Other versions of PDSP - Audio, Kindle, etc

[Savage]

Just got off the phone with Reid Tracy (Prez of Hay House) and asked him about other versions of Personal Development for Smart People.

There will be a Kindle version which should be available shortly after launch (hopefully within a week or two). Apparently Amazon is converting 5-10K books per week to Kindle format, and they have a backlog. Since PDSP already hit the top 100 (briefly), that will probably be enough to get them to make a Kindle version available at launch day. Hay House will certainly push for it.

There will also be a Sony ebook reader version available. This should either happen at launch or very shortly thereafter (within weeks). Other ebook formats may be available after that as well.

An audio version will depend on sales of the hardcover book. Audio versions don't sell nearly as well as hardcover books... like 10% as many copies. The book will need to sell at least 25-30K copies before buyers will want to see an audio version. I expect the book will sell more than enough copies to warrant an audio version, but even so it will probably be a year before an audio version is available.

Foreign translations are a virtual certainty. It's too soon to say which languages, but we may see some non-English versions available shortly after the English version ships. The book should be available in many countries. Hay House is an international publisher that licenses many books for translation to other publishers.

Hay House's sales team is excited that the book is doing so well with pre-orders already. This gives them a lot more leverage with the buyers they work with, especially since I'm a first time author with no prior track record in the book trade.