okay in this video i'm going to take a
look
at how to produce how to make an
audio book so audiobooks are very very
popular at the moment
and will probably increase in popularity
due to the likes of the audible
app which allows you to consume or
listen to audio books and various other
platforms which allow you to listen to
podcasts and audio books
so you're looking at the likes of itunes
spotify
audible and so forth these are massive
soundcloud these are massive
platforms which allow people to consume
podcasts and consume
audiobooks when people are going about
their daily life
whether they're exercising or walking
the dog or going to the gym
or commuting in a bus or a train or
indeed driving
they can spend their time productively
and enjoyably
by listening to audiobooks and podcasts
and many people including me
do precisely that i listen to audiobooks
all the time
on podcasts and i do it when i'm
exercising the evening
i do it when i'm driving to work in the
morning i do it when i'm driving home in
the evening
and so i determine i decide what i
listen to
and i listen to stuff that i find
interesting and i just say i listen to a
lot of audio books
now as it happens i have a number of
kindle books published
these are in ebook format and paperback
format
and um they're published on the amazon
on the amazon website you can buy the
paperback versions or the kindle
versions
of employment law in ireland buying a
house in ireland
31 employment law cases that you
will learn fantastic lessons from and so
on
but i am now moving on to converting
those audio those books
kindle books and paperbacks in to
audiobooks
and i've already done one and it's
selling very well and i am now
transferring or converting some others
to
audiobooks now the two ways you can do
it you can
do the audio yourself or you can get a
professional to do it
and i'm going to show you regardless of
which way you do it
how to do it and what site to go to and
so on and so forth
so the bottom line is the site you're
looking for is
acx
acx.com and acx.com
is this site here and you'll see
it's all about turning your book into an
audio book
and your audiobook then will be so sold
on the audible amazon itunes and so on
and so forth so this is my account
i currently have two projects ongoing
and you'll see
that i guess this one is one that's
ongoing at the moment
building a house in ireland or buying a
house in ireland rather a step-by-step
guide
so this is the book that i have
written and published on kindle a ebook
and in paperback
and currently then i'm open for
auditions
with these books
or with this book
so what happens is i post a book one of
my books here
on acx and people then audition for it
so as you can see the book is here i
posted it a few days ago
on the 11th of august
and then i can review the auditions so
if i have a look here at the auditions
here's all the people who um
audition for the book so they are
basically tendering for the work
and then i do a deal with them i make
them an offer send them a message
download the audition or whatever and i
can communicate with them through this
platform so if we take a look here
are you an employer who's worried about
employment related claims from
employees or an employee who's not sure
whether you have a reason
so that's one audition that i've
received then i've received this one
from
jenny c
she's obviously very soft-spoken
but the bottom line is in order to
generate the auditions i have to post
the project online first and then
i listen to the auditions and i do deal
with the person
uh to produce the other book audiobook
and then if we have a look at i have
another one here
i have two projects there at the moment
i want to just have a look at one of
them because i want to show you
that once a person is approved
or in production
so this one is buying a house in ireland
and
this person i've done come to an
agreement with this narrator
and i can now review the first 15
minutes of work that they've done
and this allows me to just double check
that everything is okay
so they've delivered the manuscript or
i've delivered the manuscript
i've received the checkpoint audio i've
received final production etc
and these are the various stages so the
bottom line is
i can produce a books by
firstly putting my books out for tender
out for
audition people audition a lot of these
people would be professional actors a
lot of them would be
people who are trying to make it perhaps
as professional
voice people or professional actors and
so on
then if i go back here to uh the home
page you have another book that i want
to have made into an audio book so i'm
going to just
do a search here for my book um
i'll just do a search option for my own
name
and see what books are and are available
so as you can see there the list of
books
is there 27 hours employment this is my
book etc etc
the art of marketing your services
online yeah this is the one i want to do
so i'm going to produce this one now i'm
going to put it out to tender
so i claim it as my book i'm looking for
someone to narrate and produce my
audiobook
continue or i already have audio files
for this book and i want to sell it
so if i wanted to narrate it myself
and do the audio myself there's no
problem i have to do the audio files and
then i'm going to use this site acx.com
which is owned by amazon
to upload my audio files and
upload the art the book art or the
audiobook art it's going to feature
in my listing and then when you go to
amazon.com.uk
you'll be presented with the ebook
version the paperback version and
the audio book and that'll all be on
amazon.com.uk and amazon.com
in this particular situation as you can
see here the choices i'm looking for
someone to narrate and produce my
audiobook
that's the choice i want because i have
some time quite frankly myself to do it
although probably if i made the time i
could this is the agreement i'm going to
just agree to that
i'm going to agree and continue and then
as you can see here
i have to here's the book itself so
that's the title that's correct
and then i have to describe my book and
i have to put in copyright information
my book is fictional non-fiction the
best category do you want to receive
auditions for this project i certainly
do describe the narrator's voice so i
can choose then
when i'm looking for a narrator gender
male or female obviously i can choose in
various languages i can choose
type of accent i can get british
birmingham for example i can get bbc
english i can go for a voice age
i can go for a style and so on so
i am putting any additional comments
here
and then here i put in some audition
script notes
and here then i choose the audition
script
from my computer so i upload the
audition script
i post the project like these other
projects that i've
and people will then tender for that
and they will they will audition for it
so i have offers then and i have open
for auditions so
this one is this one is open for
audition still
and as you see six auditions receives
and i can review the
auditions here so that's how you produce
an audio book obviously you have to
write a book first and
you know the way i've done it over the
years has been
to write blog posts on my website or
websites
and then i eventually will when i have
enough blog posts written
produce those blog posts into
an ebook for kindle and um
a paper back then for the amazon website
is all the same process really
here's my recently um here's my book on
um irish employment law cases and here's
my my um
page or all the other books i have for
sale on kindle or on amazon rather
and if you go here for example to
employment law in ireland which is the
only one i've done so far
in terms of converting it into an audio
book you'll see here the options
so you can buy the kindle edition you
can buy an audio book or you can buy a
paperback
so obviously what i'm looking to do is
have audio books available
for all of my books i have about five or
six books i think
at the moment they sell quite well and
obviously they raise my profile and give
me
a certain uh brand and my my brand a
certain
cachet or whatever in terms of being a
published author even though i'm
self-publishing but
there's no great stigma now in my view
about self-publishing
and i'm selling these books on amazon
and people
in particular from outside ireland for
example that book they're buying a house
in ireland
are buying that people from america for
example would have ambitions
to retire or sell in florida and sell in
places like
united states and moved to ireland to
have this romantic vision of
retiring here to a little cottage in the
west of ireland or whatever
but they would be people
the sort of people who are buying that
book from outside of ireland and
obviously you have people here in
ireland and buying it as well
first-time buyers and people buying
their first house and so on and so forth
but the bottom line is if you want to
produce an audio book then you go to
acx.com
which is part of the amazon stable it's
a very very straightforward process
there are thousands of narrators there
you can choose whatever accent you want
and then you're going to do deal with
the narrator for
the book which will amount to or be
calculated by
the number of uh finished hours
required for the book so it will depend
on the number of words in a book
the last two books i put there that i
put up on project and put for
prohibition are going to take about two
and a half hours so they're not very
long
and they're not going to cost the most
recent one i think has cost me about 300
pounds sterling but i think it's a good
investment quite frankly and
the previous book of the unemployment
law in ireland sells very well
so anyway i hope you find the video
useful um
if you are interested in uh
irish law aries business and various
other things you may be interested in
subscribing to my youtube channel
thanks for
