Audible (s AMZN), the digital audiobook site owned by Amazon that launched audiobook rights platform ACX in 2011 as a way for authors and publishers to profit from their unsold audiobook rights, is now lowering the royalties
it pays on those audiobooks.
Until now, the royalties
paid on audiobooks have been really solid.
Not exact matches
If, however, you think that down the line you might want to
pay for some major quality distribution of your
audiobook and get it
on a lot of platforms, then ACX might not be a good route for you because of that seven year contract.
Not to mention this is a huge boon for indie developers who are releasing high quality
audiobook and ebook apps
on the Apple platform, where users
pay to unlock certain features or purchase content.
You may not employ these
on a day to day basis, but if you are a huge fan of
audiobooks, this investment will
pay off in spades.
That means I can hear one a month «for free» and any additional
audiobook from my library I have to
pay an additional $ 8.99
on top of the monthly Scribd fee.
Instead, I went to ACX, which is the division of Amazon that handles the entire process of putting a book
on Audible, including rights management, choosing a narrator,
paying the narrator, and receiving payments for
audiobook sales.
I always have 2 - 4 months
on any royalty share contract so that I have the time to take
on audiobooks and my regular voice - over work that
pays up front.
Now that's the walkthrough that everyone should
pay attention of... One of the numerous energizing sections
on the iTunes Store, the
audiobooks classification gives a determination of the world's best books for you to listen to at your needs!
If you
pay 14.95 a month you get one free
audiobook and save around 30 %
on everything else.
Now that the title is available, the print, Audible
audiobook, and
audiobook CD editions are all # 1 in Books
on Amazon, while the ebook is the number one
Paid in Kindle Store title.
No Royalty will be
paid on the transmission or distribution of downloads or other copies of the
Audiobook distributed for free for purposes of review, sample, advertising, publicity or promotion.
As the world's largest
audiobook distributor, Audible
pays 40 % in royalties
on ACX exclusive contracts.
Licensing audio rights and publishing a contemporary
audiobook can be risky, especially if you
pay an advance
on royalties.
ACX
pays Rights Holder $ 50 every time the
audiobook is among the first
audiobook purchased by an AudibleListener ™ member
on Audible.
Today, she and Richard Rieman, author of The Author's Guide to
AudioBook Creation will update listeners
on what's new in
audiobooks plus some key strategies to give yours away plus get
paid to do it!
ACX
pays Rights Holder and Producer $ 50 every time the
audiobook is the first
audiobook purchased by an AudibleListener ™ member
on Audible.
If you elect to
pay the Producer who produces an
Audiobook using the ACX royalty share option, Audible will
pay half of all royalties payable under this Agreement
on sales of the
Audiobook by Audible to you and the other half to the Producer who you engaged to produce the
Audiobook.
, in addition to the
paid audiobook versions
on all of the
audiobook outlets, a free, serialized version will appear
on all the free outlets Podiobooks.com has supported, like iTunes and Stitcher, plus others, like Google.
Audible will
pay Royalties to you only
on Audible Net Sales Receipts (as defined below) it receives from sales of the
Audiobook.
That means: «ACX
pays Rights Holder and Producer $ 50 every time the
audiobook is the first
audiobook purchased by an AudibleListener ™ member
on Audible.
Comics by comiXology is also the top - grossing book app
on the iPhone, and the only free one in the top five; the others are a free - book app (
pay for the app and the books are free — the opposite of comiXology's model), a free -
audiobook app, and two versions of the Bible.
HarperCollins»
audiobook catalogue will now be available
on a
pay - per - use basis
on bibliotheca's cloudLibrary.
In unlimited subscription models, a user will
pay a fee to have open access to any
audiobook on the platform, and could access as many books they want without any further costs (think Netflix).
In February, Amazon gutted the royalty rates they
pay for
audiobooks, as Laura Hazard Owen reported at GigaOm in her story, Amazon - owned Audible lowers royalty rates
on self - published
audiobooks.