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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! #Audiblegate and the Audiobook Return Fiasco

by David Kudler on November 23, 2020 25 Comments

Audible, the dominant retailer of audiobooks, has been actively encouraging customers to return audiobooks in exchange for new audiobooks.

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Contributing Writers Tagged With: Audible, audio books, audiobooks, David Kudler

Planning Your Book Launch

by Judith Briles on September 12, 2019 3 Comments

Do you have an audiobook? For the easy peasy crowd, here’s what I’m suggesting—create a clip of your audio book or make a clip.

Filed Under: Contributing Writers, Marketing Tagged With: audio books, audiobooks, book launch, book marketing, Judith Briles

This Week in the Blogs, June 30 – July 6, 2018

by Shelley Sturgeon on July 8, 2018 Leave a Comment

Blogs for Self-Publishers, June 30 – July 6, 2018 including Jane Friedman, Rachelle Gardner, Therese Walsh, Frances Caballo and Anne R. Allen

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Social Media Tagged With: Anne R. Allen, audiobooks, blogging, Frances Caballo, Jane Friedman, Rachelle Gardner, Self-Publishing, Therese Walsh

Should You Hire a Computer to Narrate Your Audiobook?

by Joel Friedlander on November 27, 2013 26 Comments

Should You Hire a Computer to Narrate Your Audiobook? by Becky Parker Geist examines text-to-speech services for creating audiobooks

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Guest Posts Tagged With: audiobooks, Becky Parker Geist, iSpeech.org, narration, self publishing

17 Ways for Writers to Publish Their Content

by Joel Friedlander on November 2, 2010 18 Comments

17 Ways for Writers to Publish Their Content. Content Channels for people to read, watch or listen to.

Filed Under: Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media Tagged With: audiobooks, books as apps, content, content channels, content creators, eBooks, printed books, publishing

What Makes Reading So Easy, You Can Do It Blindfolded?

by Joel Friedlander on September 17, 2010 7 Comments

What Makes Reading So Easy, You Can Do It Blindfolded? Audiobooks have been around for a long time, and represent a new market self-publishers, and another way to repurpose their content.

Filed Under: Audiobooks Tagged With: audiobooks, Audioforbooks.com, books on tape, Peter Markovic, self publishing

Jessica Kaye: The Making (and Selling) of a Good Audiobook

by Joel Friedlander on May 10, 2010 22 Comments

Audiobooks are mostly the province of large traditional publishers with the resources to produce them for their top-selling authors. But the tools of production are now within the reach of self-publishers as well.

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Self-Publishing Tagged With: audio books, audiobooks, independent publisher, jessica kaye, publishers, self publishers, self publishing

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