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Audiobook Update

October 26, 2017 by Tahlia Newland

A while ago I did an audiobook publication comparison by undertaking research into different options for publishing and distributing audio books. 
In the post I said I was planning to use Scribl, but I ended up using Authors Republic because the book I had ready to go How to meditate Easily Effectively & Deeply was non-fiction and Scribl only do fiction, something I didn’t realise at the time I wrote that post.
The process with Author’s Republic was quite simple, and I didn’t have any problems uploading the material. You just have to make sure that your files meet their requirements. I’ve sold 26 books in 4 months and earned USD$14.78.  I haven’t advertised the book at all and since I sell the ebook at 99c, I don’t think the results are too bad. Yeah, it’s only 57c a book, but for the ebook I get only 35c on Amazon. I get the most money in the paperback which I publish with Ingram Spark.
Their dashboard is quite straight forward. The only problem is that you can’t break the sales numbers down into where the books were sold; you just get a total.
Was it worth doing?
Not if you had to pay someone to read and produce the audiobook for you, but if you have the recording equipment anyway and can read it yourself, as I did, then it’s no worse a proposition financially than writing the book in the first place. I’m glad I did it, because this particular book has guided meditation practices in it which are good on audio, and so far 26 people have read the book who may not have read it otherwise.
For more up to date audio book information see this post https://selfpublishingadvice.org/the-ultimate-guide-to-audiobooks-for-authors/ 

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  1. Peter Fortunato says

    October 26, 2017 at 10:57 pm

    Thanks for this latest re[port on audio book publishing. I’m still considering my own options. Cheers, Peter

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