Yes. Let us know what language/s and give us time to find a couple excellent narrators for you to select from. We have business associates who offer a special rate on their translation services, so we can handle that for you as well.
We have business associates who specialize in translation and offer us a special rate on their translation services, so we can handle that for you as well.
You as the author or rights holder should always have the final say in who will narrate your audiobook. Different audiobook producers have different processes, so ask about this when seeking out your producer to make sure it's a good fit. At Pro Audio Voices, here's how we typically do casting: You'll first meet with someone from the Casting Team who will ask you [...]
Whoever holds the rights to the book retains those rights. A contract with Pro Audio Voices does not impact the rights. We do not receive any rights by producing the audiobook edition of your book.
No. Contracting with Pro Audio Voices to create an audiobook does not impact the rights held by the book's Copyright Holder. The Client (whoever holds the rights and enters into the contract with PAV) designates who will hold the Production Copyright. Typically, the author retains the audiobook rights, unless they have sold or released them to their publisher.
If you’ve never been through the audiobook creation process, Pro Audio Services (“PAV”) makes it easy and accessible. Learn more about the production process HERE.
Yes. There are a few different approaches to this. If you think you may have just a few customers wanting your audio book as a CD set, then you may be best off suggesting they download and burn it to a CD. If you just want a few sets, is to burn CD sets yourself and get CD binders, sleeves, and print labels and [...]
Yes. Especially the main characters and any characters that have an accent or dialect and what that is. This is very valuable to the narrator to convey the characters most accurately to your vision. It will help you get the end result you are hoping for. You can describe your characters in whatever way is easiest for you. For example, you could say a [...]
AMPlify Audiobooks is hands down your best option for distribution! But it doesn't need to be the only solution. For the widest distribution, we recommend Authors Republic as a digital distributor. Although the market share of audiobook sales and distribution is dominated by ACX (division of Amazon - surprise! not), that does NOT mean it is the best distribution option. In fact, choosing ACX [...]
While marketing audiobooks has many similarities to book marketing in general, having an audiobook opens up new opportunities. We are committed to helping authors and publishers succeed with their audiobooks and have been rolling out marketing options as our clients have identified where they most need help. See our many marketing options HERE. Becky Parker Geist serves as President of Bay Area Independent Publishers [...]