Audio book narrators

Ruth n Jersey

Ruth n Jersey

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Every once in awhile, I listen to a book on my Kindle. mostly to give my eyes a rest. After listening to a few I was intrigued by the way many of the narrators changed their voice for several characters in the book. Even from male to female. I looked this up online and found this: [FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Typically, audiobook narrators are paid an hourly rate based upon the "finished hour” of the book being narrated.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Hourly rates for new narrators paid by medium- to large-sized publishers range from about $100 to $350 per finished hour - both in studio and at home.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]For simplicity sake, we’ll use $100 per finished hour and the average book length of 10 hours.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Therefore, a finished book that is 10.0 hours long will get the narrator paid $1,000.

Quite interesting and hard work I thought. Do you enjoy listening to books?[/FONT]
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I subscribed to Audible for awhile and did get a few books. I found that I do enjoy listening to non fiction books but didn't enjoy fictional books as much and part of it was because of the narration. I did enjoy the Dark Tower series because of the narrator. Apparently he is considered a star in the audio book world !
 
I've belonged to Audible a long time. Some of the readers are amazing as they can do male/female and different accents. I won't get a book until I hear the sample of the reader as a good book can be ruined by a bad reader.
 

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