The Promo Code program can continue to help you garner early reviews for your work that will inspire customers to purchase your audiobook and to provide visibility and tracking into your marketing campaigns. Today, we are making changes to our overall Promo Code policy and features to address an unfortunate pattern of misuse of the system. Updates to the Promo Code Policy Effective March 26, 2020 'What are the changes to the Promo Code Policy? If you distribute your title exclusively through ACX, your total royalties will temporarily increase to 45% during this period (22.5% for those choosing Royalty Share), and for non-exclusively distributed titles, your total royalties will temporarily increase to 30% on sales during this period. “Additional Royalty Support To reduce the financial impact of COVID-19 on the creative community, we are temporarily paying an additional 5% royalty on all sales of your ACX audiobooks through Audible, Amazon, and iTunes for sales during the months of April, May, and June.

On the good news side, ACX is upping royalties during the Covid-19 crisis.

Some authors on Kboards are complaining of up to two-month lead times for their books to go live. Just like in earlier KU days, of course there eventually were black hats who discovered ways to exploit the system, apparently by loading masses of junk books which are now clogging the system.

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