Audiblegate
It&#x27;s terrible for the narrator too. In many cases the narrator makes a bad decision to record the Audiobook not for a per-finished-hour rate, but as a &quot;Royalty Share&quot; where they only earn on the Royalty -- that&#x27;s 20%  (50-50 royalty split with the author) on the audiobook version.<p>In most cases a narrator will never earn even close to minimum wage for the effort to create an audiobook. And it&#x27;s more effort than you might guess. A skilled narrator might produce a finished hour of audio in 5 hours, and a less skilled narrator may take 10 to 12 hours to create that same finished hour. So for a 10 hour audiobook a narrator will have between 50 and 100 hours of work, depending on the material and the production skills of the narrator.<p>It can take literally <i>years</i> to earn $500 to $1000 in royalties -- thats $10&#x2F;hr -- on a book. And most books never sell enough audiobook copies. And that&#x27;s why any narrator who understands this should <i>never</i> accept and ACX &#x2F; Audible exclusive Royalty share audiobook deal.<p>Now with this Audiblegate revelation it&#x27;s all to clear that we narrators are destined to never make our money back.