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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It varies. For many major books, the audiobook comes out at the same time as the hardback/ebook or comes out within a couple of weeks. For example, Gaiman's Norse Mythology, all three were released at the same time. John Scalzi's upcoming book, The Collapsing Empire, is also a same day release (Wil Wheaton again, should be good). Wen Spensor's latest came out in ebook/paper this week and will be released as an audiobook in a couple of weeks. It looks like that is going to be a Baen full cast audio type. Some of the others I suspect that its a combination of waiting for the voice talent to free up and waiting to see how the book does in paper/ebook. For example, the previously mentioned IIona Andrews (the reason I get ads for Romance novels, which isn't exactly my cup of tea) had a new sweeper novel come out late last year and the audio book is coming out next week.
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Those are all established higher-earning authors, so the decision to do audio is probably made before the book even comes out. Although the Ilona Andrews Sweeper one is her self-published one I think--Innkeeper series? (She has some sort of company that helps with some of the overhead tasks) so she may handle the audio decisions/casting on her own. I don't read her blog enough to know...
Maybe you're just a romance reader waiting to happen????
