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Mar 26, 2013 03:11AM
Hi, folks. In my early days as a writer who was just learning about ACX and Audible, I jumped at the first narrator/production company who "wooed" me. It was all so exciting and actually, yes, I am sorry to admit, flattering. Anyway, I was quite hasty in my decisions and I'd very much like a do-over. I'd like to leave the original production up there, but simply do another "version" with a new narrator and offer them both for sale. Originally when I asked about this I was told it was impossible, but recently I noticed several versions of the same book produced by various companies. So I see it is possible, and yes, it even exists. How can I get this to happen, so my stories can be properly presented and I am not hampered by bad reviews of my narrator? Fortunately, the public still gives the stories positive ratings, but the performance rating on a few of them have been quite poor. I really want a do-over. Is it possible?
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As someone that enjoyed the story but not the narration, I wish you luck and would be pleased to see a new versions go up.
Philip Blake wrote: "As someone that enjoyed the story but not the narration, I wish you luck and would be pleased to see a new versions go up."Thank you, Phil!
You can absolutly rerecord the book, unless you've entered into an agreement that prevents this. I haven't read the ACX agreement for this but I don't recall that you are prevented from doing this, unless you have one of the agreements where revenue is split with the narrator then I'm not sure if you can get out of it.
John wrote: "You can absolutly rerecord the book, unless you've entered into an agreement that prevents this. I haven't read the ACX agreement for this but I don't recall that you are prevented from doing this..."Ah, yes, I always do the 50-50 royalty split. But I figured why can't the first company just take the royalties of the book they recorded, and the second company take the royalties from their production? I don't understand the issue.
Your taking money out of the first narrators pocket by doing a new recording, they ARE going to care.The old recording + new recording sales will be greater than just the old recording sales. However, a portion of the new recordings sales will be sales that would have otherwise been paying them. Also I'll expect audible to care because they want to have more books creaed via ACX and if books can be rerecorded that is going to turn narrators off of doing the 50/50 model.
Hmm. I wonder if it is indeed a zero sum game. But I understand your thoughts here - thanks for weighing in!
Aaron wrote: "Hi, folks. In my early days as a writer who was just learning about ACX and Audible, I jumped at the first narrator/production company who "wooed" me. It was all so exciting and actually, yes, I am..."Hi, Aaron. It is possible to do this; however, it depends on the contract that the narrator and yourself joined. In order to look into this in greater detail, please send us an email to Support@acx.com with your account email address, the title of the book, and the Audible.com link.
Audible.com wrote: "Aaron wrote: "Hi, folks. In my early days as a writer who was just learning about ACX and Audible, I jumped at the first narrator/production company who "wooed" me. It was all so exciting and actua..."Thanks! I will certainly do this. ;o) Aaron
audible books are NOT downloading to my iphone what can I do?
Michael - do you have the Audible App on your phone? You need to be near wireless, too. If this doesn't work, go to the audible home page and call the help desk - they are amazing!
Thanks Aaron I will try the app first
