Sentences with phrase «works as an audiobook»

She recently started working as an audiobook narrator for Tantor Media, with Carol J Perry's «Caught Dead Handed,» a Witch City mystery — Cooney's first book - length narration — now available for purchase.

As much as I love the integration, the only way the kindle app works as an audiobook reader is if you have both.

Whether they have little time to read, have long commutes, or just have a preference for audio over text, you have a chance of gaining a whole new, previously unreachable audience just by offering your work as an audiobook.

They work directly with the drama departments at those Universities to organize events in which Audibles producers, joined by seasoned narrators, offer a presentation about the challenging and creative medium of audiobook narration, how to find work as an audiobook narrator, and performance tips.

Add to that the fact that audiobook listeners have the most diverse reading habits --» 84 % of audiobook listeners also read a print book in the past year, and 56 % also read an e-book,» according to Pew Research Internet Project — and you can see how offering your work as an audiobook could translate to e-book and print sales of other titles.

Not exact matches

The work is also freely available in MP3 format as an audiobook through Librivox, a volunteer online project to make out - of - copyright works available in audio format, at Librivox.org.

The work is also freely available in MP3 format as an audiobook through Librivox, a volunteer project to make out - of - copyright works available in audio format, at Librivox.org.

I really respect all your work and I've applied numerous principles from your findings in a variety of disciplines, including starting up my own private personal training facility here in Brooklyn, NY and creating an ebook / audiobook «How To Choose A Personal Trainer» (as 1 of my muses).

Freeman, as is his wont, does a lot of explaining; he's not a character so much as the narrator of the audiobook of your stereo instructions, telling an audience (and, subsequently, us) how the brain works, what it does and doesn't do, and why dolphins have amazing abilities based on their usage of 20 % of their brains.

More and more, as the format grows beyond the niche it seemed to occupy when I first started buying audiobooks in 2004, people are trying different things to make the audiobook not just an alternate delivery mechanism for the text for reasons of either convenience or necessity, but a separate, satisfying piece of creative work with its own reasons to exist.

Formerly the BlackBerry app only worked with audiobooks and now that it supports library ebooks as well, that makes four different mobile platforms you can get free ebooks from libraries with — Android, iPad / iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry — plus desktop computers of course.

Now I'd like to invite you to explore a beta version of a new benefit of Audible membership — an unlimited short - form listening service we believe will become as popular and addictive as Audible's audiobook service — and I hope you'll let us know what you think of this work in progress.

There are dozens of ways to produce an audiobook from your work, with services such as Audible Content Exchange (ACX) and ListenUp offering an assist.

I also play podcasts throughout the day, depending on what I'm working on and sometimes listen to audiobooks while I work out as well.

If you sell audiobooks, the linkage between the audio companion add - on feature on Kindle and Kindle apps doesn't seem to work / promote in the same way as it does when you direct publish on Amazon Kindle.

Matthew Thornton the VP of communications of Audible explained — «One of the ways we've worked to improve the overall customer experience of listening to audiobooks is in elevating the quality of audiobook performance — embracing A-List celebrities (among those who've recorded for Audible are Colin Firth, Dustin Hoffman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kate Winslet and Susan Sarandon) as well as up - and - coming young actors at Juilliard, Yale, Stella Adler and other acting schools where Audible offers narration workshops.

AudioGO, formerly known as BBC Audiobooks, «owned about 10,000 audiobooks published by the broadcaster, including works by Graham Greene, Arthur Conan Doyle and J.K. RowliAudiobooks, «owned about 10,000 audiobooks published by the broadcaster, including works by Graham Greene, Arthur Conan Doyle and J.K. Rowliaudiobooks published by the broadcaster, including works by Graham Greene, Arthur Conan Doyle and J.K. Rowling,»

The creative genius behind books such as The 4 Hour Work Week, The 4 Hour Body, and The 4 Hour Chef is now embarking on a new direction in the publishing industry: audiobooks.

WEbook.com is also a place for lively writing groups, groundbreaking titles, and a chance for an engaged and creative community to find unrecognized talent and select the very best written works for publication as books, eBooks, and Audiobooks.

She's been a professional singer and news anchor and currently works as a video host and voice actor as well as an audiobook narrator.

An interviewer once asked me what I learned while working in information technology that helped me in my profession as an audiobook narrator.

As the founder and publisher at Polished Publishing Group (PPG), Kim Staflund works with businesses and individuals around the world to produce truly professional - quality audiobooks, e-books, paperbacks, and hardcovers using the supported self - publishing business model.

In some cases, such as «The Martian,» audiobook versions are registering three or four times the sales number of the original work.

