Market Intelligence
Know before you publish: how the length, price, title and description compare with what sells in your category — and the exact technical spec every store demands.
═══ Market Potential ═══
56/100
- Market size
- $2.8bn · growing 9% a year
- Your length
- 6 hrs vs sweet spot 5–7 hrs
- Your price
- 14.99 vs best tier 14.99
- Title searchability
- 0% searchable
- Description
- 0 characters
- Estimated completion
- 78% of listeners finish
- Predicted rank (estimate)
- Top #112 in Romance
- Chances (estimate)
- Top 50 12% · Top 10 3% · #1 0.5%
- Estimated units
- 134 / month
- Estimated royalties
- 803.46 / month at 40%
- Recommended price
- 14.99
- Platform
- Audible favours this category most; start there, then widen.
Price ladder — what each tier is likely to do
| Price | Predicted rank | Units / month | Royalties / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.99 | #79 | 235 | 751.06 |
| 14.99 | #112 | 134 | 803.46 |
| 19.99 | #132 | 103 | 823.59 |
Strengths
- • Length sits inside the 5–7 hour window listeners actually finish.
- • £/$14.99 matches a converting price tier for Romance.
Fix before you publish
- • Title has no searched-for term in it — add one plain keyword listeners type.
- • Description needs a hook in the first 150 characters — that is all stores show before the fold.
- • No narrator style set — declare it; listeners filter by narration.
Published category listings, ACX/Audible royalty terms and public length/price surveys · compiled 2026-08 · figures are benchmarks and estimates, not live sales feeds.
🏷️ Title, description, metadata & cover
Titlesearchability 0 → 92 / 100
Romance: Small Town Romance
Worked in: small town romance
• Added a subtitle carrying the searched term "small town romance".
Romance listeners search for: small town romance, second chance romance, slow burn, dual narration, steamy romance
Store descriptionsearchability 0 → 58 / 100
A romance story you finish in one sitting. A romance listeners finish: 5–7 hours, clear stakes, and an ending that lands. Perfect for listeners who search for small town romance, second chance romance, slow burn. Unabridged narration, 6 hours.
Worked in: small town romance, second chance romance, slow burn
• Moved the strongest line into the first 150 characters — that is all a store shows before the fold.
• Added a short middle paragraph — descriptions under 250 characters under-convert.
• Worked in the category's searched terms naturally: small town romance, second chance romance, slow burn.
• Added the narration line — listeners filter by narration before they buy.
The first 150 characters are all a browsing listener sees.
Metadata & cover auto-fill
Matching cover art
Square, title readable at thumbnail size, the legacy line along the foot. Replace it with your own artwork any time — the export accepts either.
💰 Best platform for this book
Audible / ACX (exclusive)
| Platform | Royalty | Per sale | Units / month | Royalties / month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audible / ACX (exclusive) | 40% | 6.00 | 134 | 804.00 |
| Audible / ACX (non-exclusive) | 25% | 3.75 | 123 | 461.25 |
| Apple Books | 70% | 10.49 | 29 | 304.21 |
| Google Play Books / Kobo | 70% | 10.49 | 24 | 251.76 |
- • Audible / ACX (exclusive): Best merchandising and the Audible bounty, but you cannot sell anywhere else.
- • Audible / ACX (non-exclusive): Half the royalty of exclusive, but you keep every other store.
- • Apple Books: Highest rate per sale; a smaller but loyal audiobook audience.
- • Google Play Books / Kobo: Highest rate per sale; smallest audiobook audience of the four.
Publishing wide is the better payer for Romance: about 1017.22 a month across all three stores against 804.00 on Audible exclusive (estimates).
✅ Platform-ready export spec — pass first time
| Requirement | Exact value |
|---|---|
| Sample rate | 44.1 kHz exactly |
| Bitrate | 192 kbps CBR (constant) |
| Loudness (RMS) | −23 to −18 dBFS RMS |
| Peak level | ≤ −3 dBFS |
| Noise floor | ≤ −60 dBFS |
| Chapter markers | Embedded, one file per chapter |
| Opening silence | 0.5–1.0 s |
| Closing silence | 1.0–2.0 s |
- • Container: MP3, one file per chapter
- • File naming: 01 - Chapter Name.mp3
- • Cover art: 2400×2400 px minimum, square RGB JPG
- • Metadata: Title · Author · Narrator · Retail sample (1–5 min) · Opening & closing credits
- • BISAC for Romance: FIC027000, FIC027020
Chapter file names, ready to use
01 - Opening.mp3 02 - The letter.mp3 03 - What the tide left.mp3 04 - Closing credits.mp3
Source: ACX audio submission requirements · checked 2026-08
Upload a finished chapter in the Audiobook studio to have these lines measured against your actual file.
Guided with love, in memory of Lucas Rua Okafor 💙
Same billing & tokens as Music · Podcasts · Audiobooks · Voiceover
Guided with love, in memory of Lucas Rua Okafor 💙