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Writer's Haven => Marketing Loft [Public] => Topic started by: alhawke on January 26, 2025, 12:05:29 PM
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Just that. Anyone selling their audiobooks on their website? And if so, how are you distributing your audiobook?
The choices I'm looking at are distributing via MP3, non-DRM, or Bookfunnel. Bookfunnel's an interesting option, but it forces listeners to use Bookfunnel's app to listen to the audio. Bookfunnel also charges $150 per year to enable their audio delivery service.
The opportunity here is big because the royalty from audio sales is really poor--even worse than ebooks. Thing is, I know many of you don't sell audiobooks OR sell exclusively on Audible.
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We're on Audible since my narrator and I have a royalty share.
I know some authors who do well selling direct. I think most are using BookFunnel...and many had the beta version (I think it was free until recently).
Others seem to be doing well on YouTube, but it probably depends on genre. :dog1:
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Not gonna download Bookfunnel audio app for an audiobook... just don't need more apps and I like Audible.
MP3 makes sense if you can just play it with native music app on any phone.
Would consider YT cuz it's almost ALWAYS on, whether on my phone when I'm outside or at home on big screen TV. Ive listened to audiobooks on YT, and stories are big enough on YT, all you need to do a search there for Horror Stories and you'll find tons of stuff.
Monetizing audiobooks on YT is a future channel for sure. Already done by some and they make supplemental income from these. Even with just short stories on YT. Would consider very strongly. This is a good progress report thread on Kboards for YT experiment:
https://www.kboards.com/threads/ai-audiobook-trial-as-a-marketing-tool.339119/
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The monetizing potential on YouTube I can see would be there... but you have to hope for social "viralness". It'd also compete with actual sales on other vendors. It's much easier for me to just offer for sale. I don't know... I'm thinking :icon_think:
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The monetizing potential on YouTube I can see would be there... but you have to hope for social "viralness". It'd also compete with actual sales on other vendors. It's much easier for me to just offer for sale. I don't know... I'm thinking :icon_think:
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Youtube is a search engine, not just a viral platform. If people search for that kind of story, it can be found without going viral.
There are tools like VidiQ.com for checking what keywords are being searched on YT etc. Not 100% accurate but a guideline/guestimate.
Plus right now YT is showing small channel content to people, based on interests and previously seen videos so readers/people who watched audiobooks would be seeing it a bit at least and then that can lead to YT showing it more widely.