Also because I spent a good part of my early years developing my voice for stage and television commercials. I opted for a third way-producing and narrating my own books. When you find a voice you like go to the narratorРІР‚в„ўs website and make contact. One way to do this is to listen to audio samples on Amazon or Audible of books in your genre. You can certainly find excellent voice talent out there. Just remember to think in terms of sales over years, not just months. ThatРІР‚в„ўs four grand out of your pocket before you start selling. LetРІР‚в„ўs say you have a 10 hour book and the narrator charges $400 PFH.

This of course involves a hefty up-front cost. With option #2, you pay the narrator/producer per finished hour (PFH) for their time and effort.

Like a fellow by the name of Basil Sandswho drops by TKZ on occasion. You audition narrators via the ACX dashboard and thereРІР‚в„ўs plenty of talent out there. ACX pays out a 40% royalty (of the retail price), which you then split with the narrator. With the former, you share the royalty with the narrator. There are two types of deals you can make with the narrator/producer: 1) royalty sharing 2) cost per-finished-hour. For the overwhelming majority of indie authors it is a way to hook up with voice talent for audiobook narration. Thus: audiobooks created on ACX are sold on, , and iTunes (which will soon undergo a transition).Р”Р„CX is extremely easy to navigate. ACX was developed by Audible, which was purchased by Amazon in 2008. ItРІР‚в„ўs like Kindle Direct Publishing for spoken-word books. As many of you know, Amazon offers indie authors an audio platform called ACX. While the industry as a whole is seeing much more modest increases (or, in some categories, small decreases), audiobooks have a ways to grow, providing publishers with an exciting market for many months to come.Р”Р„nd an exciting extra income stream for authors. This growth, too, is continuing into 2019, which has already seen massive increases: in the first three months of this year, downloaded audio revenues increased 35.3% over the same period last year. Downloaded audio was worth an estimate of 13.7% of publishersРІР‚в„ў online sales.Р”Вownloaded audio has long seen increases of this magnitude the 2018 report reiterates this, estimating that publisherРІР‚в„ўs revenues in the category grew 181.8% from 2014 to 2018. According to the Association of American Publishers, which collects and reports on data shared by many publishers across the country, estimated publisher revenue for downloaded audio increased 28.7% over 2017. The publishing industryРІР‚в„ўs 2018 year-end results are here, and audiobooks did astoundingly well.

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