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Imagine your book enjoyed by listeners all over the world, distributed by Audible, the world's leading retailer of digital audio books, through outlets such as Audible.com, Amazon, and iTunes. With the help of eBookIt.com, we can make this possible.
You don't need to know how to make an audiobook yourself. We can take care of your entire project for you (audiobook production and distribution), including working with the actor that you select from our eBookIt approved vocal talent. However, if you prefer to record your book yourself or find your own narrator (i.e., create audiobook yourself), you can provide us with the completed audio files and we can take it from there (audiobook distribution only).
Begin by choosing one of our eBookIt approved narrators who will work with you to produce the sound most appropriate for your book. These audiobook narrators will provide us with the finished audio files, completely edited and ready to submit to Audible. Their rates are based on "finished hour," which is the recording and necessary editing. All prices are based on roughly 9000 words per finished hour.
Once we have a completed audiobook that meets the quality criteria of Audible.com (it certainly will if using one of our narrators, otherwise see below under "Do-It-Yourself Production"), we submit your audiobook to Audible. Within about 3-4 weeks after production, your audiobook will available through Audible.com, Amazon.com, and iTunes.
Depending on number of audiobooks sold and if you opt to allow Audible.com to have exclusive rights to selling your audiobook, audible pays anywhere from 25-40% of the sales price (25% for non-exclusive, and 40% for exclusive), and as with our ebook distribution, eBookIt.com's share is just 15% of the net sales (25% for non-exclusive audiobooks sold through the eBookIt.com bookstore).
eBookIt.com was founded to make the jobs of authors and publishers as easy as possible, assisting them through the often highly technical aspects of ebook, print book, and audiobook creation and distribution. There is NO SETUP fee (only the cost of the audiobook narration if needed) and a 15% share of net sales. This fee includes the following:
The print or ebook version of your ebook must be for sale on Amazon.com to use this service. If it isn't, we can help with that too!
If you prefer not to use one of our audiobook narrators and provide us with your own recording, not a problem! For the a $99 one-time fee and 15% of net sales, we will take care of the spot-checking your files, submission, sales reporting, creation of iTunes-ready audiobook, and audiobook image from your ebook image (if not provided).
We will need completed audio files that meet the following requirements. If your files do not meet all the requirements, let us know and we can provide you with an estimate to make the needed changes and use what you do have.
Opening Credits:
[title of audiobook]
Written by [name of author]
Narrated by [name of narrator]
Closing Credits:
This has been [title of audiobook]
Written by [name of author]
Narrated by [name of narrator]
Copyright [year and name of copyright holder]
Production copyright [year it was recorded] by [company name]