Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX) is a marketplace for professional narrators, authors, agents, publishers and rights holders to connect and create

audiobook An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud. A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of shorter versions are abridgements. Spoken audio has been available in sch ...

s. ACX was launched by

Audible Audible may refer to: * Audible (service), an online audiobook store * Audible (American football), a tactic used by quarterbacks * ''Audible'' (film), a short documentary film featuring a deaf high school football player * Audible finish or ru ...

on May 12, 2011 by

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and run by Jason Ojalvo. At the time of launching, Ojalvo reported the ACX had roughly 1000 titles.

Overview

ACX is owned and operated by Audible Inc., an Amazon company. All titles produced through ACX are made available for sale on Audible.com,

Amazon.com Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos in Bellevu ...

and

iTunes iTunes is a media player, media library, and mobile device management (MDM) utility developed by Apple. It is used to purchase, play, download and organize digital multimedia on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating s ...

. On ACX, the customer signs in as either a producer of an audiobook or as someone who owns the rights to create an audiobook. On ACX, a producer is anyone who can deliver or help deliver a retail ready audiobook. This group includes

recording studios A recording studio is a specialized facility for recording and mixing of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds. They range in size from a small in-home project studio large enough to record a single sin ...

, narrators,

audio engineers An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduc ...

and audiobook editors. Rights holders include anyone who owns the audio rights to a book: authors, narrators, literary agents,

publishers Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

, etc.

History

In February 2012, ACX launched "DIY workflow". DIY allows users who own the audio rights to already completed audiobooks to upload them individually through ACX and have them distributed through Audible's sales channels. In April 2013, ACX announced "Audible Author Services" which is an incentive program to distribute profits to audiobook authors. Authors who register receive $1 for each audiobook sold.Mary Burkey
Amazon Now Going After Audiobook Authors
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Booklist ''Booklist'' is a publication of the American Library Association that provides critical reviews of books and audiovisual materials for all ages. ''Booklist''s primary audience consists of libraries, educators, and booksellers. The magazine is ...

'', April 14, 2013

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ACX
official website Internet properties established in 2011 2011 establishments in the United States Audiobook companies and organizations Amazon (company)

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