Audiobook Production
Starting at $1,699
Product Summary: Audiobooks help you reach a wider audience and bring your book to life. And a larger audience means more readers and royalties. With gripping storytelling from a professional voice actor, we work to get your audiobook as you envisioned.
Have questions? Go to our FAQs.
NOTE: If your publication exceeds 144000 to 50000 words, please request a quote.
FAQs About Our Audiobook Services
We have a range of professional narrators from the audiobook industry. On your questionnaire, you will be able to tell us about your book and your narrator preferences. Then we will match you with 2-3 narrators and send you their audition tapes for your final selection.
Single-narrated books are the most common type of audiobook and the only kind we do at Collins Publishing House. We have narrators who distinguish the primary three character voices well, whether male or female.
No, because music can be a distraction. When it comes to audiobook narration, the voice is the star of the show. Therefore, having music play during an audiobook can detract from the listening experience.
Here’s why: music is a powerful tool that can evoke strong emotions in the listener. However, when it plays in the background, it competes with the voice and distracts from the spoken words. As a result, music can make it harder for the listener to focus on the story and fully immerse themselves in the world being presented to them.
placements. For example, if you wanted a fire alarm 3 times in your narration, it would count as 3 of the 10 sound effects.
Yes, you or the current owner of the copyright will keep it. Creating an audiobook with us will not change that.
A typical narration is about 8,000 words per hour. So a 70,000-word book would be 8-9 hours long.