But the way most current contracts work, publishers who fail to do anything with rights such as paperback, audiobook, and foreign edition rights don't have to give those rights back to the author until the agreement ends — another «forever» deal.

As I've talked with authors about producing audiobooks of their work, I've noticed that many are new to the format and ask similar questions.

Derek has become well known across the UK literary scene and beyond for his work on the Mostly Lit podcast and will play a key role in marketing campaigns across the full Penguin Random House audiobook list as part of the UK's only in - house audiobook marketing unit.

«As a publisher, Hachette Book Group strives to make authors» content as widely accessible as possible, and the NLS program is the perfect channel to reach fans of our books and audiobooks who otherwise may not have the opportunity to experience those works,» Anthony Goff, Hachette's VP of Audio and Large Print Publishing, said in an announcement about Hachette's support of the NLAs a publisher, Hachette Book Group strives to make authors» content as widely accessible as possible, and the NLS program is the perfect channel to reach fans of our books and audiobooks who otherwise may not have the opportunity to experience those works,» Anthony Goff, Hachette's VP of Audio and Large Print Publishing, said in an announcement about Hachette's support of the NLas widely accessible as possible, and the NLS program is the perfect channel to reach fans of our books and audiobooks who otherwise may not have the opportunity to experience those works,» Anthony Goff, Hachette's VP of Audio and Large Print Publishing, said in an announcement about Hachette's support of the NLas possible, and the NLS program is the perfect channel to reach fans of our books and audiobooks who otherwise may not have the opportunity to experience those works,» Anthony Goff, Hachette's VP of Audio and Large Print Publishing, said in an announcement about Hachette's support of the NLS.

«One of the ways we've worked to improve the overall customer experience of listening to audiobooks is in elevating the quality of audiobook performance — embracing A-List celebrities (among those who've recorded for Audible are Colin Firth, Dustin Hoffman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kate Winslet and Susan Sarandon) as well as up - and - coming young actors at Juilliard, Yale, Stella Adler and other acting schools where Audible offers narration workshops.

Note: You can download essential works by Franz Kafka as free audiobooks if you sign up for a 30 - Day Free Trial with Audible.

The program only applies to authors who already have titles available as audiobooks through Audible or its channels, but authors who do not already have an audiobook for sale can work through Audible's Author Services division to develop an audiobook.

I work as a school librarian in Sweden and constantly meet the prejudice that listening to an audiobook is cheating, even though they are helping students with Reading disabilities significally.

Your income may come from various streams such as contract work, royalties from e-book, print book and audiobook sales, public speaking, etc..

As usual, that only works on amazon.com — elsewhere in the world, the ebook is free and the audiobook drops in price... Here in Europe, the audiobook is reduced from $ 12.95 to $ 2.95.

The way Kindle Unlimited works is you get unlimited access to all the ebooks and audiobooks available through KU for as long as you pay the $ 9.99 per month subscription fee, kind of like Netflix for ebooks.

Equally important, it will be a great color touch tablet that will not only work almost as well as a laptop for many purposes and serve as an exquisite delivery system for Amazon's fast - growing MP3 and Instant Video services for music, audiobooks, films, and television programs.

She added: «As the audiobook market for children grows and evolves, now feels like the perfect time to branch out into paid - for audio of longer works.»

This will come as a surprise to many of us who are accustomed to thinking of audiobook listening as something done with other activities — commuting, working out, and so on.

Audible, the Amazon division that runs the iTunes audiobook store (yes they do work together as well as compete), pays us quarterly.

In answer to another question, she said that the association is seeing an increased number of celebrity narrators at work in audiobooks, some of whom are attached to their own projects (memoirs, etc.) and some of whom are simply able to raise a book's profile, as in the case of Reese Witherspoon's narration of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman for HarperCollins.

All the app's features work as they should, except audiobooks because the device doesn't support audio.

«How to self - publish audiobooks with ACX,» «Working with a narrator,» «Narrating your own book,» if you fancy doing that, as I have done with one of mine, so far, «Audio programs, and how to sell direct.»

Once you've chosen your audiobook narrator, you may feel as though your side of the work is done.

In addition to developing the concept with Audible, Cesar has also curated a selection of audiobooks ideal for calming dogs down called Cesar's Picks, and he'll be sharing his choices with you in the coming weeks through his social media channels as a dog - friendly book of the month suggestion, with authors ranging from Jane Austen to Trevor Noah, and works of literature and non-fiction on subjects both human and canine.

Then they worked together to re-edit, update and re-issue it in both print and Kindle editions and also as an audiobook, read by Shapiro.

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I listen to audiobooks as I work out every day.