TTS at the beginning of a book if there's an audio
copy available (Amazon will try to
sell it to you by giving a sample at the beginning).
In the first 13 days, I've
sold 16
audiobooks directly at a total of $ 305.53, and also 24
copies of the ebook directly at a total of $ 119.76.
This is a system in which authors would commonly send credits to users to get a free
copy of their
audiobooks, but it was abused by people on EBAY
selling the credits at a steep discount.
if they are going to cost that much at least
sell audiobooks with one or two free ebook
copies.
Vintage Books has confirmed that 1.1 million
copies of Grey have been
sold in
audiobook, e-book and print in the first 4 days.
To a narrator, though, a royalty share contract looks like the author doesn't have confidence that her
audiobook will
sell enough
copies to earn back the costs of production.
You also have to consider editing the file, distributing it on different platforms and also
selling both physical and digital
copies of your
audiobook.
At the point I was «outed», Robert had
sold 8500 English language
copies across all formats (hardback, eBook, library and
audiobook) and received two offers from television production companies.
Their tweets can reach prospective buyers that you might not even be aware of, and ultimately help to
sell more
copies of your
audiobook, which will drive up your royalty rate, and generate those $ 50 Bounty Payments.
Most authors need to develop a fan following in order to
sell enough
audiobook copies to recoup your production expenses.
A typical
audiobook made from a book that doesn't
sell very well on Kindle (less than one
copy per day), will probably make $ 50 - 100 per month if you list it through ACX (Audible Creation Exchange, an Amazon company).
Once a self - publisher
sold 500
copies, that percentage would increase by 1 %, all the way up to 90 % if you
sold an absurd amount of
audiobooks.
On the positive side, you'll likely
sell more
copies of your
audiobooks and fans can get immersed deeper into your world.