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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #acx, aggregated by home.social.
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News Summary: Audible to Discontinue Legacy Royalty Model; All Creators Must Switch to New System by Year-End
The end of last week saw the latest in a string of announcements that's been ongoing over many years and that can all be basically summarized as "Audible changes its royalty model." You will remember that the last time this happened it was to announce a new model that effectively followed the Kindle Unlimited format (or indeed the class action settlement format!) of paying rights holders from a fixed pool (which might vary month to month but was fixed for each month). The so-called "new model" has had its fans and its detractors but has so far been a choice for rights holders to make.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/audible-to-discontinue-legacy-royalty-model/#ACX #Audibleroyaltymodel #audiobookpricing #audiobookroyalties #AYCL
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Testing chatGPTs Geoguessr capabilities, not super human but very impressive. The user prompt is worth looking at for its insight into a Geoguessr's thought process.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/testing-ais-geoguessr-genius
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CW: What this means for audiobook narrators
I cannot in good faith recommend that anyone sign a contract through ACX to be paid in whole or in part in royalties because ACX/Audible is prepared to take down audiobooks without warning to narrators and leave us no recourse to be paid for our work.
I'm horrified that this is the outcome of my case. Please avoid this situation for yourselves.
#AudiobookNarrator #VoiceActor #ACX #Audible @audiobooks @AudioFiction @bookstodon
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I put $65 on a tap card and I was expecting it to last a long time. One game of air hockey is a dollar, though. A two-player shooting game costs $6 per play. Ouch!
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The website for the new #ACX theater at #Bayshore is showing a 7pm showing of Mission: Impossible. That's a good sign.
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Just heard back from SAG-AFTRA re #audiobooks through #FindAWayVoices being automatically enrolled in #Apple’s #AI #narration #training set. They have agreed to stop immediately and negotiate in future with #SAG-AFTRA. #ACX / #Audible do NOT supply AI training data they confirm. #Equity are closely following. This is great news and everyone can stop worrying their narration through FindAWay will be misused!
SAG-AFTRA think there’s a lot of noise about this atm, so pls boost to help clear it up.
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"Starting today, Audible is reducing prices on titles, including ACX titles, across the site. While we cannot make projections on a title-by-title basis, we anticipate that these price reductions will lead to increased sales for titles overall. In tandem, as the vast majority of Audible content is purchased with a credit, you should expect your average royalty per unit for credit sales to remain steady."
Just so you know? Authors/Narrators have no say on price.
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The paradox of my warning about the #PublicDomainIceAge is that it only matters to a very specific kind of person that wants to folllow the rules.
Everyone else just steals. Big, small, it doesn't matter. For every person using #BitTorrent in lieu of #Netflix there's an #Amazon letting people grift #Audible #ACX with other people's books; or an #OpenAI selling access to #aiart generators trained on other people's work. Hell, there was even a company selling #Minecraft videos in paperback.
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@puffer https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/universe-hopping-through-substack made me aware of a defunct service that linked to a randomly selected tweet, advertised as “a live demo that most people on twitter are not like you.”
People could use a reminder of that, about the internet and world in general, a lot more often.
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It feels great to stumble upon an #ACX post validating your own idea:
“I’m disappointed that no one has ever tried expanding the #QALY concept to things outside health care before. It’s not that I think it will work. It’s that I think it will fail to work in a different way than our naive opinions fail to work, and we might learn something from it.”
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/02/if-its-worth-doing-its-worth-doing-with-made-up-statistics/
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Today I detail how to list an audiobook on #ACX (for #Amazon, #Audible, and #iTunes).
https://youtu.be/nxsVa4i7qas