Other authors, I actually have enough audio to make a little Sightless Scribbles starter pack audiobook of sorts. Thing is, I am literally the worst with math, so if I tried to do any royalties, I would be in court quicker than you can blink because of my inadequate math skills, so what audiobook platform is everybody using? I don’t want to go with ACX because #Audible hates creatives and is actively trying to harm multiple creators, so does anyone have any other suggestions? Is there a platform that would handle these royalty payouts for me? I’m also not even sure if narrators get royalties or not? I paid for all of these narrations in the past. I’m just collecting them now. #Publishing#Author#Authors#IndieAuthors
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Don't know about the royalty splitting, although if you paid a flat fee for work for hire you won't need to do the splitting - depends on the details of the contract.
I don't do audiobooks myself, but Draft 2 Digital supports audiobooks, distributes to lots of platforms that offer audiobooks, and sends you the combined royalties from all the platforms, which you can split out by title and/or platform if you want, so you only have to deal with one set of figures for each title.
@WeirdWriter Kobo's self-publishing platform supports audiobooks and is significantly less evil than Amazon, and they don't require exclusivity.
@WeirdWriter I have no idea, but boosting anyway!
I would have thought Amazon too, but they are utterly unable to handle such things as co-authors both getting the Kindle share
Amazon are OK for Kindle and Kindle Print, and in particular they have built an ebook store that gets paying customers, so 90% of my ebook sales were Kindle. I make sure I'm on Draft2Digital as well, which goes to all the other 10%.
I was always put off Audible by the exclusivity requirement, and now they're screwing authors over on royalties. If I did audiobooks myself I'd just sell packs of mp3's off my site.
@WeirdWriter it occurs to me that Bandcamp is an obvious audiobook platform - they take 15%, a very reasonable cut, and you can easily put up a whole book for sale and e.g. make the first chapter playable as a preview.
and it turns out there are lots of audiobooks on Bandcamp!
I don't think they'll help with royalty splitting though!
@davidgerard Yeah, I’m not even sure if I need to do royalties splitting since I’ve technically already paid for these narrations long ago, I now have enough to just make like a little starter pack of sorts. I will look into that, but they are venture backed, and they do union busting but will absolutely look into it anyway
@WeirdWriter every platform sucks
