Audiobook Creation
Through The Back Door
For Non-U.S. Residents
DANIEL HALL
CREATOR OF
REAL FAST AUDIOBOOK
WWW.REALFASTAUDIOBOOK.COM
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The Problem
ACX.com, the website owned by audible.com, where U.S. residents can
produce their audiobooks and publish them to audible, iTunes and Amazon is
closed to non-U.S. residents.
This will no-doubt change soon as can be seen from this post on the AXC
site…
However, for now non-U.S. residents must use the audiobook backdoor.
Fortunately, there is a back door which is what this report will show you how
to utilize. So now let’s cover…
The Solution
The backdoor solution although not perfect is pretty good. It will allow you
to publish your audiobook on Amazon using CreateSpace.com. Fortunately,
CreateSpace publishing is open to the world. The downsides are that the
audio book will only be published on Amazon (and not include audible or
iTunes) and will not appear in the audiobook category; it will actually be in
another category called “sound recording.”
This is not to say that this backdoor should not be used because I
wholeheartedly believe that it should. Any virtual real estate that you can
get for your works is worth having. Plus, when ACX does open to a wider
world audience most of the work will have already been done.
So with that… let’s jump in.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
If you find it easier to watch a webinar you can do that
here - http://djh.evsuite.com/nonusresidents/
That is webinar was the first promo webinar that I did for Real
Fast Audiobook - However, the information is still very relevant
and useful to folks who are non-US residents and can't use
ACX.
What You’re Going to Need
 Kindle (or any other) content
 Audacity (free recording software)
 Computer
 Microphone
 CreateSpace account
 A spare $5 to have a cover made
 A commitment to yourself that you will produce a quality recording.
Do you know why you need to produce a quality recording? It’s because
people are buying recording. They are buying audio. So if the audio is bad in
the audiobook, they won’t hear pass the bad quality of the audio to get to
your content within this context. Whatever you put out into the world, it got
to be really good.
Getting Audacity
Steps:
1. Go to www.google.com, type in and search for “Audacity”.
2. It will take you do the download page and download the software.
3. Install.
Setting Up a CreateSpace Account
1. Go to www.createspace.com
2. Create a New Account
USB Microphones
The microphone I am using is the Audio-Technica AT2020. It’s a great one.
Remember that you should not use the one that’s built-in in your computer.
See my recommended microphones at
www.DanielHallPresents.com/mic
The Process
Choose Content You Know in Selling in Other Formats
 Check your Kindle and CreateSpace stats and choose the best selling
short book
 Don’t start with a long project – choose a book that you can get
through quickly because I want to go through and understand the
entire process before you tackle a huge project.
 If your books are too long consider doing related sections or segments
Prepare Your Manuscript
 Likely the book was meant to be read silently instead of aloud
 Goal is to make your words easier to read aloud
 Consider breaking up long sentences into shorter sentences
 Consider adding some transitions between major topic changes and
chapters. This is much more important in my opinion with an audio
than it is with a text or print. With text or print, the eye can see where
you are going next but you don’t know what’s coming next with audio
unless you tell your listener. Here’s an example, maybe I would say
something like in the end of the chapter of a cookbook: “That’s how
to properly toss a pizza. In the next chapter we explain the
proper way to spread the tomato sauce”. In that transition it tells
the listener where you’re going next so they don’t get lost.
Everything you do as a publisher should be designed for one thing – to make
it as easy as possible for your customer to consume your content. If they’re
not consuming your content you are dead in the water. It will not make for
long-term financial help for you. It is really important that you get this and
you understand that mindset.
