The 5 Tiers of Audiobooks: Which One Should You Publish?

The 5 Tiers of Audiobooks: Which One Should You Publish?

July 15, 2026 · 59 min · Episode 510

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This episode discusses the importance of audiobooks in publishing and how authors can navigate the new landscape shaped by AI.

For most of publishing history, creating an audiobook meant writing a check for thousands of dollars and hoping you'd earn it back in sales. Because of the expense, many authors decided it wasn't worth the risk. So, they skipped audio entirely. Here's the problem. That decision now backfires in a way nobody saw coming. The number one sign that a book was written by AI isn't bad writing. It's the missing audiobook. In this week’s episode, audiobook expert Derek Doepker will map out exactly how...

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