The Companion Podcast Episode 06: Should you or should you not narrate your own audio book?

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this companion podcast! Jay, The Engineer, and Nathan, the post-production manager were supposed to talk about last month's episode and what have they learned. However, they got sidetracked! They ended up talking about the process in a traditional book publishing company. What happened after you finished writing a book if you ever get a book publishing deal? Should you or should you not narrate the audiobook yourself? And if you do, what should you do and be mindful of when you narrate the book? If you like this episode or The Companion Podcast, make sure you tweet @jay_yow07 or @jaltucher. My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast. This is the companion podcast for the James Altiger show.
0:08.0	Posted by me, Jay, the engineer and me, Nathan Rossboro, the post-production manager.
0:13.0	So what we do is pretty much just say what we learn during that month from all the episodes.
0:21.0	How you doing?
0:22.0	Three steps behind you. I've had a wonderfully intensely busy week in the land of publishing.
0:30.0	That's good, isn't it?
0:31.0	Yeah, starting a new season right now and there are lots of celebrities coming out with books for the holiday sale and season.
0:38.0	Oh, wait. Season as in new season of books getting getting sold or like new season of books coming out.
0:47.0	Yeah, we have a calendar that goes in three big chunks. So this is the books that are going to start going on sale between September and the end of the year are getting released now.
0:59.0	So there's lots of.
1:00.0	So all the celebrities who want to record all their upcoming memoirs like people I can't say yet because it hasn't been announced.
1:08.0	Right. But lots of all those celebrities now that their books are like ready to print, they had the final manuscripts are all rushing to get into the studio to get there to get their stuff recorded.
1:18.0	I'm totally new to this. I'm curious.
1:20.0	I only know like a tip of the ice book of this because you know, like we do podcast, we know roughly when people are releasing their books.
1:28.0	So give me if I'm wrong.
1:29.0	So people usually launch that book release that book. Sorry in April and then July and August and then December correct me if I'm wrong.
1:41.0	Yeah, those are the beginnings of season. So you have like it at Harper Collins. We have a selling season that starts in January, January to April.
1:52.0	Okay. And then a May May to August. So there's a lot of books that come out at May. And then there's a lot of and then throughout the summer because you get all these summer everyone.
2:03.0	School lets out.
2:04.0	Everyone's going to the beach book clubs lots of lots of reading. So there's a summer hump in there. And now this like September August into September is the next wave of things that want to get on sale and marketed for the holidays season.
2:17.0	Okay. So did it is it's different different type of books come out differently or just any type of books usually come out that three chunks.
2:26.0	With most big publishers, they have different imprints like sub record labels that are focused on their own thing to begin with.
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