Recording Basics
Record in quiet place (maybe a closet full of clothes)
No squeaky chairs or jangly jewelry
No recoding with head colds or hoarse voices
Read the words on the page (don’t add or subtract)
Print your manuscript as loose leaf so you can silently turn pages as
you read or better yet read from your Kindle, iPad or Nook or try a
teleprompter software. There’s a great online free one at
http://cueprompter.com/
 One audio file for each chapter. Don’t make the whole book one audio
file
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Recording Settings for Audacity: How to Record and Edit
Note: When you first open Audacity for the very first time, it will not make a
MP3 because MP3 file format is actually a proprietary format. What you need
to do after you recorded something, you go over to File menu  Export.
You want to save your file as a MP3 file but the first time you do that it will
prompt you to get a “lame_enc.dll” file and just step through the process.
Recording Settings:
 Constant bit rate
 44.1 Khz
Edit  Preferences
Quality  Default Sample Rate [44100 Hz]  [OK]
 16-bit
Edit  Preferences
Quality  Default Sample Format [16-bit]  [OK]
 2-channel stereo files
 320 Kbps
File  Export  Options (below Cancel tab)  Set Quality
[320 Kbps]  [OK]
 To Record Hit the Red Circle:
 To Edit, highlight the part you want to remove and cut out the
bad using the scissors icon.
 Once you have the chapter done, export as Mp3.
Let’s say you have a ten chapter book that you’re working on.
Tip: Start your file filename with a number on it, example “01-intro”, next
ones with “02, 03, 04” until you get it all done.
Uploading to CreateSpace
1. From CreateSpace dashboard select “Add New Title”
2. Name your project and choose format as MP3, then click “Get
Started”
3. Title Info. Type in the Primary Artist or author, the record label (as
for me I like to use my website), the duration (the total amount of
audios put together). Hit Save and Continue.
4. Preparing your Zip file. Put all of your file chapters in one folder
(make sure it is arranged in order). Zip or compress that folder.
5. Track List. Upload  Hit Browse button  Search for the zip file you
made and select it. Then you need to put in your Track list (this is
where it really should match with regards to what you put in the zip
file i.e. 01-intro, 02-Why this book? And so on). Hit Save and
Continue. Then it will start uploading the book.
6. UPC. Use a CreateSpace-Assigned UPC and hit “Assign Free UPC”.
(If you have your own you can enter it to where it says “Enter your
Own UPC”).
As you hit “Assign Free UPC”, a dialog box will appear that says it’s
locked and you’re given a UPC number. Hit Continue.
Submit for Review. Submit all the files for review by hitting the
“Submit for Review” button.
7. Choose Sales Channel. Select your title via the Amazon MP3 store.
8. Choose Royalty. The prices will depend on how much audio is
actually there. So you can’t tell exactly how much you want to charge
for it but it gives you the range from Frontline to Special Deal to work
with.
9. Choose Genre. Choose the genre of the audio, whatever is the most
apropos, that’s the one you got to choose.
10. Design and Upload Cover Art.
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Mp3 Album Image
- Your Mp3 artwork must:
- Be a JPEG, 1448 x1448 pixels.
- Not include the audio CD logo.
- Not be a product shot of a CD or cassette tape
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Recommendation: Use a designer on Fiverr
11. Choose Genre
12. Cover Upload Process. Browse and select the JPEG file for your
cover. Hit Save. Then it will upload.
13. Complete Sales Channels. Hit the “Complete” button. Then it will
take you back to the page “Project Homepage”. If you the green
checkmarks there, it means that you’ve done all of those things and
with File Review, it means that CreateSpace is looking up to all of your
stuff/files to make sure that they’re good to publish.
14. Congratulations! You’ve just published your audiobook to
Amazon.com. Few days later you will receive an email from
CreateSpace that looks like this.
Once you have got your audio files uploaded, reviewed and published you’ll
get a email like this from CreateSpace…
IMPORTANT REMINDER:
If you find it easier to watch a webinar you can do that
here - http://djh.evsuite.com/nonusresidents/
That is webinar was the first promo webinar that I did for Real
Fast Audiobook - However, the information is still very relevant
and useful to folks who are non-US residents and can't use
ACX.