Since I seem to be on the Amazon kick, I thought I’d touch on one of the possibilities we have after (or even before or at the same time) we publish our book. Audiobooks. Amazon has the Audiobook Creation Exchange.
If you head over there, you’ll notice right off the bat that there’s a search bar… just to look for your book (or yourself, if you’re so inclined). If you’ve already published on Amazon, it should find your book with ease. Claim the book as yours, then you have the rights to create the audiobook version (and add some more income to your bank account).
How does it all work? As an author, you have 2 options available to you:
1. Have someone else do it for you. If you go this route, one of three things will happen: a. someone’s gonna find your book and offer up a deal or an audition, b. you can actively search the site to find a producer, or c. an audio producer will offer to buy the audiobook rights from you
Royalties work a bit strangely, but if you plan on being exclusive to Audible, it can be up to 40%… whether or not you split that with the producer is determined on the deal you make with them.
2. Do it all yourself (well… they do give you a bit of help). All you need to do is follow their guidelines for audio… create said audio files… upload them… then promote your stuff and rake in the dough (you don’t have to pay a publisher or an actor for anything… it’s all yours).
Because it’s Audible (run by Amazon, remember?) it will be linked to on Amazon.com. Another awesome thing that’s being run right now is: if a new user chooses your book as their first book… you get $50. And you can get that as many times as you want. Pretty nifty, huh?
In a future post, I’ll be going through the steps, just like I did with the publishing aspect, and showing you how to turn your book into an audiobook.
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