Additional Info

As mentioned previously, this is not a complete guide on how to record, edit and publish an audio book. There are lots of guides like that out there, but we recommend Podcasting for Dummies. Then again, we may be a little biased.

If you’re struggling with getting your encoding settings right, check out Auphonic. It’s an automated tool that takes your raw .wav or .aiff file and will – like magic – convert it to the the 44.1 kHz, 128 kbps, Joint Stereo requirements we have.

In fact, Auphonic can make it super easy to stitch your intro and outro to your completed chapters. That means all you have to do is record and edit one intro, one outro and a whole bunch of “meat” files for your book. Auphonic will take care of the rest. Really. It’s a sweet little tool. And it’s free.

Keep in mind that if you choose to distribute your audio book with Podiobooks.com – you keep all the rights. By going through the upload process, you’re granting us a non-exclusive world-wide license to distribute the audio files. No, we don’t charge you for this service. And no, we don’t charge our listeners. Free can be a good thing, and we don’t want to muddy it up with commerce.

Yes, you will see a Tip button on the site. Tips are just that, and authors probably should work for tips. Any tips we get are split 70/30 with the author or producer, and you get the bigger half.

Finally, you may recall a time when our site used to release in-progress audio books. At the start of 2012, we change our policy to only accept serialized audio books with all episodes produced and ready to be released. This was in response to consumer demand, and our downloads – and our authors’ readership – spiked because of it.

If you would like to take the “one episode per week” approach (and we think that’s a fabulous idea), then you’ll need to release the book on your own site/feed first. When you’ve gone through that initial delayed release cycle, we’ll be happy to list your book on Podiobooks.com. Consider us your archive!

Finally, we have to thank the fine people at Libsyn for their generous support. They donate the media file storage and badwidth, so none of this is possible without them. Tell your friends!