Should you publish audiobook versions of your work? On this episode of The Career Author Podcast, Zach and J. discuss this question and more:
- Audible aggressively courting traditional publishers
- The unveiling of a new Barnes & Noble mobile app which sounds strangely familiar
- How Draft2Digital is expanding their Universal Book Link tool to improve author visibility
- The benefits of audiobooks
- The cost and factors involved in creating audiobooks
- Different options for producing your audiobook
- What makes audiobooks successful
- The challenges of marketing audiobooks in the current publishing marketplace
- How to decide whether or not audiobooks are the best investment for your author career
The Career Author Podcast is a podcast where co-authors J. Thorn and Zach Bohannon share their struggles and successes as full-time authors, advice for improving your writing craft, and honest discussions of what it takes to build a successful career as an author.
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News Links:
Barnes and Noble and Draft2Digital Tackle Discoverability
https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/02/02/browsery-barnes-noble-now-beta/
Amazon is shaking up the audiobook market
http://www.thepassivevoice.com/2018/02/readers-listen-up-amazon-is-shaking-up-the-audiobook-market/
Netflix Drops A Beyonce
Other Links:
Dark Shadows: Vampires of Ghosts of New Orleans (An Authors on a Train Anthology) – http://books2read.com/darkshadows01
Authors on a Train – http://www.authorsonatrain.com Sell More Books Show Summit – http://www.sellmorebooksshow.com/summit