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tl;dr - Audible incentivized author/narrator collaboration by only paying narrators when audiobooks sold, but instantly "paying" authors with 200 promo codes fo
by inanutshellus 5y ago
tl;dr - Audible incentivized author/narrator collaboration by only paying narrators when audiobooks sold, but instantly "paying" authors with 200 promo codes for any book successfully narrated. Those promo codes could then be sold to anyone.
So...
1. baddies write programs to randomly generate content
2. baddies post it to Audible's ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange) platform
3. Some bored guy with no standards on what he's reading narrates the gibberish for free
4. baddie gets 200 promo codes
5. and... baddie presumably sells the codes somehow.
- apples_oranges 5y agoGreat summary, thanks!
- impostervt 5y agoIt's not like that anymore though. You get 25 US and 25 UK codes, and they only work on your book.
- IshKebab 5y agoSo why do people still get weird random text narrated? There weren't really any conclusions from the article. Very incomplete.
- impostervt 5y agoDon't know. Some kind of new scam? Maybe they just want to sell books on amazon & audible and if they produce enough random garbage they'll get some sales?
- syllospri 5y ago"Audible would pay out a royalty whenever a code was redeemed." From the article, this is what the step 5 should be. They would just redeem the codes for free and then get paid.