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Audiobook publishing is the retail half of the job. The files need opening and closing credits, one chapter per file, a sample, a square cover, and a distributor you chose on purpose. ACX and a wide audio distributor are different contracts.
Where audio sells
ACX can put the book on Audible, Amazon, and Apple. The exclusive option pays a higher royalty and keeps that recording off other audio shops. The non-exclusive option pays less and leaves the door open. Those are the terms on the agreement you sign, not a mood. We read them with you before the files go up.
Wide audio runs through distributors that can reach Spotify, libraries, and shops ACX will not cover while you are exclusive. The audio has to be retail-ready either way: chapter files in order, room tone at the head and tail, and a noise floor a reviewer will not reject. We do not upload a raw session and call it distribution.
Order of the work
The retail package
The square cover is not a crop of the paperback spine. The sample is not a random middle chapter unless you have a reason.
What gets uploaded
A missing room tone or a file named out of order is a common rejection. We check both before the upload.
Decisions
Higher royalty on Audible, Amazon, and Apple. The same recording stays off other audio retailers for the term. Right for some novels. Wrong if you already promised libraries a wide audiobook.
You can use ACX and also distribute elsewhere. The ACX rate is lower. You must actually have the rights to send the same master to the second distributor.
Findaway and similar services if Audible is not the plan. We still master to a retail spec, because the next shop will measure the same peaks.
House rule
Distribution does not repair a session that was never mastered.
Before the account
No. Narration and mastering make the recording. This page is how that recording gets a store page. If you do not have the files yet, start with narration and production.
You need a locked text. Recording a book that is still gaining chapters means recording it twice. The print listing can go live before or after the audio.
Yours. The royalty has to land where you can see it. We can work as a user you add. We do not publish the audio into an account we own.
If the audio exists
We will say if the files are retail-ready, or if they still belong in production. Call (833) 688-4166 or write [email protected].
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