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A Comedy In Rubber The Call of Cthulhu How The Leopard Got His Spots The Story of Doctor Dolittle Roughing It Hard Carry The Turn of the Screw A White Heron The Yellow Cat A Princess of Mars The Red Room Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The Boscombe Valley Mystery Grimm Tales Made Gay No Talent The Greats Abridged: A Voyage to the Moon The Metamorphosis Ethan Frome The Mortal Immortal The Blue Bird of Happiness The Plymouth Express Affair The Strike of a Sex The Age of Reason The Tale of Samuel Whiskers Lucky, The Boy Scout The Candle in the Forest The Blue Castle The Marvelous Land of Oz The Isle of Voices My Mortal Enemy Racial Minorities (from Civilization in The United States) The Hardy Boys - The Tower Treasure Sun Dog Loot The World and the Door A Devil of a Fellow Herland L’histoire Humpty Dumpty A Modest Proposal A Book For Jerry The Thing in the Woods The Triumph of Night Youth The Shunned House The Memento Love and Freindship & Other Early Works The Odyssey Book 1 and 2 Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults The White Old Maid
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Why Academy Voices

More than a platform. Your creative partner.

We bring your story to life and connect it with listeners everywhere.

  • 1
    You choose your narratorHear custom auditions of your own pages before you decide.
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    You choose how to payA flat rate per finished hour, or share royalties instead.
  • 3
    You see every saleRoyalties paid quarterly, with reports on your dashboard.
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Every audiobook is performed by a real, vetted narrator. Never synthetic. No exceptions. Learn more →

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A Kidnapped Santa Claus

L. Frank Baum · narrated by Aaron Sokalski
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Three steps to your audiobook

Take control of your audiobook production from start to finish.

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Create your author account

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2

Submit your project

Post your book and get auditions tailored to it.

3

Choose, approve, publish

Pick your narrator, approve the audio, and we distribute it worldwide.

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Facts about our authors, our narrators, our books and the history of listening.

Where creators thrive

Built for independent authors and rights holders.

A better way to produce and share your audiobook, with people who care about the story as much as you do.

  • Global distribution to millions of potential listeners.
  • A community of creators driven by storytelling and transparency.
  • Real people to talk to, from your first audition to your first royalty.
Everywhere people listen

Your audiobook, on nearly 50 retailers, libraries and streaming services.

Stores, subscription apps, library platforms and music services around the world.

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YouTube Music YouTube Music
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Plus 35 more, including OverDrive, Storytel, Everand, Libro.fm and Bibliotheca.See every partner

Stores

Libro.fm · Audiobooks.com · Downpour · The Audiobook Store · Audiobooks Now · Books-A-Million · Rahva Raamat

Subscription apps

Storytel · Everand · BookBeat · Nextory · BookMate · Audioteka · 24Symbols · UBook · YouScribe · Anyplay · Speechify · Instaread · Kids.Radio · Behear · Bookwalker · Globook · Cliq Digital

Libraries

OverDrive · Bibliotheca · Follett · Mackin · Odilo · Wheelers · 3 Leaf Group · Ulverscroft · LibraryOne · Divibib

Music services

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Not every title qualifies for every platform; some have content, genre or age requirements.

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