If you’re brave enough, you could narrate your own books. So if you can’t use ACX because of where you live, or if you don’t want to for some other reason, you could be losing potential readers – or listeners as the case may be – without having your book available in all possible formats. Only the eBook has to be Amazon exclusive, and even though the audio book is also digital, it’s not part of the deal. Either way, the good thing to know when your book is published with Amazon KDP Select, is that while you may only distribute the digital eBook through them, this doesn’t apply to paper books or audiobooks, both of which you can sell and distribute anywhere you like. I have seen a few authors who refuse to have any part of Audible, because of their seven year exclusive distribution rights and insistence on the use of DRM though, so not everyone thinks that this is a great opportunity.
I would definitely use this service if it was available to me, and if any of you scribblers haven’t yet explored the possibilities of audio, it looks to be well worth the effort to have a look. Unfortunately this service isn’t available to authors anywhere other than the United States and the United Kingdom. You can either pay a narrator and keep all your royalties, or you can opt to share the audiobook’s royalties with the narrator, in which case you pay nothing upfront. Lots of Indies are working with ACX to have their books made into audio to sell with Amazon’s Audible.
Short books and audiobooks are the in thing right now.
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