The Greater Audiobook Bakeoff.

The Greater Audiobook bakeoff.

The full title is: The greater audiobook bakeoff; ingredients and methods to bake up a great audiobook. This is a presentation offered at the 2023 LDSPMA writers’ conference. The presenter is Nancy Peterson. Any misinformation is the fault of the note-taker.

Audiobooks is another source of income
It takes 6 hrs. of labor to produce one hour of text
Give our reader a finished professionally prepared manuscript (Pre-edited)
Read your manuscript aloud and you will catch a lot.
Help your reader: names provide tern and character pronouncing.
Tell the reader, if you compare a character in your book to a TV character, or give traits.
If characters are repeated in future books, let the reader know.

Cover art:

There is a different format for audiobooks. Copies from the CD era. The cover is square.
If stretch the picture, it makes it unattractive.
One author copied the edges to extend the cover so it met the format CD-looking cover.

Disturbing platform/contract

There are about six distributors
Acx: is owned by amazon. Audible. They will give you 20%
Listen to audiobooks in our desired genera and see how ours fit

Terms

right holder > author of the book.
The producer is the person reading the book.
Reader applicants will audition to read your book about two pgs.
Need to hire someone you trust.
RS: is where the reader and author share profit. Can’t use readers outside of the book.
Pay contract; about $100 to $150 an hour. Exclusive contract.
PFH: per finished hour. Can or not be exclusive.
The finished product is about $250 PFH (all exclusive)
Tell the reader what you feel is important in your book.
Read your book out to yourself. You will catch stuff you missed.