Comments on: Amazon-owned Audible: Hey authors, want $20 million? http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/13/amazon-owned-audible-will-pay-authors-extra-out-of-20m-fund/ The economics of digital content Fri, 24 May 2013 23:44:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Aidan http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/13/amazon-owned-audible-will-pay-authors-extra-out-of-20m-fund/#comment-90219 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:18:11 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=205683#comment-90219 Come on team, as a corporate exercise this is clearly just a marketing spend to, once again create Amazon as a conduit for content to consumers. Audible hasn’t really taken off and, as a bet on making it work, $20M is not that much money (for them). Making authors create good audio book content and/or demand it from their publishers and other deals is something that can really drive growth in the sector and will drive the vast majority of it to Amazon.

]]> By: audibleauthors http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/13/amazon-owned-audible-will-pay-authors-extra-out-of-20m-fund/#comment-90044 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:01:09 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=205683#comment-90044 Just to clarify the requirements for exclusivity, there are none. Plenty of audiobooks available for sale at Audible.com and Audible.co.uk are not exclusive, but are eligible for the Audible Author Services honorarium.

]]> By: Christian-Mark David Cawley http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/13/amazon-owned-audible-will-pay-authors-extra-out-of-20m-fund/#comment-89977 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:28:27 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=205683#comment-89977 Well of course they have enough money. They’re not paying corporation tax in the UK.

]]> By: Jack W Perry http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/13/amazon-owned-audible-will-pay-authors-extra-out-of-20m-fund/#comment-89790 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:56:49 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=205683#comment-89790 Amazon has so much money that they can set aside $20-million just for paying on audiobooks! There are probably less than 20 publishers in the entire USA that even have that much annual revenue. Wow.

]]> By: Miguel Gomez http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/13/amazon-owned-audible-will-pay-authors-extra-out-of-20m-fund/#comment-89789 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:54:18 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=205683#comment-89789 Feeling the Seth Godin influence here.

]]> By: steveboyett http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/13/amazon-owned-audible-will-pay-authors-extra-out-of-20m-fund/#comment-89772 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:30:56 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=205683#comment-89772 And is Amazon/Audible demanding an exclusive on content? I’m betting yes.

]]> By: Phil Simon http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/13/amazon-owned-audible-will-pay-authors-extra-out-of-20m-fund/#comment-89742 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:56:55 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=205683#comment-89742 “People buy a Neil Gaiman, not a HarperCollins or a Simon & Schuster”

Yes!!!!

You could write a book about that.

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