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Production Stipends

As an ACX Producer you may be eligible to receive a bonus payment – we call them “Stipends” – when you complete an audiobook as part of a Royalty Share deal. Basically, ACX will pay you a per-finished-hour fee in addition to the royalties you earn from sales of the audiobook. We are offering this bonus to encourage Producers to try out ACX’s innovative Royalty Share option. We have chosen a few hundred titles to be eligible for these Stipend offers; titles chosen because they have especially strong sales potential to audiobook customers.

  • All ACX Producers are eligible for this $100 per finished hour stipend [PDF Download]

    • The basics of our Stipend offer are below. However, be sure to read the PDFs (links above) which contain the full details of this offer:

    1. Log in as a Producer (i.e. narrator or studio professional) to ACX. Choose any book being offered as a Royalty Share deal that has the Stipend-eligible flag associated to it.
    2. Submit your best audition.
    3. If you get a Royalty Share offer on one (or more) of these titles, accept the offer. You can receive up to 3 Stipends (note: this had previously been 5 maximum, but in our latest offer we are limiting it to 3).
    4. The audiobook production that you complete must be approved by the Rights Holder on ACX within 60 days of the original acceptance of the offer
    5. Contact audio@acx.com so we can send you the stipend invoice template.
    6. Upon your completion and approval of the audiobook, submit your invoice to stipendinvoice@acx.com.
    7. We will double-check your audiobook and invoice, then pay you the Stipend (e.g. $1,200 for a 12-hour audiobook), up to a maximum of $2500 per audiobook.
    8. In addition to the Stipend you’ll receive, you also earn half of the 50 - 90% escalator royalty on each sale of the audiobook (i.e. 25% - 45% as outlined here).
    9. And you earn half of any $25 Bounty generated by downloads of the audiobook, as outlined here.