What You'll Need If Youre Listening To Your First Audiobook
We recommend that you block out a significant amount of time to complete your self-recorded audiobook. You can also do a simple Google search to find those who have a career in narrating audiobooks. The next step in the creation of your audiobook is actually recording the book.
You can record yourself and listen back if you want, but this first read-through isn’t the live version. Listen back to your recording and adjust until you are happy with the levels, quality, and so on. If you're still unsure, record a chapter and send it to an editor to check before proceeding.
If you decide to hire someone, there are resources to help you. Voice over work is a specific skill and hiring an expert may save you time, money, and frustration. With fiction books you’ll definitely need voice actors to portray the characters.
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 Big Dawg079 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 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.