Write and Start Recording by Yourself: If you have time but no budget, you can write your book and use proper recording software to create the audiobook version. The most obvious route to make money on Audible is by creating and selling your own audiobooks. How to Make Money on Audible 4 Actionable Methods 1. Producers can earn a fixed rate with the per-finished-hour model, or decide to share royalties with the creators. That’s all, (although it has to be approved by Amazon, so audio quality is extremely important)Īudible refers to audiobook narrators who are not the creators or authors of the books as producers. Creators (aka authors) just need to sign-up, claim their books, fill out the necessary details and upload the audio files. ACX is where audiobook authors can connect with voice actors or narrators to create audiobook versions of their books.Īuthors are free to narrate their own books through the Audible self-publishing platform.

royalties), s/he would do his/her utmost to promote it just as I would.ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange) is the self-publishing platform of Audible. First, I was not comfortable parting with a large up-front outlay when I was trialing this whole idea for the first time, and it made sense to me that if the producer were to be heavily invested in the success of the book (i.e. There are two ways to pay for a book producer/narrator: one is to pay them up front for their time, estimated to be roughly between $100-200 an hour the second way is to pay no up-front fees and split the royalties with them 50/50. I uploaded the first chapter, the blurb, the cover image, my desire for a female voice and my choice for a payment arrangement. I registered information about my book Marcia Gates: Angel of Bataan back in March of last year. It’s a fairly simple and straightforward process. ACX acts rather like a passive agent, creating a neutral middle ground where authors and producers can meet and explore working together. ACX is an Amazon company much like CreateSpace in that it provides an easy, affordable way to produce books, in this case audio books rather than physical books. Recently I embarked on a new challenge, converting one of my books into an audio book.

Amazon's audiobook creation exchange