Paperback editions can be had from Amazon at the same links, as well as
audiobook editions of Deadly Straits and Deadly Coast.
She also, and this is how we connected, she also curates information to help authors create
audiobook editions of their titles at AudioForAuthors.com and compiles ideas to aid with audiobook marketing at AudiobookMarketingTips.com.
He writes that releases of
audiobook editions of titles «is almost always simultaneous with the publication of the printed book, which means that the audiobook benefits from publicity at the time of print publication, but it also reduces the time available for audio production.»
For their part, Random House explained that the pricing of the ebook now reflects the price of
the audiobook edition of the same title; however, there was no justification for that pricing model, since ebooks don't require the costs associated with utilizing a recording crew and voice talent.
Today, March 29, 2016,
the audiobook edition of BAD DEEDS is now available through Amazon, as well as Audible.com, and also iTunes.
Hot on the heels of my release of The Dylan Hunter Thrillers Box Set ebook (see the preceding post), Audible has just published
the audiobook edition of WINNER TAKES ALL.
Another happy personal milestone:
The audiobook edition of HUNTER — on sale for just five months — has just hit a cumulative 999 sales.
(Woodson reads her own text in the powerful
audiobook edition of Brown Girl Dreaming.)
And if you're not ebook - inclined, there's
an audiobook edition of Valor as well!
For an additional $ 3.95, you can also purchase the professionally - narrated
audiobook edition of Cat's Cradle on the same page.
I'm very happy to announce that I have just signed a contract with Audible — the world's largest producer of downloadable audiobooks — to produce and distribute
an audiobook edition of BAD DEEDS within the coming year.
This unabridged edition, which will be released in 2016, will join the existing
audiobook edition of HUNTER.
* May 1, 2018: Audible, the world's largest audio source, published
the audiobook edition of WINNER TAKES ALL.
Last week I was intrigued to receive an e-mail through my homepage from Podium Publishing, expressing interest in talking with me about
the audiobook edition of A Facet for the Gem.
This goes up to 85 % if you also provide us with
an audiobook edition of your book.
The opening move in this effort is
an audiobook edition of Zoe Whittall's The Best Kind of People, narraged by Sonja Field and available exclusively from Kobo.
Not exact matches
Customers who purchase or already own the Kindle
edition of one
of the nearly 15,000 Whispersync for Voice - or Immersion Reading - ready titles available at launch can add professional narration at a special limited time discount off the full
audiobook price, with the discounted price ranging from $ 4.95 to $ 12.95.
This year, we have seen an uptick in simultaneous release dates, and even some instances where the publishers have experimented with releasing the
audiobook in advance
of the print
edition.
I think WhisperSync for Voice is one
of the those programs that never caught on in a big way, but people who enjoy the
audiobook experience can get more synergy with the digital book
edition.
Audiobooks are certainly finding their grove in libraries, but one
of the big challenges is that the audio
editions are not released at the same time as the print or e-Book versions.
The app will scan all
of the print books and let you know what ones have a supported
audiobook edition.
35 %
of all
audiobooks are free, so you can likely get a number
of digital
editions for free, without having the pay any money.
When it comes to
audiobook sales, 60 %
of them stem from the digital
editions.
The grant
of rights allows Amazon not just to publish and / or license ebooks and
audiobooks, but to «create condensed, adapted, abridged, interactive and enhanced
editions of your Work, and include your Work in anthology or omnibus
editions.»
Olive also has 7 paid apps that act as
audiobook players or virtual study guides for various
editions of the Bible, such as King James.
And consumers tell the APA that they prefer the unabridged
editions of books they listen to: 96.3 percent
of audiobooks sold in complete
editions.
Part Two contains 4 more ways to promote your
audiobooks and includes some very specific tactics on 5 social media sites (Goodreads, Twitter, Soundcloud, Facebook, YouTube) such as instructions about adding the audio
edition to Goodreads and subscribing to my Twitter list
of audiobook reviewers and bloggers.
Some examples
of derivative works are
audiobooks based on written manuscripts, e-book files created from a master manuscript, and second
editions with corrections and changes.
Does ACX accept copyright
audiobooks without the author's consent in the example
of an economy book that has been in publication for 20 years and has a new
edition every year which comes out and has never had an audio version.
Part Two contains 4 more ways to promote your
audiobooks and includes some very specific tactics about several social media sites, such as instructions about adding the audio
edition of your title to Goodreads and subscribing to my Twitter list
of audiobook reviewers and bloggers.
If you promote your free ebook on services like BookBub, you can expect to see an immediate ripple effect
of sales
of your
audiobook edition.
However, his persistent promotion
of his
audiobook editions is only one part
of his success.
Also, due to the dramatic growth
of the
audiobook industry, authors perceive that sales for audio
editions are easily made without much or any effort.
This page will give you lots
of ideas about
audiobook promotion, but you can use them to promote the other
editions as well.
If you publish an
edition of your book in Amazon's Kindle format, your
audiobook is eligible for the Whispersync feature.
For example, you might create a QR code link that sends people to your
audiobook edition on Audible, plays the MP3
of the
audiobook retail sample, or calls up the YouTube video
of your Google Hangout with your narrator.
This is an
audiobook player exclusively geared towards the audio
editions of royalty and copyright free titles.
Max Brooks seminal World War Z — The Oral History
of the Zombie Wars costs $ 9.99 for the Kindle
edition, but the
audiobook will set you back $ 28.00.
Max Brooks seminal World War Z — The Oral History
of the Zombie Wars costs $ 9.99 for the Kindle
edition, but the
audiobook will set you back... [Read more...]
Audiobooks are normally synonymous with being a mirrored replica
of the print
edition.
The change from «BitLit» to «Shelfie» in the company's branding came with the technology the company has used to «read» a consumer's shelf by having the reader take a photo
of the book spines on her or his bookshelf, and then informing that customer
of which ebook or
audiobook editions were available from various publishers.
27, 2014 / PRNewswire / — After 25 years
of providing physical
editions of movies, television shows, music albums, and more recently,
audiobooks, Midwest Tape today announced that eBooks will be added to its hoopla digital platform later this year.
The
audiobook is only one
edition of the book.
In addition, Uneasy Spirits has just been whispersynced, which means that if you own a copy
of the Kindle ebook
edition you get the
audiobook version for only $ 1.99.
Audiobooks in general are still very fringe and most authors don't even consider an audio
edition of their book, given that the playing field is very small.
In honor
of National
Audiobook Month, don't miss this essay from Jane Smiley on the companionship
of audiobooks, featured in the June
edition of BookPage.
Meanwhile efforts are already on to make easy availability
of audiobooks to the blind or partially sighted a global phenomenon, which will make it mandatory for the publishers to make available their books to certified organisations entrusted to convert them to
audiobooks or braille
editions.
While
audiobooks recorded by celebrity voices and trained actors are still a favorite for book listening, we've come a long way since the first
edition Kindle would robotically read the text
of an ebook.
You can also comment that sales
of the
audiobook may boost sales
of their
editions.
An
audiobook edition is expected to be published in the first quarter
of 2018.