> Audiobooks ... Good narrators can cost a fortune To be specific, between $200 and $300 per finished hour, and a finished hour is about 9,000 words. It can co

> Audiobooks ... Good narrators can cost a fortune To be specific, between $200 and $300 per finished hour, and a finished hour is about 9,000 words. It can cost more if you want two or more narrators to handle male/female parts (there's a lot more editing involved). I know at least one self-published author who does create audiobooks for some of their works, but does so at a loss. Even at $15 per audiobook sale (through bookfunnel, so there's little overhead), making back the $3k they pay for the narration is a pretty high bar for a relatively niche market.