Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX) is a marketplace for professional narrators, authors, agents, publishers and

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s to connect and create

audiobook An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud. A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of shorter versions are abridgements. Spoken audio has been available in sc ...

s. ACX was launched by

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on May 12, 2011.

Overview

ACX is owned and operated by Audible Inc., an Amazon company. All titles produced through ACX are made available for sale on Audible.com,

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and

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. On ACX, the customer signs in as either a producer of an audiobook or as someone who owns the rights to create an audiobook. On ACX, a producer is anyone who can deliver or help deliver a retail ready audiobook. This group includes

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, narrators,

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and audiobook editors. Rights holders include anyone who owns the audio rights to a book: authors, narrators, literary agents,

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, etc.

History

In February 2012, ACX launched "DIY workflow". DIY allows users who own the audio rights to already completed audiobooks to upload them individually through ACX and have them distributed through Audible's sales channels. In April 2013, ACX announced "Audible Author Services" which is an incentive program to distribute profits to audiobook authors. Authors who register receive $1 for each audiobook sold.Mary Burkey
Amazon Now Going After Audiobook Authors
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'', April 14, 2013

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ACX
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