A number of people have been asking about it, so I’m happy to report that the audiobook of Replication has finally been released.
This one took a little longer than usual to bring to market. It’s a longer novel, which resulted in a longer audiobook, which consequently took me longer to review. However, what turned out to be the biggest bump in the road was ACX. After everything is done, it usually takes them about a week to do their quality check and put the audiobook up for sale. This time, for some reason, it took over two weeks.
That said, they do say that it may take up to 14 days for the audiobook to go on sale, but they’ve never needed that much time before. (Yes – they’ve spoiled me.) In truth, I’d actually heard that it was taking them longer to release audiobooks for sale, but this was my first time experiencing it.
Regardless, I’m glad the audiobook is available now, and I hope you enjoy it. If you don’t have an Audible account, you can get a 30-day free trial and a free copy of Replication by signing up here.
Thanks again, everyone, for all of your support. Now it’s back to grinding on the next book.
When I don’t see comments for a week or so I start to wonder if all is well so I would like to fish for one of your more informational posts.
There is another author that I keep up with almost as much as you (daily blog and Amazon searches) that has 15 books out in his main series but only the first three books in audio while some of his newer series have all books in audio. One of the main reasons he even has the first three of his main series on audio is because I ask about it constantly. He sais the main reason he doesn’t have the rest on audio is how expensive it is and he wants o at lease break even. I know his books are wildly popular so I was wondering: Just how much does it take to get a book out on audio?
I started answering this, but then – because the answer started getting lengthy – just decided to do a blog post instead: http://www.kevinhardmanauthor.com/so-just-how-expensive-is-it-to-produce-audiobooks/
Based on what you’ve said, it sounds like the other author you follow is paying upfront for the series you’re interested in, but it’s taking longer than he likes to break even. (That is a risk – for some people it takes years to reach the break-even point.) Part of the problem is that it’s difficult to market audiobooks; authors don’t control pricing, so you can’t have a sale or anything like that.