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title: "Audiobook App | Subscription Library for Publishers | GoodBarber"
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# Audiobook App | Subscription Library for Publishers | GoodBarber

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Create an audiobook app

# Audiobook app: your publishing house's catalog as a subscription library

## Your listeners browse your titles, hear the first chapter without paying, then subscribe in one tap to the whole catalog. Chapters download for long journeys.

An iPhone and Android app for your audiobook publishing house, without code: every title in chapters, a free excerpt, the library reserved for subscribers, offline listening and a notification with each new release.

[Start for free](https://www.goodbarber.com/create/)

Free 30-day trial - No credit card required

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## A book, its chapters, its page

### The catalog is organized like your imprints

Each imprint becomes a section, each title a run of chapters loaded into the Podcasts section in reading order. An article page goes with the book: synopsis, author, narrator, running time, a few lines of the text. Listeners wander through the catalog the way they would browse bookstore shelves.

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## The subscription library

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### One subscription opens the whole catalog; each title's first chapter stays free

With Memberships, the listener pays monthly or yearly, with the Apple or Google account on their phone, and every reserved chapter opens up. Leave the first chapter of each book open: that is your sample, the one that makes people want the rest. Sales start from ten reserved pieces of content: a single novel split into chapters can be enough.

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## Hours of listening, even offline

### Chapters download, and playback carries on with the phone locked

An audiobook is a long listen: in the car, on the train, in the evening. Marked as a favorite, a chapter downloads and plays offline; in the native apps, playback carries on with the phone locked once you enable the option. Bandwidth is not billed; only storage space depends on the plan you choose, with more on Pro.

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## Your own app, an audiobook platform or selling files?

Three ways to offer your titles in audio, and what each one leaves you.

|                                                       | Your app with GoodBarber                      | Audiobook platform       | Files sold on your website |
| ----------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | -------------------------- |
| An app under your name in Apple's and Google's stores | ✓ native iOS and Android                      | the platform's app       | no                         |
| Sales model                                           | one subscription to your whole catalog        | depends on the platform  | one purchase per title     |
| What the listener pays                                | ✓ set by you, store by store                  | depends on the platform  | ✓ set by you               |
| What you hand over                                    | the store's commission, nothing to GoodBarber | depends on your contract | payment fees               |
| Announcing a new release                              | ✓ push for every new title                    | depends on the platform  | by email                   |

## From catalog to library: four steps

In the back office, one title after another.

1. 1

### Imprints
  One section per imprint: crime, children's, nonfiction.

2. 2

### Chapters
  Each file in its place, the first one open, the following ones reserved.

3. 3

### Title pages
  One article per title, with synopsis, author and narrator.

4. 4

### Subscription
  Monthly, yearly or both, priced separately on each store, plus a free trial if you decide so.

Publish the app under the house's name, or let the GoodBarber Takes Care team submit it to the stores and set up the subscription there.

## Every new release announced

### A new title comes out, and your listeners know it

When a book comes out, a manual push announces it to everyone, or only to non-subscribers with its first chapter free: targeting by subscription status is built in. For a book loaded all at once, prefer this manual push to the section's automatic push, which would fire for each chapter published.

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## AI to pick the next book

Three uses, and what they cost.

To recommend

### “Which audiobook should I pick for a three-hour train ride?”

The Chatbot draws on your title pages, published as articles, and links to the books it mentions. For a visitor with no subscription, it sticks to the pages that are open to all.

$35/month

To explore

### The listening-time picker

Ask, in the back office, for a section that sorts your titles by running time: the AI Extension Builder builds it into the app, in your design. Only an example; you describe the section you need.

Free

To publish

### The new title's page written in Claude

Once Claude, or another assistant, is plugged into the app with the MCP server, it writes the title page from the back-cover copy and schedules the release push, as soon as you give the go-ahead.

Included

## The price of an audiobook app

The subscription library lives in the native apps: Premium, completed by Memberships, or Pro, which integrates it. Your chapters use the storage space the plan provides; push and updates cost nothing more.

| **Premium** · native apps and web app | $55 /month, billed yearly  |
| ------------------------------------- | -------------------------- |
| Memberships, added to Premium         | $49 /month                 |
| **Pro** · subscriptions integrated    | $105 /month, billed yearly |

GoodBarber earns nothing on your subscriptions; Apple and Google apply their commission, often 15%. Developer accounts are billed by the stores.

[See all prices](https://www.goodbarber.com/pricing/content/)

Extension Store

For an audiobook publisher: Memberships (optional with Premium, standard with Pro), the Podcasts section for chapters, articles for title pages, favorites for downloads, push, the Chatbot, the MCP server, and finally the AI Extension Builder.

[illustration for Memberships MembershipsMake money in your app with Memberships$49/month](https://www.goodbarber.com/extensions/in-app-purchase/)

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[illustration for Bookmark BookmarkYour users mark and save the items that interest them mostFree](https://www.goodbarber.com/extensions/cms-bookmark/)

[illustration for Automatic push Automatic pushSomething new with your app? Automatically notify your usersFree](https://www.goodbarber.com/extensions/scheduled-push/)

[illustration for Chatbot ChatbotAI that answers using your content$55/month $35/month](https://www.goodbarber.com/extensions/rag-chatbot-ai/)

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## What GoodBarber customers say

Reviews posted by customers, across every kind of activity.

### [GoodBarber is a powerful app builder.](https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/60f08679f9f48702a8e6869e)

GoodBarber is a powerful app builder. If you want to build your app using a pre-built template, GoodBarber is ideal for you. At Global Academy, we almost completed the 5th year using their easy-to-use pre-built platforms to build premium Apps for our customers. Also, Goodbarber's customer support is excellent. Highly recommended.

Melissa Okta

### [Great support and always very helpful answers.](https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/60c0ca7cf9f487099ce24eb9)

Great support and always very helpful answers. Nothing is too trivial for the team to answer.

### [Responsive support and usually quick.](https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/60ad3c03f9f4870a94ace1d1)

Responsive support and usually quick. Software is by far the best in the market, with tremendous capabilities for configurations.

## Audiobook app: your questions

**### Can I sell a single audiobook?**

Not in this app: every subscriber gets the same access, and the subscription opens the entire reserved catalog. It is the model of a library, not a bookstore. Leave each title's first chapter open so people discover your books.

**### How do I help a listener wondering which audiobook to pick?**

Take care of the title pages: synopsis, running time, narrator, excerpt. The Chatbot relies on them to recommend a title, and the app's search finds an author or a title across the catalog.

**### Is a twelve-hour book too heavy for the app?**

Split into chapters, no: each chapter is a file, and plays are not billed to you for bandwidth. The total size of the catalog does count toward your plan's storage space.

**### Can chapters be heard offline?**

Yes: the listener marks a chapter as a favorite to download it, then hears it with no network, on a plane or abroad.

**### Can I give a free subscription to an author or a journalist?**

Yes: you grant, from the back office, a free subscription to whoever you choose, for the length of time you set.

**### Which plan suits an audiobook library?**

Premium, to be completed by Memberships, or Pro, which contains it. Selling also takes a web app running on your own domain name.

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GoodBarber makes your audiobook catalog a subscription library, and takes no commission on it

Imprints as sections, reserved chapters, a free first chapter, title pages, chapters to hear offline, a push for each release, a Chatbot that recommends.

[Explore all the benefits](/membership/)

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