So this turned up in my Youtube Feed.
Long story short, this Channel released a Graphic Novel on various platforms including Patreon and Google Books and Audible and soon found out among the poor customer service they get in general, that Audible's profit sharing is abysmal. Exclusive creators get a 40% cut and non-exclusive creators get a 25% cut... but apparently after some investigation, they and many other creators discovered they are actually getting a 13% revenue payout and its hidden from the Creators by Amazon. Furthermore any returns of audiobooks result in the revenue being clawed away from the Creators instead of being shared between Audible and the Creators collectively.
Google Books meanwhile, comparatively only takes half... and says that up front apparently instead of trying to hide hidden profits through various chicanery.
There's apparently an alliance of Creators and whatnot that set up a website and petitions and analysis of the whole affair as well.
Long story short, this Channel released a Graphic Novel on various platforms including Patreon and Google Books and Audible and soon found out among the poor customer service they get in general, that Audible's profit sharing is abysmal. Exclusive creators get a 40% cut and non-exclusive creators get a 25% cut... but apparently after some investigation, they and many other creators discovered they are actually getting a 13% revenue payout and its hidden from the Creators by Amazon. Furthermore any returns of audiobooks result in the revenue being clawed away from the Creators instead of being shared between Audible and the Creators collectively.
Google Books meanwhile, comparatively only takes half... and says that up front apparently instead of trying to hide hidden profits through various chicanery.
There's apparently an alliance of Creators and whatnot that set up a website and petitions and analysis of the whole affair as well.
Audiblegate Petition: Background & Principles
Audiblegate campaign background, principles, and petition. Authors signing up to this email campaign put their name to this petition.
www.allianceindependentauthors.org