The Guide to Publishing Audiobooks: How to Produce and Sell an Audiobook

The Guide to Publishing Audiobooks: How to Produce and Sell an Audiobook

by Jessica Kaye
The Guide to Publishing Audiobooks: How to Produce and Sell an Audiobook

The Guide to Publishing Audiobooks: How to Produce and Sell an Audiobook

by Jessica Kaye

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Overview

What You Need to Know to PUBLISH YOUR AUDIOBOOK!

The Guide to Publishing Audiobooks has everything you need to know to acquire rights, produce, publish, and distribute audiobooks to expand your audience for both fiction and nonfiction, and how you can increase your bottom line in the process. Multiple Grammy Award-winning audiobook producer and director Jessica Kaye shares invaluable knowledge garnered in her years as an entertainment and publishing attorney, and audiobook publisher, producer, director, and distributor. With her insights, you'll learn how to evaluate a potential audiobook project, obtain the rights for audio publishing, or self-publish your own audiobook.

This comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide shows you how to:

   • Create a high-quality production including best practices for effectively working with narrators, producers, directors, engineers, and sound editors.
   • Choose an appropriate narrator.
   • Understand and manage distribution in the digital age.

Plus, this guide includes examples of commonly used audiobook contracts and explanations of key industry terms so you can feel confident in your business dealings.

Whether you're an independent publisher looking to expand your business or an author trying to grow your readership, The Guide to Publishing Audiobooks is your go-to resource for navigating the audiobook industry.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440354335
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 03/05/2019
Pages: 230
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jessica Kaye is an entertainment and publishing attorney at Kaye & Mills (www.kayemills.com) and a multi-Grammy Award-winning audiobook director. She serves on the boards of the Audio Publishers Association, the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America (MWA), and Screamfest Film Festival. Jessica owns Big Happy Family, LLC, an audiobook distributor (www.bighappyfamilyaudio.com). She created and co-edited the anthology Meeting Across the River (BloomsburyUSA, 2005) and contributed a story to Occupied Earth (Polis Books, 2015) and Culprits (Polis Books, 2018.)

Table of Contents

Introduction 3

1 Why Produce Audiobooks? 5

2 Audiobook Industry Overview 10

3 Taking Audiobook Inventory-is It Feasible to Turn Your Book into an Audiobook? Assessing Your Book's Potential for Audio, Including a Cost/Benefit Analysis with a Typical Budget 27

4 Acquiring Audiobook Rights Including Jessica's Top 3 Rules for Audiobook Publishers 45

5 Contracts They're Not Boring, They're Essential! 71

6 How to Publish Traditional Audio Publisher, Self-Publisher, or Hybrid 95

7 What Makes an Audiobook Sound Good? Narrators, Studios, and Engineers-Oh My! 100

8 Nuts and Bolts How the Audiobook Sausage Gets Made [What Actually Happens in Preparing, Recording, and Editing Your Audiobook] 121

9 Getting Your Audiobook to Market and Marketing Your Audiobook 149

10 More Legal Stuff 178

Afterword 194

Bonus Chapter 195

Audiobook Publication Contract 198

Narration Agreement 204

Alternate Narration Agreement 208

Glossary 213

Resources 219

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