ACX audiobooks are sold on Amazon, Audible and iTunes.ĪCX has three different options when it comes to royalty share and payment for production and distribution of your audiobook. ACX bills itself as "the first marketplace where professional rights holders and producers connect to create audiobooks." The service is a division of Audible, which is owned by Amazon.
ACX stands for Audiobook Creation Exchange. Sassy Outwater tweeted that she loves the possibilities as both a narrator and a blind person who relies on audio books.ACX is a service that converts books into audiobooks. On the other hand, it also forces everyone to take a look at how audio rights exist right now, and what may change with this (and I assume other forthcoming) opportunity. On one hand, ACX forces everyone to pay closer attention to the potential of audio rights in the digital age. On the flip side, though, as Don Maass said on Twitter, if a publisher exercises unused audio rights, what will be the author’s share in those circumstances? And vice versa? I figure that anything which increases the number of audiobooks for those who need or prefer the format is a very good thing, particularly if it allows authors who hold their audio rights to exercise them for fun and profit.
The ACX program is available to authors at a flat rate or at a 50/50 share of royalties. The upshot is that so many excellent books are not made into audio books, and with the increasing success of self-publishing ventures in digital and print-on-demand, audiobooks are a natural extension of that success. Here, have a video about it, featuring two actors who really irritated me with their pseudo-bashful self-congratulatory demeanor:
Per Shelf Awareness today, Audible has launched ACX, which enables authors to create audiobooks of their work, either by narrating them or by hiring voice actors from the registered database of talent.