![]() ![]() Some might do better or worse depending on their Amazon sales rank, reviews, and the author’s promotional efforts. However, not every book that you record as a royalty share is guaranteed to sell well. You can see how recording multiple royalty share audiobooks can start to add up over time. To be clear, this is a hypothetical scenario, but it's not unattainable. This is a great deal IF the book sells well.įor example, if my share is $4 per book (average for 5-6 hour audiobooks) and the book sells 100 copies in a month, that one book would make me $400 per month. Since I get all of my royalty share book projects through ACX, I get paid 50% of whatever the author makes as his or her royalty from audiobook sales on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.įor example, if the author gets $8 for every audiobook sold, I would get $4 (or 50% of their royalty). Royalty share plus (a combination of royalty share and PFH).įlat rate payments are pretty self-explanatory, so let's cover royalty share deals first. Royalty share (you split royalties 50/50 with the author or “rights holder”) Per-finished-hour (one flat rate payment for the entire book) On ACX there are 3 ways that you can get paid for work as a narrator: They also won’t take a cut of your earnings like a lot of other “voice over jobs” sites do. While you do need to live in the US, UK, Canada, or Ireland to sign up for ACX, they don’t have a formal application process and it is 100% free to sign up and start auditioning for paid audiobook projects on the site. I think ACX is the best place to get started if you don’t have any experience yet (and no, I do not work for them, nor do I get paid to promote them.) ![]() ACX is owned by Amazon and Audible and helps match narrators with authors/book publishers by allowing anyone to submit auditions for open audiobook projects. pay or other issues for fear of losing their seats, which we’re sure will never been an issue for the deeply principled Ryan.I started working from home as a freelance audiobook narrator on ACX.com a couple of years ago. The positions are so lucrative and coveted that critics say some people are discouraged from raising questions about C.E.O. By the Boston Globe’s estimates, board members usually work fewer than five hours per week per board. Corporate board seats are famously cushy gigs that involve, typically, attending a meeting every few weeks, max. ![]() There’s some irony in the fact that Ryan, who famously called poverty a “culture problem” of “men not even thinking about working,” who said the social safety net is a “hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence,” and who extolled the virtues of children seeing their father working, will be quitting his job at 48 in order to do less work for more money. One imagines that plenty of the Speaker‘s corporate donors, now saving millions on their tax bills, would be happy to have him. “There would be dozens that would like to have him, particularly companies that have part of their business in key relationships with certain parts of government.” While Ryan will have to abide by a rule that says representatives must wait one year between working on Capitol Hill and lobbying work, there are no such rules about joining companies’ boards. “The kind of board that he would go after would probably pay between $250,000 and $300,000 a year and he could probably get three or four of them,” Fred Foulkes, a professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, told Bloomberg. But while Ryan is leaving town after setting the Treasury on fire-something he pretended to care about under Barack Obama, when tax cuts weren’t on the line-his personal financial situation is about to get quite rosy.īloomberg reports that upon leaving politics, Wisconsin’s first son will have no trouble adding to a current net worth estimated at slightly more than $6 million, given the wide range of corporate boards probably already banging down his door. ![]() deficit set to top $1 trillion annually, in perpetuity, starting in 2020, and the national debt set to soar past $33 trillion by 2028. Incidentally, just two days prior, the Congressional Budget Office released a report predicting that thanks in large part to Ryan’s tax legislation, the country is now on a collision course with financial disaster, with the U.S. In delivering the news to his colleagues, Ryan said that among his proudest moments in what will be a 20-year career, one stood out from the pack: the passage of 2017’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (working title: “The Cut Cut Cut Act”), a historic transfer of wealth, the likes of which Ryan had been dreaming about since his college kegger days. On Wednesday morning, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he would be leaving Capitol Hill at the end of the year, claiming, as so many have before him, that he wants to spend more time with his family. ![]()
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