The Audio Book

I want to start an audio book business in my country. I want to publish world-wide known books not those in my language. Do I have to and how can I track down the authors of the books I want to publish so that I can pay them author's fees?

you would have to start with the publishing company of each book. - that is going to be expensive if you have to translate the books, then record them in your language. I don;t think even the bestsellers sell enough copies to make much money and your costs will be a lot higher unless you can guarantee you can sell probably 5000 copies of each audiobook -you have to pay to get each book translated, then recorded by someone with a really good speaking voice, them do artwork and packaging and cdrom production, then you have to find places to sell them either wholesale or retail - then you have to pay royalties ofr each sale and maybe some money in advance just to get the right to do an audiobook version

what if you spend all that money on a book that no one cares about and you sell zero copies?

you better do a lot of research to see if there is even any market for such stuff

2009-08-10 03:03:46 by JacKal

This is JRR Tolkien's 'The Hobbit'. A classic on so many levels methinks^_^ This reading of the book by Nicol Williamson is an ...

When I download an MP3 audio book from my local library, it is in a single audio file -- 10-15 hours long. I'm looking for some software that can split this file into segments so that it is easier to handle on my portable MP3 player. Any ideas?

There's no software that can do it automatically to my knowledge.

If you're looking to do it through a manual process you can always use SoundForge or a free sound editing program to cut the sound into segments. In fact, I'm fairly sure you can do this with Windows Movie Maker but I've been wrong before so don't take my word for it.

2008-01-03 11:38:44 by baby_dweebs

Okay i've got an audio book that i put on my computer and i would like it on my MP3 player, currently the format of the audio book is MP3. So how do i tell Rhapsody that it's an audio book if possible.

If you're just trying to list it in a particular category of the device's media manager software, create a playlist. Then treat the files just as you would songs. Put them in the correct order and you're good to go.

2009-10-06 07:48:49 by deepcoiler

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I am looking to purchase an iPod for my Mom for Christmas. She wants it primarily to download audio books. Is a 8GB Nano sufficient? What is the typical size of audio book files?

That depends on the kind of eBook that your mom listens to. Looking at my own playlist, I have lengthy ones like The Wheel of Time book 1 at 660 MB, while short magazine-type ones like an issue of The Economist at 180 MB.

The thing with eBooks as well is that once you finish a book, you normally don't listen to it again anytime soon (or ever) unlike songs that you can keep in your iPod and listen to repeatedly. Most likely she'll remove the older eBooks that she finished already, and thus will not need to keep them sitting around in her iPod taking up space.

If your mom doesn't plan on stuffing it with thousands of songs, I'd say 8 GB is more than enough.

2008-12-06 06:06:58 by Sus

ok so i need the time the chapters start on for the audio book of stephenie meyer's new moon...
i really need ur help please help me....
it doesn't matter if the audio book is unbridged or not...
thank you!

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p= CEA0A70C813BEC3C

there you go :)
lots of pages + links.
but i think thats the full book!
enjoy!!
i love the twilight series <3 <3

hope i helpd:)
x

2009-03-29 19:10:44 by EDWARD CULLEN!~