Special thanks to Charles Bice, the guy you hear narrating “Superliminal”. Other Amazon services and partners support direct deposit (like KDP, CreateSpace and crowdSPRING), and it would be more convenient if ACX supported this too, but they don’t. ACX is partnered with Amazon – you actually use your Amazon ID to sign on to the service. Once your royalty balance hits $50, they mail out a check. I have only one complaint about ACX, and it’s small: At the time of this writing, they do not support direct deposit of royalty funds. Thanks to ACX, I have a great-sounding audiobook available of my work for a very low cost, and sales/distribution/royalties are handled for me. After another approval process from me, ACX took over, then placed the audiobook in Amazon,, and the iTunes Store. This last option is what I did.Īfter that, the narrator does the rest of the work in the process of physically narrating the book and editing that effort. This is where ACX shines, because while authors can pay narrators for their time (starting at around $200 per hour, and I would keep all royalities), authors can alternatively pay nothing up front, and split the audiobook royalties 50/50 with the narrator. Then I set up a contract with them (this was brokered by ACX). Then it was up to me to pick the one I liked best, and work with the narrator to get the voice just the way I wanted it. In this case, it wasn’t for very long: Within a day or so I had three auditions for the voice of Dev Manny! Once I specified what I was looking for, my next step was to wait. Here’s what I specified what I was looking for in my “Superliminal” narrator: You’ve got plenty of options – you can specify various accents, ages, and traits like “comic timing”. The process was easy: Upload a sample of the book for potential actors to read (I used the first chapter of the book), then describe what kind of voice and reader you’re looking for. I’d already published it as a paper book and ebook, and then I decided to try out ACX and publish it as an audiobook. In my case, I finished my book Dev Manny #1: Superliminal. But it wouldn’t look as smooth for the marketing copy to say “a crowdsourced program that puts authors in touch with audiobook readers, and vice versa, and provides a low-cost way of doing so”. …Or perhaps “production” is the wrong word. ACX, or the “Audiobook Creation Exchange”, is a company dedicated to the production of audiobooks.
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