#2548 - Q&A: “How do I sell my own audiobooks?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
A listener has outlined several audiobooks that he’ll be recording soon. What’s the best way he can sell them?
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| 0:00.0 | Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative |
| 0:07.0 | and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. Maybe this is catching up with creative |
| 0:11.9 | friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe. |
| 0:16.0 | And thanks to The Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away. |
| 0:21.0 | Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free. Today's listener has an ear for opportunity in the expanding audio book market. |
| 0:44.0 | Hey friends, hey listeners, welcome to Side-Eessel School, Chris Gilipo here. |
| 0:48.0 | I have been an author since, I guess about 2008, so however long that is, well that was when my blog came out my |
| 0:54.7 | first book came out a year and a half later but I have have learned a lot about |
| 0:58.8 | the world of publishing I'm the kind of author who asks a lot of questions |
| 1:02.4 | from my literary agent and the various |
| 1:04.9 | publishers that I've worked with. |
| 1:07.1 | Some authors just kind of go with the flow and just kind of take things as they come. |
| 1:12.6 | But I have been asking why questions a lot, |
| 1:14.9 | like why do we do it this way? |
| 1:16.3 | How does this work and so on? |
| 1:18.1 | The world of publishing is quite nebulous. |
| 1:20.2 | And if you want to be an author |
| 1:21.8 | or you're interested in the world of publishing at all, |
| 1:24.0 | the only way you can answer is just by asking questions. |
| 1:27.0 | So I like this question we have today. A little bit different. |
| 1:30.0 | A listener has crafted outlines for some audio books, audio books being the largest category |
| 1:36.6 | growth in the world of publishing over the past few years at least, more audio books being |
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