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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Actually, if you have a good reader, it only takes about $100-$300 per studio hour (ie, the hours of recorded content, not the actual work hours) to produce an audiobook (already been down that alley myself). So for a book that takes 6 hours to read at a normal pace (my books average about 20min per chapter, and 6-7 hours total for the entire book), which unless you're a speed reader is the normal pace you'd read a regular book at, will cost between $600 and $1800 total to produce. (this means that the tracks are leveled, and all studio work is completed, and when it's done you have a final product ready for sale.)
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Talent fees (for professional narrators who are not celebrities (i.e., the kind of narrators that audible tends to use) will add an additional $200-$300 per hour. Also - I'm an Audible "Platinum" user, meaning I get two credits/month for, I think, $23. I never use my credits on an audiobook less than ten hours long; mostly I "read" ones that are 15+ hours long (my current read is 22 hours). So it can get somewhat expensive.
I'm not quite sure how interested I would be in a bundle, though. I do have a couple of audiobooks/ebook combinations (mostly PD books), and I will occasionally dip into the ebook from the audiobook. But I'm not sure how much I would want to pay for the privilege - at 99c for the six volume Chronicles of Barshetshire, it's a no brainer...but I don't know that I would want to pay even $3 extra for a combination.
But I can imagine that a lot of people would feel differently.