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Note that if you are a returning user, none of the previous numbered formats work on the app, and you will have to re-download them . Audiobooks are currently the highest growing segment of publishing. The worldwide market is estimated at more than three billion dollars, nearly two billion of which is the U.S. market.

“When we’re reading, we’re using parts of the brain that evolved for other purposes, and we’re MacGyvering them so they can be applied to the cognitive task of reading,” he explains. Listeners, on the other hand, can derive a lot of information from a speaker’s inflections or intonations. Sarcasm is much more easily communicated via audio than printed text. And people who hear Shakespeare spoken out loud tend to glean a lot of meaning from the actor’s delivery, he adds. If you’re reading, it’s pretty easy to go back and find the point at which you zoned out. It’s not so easy if you’re listening to a recording, Daniel says.

“We found no significant differences in comprehension between reading, listening, or reading and listening simultaneously,” Rogowsky says. If you're wondering where to get audiobooks, you again have many options. Most online sellers will let you listen to the audiobook on more than one device.

“If you’re casting them for the right reasons, then a big name is brilliant,” says Barrett, who got Kenneth Branagh to narrate Murder On The Orient Express. Those were good reasons and he did a fantastic job.” But a celebrity narrator can present as many challenges as a first-time author. “I have had other experiences,” says Barrett, “where wiser heads such as mine did not prevail, and we went with a starrier casting.” She will not be drawn further. “You have to live with your recording for a long time,” is all she says. Many are finding books from the public domain and turning those titles into audiobooks. Patrons can conduct research using library databases or borrow and download music, e-books, and audiobooks from the library's website.

Many students are avid readers while others are struggling to become readers and still others have given up hope. If you want to avoid narrating the book, consider using a service like Findaway voices. They will help you find a narrator and distribute your book to popular stories like Audible, Google, Kobo, Apple Books and many more.

Most public library systems offer audiobook downloads online—all you need is a library card. An abridged audiobook is a shortened audiobook that shouldn’t sacrifice any of the major themes and storylines of the book. Abridged audiobooks were extremely popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s when producers thought listeners wouldn’t be engaged for hours and hours of narration. The genre of audiobook and the narrator or voice you choose, whether you record an abridged or the full unabridged version, all come down to knowing your listeners.

Joanna Penn from the Creative Penn explains how to use audio for book sales and marketingin her podcast. It took me a lot of time to narrate The Art of Writing a Non-Fiction Book, proof the recordings, and re-record troublesome parts of this title. Unless you have solid audio editing skills, I recommend sending your files to an editor. They will find and fix audio errors you may miss and help master the files for Big Dawg079 publication. So before you record a version for editing, read the chapter in question aloud.

Most people can speak at the rate of 8,000 to 9,000 words per hour, and its hard work to speak for an hour unless you’re a voice actor! Voice actors can just go into their studio, sit down, and knock out hours of recording on end. Like any technical skill, if you’re doing it for the first time, it’s going to take a LONG time. I actually recorded the audio for my book Recording Audiobooks myself!