What Makes a Book a Good Audio Book?

Books aren’t all the same. Some books make the transition to audio books, like shose sold at this site, quite well, while others don’t seem to make the transition as well.

Authors who want to maximize the success of their books should examine the charactertics of books that have been huge successes as audio books.

First, it helps to focus on the right target demographic. Three target markets that should be of primary interest to authors include middle aged women, young kids and the technophiles. These three market segments buy a lot of audio books, in addition to their book purchasers.

This in turn provides some insight into the genres that seem to work really well as audio books. Romance, fantasy and Sci-fi are all very big segments in the audio book world. Another segment that’s quite popular are celebrity autobiographies in which all kinds of gossip gets released. This last segment is not as good for authors however, unless their the celebrity spilling the gossip.

From there, its a lot of the same characteristics as good books, a strong story line, good characters and lots of audience engagement are all key to a successful audio book.

Filed under Books | Tags: site | Comments Off