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KDP, the part of amazon that lets you publish your own books, now has a beta program to create audio books using virtual voices. https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s

• jjice 3y ago
  Neat feature. I assume is AWS Polly under the hood. This caught my eye though: > Authors can set a list price between $3.99 and $14.99 and will receive a 40% royalty Do they mean you get 40% of the work you created and they ran their model on? Oh lord. Let me run this through a TTS myself and publish it like that. Not sure if they even allow that though.
  • impostervt 3y ago
    That's the standard payment when publishing your audiobook using ACX (how independents get their books on Audible) - and then only if you go exclusive with Audible. If you're not exclusive, you get 25%. Audible's market share is like 60%, so you loose out on a lot if you don't publish there.