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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
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."
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He didn't "rewrite" for audio; he wrote his books for audio in the first place.