The author was offering $80 PFH which works out to $610 for the completed audiobook. This book was 71,000 words which works out to about 7 hours of finished audio. Next, let’s talk about flat rate or “PFH” audiobook deals.Ī “PFH” deal is one where you get paid "X" number of dollars for every hour of “finished audio” that you produce.įor example, if your rate is $100 per hour (PFH) and the book ends up being 8 hours of audio, you would get paid $800 for the completed audiobook. Royalty share keeps paying you over time, so even if I stopped recording audiobooks someday, I’d still continue to get royalty payments every month. It can be a slow build when you’re first starting out, but in my my experience, I can end up making more from royalty share audiobooks over time than if I took a one-time PFH payment.įor this reason, I do a mix of royalty share and PFH projects. Recording royalty share audiobooks is a great way to build up a source of passive income. Some might do better or worse depending on their Amazon sales rank, reviews, and the author’s promotional efforts. However, not every book that you record as a royalty share is guaranteed to sell well. You can see how recording multiple royalty share audiobooks can start to add up over time. To be clear, this is a hypothetical scenario, but it's not unattainable.
This is a great deal IF the book sells well.įor example, if my share is $4 per book (average for 5-6 hour audiobooks) and the book sells 100 copies in a month, that one book would make me $400 per month. Since I get all of my royalty share book projects through ACX, I get paid 50% of whatever the author makes as his or her royalty from audiobook sales on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.įor example, if the author gets $8 for every audiobook sold, I would get $4 (or 50% of their royalty).
#AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR JOBS PLUS#
Royalty share plus (a combination of royalty share and PFH).įlat rate payments are pretty self-explanatory, so let's cover royalty share deals first. Royalty share (you split royalties 50/50 with the author or “rights holder”) Per-finished-hour (one flat rate payment for the entire book) On ACX there are 3 ways that you can get paid for work as a narrator: They also won’t take a cut of your earnings like a lot of other “voice over jobs” sites do.
#AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR JOBS FREE#
While you do need to live in the US, UK, Canada, or Ireland to sign up for ACX, they don’t have a formal application process and it is 100% free to sign up and start auditioning for paid audiobook projects on the site. I think ACX is the best place to get started if you don’t have any experience yet (and no, I do not work for them, nor do I get paid to promote them.) ACX is owned by Amazon and Audible and helps match narrators with authors/book publishers by allowing anyone to submit auditions for open audiobook projects. I started working from home as a freelance audiobook narrator on ACX.com a couple of years ago.
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