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Are you stuck with Audible because of the first series? If not, some other company like https://www.bookwire.de/en/service/ or one of these might work. https://itunespartner.apple.com/books...
Thanks for the links! I'm looking into a couple of the aggregators on those lists.
Unfortunately, I suspect there's no way to resolve the underlying problem: Amazon-Audible has a an effective monopoly on the audiobook market, and they've used it to screw the hell out of authors. Their current terms are RIDICULOUS. But since they control 90%+ of the audiobook market, there's no real alternative. Even if I can get decent terms for distributing my work on iTunes, it doesn't really matter because I can't support the cost of producing audiobooks for such a small slice of the market.
Wish I had better news. Hopefully Audible will find itself in anti-trust litigation at some point. --They're being really blatant about what they're doing. -- But until that happens, I'm probably done producing audiobooks.
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Are you stuck with Audible because of the first series? If not, some other company like https://www.bookwire.de/en/service/ or one of these might work. https://itunespartner.apple.com/books...
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Thanks for the links! I'm looking into a couple of the aggregators on those lists.Unfortunately, I suspect there's no way to resolve the underlying problem: Amazon-Audible has a an effective monopoly on the audiobook market, and they've used it to screw the hell out of authors. Their current terms are RIDICULOUS. But since they control 90%+ of the audiobook market, there's no real alternative. Even if I can get decent terms for distributing my work on iTunes, it doesn't really matter because I can't support the cost of producing audiobooks for such a small slice of the market.
Wish I had better news. Hopefully Audible will find itself in anti-trust litigation at some point. --They're being really blatant about what they're doing. -- But until that happens, I'm probably done producing audiobooks.
