Then you search for your book through Amazon’s database. What do you do? If you decide to use ACX, you sign up for the service using your Amazon account. The video they have on their website (the link is below) claims that only 5% of authors get their books turned into audiobooks, so they’re trying to change that.
Anyone who owns the right to the audiobook of a novel (such as authors, editors, publishers, agents, etc) can go on and find audiobook producers (narrators, recording studios, engineers, etc) who would be interested in producing your audiobook. So after some research, I’m sharing with you how it works and if it can potentially help you gain a wider audience.įirst, what exactly is ACX? Founded in 2011, ACX is kind of like a matchmaking/dating service with the goal of creating an audiobook. I heard about it from an acquaintance of mine who had her book turned into an audiobook and got interested in it. Audiobook Creation Exchange, or ACX, is a service through, which in turn is owned by Amazon, aims to match authors and their books to producers so they can create the audiobook together. In addition to a book to narrate, you need an actor to read your book aloud if you aren’t comfortable or able to do it, plus recording equipment, maybe an engineer, something to edit the book with, and then some! And that can run up in terms of costs.Īs one might expect, there’s a service that tries to make the process cost-effective and easy to do. However creating an audiobook can be difficult.
It’s sort of magical hearing your characters come to life in your car or in your earbuds through sound and description. Besides being a possible way to connect to new readers who don’t necessarily like to sit down with a paperback or e-book and another possible source of revenue, audiobooks have a prestige to them. I think I speak for many of us when I say we’d like to have our books in audiobook form.
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