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How to Sell Your Audiobook Through Findaway Voices

30 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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A short instructional video by Julie Broad explaining requirements for preparing upload-ready audiobook files for distribution (including Spotify). It covers technical and metadata rules: chapters/credits must be standalone files (≤120 minutes), ordered correctly, begin with spoken chapter identifiers, and opening credits must include only title and author/narrator names matching the metadata and cover.

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Amazon has been glitchy and half of what we do some days seems like all we do is fight Amazon bots. That's why I've been super happy to have Spotify as a distribution option for audiobooks. Now, before you do any uploading, you need to make sure you have upload ready files. What does that mean? Well, it means you meet the criteria. Chapters, credits, and any introductions must be standalone files, no longer than 120 minutes each. You'll need to order all the chapters in proper order, and when you're recording it, you you need to start each file by saying chapter one, or whatever chapter it is. Opening credits must be included and include only the title and author or narrator names. The opening credits cannot include any additional information or narration. The details should match exactly what's provided in the metadata details and the details on the cover.