AdaraAstin@supervolcano.angryshark.euI got an email today from ACX (the audiobook production platform) to say they are unilaterally changing the contract terms for how royalties are paid.
Authors need to opt into the new plan by the end of the year. Or else they will not receive any further payments. And neither will their narrators.
Surely this stretches the meaning of opt in.
They suggest that if narrators want to continue to be paid for their work, we should harass our authors to sign up for the new plan.
Que sera, sera. I'm not playing cop for ACX. (The books earn pennies at best anyway.)
When I say that I am no longer actively narrating audiobookx because the industry is a trashfire... *gestures at everything*
*Before some reply guy shows up to say, "You should sue!"... hahah, no I should not.
If you're an audiobook listener: support your narrators while you can.
If you're an author who has used ACX in the past, make sure to update your contract.
If you're a narrator, good luck.
If you want to buy my books while I'm still getting paid, you can find them here:
https://adaraastin.ck.page/87de3a4c9f
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ZBennoui@dragonscave.space 3 weeks ago
@AdaraAstin @audiofiction @bookstodon That's crazy, didn't realize you guys didn't make a ton of money off of audiobooks, considering how expensive they are. One possible option is to see if you can become a narrator for the National Library Service, it's a program run by Congress to help people with print disabilities access books in both audio and braille format. As far as I understand most positions are paid, and there are several studios you could work for. https://www.loc.gov/nls/who-we-are/nls-narrator/
@ZBennoui Thank you for thinking of me, Zach.
Because of the pandemic, I work from home, and used to record in a sound booth I built myself. There's no way for me to travel to the Media Lab where the NLS narrators record books, so this isn't accessible to me.
But I appreciate you sharing the information and I hope it is useful to other people reading the thread.
I also hope the NLS stays committed to working with human narrators to create top quality audio books for their patrons.
Thanks again.