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Audiobook Publishing

Audiobook production, from casting to distribution

Audiobooks are made in studios by narrators and engineers, and retailers hold the results to strict technical standards. We guide you through casting, direction, editing, mastering and distribution.
  • Narrator auditions and casting
  • Editing and mastering to retailer specifications
  • Distribution set up in your name

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  • Amazon
  • Kindle
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Kobo
  • Apple Books
  • Google Play Books

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    About This Service

    A good narrator is half the book

    The listener has only the voice. A narrator who suits your material makes the book feel immediate. One who does not will lose listeners within minutes. We invite narrators whose styles match your genre to audition with a passage from your book, and you choose.
    A finished hour of audio typically corresponds to around 9,000 words of text, so an 80,000-word novel yields roughly nine hours. Recording, proofing, editing and mastering take several times as long as the listening time. Platforms such as ACX set specific requirements for loudness, noise floor and file format, and we master to them.
    • Narrator search and auditions
    • Directed recording and pronunciation notes
    • Editing, mastering and quality control
    • Retail sample, credits and square cover art

    Why Credo

    Why Authors Choose Our Audiobook Publishing

    Casting you control

    You hear auditions using your own text before you choose.

    Mastered to specification

    Loudness, peak and noise levels meet platform requirements.

    Listed widely

    Audible, Apple Books and wide-distribution services.

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    How It Works

    Our Simple 4-Step Process

    01

    Casting

    Narrators audition with your text and you choose.

    02

    Recording

    Directed sessions, with pronunciation notes agreed up front.

    03

    Edit and master

    Cleaning, levelling and quality checks against platform rules.

    04

    Distribute

    Files, credits and cover art are uploaded in your name.

    Recent Projects

    Recent Audiobook Publishing Work

    A selection of recent projects. Hover over a cover for the genre and the service involved.
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    Testimonials

    What Our Authors Say

    Rated 5 out of 5
    Cover, layout and the Amazon set-up were all handled by one team, which saved me weeks of chasing. Files arrived when they said they would.
    Portrait of James

    James Carter

    Author

    Rated 5 out of 5
    They told me my second chapter was doing the work of my fourth, and they were right. The finished book reads far more cleanly.
    Portrait of Emily

    Emily Rose

    Author

    Rated 5 out of 5
    I had never worked with an editor and was nervous about losing my voice. The notes were sharp but never took the book away from me.
    Portrait of Sophia

    Sophia Bennett

    Author

    FAQs

    Audiobook Publishing FAQs

    Roughly nine hours for an 80,000-word book, since about 9,000 words make up an hour. Non-fiction with tables or lists may run shorter.
    Professional narrators charge per finished hour, and rates vary widely with experience. With editing and mastering added, the cost scales with length, so we quote once we know your word count.
    ACX is Amazon’s marketplace for audiobooks. It connects authors with narrators and distributes to Audible, Amazon and Apple, with exclusive and non-exclusive terms that carry different royalties.
    You can, particularly for memoir and non-fiction, where the author’s voice carries authority. It takes stamina and decent acoustics, and we advise honestly after hearing a sample.
    ACX, for example, requires consistent loudness (RMS between −23 and −18 dB), peaks no higher than −3 dB, a noise floor below −60 dB and MP3 files at 192 kbps. We master to meet them.
    Yes, within reason. Tell us what you need and we will search for narrators who work in that accent or language.
    Through ACX to Audible and Apple, or through wide-distribution services that reach libraries and other stores. Each has different royalties and exclusivity terms.
    Casting takes a couple of weeks, recording and editing four to eight weeks for an average book, and retailer approval can take another two.

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