Although the audio book market is nothing new, the current technology that supports it and it’s recent growth is new and still evolving. As a consequence, there is a diversity of websites offering audio book publication and distribution. author2audio has identified outlets for self-published authors. These fall into two categories:
Direct upload . There are three players that support the free upload and distribution of completed audio book projects: Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), Authors Republic (AR) and Findaway voices (FV). ACX distribute solely to Audible (paired to Amazon) and iTunes (paired to Apple). AR and FV distribute to a much wider retail and library audience including Audible and iTunes generally under non exclusive agreements.
Services. There are four other players that offer fee based production, publication and distribution services: eBookIT, Must Amplify (Library of Sound), Infinity publishing and Dog Ear publishing. These websites offer combinations of recording, narrating, publishing and distribution, but no direct upload.
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