When sitting down to write an ebook most authors throw the idea around in their head about possibly converting it to an audio book. By converting your ebook into audio format you could increase the value of your information package which would in turn lead to increased sales and higher profit margins. The beautiful thing about both ebooks and audio-books is that packaging them is virtually costless. Ebooks and audio-books are digital and downloadable which means there is no shipping costs, manufacturing costs or many of the other costs associated with the creation and distribution of regular soft and hard cover books. Below are some of the benefits of publishing both audio and ebooks.

Benefits of ebooks over audio books

Customers can easily highlight words, sentences and paragraphs within the ebook

Customers can perform digital word searches

Can read on an assortment of devices or print document on paper

Benefits of audio-books over ebooks

Customer now has ability to listen to audio-books on computers, CD, or mp3 player

not burdened with having to be limited to only listing to audio-book on 1 computer

Ideal for listing to in dark situations (before bed, walking on the street at night etc)

You don't need to be stationary to listen to an audio-book

 

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