Audio authors

Number of posts : 1 Registration date : 2010-01-26

Is it a common practice to ever make audio books before actual books?

I wonder how that would turn out?

Subject: Re: Audio authors Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:12 pm

Don't know how common. Cheaper and easier to make ebooks. There are people doing "Podcasts", which are essentially like audiobooks, but divided into serial episodes. Some have gotten wide readership, leading to publisher contracts.

Subject: Re: Audio authors Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:43 pm

Dear Lin,
I will look into Podcasts. I do own the audio rights to Wooffer. I am not too computer literate when it comes to all the things one can do to promote their work. Any help you can offer will be appreciated.

Love,
Betty

Subject: Re: Audio authors Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:55 pm

Understand that I haven't done this, myself. I use programs that could do it, but don't have the voice for it. But I know people who do and have been working on a publication about it. I'm going to try to paste the resouce links here for you. Be interesting to see how it works. Podcast/Audio Resources
My PodCast	Records it, uploads it, converts it to a 'cast for the iTunes store! Instant PodCasts for newbie/techphobes.
Posterous.com	This email posting site is the last word in placing things online for access (read: ePublishing) eMail your mp3 file to the site and it's automatically on line, ready to download as a podcast.
Podcast Tools	A great, comprehensive site of tools for any prospective podcaster.
iTunes Podcast Resources iTunes "How To Podcast"	iTunes is a Mecca for Podcasts and this is a great place to find out more about the whole genre.
Podcast Alley	Good general information... heavily slanted towards “production” casts rather than fiction, but a lot of good resources and information.
BlogUniverse Submit to Lists More Directories	These are directories or lists of podcasts. You can list your project on them for free. The first lists blogs, which you probably using to launch your podcast. The last one is a “directory of directories” with many dozens of general and specialized listing site
CreateSpace CDbaby TuneCore AudioBook Seller List	These are online stores that will sell your mp3 “book” as a download. It's not uncommon to find many such sites to be music sites—you won't get browsers, but can send traffic to them to buy. The last is a long list of distributors from amazon.com
Podcast Alley Forum RSS/PodCast Forums PodioBooks Forum	These forums offer the chance to learn from the more experienced and keep up with new developments.
Audacity	A simple, free all-platform program that many, many podcasters and video-makers swear by. Record, edit, cut, and splice sound files, do a certain amount of effects like fade in/out. You should have this.
Levelator	A free, cross-platform program that automatically smooths sound levels to make your podcast sound better. A must.
Wave Pad	Free tool for making mp3's from WAV files made and modulated in the two tools above. Easy to use, fantastic control over sound.
AudioBookstore Audible.com Leisure AudioBooks	Online stores selling Audio Books, among many many more.
New PodCast Review Podagugue IdiotVox	Review sites for PodCasts and AudioBooks.

Subject: Re: Audio authors Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:10 pm

One free download I would REALLY recommend is audacity. It's a very simple, cross-platform audio editor. You can use it to record things as wav or mp3 (with a free plug-in for mp3). Upload your mp3 songs and use it to clip the applause off the end of a life track and fade it smoothly out. Great for grabbing 1.47 minutes of sound out of the middle of a track to use as video background.

And, of course, just the thing for recording a podcast or audio book. The guys who really know about it also use wave pad, another free program.

You can build a "recording booth" out of a box lined with eggshell foam and a Radio Shack microphone suspended in it.

I'd suggest you get this and just fool around with it, figure out what it can do. If you find it intimidating or just can't get any fun out of using it, that tells you something.

If you can make a file you think is pretty cool, then it might be worth exploring.

I'd say the best way to create an audio book would be to approach the drama department of your local JC or college and see if they have students who'd want to do it for school credit and credit in the finished product.

Subject: Re: Audio authors Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:12 pm

Interesting, by the way. I highlighted, cut and pasted in from a pdf document. Kind of cool that it worked.

Subject: Re: Audio authors Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:15 am

We have a kind of cool administrator here who sets up the forum to allow these wonderful transferences.

Subject: Re: Audio authors Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:07 am

I hear she's fairly hot, too

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