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Originally Posted by rantanplan
It's quite clear that the audiobooks are already done. How else would it work? The backers will get them, Spotify has it and also Speechify. So this isn't a case where Audible has to produce the audiobook. Sanderson will have a royalties deal with the narrator in place.
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That's was my original understanding, then I wondered.
Of course Sanderson could have paid a once off fee for narration. That's like hiring a session musician for backing or paying someone to type up a longhand MSS or hiring sound engineers for the recording studio or stage production.
IMO Digital stores should pay whatever the content owner asks per copy and charge whatever they like. In UK & Ireland it's been forbidden to do otherwise for years in physical shops. Books and Pharmacies where the last holdouts. The supplier set the exact retail price and the retailer margin was set by secret deals or a standard wholesale price.
Internet, Social Media & digital content markets seem to think existing laws shouldn't apply to them.