Also keep in mind that going it alone means that you then need to contract with an outside PR firm to compose and distribute your press release.
Having us on your side, gives you one central point of contact to assist with any such issues. If your royalty payments don’t make sense, we are here to help you out. If your final uploaded audiobook is not matched up with your previously published eBook or print edition, it is not always easy to reach someone at these companies to fix that. If not in compliance, your audiobook will simply be rejected. For example, each chapter of your book must be recorded as a separate file, and each of those files must be properly encoded and recorded at the proper bit and sample rate. There are strict rules and requirements from each platform, and dealing with these large companies like Amazon and Apple is like dealing with a huge governmental bureaucracy. Perhaps you can, but there are many pitfalls and headaches you will encounter. To keep the entire process simple, we will provide an easy to understand statement and one check for all your sales royalties!
Thus, every audiobook we agree to produce and distribute will be made available on these major platforms and only these. It is our opinion that the extra 15% in royalty payments far outweighs any sales that might be realized by listing your audiobook with smaller, less significant sellers. Also, when an audiobook author and his/her publisher agree to give these three major platforms the exclusive rights to sell a particular audiobook, they will return the favor by paying a much higher royalty rate (40% of the sale price vs. There are many other smaller players out there, but these three platforms account for the vast majority of all sales. The vast majority of the market share for audiobook sales is held by just a few major platforms- Amazon, (owned by Amazon) and Apple- and your audiobook will be sold on all three platforms, so you have wide and deep distribution to sell your audiobook nationally and internationally.
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