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In the previous blog, we listed already distribution platforms for audiobooks and how to sell your work from your own website. In order to avoid placing “all your eggs into one basket”, here are more retailers and distributors to sell your audiobooks.
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Audiobook Library Distributors
Think twice if you choose ACX to let your audiobook create – and being forced to sign an exclusivity contract for seven years. This eradicates all your chances to sell your audiobook to libraries. The following distributors are helping you to get your audiobook into libraries.
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Findaway Voices
However, if you invested in your audiobook – and stayed clear of any narrator revenue-sharing contracts – you are better off. Choose any of the many library distributors or sign up with Findaway Voices, who distribute audiobooks to the libraries in Europa and North America, maybe one day even worldwide. Motto: “There’s a big world of potential listeners out there. You will reach them all with Findaway Voices.”
Using Findaway Voices as the main distributor makes it somewhat easier to get into the library market. They work not only with Overdrive, but also with Hoopla, Wheelers, PermaBound, 3Leaf Group, Odilo, MLOL, EBSCO, Baker&Taylor, and Follett in order to distribute to libraries in Europe and North America.
https://findawayvoices.com/selling-audiobooks/#distributor-list
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Author’s Republic
Another great library distributor (and audiobook creator) is Author’s Republic: Sell your audiobook through over 30 major retailers, library providers, such as Overdrive, Hoopla, PermaBound, 3Leaf Group, Odilo, MLOL, EBSCO, and Follett, with new channels added monthly.
https://www.authorsrepublic.com/
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SpokenRealms
A worldwide audiobook distributor to libraries and online retailers that also offers audiobook narrations and free promo codes. Authors reserve the right to sell both physical and digital copies of your audiobook anywhere in addition to their global U+ Distribution package which includes currently:
24symbols, 3Leaf Group, Apple (iTunes/Apple Books), Amazon, Audible, Audiobooks.com, Audiobooks.net, AudiobooksNZ, Audiobookstore.com, AudioEngine, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble/Nook Audiobooks, Beek, Bibliotheca, Books-A-Million, Chirp, Costco, Deezer, Downpour, EBSCO , eMusic, eStories, Findaway, Follett, Google Play, Hastings, Hibooks, Hoopla, Hummingbird, Instaread, Kobo/Rakuten, LeapFrog, Libro.FM, Mackin, MLOL , Nextory, Odilo, otto Radio, OverDrive, Perma-Bound, Playster, Reado.com, Scribd, Storytel , TuneIn, Walmart, and Wheelers.
https://www.spokenrealms.com/distribution/
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Odilo
Ingram Library Services, a leading provider of comprehensive services to public libraries. It includes access to over 16.5M titles, has teamed up with ODILO, an internationally recognized leader and provider of technology and digital content for US libraries. This new offering provides access to an additional 1.4M+ multilingual eBooks and audiobooks with 60 Spanish magazines and 35 Spanish newspapers to be added in the upcoming months. This robust catalog of titles in 240 languages including Spanish, Arabic, English, Chinese and more will be easily accessible by library patrons. In a few simple steps your content will be available for libraries and public and private organizations:
https://www.odilo.us/marketplace-providers/
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EBSCO eBooks & Audiobooks
Make your e-book and audiobook content available to thousands of academic, public, and special libraries worldwide. EBSCO allows libraries and institutions to build their own collections from a growing selection of best-selling and award-winning titles across a wide range of subject matter and genres.
https://www.ebsco.com/publishers-partnerships
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OverDrive
They are distributing ebooks and audiobooks to libraries. In the US alone, there are tens of thousands of libraries. It means that distribution with OverDrive could get your books worldwide into more than 40,000 partners/libraries and into the hands of countless potential readers. The main caveat is that OverDrive is very selective of the authors it chooses to include in its platform. Most of the books in OverDrive were placed by traditional publishing companies.
If you have over a dozen audiobooks available, you are more likely to get accepted into OverDrive’s catalog than if you have only one. However, there’s no guarantee that OverDrive will select you. If you have a non-exclusive contract with Audible, then there’s no harm in applying to OverDrive, just make sure that you don’t get your hopes up.
https://company.overdrive.com/publishers/
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Libraries Are Lamenting…
Major ebook publishers are charging unfair prices. Some of those publishers also have even more restrictions: For example, each copy of a Macmillan ebook expires after only 52 circulations or two years, whichever comes first. Audible – the company that owns the rights to many digital audiobooks – is declining to share audiobooks at all. Maybe your chance to get your audiobook via distributors into the library market?
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