There is a way to reward narrators for taking on the risk of
your Royalty Share project, and the answer is ACX's stipend program.
As
a Royalty Share project, the book may or may not get picked up by a narrator willing to work on straight royalty shares.
I see
each royalty share project as a stepping stone on my path to top tier work.
money over paying a narrator to do it, or hoping to avoid the work of finding a good narrator who'll take your book on as
a Royalty Share project... please don't.
Seasoned narrators are often weary of taking
Royalty Share projects, as the full - payment is not guaranteed and, at best, delayed.
ACX always has hundreds, if not thousands, of books available for
Royalty Share projects.
I'm curious, now that it has been a while, how have
your royalty share projects panned out?
Due to the monetary risk involved with
royalty share projects, many narrators refuse to do them.
To achieve this end, ACX will reward certain
Royalty Share projects with a bonus of $ 100 per finished hour to the narrator.
Not exact matches
According to Parrilla, the process of having backers who earn
royalties correlates to that
project receiving incredible discovery opportunities as the backers
share the book's news in order to boost their own interests in the revenue.
These rates are cut in half if you decide to go with the
royalty -
share option on a particular
project.
I have been tempted to do
royalty share on certain
projects.
There are claims by some, that choosing
Royalty Share limits the quality of narrators, but my reasoning is that a lot of authors who submit mediocre
projects end up with mediocre narrators.
With that goal in mind, you might find some helpful ideas for maximizing your monetary ROI on RS
projects in my Primer on Narrating
Royalty Share Audiobooks.
Royalty share work is not for everyone, but I enjoy always having a book
project to work on.
I found that when I changed my
project scope from a
royalty share to a flat fee, I got a LOT more interest from producers, and ultimately found one who delivered a great product.
The sales rank is a vital piece of information for
royalty share (RS)
projects, which we'll look at in a moment.
No one wants to
share their 20 % of
royalties with another narrator to whom they aren't married, and ACX does not accommodate multi-narrator
projects, anyway.
I'm really pleased with the
royalty share program for one of my books and have begun a
project for a second book.
«Effective for
projects started on or after March 12, 2014, titles distributed exclusively to Audible, Amazon, and iTunes will earn a non-escalating 40 %
royalty paid to the Rights Holder (or, on Royalty Share deals, split equally between the Rights Holder and the Pro
royalty paid to the Rights Holder (or, on
Royalty Share deals, split equally between the Rights Holder and the Pro
Royalty Share deals, split equally between the Rights Holder and the Producer).
We've been in direct touch with Data Guy to confirm one thing not in the report: In terms of working out what the sales data scraped for these reports means in terms of earning power, Author Earnings now has the cooperation of some 50 authors who
share their
royalty information with the
project.
And, some authors may not like getting locked into
sharing their
royalties for 36 months (though there's nothing stopping you or your family members from backing the
project, too — and many do, to keep a larger portion of their
royalties).
If Rights Holder and Producer have agreed to a
royalty share arrangement, Rights Holder must pay Producer a cancellation fee equal to $ $ 100 base plus $ 100 per finished hour times the
projected number of finished hours (in 10 minute increments) in the Deal Confirmation Page; up to a maximum of $ 2,500.
It's not a chore — and it mustn't ever be a chore, whether you're paid or whether you're on a
royalty share deal — but because this is what I do for a living, it's more of a risk for me to take on a
project that I can't believe in, and not be paid to do it, because the payment aspect requires an investment of marketing when it's a
royalty share deal, and if I'm going to take that
royalty share deal, it, it behooves me to help with the marketing.
This
Royalty Share - only bonus makes
projects more appealing for narrators.
Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland, Biogen Idec, Dalradian Resources, Datalex, Elan Corp, ELG Scheme, Fastnet Oil & Gas, FBD Holdings, IIU, Irish
shares, Irish value investing, Pageant Holdings, Permanent TSB Group Holdings, Prime Active Capital,
Royalty Pharma, TGISVP, The Great Irish
Share Valuation
Project, US Oil & Gas
In the run up to the launch of the
shared - world shooter, Activision boss Bobby Kotick said the company was spending $ 500m on the
project - a figure later revealed to include everything from marketing to packaging, infrastructure support to
royalties and more.
Alberta's
share from oil sands
projects under the new
royalty regime (hatched blue) compared to other countries.
Sharing the benefits of the project; equity issues; royalties; compensation vs consideration; ownership of lease; ownership of minerals; group rights; ensuring long term benefits; discretionary benefits; intergenerational rights; sharing benefits with other Indigenous communities (if only experiences, principles or possibilities); subcontracting; business partne
Sharing the benefits of the
project; equity issues;
royalties; compensation vs consideration; ownership of lease; ownership of minerals; group rights; ensuring long term benefits; discretionary benefits; intergenerational rights;
sharing benefits with other Indigenous communities (if only experiences, principles or possibilities); subcontracting; business partne
sharing benefits with other Indigenous communities (if only experiences, principles or possibilities); subcontracting; business partnerships;
It was very important that we would get
royalty payments and
shares in Reward as we would own part of the
Project and
share in its success and we would keep a
share of the land.