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Dear Indie Author: I'm Listening
Kate Fisher
Posted: 03/31/2015
Dear Indie Author,
I have a request that might rub you the wrong way, but I'm going to go for it. Would you please release an audiobook version of your latest novel?
Maybe you don't see an audience out there for your novel in audiobook form. I get it. The format is relatively new in comparison to the history of the written word. However, this is a growing market that shouldn't be ignored. AuthorEarnings.com stated in their January 2015 Author Earnings Report that:
Amazon.com alone visibly sells over 560 million ebooks and 420 million print books a year in the U.S. When you include the 70 million audiobooks Amazon.com sells annually (split 60/40 between digital downloads and CD format), you get roughly a billion books of all formats that are being sold by Amazon.com each year. Perhaps you are under the impression that the only people listening to audiobooks are using them as ambient distraction. After all, who hasn't heard a coworker whose commute would be insufferable if not for an audiobook. While I have to admit that I've used audiobooks to save