ACX and audible

[Nick B]

Posted this on a different thread, but that was a bit dumb, so...

Does anyone have any experiences of using ACX (the audio book equivalent of createspace) in creating and selling audio books?
The process looks relatively simple, and you get to audition your narrators and so on, and they do a royalty based model where you and the narrator both earn 20%, which is fine by me, as there is now way we can afford to pay a producer upfront. I'm quite happy for the sales to go through Audible, Amazon and iTunes.

Anyone have any experience with them?

 

[CWScott]

I tried getting my book onto audio, but some of the narrators will not do royalty share unless you're moving a lot of books. If you have some moderate sales they may do a royalty share, but will want an additional stipend to offset the studio costs (about 30 hours work for 60k words/7 hours). Much cheaper then the pfh (price per finished hour), though.
You should post your book there regardless. Sometimes ACX will take notice and offer to pay a stipend to help out. There are a lot of narrators out there though. You could shop around to see if any will do royalty share only.