Book Director Studio
For publishers

Give your backlist an audio life.

The frontlist gets the audio budget. The backlist — most of your catalog — sits dark on every audio platform. It doesn't have to.

The old way

Per-title economics kill the midlist

At studio rates, audio only pens out for proven sellers. Every other title in the catalog stays text-only by default.

Vendor coordination overhead

Narrators, engineers, proof-listeners, file specs — multiplied by every title. The project management costs as much as the production.

Inconsistent sound across a series

Book three gets a different narrator than books one and two, and the series listeners notice immediately.

What the studio changes
  1. One pipeline for the whole catalog

    Paste chapters, render, export — the same workflow for title one and title forty. No booking calendars, no per-title vendor wrangling.

  2. A consistent cast you control

    Voice assignments live with the book. A series keeps its narrator across every volume, and a recast is a dropdown, not a renegotiation.

  3. Uniform mastering and chapter markers

    Every export shares loudness, pacing, and metadata standards — chaptered M4B or MP3, ready for your distribution channels.

  4. Costs that scale with output

    Credit-based production means a midlist title costs minutes, not thousands. The decision to produce audio stops being a gamble.

Where most publishers start

Professional · $199/mo

Fifty hours a month, team seats, and dedicated support — sized for working through a catalog.

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