Posted on 11/08/2017 4:07:56 AM PST by marktwain
All it really takes is a decent digital recorder, which are now fairly cheap, a quiet place, and time.
I don’t know if Matt would be interested.
You could ask him.
I wish all books were available on audiobook.
When I worked in Western, Kansas, I would drive around the countryside listening to the “Radio Reader” on the public radio station. That and the auto mechanics. Was that “Click and Clack? It was something like that.
Bttt.
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I will be purchasing soon the e-book.
I made a different Kindle cover, because Kindle is going to be the primary means for readers in the UK to access it. Besides being an allegory for the defense or surrender of Western civilization, the novel is an attempt to recall past British military prowess and honor, with the intention of re-igniting that flame.
The typical path for narration involves Amazon Audible ACX. A prospective narrator sets up an ACX account, then produces demo tapes.
Authors (”rights holders) then put a title out for auditions, and listens to demo tapes that are sent to him. This all happens within the Amazon Audible ACX website.
When the author picks a narrator, they each have certain rights, a schedule to keep and so on. When the author approves the finished product, it’s put out for sale by Audible. The author and the narrator split the royalties 50-50.
This can be very lucrative when you consider that some narrators have done 100s of book!
Or, the author can be his own narrator, and keep 100% of the royalties. That’s what I’m doing now.
I’d suggest going to youtube and searching words like “how to narrate an Audible audiobook.” There are dozens of tutorial videos to watch, including a series by Audible ACX.
Excellent, Matt.
I want to give both books to my daughter. With a full time career, two small children, a husband and a house, she only has time for audiobooks.
She listens to them while commuting to work.
In anticipation, thank you for making that possible.
Tom Clancy getting a copy of “Hunt for Red October” into Ronald Reagan’s hands is the classic example for all time of successful guerrilla marketing. At the time, Red October was only in a limited printing by the Naval Institute Press. A copy was gotten to a White House military officer, who recommended it to Reagan. Reagan was then seen carrying the book across the lawn to Marine One, and reporters zoomed in on the title to see what he was reading.
The rest is history.
I’m going to put Red Cliffs onto a Kindle “free run” when I can get a prominent Brit to mention it on social media. My goal is to get a large number of Brits to download it free, just to raise awareness of the novel on that side of the pond, but when this happens it will also be available gratis on this side of the pond.
It is surprising to me, but perhaps it should not be, that audiobooks are the fastest growing segment of the three-legged Amazon book empire. (Printed books, Kindle and Audible.)
Audio books make long drives productive.
I have used quite a few.
Bkmk
and look at those stars!
Yep, enjoyed Click and Glack...!!
Thanks for all the books....
Very much enjoy them...!!
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