Audiobook production turns a publication-ready text into a narrated audio edition. A production scope can include narration coordination, recording, corrections, editing, mastering, and final audio files. Greenfield Publishers provides a project quote that identifies the included work and any separate narrator or studio fees.
Recording from a changing manuscript creates extra pickups and editing work. Prepare the approved text, chapter order, pronunciation notes, and any names or specialist terms that need guidance. Tables, illustrations, footnotes, and visual references may need an agreed approach for listeners.
Choose the production responsibilities
Discuss the intended voice, who will narrate, recording arrangements, review milestones, and correction rounds. Narration, studio hire, production coordination, and post-production are separate cost components. The proposal should state which are included and which are supplied or paid for separately.
Prepare for the chosen delivery channel
Audio editing and mastering should be planned around the selected platform's current requirements. Confirm file organization, sample approval, final listening checks, and handoff. Producing an audio edition and placing it on a retail platform are different tasks; any distribution work belongs in the scope.
Questions authors ask
Is an audiobook included in the publishing packages?
Audiobook production is quoted separately unless your written proposal includes it. The Premium promotional book trailer is a different deliverable.
Are narrator and studio fees included?
They are separate unless explicitly listed in your quote. Confirm them alongside editing, mastering, and correction rounds.
What affects the production schedule?
Text readiness, finished length, narrator availability, recording arrangements, and review or correction cycles affect timing.