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by jjice 911 days ago
Neat feature. I assume is AWS Polly under the hood. This caught my eye though:

> Authors can set a list price between $3.99 and $14.99 and will receive a 40% royalty

Do they mean you get 40% of the work you created and they ran their model on? Oh lord. Let me run this through a TTS myself and publish it like that. Not sure if they even allow that though.

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That's the standard payment when publishing your audiobook using ACX (how independents get their books on Audible) - and then only if you go exclusive with Audible. If you're not exclusive, you get 25%.

Audible's market share is like 60%, so you loose out on a lot if you don't publish there.