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Start Your Audiobook Career.
Choose the books you want to audition for! Through ACX, you can find an unlimited number of potential acting gigs, and the audiobooks you produce will be available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.
Choose how you'd like to get paid for your narration work:
- Your own per-finished-hour rate, paid upon successful completion of the audiobook.
- Share royalties from sales with the Rights Holder.
On ACX, an Audiobook Narrator is Also an Audiobook Producer.
Follow our Video Lessons and Resources to learn how to set up a home studio then edit and master your audiobook before it goes up for sale. Or find a studio professional to help out with the recording, editing, and mastering.
Here's How It Works:
Step 1. Create a Profile
Sign up on ACX and create a profile that details your acting and audiobook experience.
Step 2. Upload Samples
Tag an unlimited number of samples in your Profile, based on accents, genre, and style. The more audio samples you include, the easier it is for authors to find you.
Step 3. How do you want to get paid?
Choose a per-finished-hour rate, or choose to share 50% of royalties. If you're unsure, choose both.
Step 4. Audition
Search for books you're interested in narrating and producing, and record a few minutes of the manuscript. If you're the Rights Holder's top choice, you'll receive an Offer.
Step 5. Accept the Offer
When a Rights Holder makes you an Offer, agree on delivery dates for the first 15 minutes of audio and the final audiobook, and payment terms.
Step 6. Start Recording
Record, edit, and upload the a 15 minute checkpoint of the audiobook, which the Rights Holder will approve or provide feedback. When the sample is approved, record the remainder of the project.
Step 7. Work with Other Studio Professionals
To create a professional audiobook, you may want the guidance of other audiobook experts. If you need to hire one, or more, we have Independent Contractor Agreements you may use.
Step 8. Finish the Recording
Upload each completed chapter of the audiobook to meet our Audio Submission Requirements and Production Standard Terms. Before payment, the Rights Holder must approve the full audiobook, and has the right to request changes.
Step 9. Get Paid
If you and the Rights Holder agreed on a Pay for Production fee, you will be paid directly by the Rights Holder. If you produced the audiobook as a Royalty Share deal, then you'll be paid based on 50% of the royalties on sales.
Step 10. Come back for more
ACX has tons of books waiting to be turned into audiobooks, so keep auditioning! If you're highly experienced narrator with at least 25 audiobook credits, apply to be an Audible Approved Producer.
For more information, please read our FAQ.
How do I cite an audiobook?
Note: This post relates to content in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. For up-to-date guidance, see the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook.
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To cite an audiobook, include the book’s author and title along with the publication details for the audiobook version. If noteworthy or relevant, list the narrator in the Other Contributors slot. Give the publisher of the audiobook in the Publisher slot. The medium of publication can be listed in the final optional-element slot:
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. Narrated by Claire Danes et al., Audible, 2017. Audiobook.
If you downloaded the audiobook to a device, don’t include the website from which you downloaded it. (In the example above, Audible is included as the publisher of the audiobook, not as its seller or distributor.)
If it’s important for your reader to know the format of the audiobook, include it in the optional-element slot at the end of the entry:
Berendt, John. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Narrated by Jeff Woodman, Random House Audio, 1997. Audiobook, 10 cassettes.
If you listened to the audiobook (or a clip from it) on the web, include the website as a second container:
Heaney, Seamus, translator. Beowulf. Narrated by Heaney, audiobook, abridged edition, HighBridge Audio, 2006. Audible.com, www.audible.com/pd/Classics/Beowulf-Audiobook/B002V5CVPY/.
In-text citations for audio sources should include the relevant time or range of times in hours, minutes, and seconds:
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(Atwood 01:47:12-29)
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