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Originally Posted by Nate the great
That article has a clickbait title but it also has a couple useful nuggets of info.
I took that article apart and put it back together to make the point that when an audiobook is treated as an original production, and not just a recitation of a novel, the audiobook can outsell the print edition.
http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/1...s-they-havent/
One of the authors mentioned in that article writes his novels with a certain narrator in mind. He writes for that narrator's voice and style, and that trick sells a lot of audiobooks. |
Recording audio versus how you might "write" it really are two different things. When I played around with recording the short stories, I definitely wanted to "rewrite" for audio. The only problem with that is that for an indie, Amazon doesn't allow that. In order for the audio to be accepted the book must follow 99 percent of the audio so that Amazon's whispersync works. This is actually a shame because you can do a lot with audio that you wouldn't necessarily want to do with the written work. You can add expressions such as shock, laughter, a door slamming--and then you don't need those exact words spoken.
Amazon controls a great deal of the audio market so I am not sure whether there will be innovative recordings if their rules for whispersync continue to dictate how an audio book is "read."