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Audiobook narration and the business around it: ACX and royalty share, per finished hour math, book prep, recording workflow, and how narrators find and land titles.
If you narrate audiobooks, please take a few moments to help us gather – anonymously – trending data that specifically relates to you. We’re sure you’ll be interested in the results! To our knowledge, there is no other source for this data about the audiobook narration business. And wouldn’t you like to know …
If you’re narrating audiobooks, your job market keeps getting bigger and bigger. The Audio Publishers Association (APA) today reports that twice as many audiobooks were published in 2013 than in 2012, “marking two years in a row that the industry has doubled the number of titles published.” Amid this explosive growth, digital downloads dominate …
Isn’t it romantic? Narrating the Romance audiobooks, that is. Well, yes. But that genre is not without evolving challenges. Top narrators Ilyana Kadushin and Carrington MacDuffie explore why Romance audiobooks capture our hearts and imagination – plus how men are portrayed, and why Paranormal is IN!
Sometimes in the course of audiobook back-and-forth dialogue, it can get pretty confusing for a listener to keep track of who’s talking. So should a narrator focus on distinctions in voice? Veteran narrator Jim Conlan says it’s better to start with the character’s character …
AUDIOBOOKSACX Cuts Audiobook Narrator Royalty Income By 20%. What To Do Now?March 1, 2014By David Lawrence XVIIVoice Actor, Actor, Producer, Coach I’m going to warn you right now – this…
VOICE ACTINGJust The Facts: A Storyteller’s GuideTo Narrating Nonfiction AudiobooksBy Paul RubenProducer, Director, Casting Professional and Teacher Before continuing: If youʼve just emerged from hibernating in a cave the past…
AUDIOBOOKSHow To Publish Your Own ‘Public Domain’ Audiobooks January 30, 2014By Karen ComminsVoice Talent & Audiobook Narrator/PublisherDuring the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, I started seeing that wonderful TV ad…
Demand for audiobooks continues to soar, as publishers enjoyed double-digit sales growth in 2012 – dominated by digital downloads, reports the Audio Publishers Association (APA) in new survey …
As competition grows for audiobook narration work, remember the equally growing demand for audiobooks, advises voice talent/trainer Bettye Zoller. Put another way, “We all have skin” …
Last week in New York City, voice talent and audiobook narrator Tom Dheere got a special feeling – being a part of an amazing audiobook community – when attending the Audio Publishers Association Conference (APAC) and the dazzling Audie Awards Gala …