The Guide to Publishing Audiobooks has everything you need to know to acquire rights, produce, publish and distribute audiobooks to expand your audience for both fiction and nonfiction, and how you can increase your bottom line in the process. Multiple Grammy Award-winning audiobook producer, director and attorney Jessica Kaye shares invaluable knowledge. You'll learn how to evaluate a potential audiobook project, obtain the rights for audio publishing, or self-publish your own audiobook. This comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide shows you how to create a high-quality production including best practices for effectively working with narrators, producers, directors, engineers and sound editors; choose an appropriate narrator; understand and manage distribution in the digital age. Whether you're an independent publisher looking to expand your business or an author trying to grow your readership, The Guide to Publishing Audiobooks is your go-to resource for navigating the audiobook industry.

"Thorough! Exhaustive! Accessible! Far more inclusive than a guide, Kaye has, quite simply, produced the audio publisher's bible. Pen in one hand, bonhomie in the other, she has managed to tell us everything we must know about what it takes to succeed as an audiobook publisher." –Paul Alan Ruben, writer, Grammy-winning audiobook producer, director, storytelling teacher

"Want your voice to be heard? Then start by listening to this book. Jessica Kaye's 6 Rules of Audiobook Publishing will make your recordings sound better and reach more listeners." –Matthew Rubery, author of The Untold Story of the Talking Book

"Jessica Kaye is the best of the best. She was with me syllable for syllable as I read my memoir—she laughed when I did, got choked up when we couldn't help it, and told me how to pronounce words I'd been saying in my head wrong all these years. Recording with Jessica will always be one of the high points of my career as an author. I'm first in line at her studio, hoping to record my next book!" –Hope Jahren, author of Lab Girl

"Start your audiobook journey off right and increase your chances of success in the market with industry veteran Jessica Kaye's comprehensive guide!" –Michele Cobb, Executive Director, Audio Publishers Association, and publisher of AudioFile Magazine