- Audio gapPublishing
The wait between a book's first ebook and its audiobook, from zero days to many months depending on the publisher and the narrator's schedule. A gap is history, not a promise for the next book.
Defiance of the Fall's audiobooks came out with the ebook, while Mark of the Fool's last five came months later.
In our data: Defiance of the Fall, Mark of the Fool, Ebook to audiobook gap
- Full-cast audiobookPublishing
An audiobook performed by several voice actors, sometimes with music and sound effects, instead of one narrator reading every part.
Soundbooth Theater's Everybody Loves Large Chests has Jeff Hays reading every volume with a cast that grows to nine named narrators by volume 9; some Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks add guest voices.
In our data: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Narrators
- NarratorPublishing
The voice actor who reads an audiobook. In LitRPG one narrator often reads a whole series, and many listeners follow a narrator from series to series.
Travis Baldree reads Cradle, The Primal Hunter, Mark of the Fool, Beware of Chicken, Unbound and The Ripple System.
In our data: Cradle, The Primal Hunter, Mark of the Fool, Narrators
- ReissuePublishing
A new edition of a book that is already out, often when a bigger publisher picks up a self-published series. Store pages then show the new date, which can be years after the first one.
Matt Dinniman's site dates Dungeon Crawler Carl to September 21, 2020 and its republication to August 27, 2024; Harper Voyager relaunched Noobtown in 2026.
In our data: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Hardcovers
- Same-day audioPublishing
When the ebook and the audiobook come out on the same day. Some publishers do it for every book; others record the audiobook once the ebook is out.
Every Unbound audiobook came out the same day as the ebook, and Defiance of the Fall's usually do.
In our data: Defiance of the Fall, Ebook to audiobook gap
- Side storyPublishing
A shorter book set in a series outside its main numbering (a novella, a collection, a prequel), usually read between two main books or after the end.
The Path of Ascension 10.5 is an audiobook novella to listen to between books 10 and 11, and Threshold collects stories from Cradle.
In our data: Cradle