Audiobook production · £397 per finished hour
ACX-ready.
Casting, narration, editing, mastering and delivery — priced by finished hour, so you pay for the final mastered runtime rather than studio time.
Tell us roughly how long the manuscript is and we’ll map it into finished hours and quote it exactly.
Get an exact audiobook quote
We map the word count into finished hours and quote the production cleanly — no call required.
Simple pricing
That keeps the pricing easy to understand. You are paying for the final mastered runtime, not the raw recording session. The quote includes production-ready files built for real platform delivery.
Worked examples
Priced by finished hour
Investment
£397 per finished hour, from £1,197.
Most popular
Typical for many business books, memoirs, and shorter novels
Voice casting
Audiobook listeners decide fast whether the production feels trustworthy. Casting is not just about a pleasant voice. It is about genre fit, authority, pacing, and whether the listener can stay with that performance for hours.
What the production brief should settle early
Process
Audition narrators to find the perfect voice.
Professional recording of the full manuscript.
Editing out breaths, noises, and mastering.
Files ready for upload to Audible/ACX.
Production flow
Recording alone is not the deliverable. The production has to move from manuscript to final mastered files in a way that protects performance quality, technical compliance, and launch readiness at the same time.
Shortlist voices that feel commercially right for the genre, tone, and listener expectation before moving into the full recording schedule.
Best use
Best when the voice needs to sell the category immediately.
Editing, mastering, room-noise cleanup, and level consistency make the production feel finished instead of merely recorded.
Best use
Best when platform approval and listener retention both matter.
Treat the audiobook as a launch asset with packaging, metadata, and platform submission support, not just a folder of audio files.
Best use
Best when the audiobook should support a wider author ecosystem.
FAQ
Clear answers on timeline, scope, rights, revisions, and what happens after checkout.
Production is priced by finished hour — £397 per finished hour. A finished hour is 60 minutes of final, edited, mastered audio, not studio time, because narration, pickups, editing, mastering and compliance checks all continue after the raw recording is done. Most manuscripts produce roughly one finished hour per 9,000–10,000 words.
Yes. Casting narrows the field to voices that fit the genre, tone, and audience expectations of the book before recording starts, and you choose from that shortlist.
That can work, but the production still needs engineering, editing, mastering, and technical cleanup if the final files are going to feel professional and pass platform requirements cleanly.
That is the goal. The production is delivered to platform-ready technical standards so upload, review, and launch are not delayed by preventable audio issues.
Production time depends on book length. A typical 60,000-word novel (6-7 finished hours) takes 2-4 weeks from casting to final delivery, including recording, editing, and mastering.
One page, one decision
If you know the approximate manuscript length, we can map it into finished hours and quote the production cleanly at £397 per finished hour.
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