Every store. One click. You keep the money.
The Publisher pack produces your audiobook and publishes it to Audible, Spotify, Apple, Google, Kobo, and the libraries. Lex takes no royalties.
- Audible
- Spotify
- Google Play
- Kobo
- Apple Books
How it works.
- 01
Buy the Publisher pack.
One quoted price, paid once. It covers scored production, a full cast, and publishing on every open store. That is the whole Lex fee.
- 02
Approve the audio.
Nothing goes live until you have listened. Fix a name, a line, a pace. Then we upload everywhere, with the AI-narration disclosure set on every store that asks.
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Get paid monthly.
A five-minute secure link collects bank and tax details. Stores pay Lex; Lex forwards everything it receives, with a per-store statement.
Lex is publisher of record and you never open a store account. Prefer the keys yourself? We set accounts in your name instead, about an hour once, and the stores pay you directly. The fee is the same either way.
Where each dollar goes, store by store.
Each store keeps its own share first. What it remits is net. The distribution partner keeps 20% of net, Lex keeps nothing, and the rest is yours. Spotify is uploaded directly, so no partner fee applies there. The bars use each store's published rate on a $10 list price, verified September 22, 2026.
Spotify
you 50%
Google Play Books
you 41.6%
Apple Books
you 36%
Kobo
you 36%
Libro.fm
you 36%
Chirp
you 36%
Audible / Amazon
you 24%
store keepspartner keepsyou receiveLex keeps $0 on every row.
Every store an AI-narrated title goes to.
The partner's send list for an AI-narrated title, plus the Lex Store. Subscription and library stores pay by time listened or per checkout, so there is no single percentage to print for them; you still receive 80% of whatever they remit.
| Store | Sells as | Store pays out | Partner, of net | You receive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spotifydirect upload | À la carte and subscription | 50% of the price you setPremium-plan listening is paid from Spotify's monthly pool by share of hours listened, no fixed rate.Spotify for Authors distribution terms | 0% | 50% of list |
| Google Play Books | À la carte | 52% of list pricePaid on list price even when Google discounts the title.Google Play Books Partner Center | 20% | 41.6% of list |
| Apple Books | À la carte | 45% of list priceApple's rate to audiobook aggregators, as published by PublishDrive.PublishDrive, Apple audiobooks | 20% | 36% of list |
| Kobo | À la carte and subscription | 45% of list priceAt $2.99 and up; 35% below that. Kobo Plus listening is paid per minute from a pool at 60%.Kobo Writing Life help | 20% | 36% of list |
| Libro.fm | À la carte | 45% of list priceDistributor-published rate. Credit purchases are valued at the credit price. | 20% | 36% of list |
| Chirp | Deal pricing | 45% of the sale priceDistributor-published rate. Chirp sells at a promotional price, so the base is the deal price, not list. | 20% | 36% of list |
| Audible / Amazon | À la carte and membership | 30% of the sale priceAudible's non-exclusive rate since May 2026 (25% before). Audible sets the price. Membership listens pay 30% of the listener's Member Value, split across the titles they played.ACX, Audible's new royalty model | 20% | 24% of list |
| Audiobooks.com | À la carte and subscription | 40% to 50% of list, by purchase typeDistributor-published range: about 50% on à la carte, 40% when a member credit is used. | 20% | 80% of what it remits |
| Audiobooks Now | À la carte and subscription | Not published | 20% | 80% of what it remits |
| The Audiobook Store | À la carte | Not published | 20% | 80% of what it remits |
| Audioteka | À la carte and subscription | Not published | 20% | 80% of what it remits |
| OverDrive / Libby | Library | Library buys the copy at 45% of the library list priceOne copy, one borrower at a time. Cost-per-checkout licenses pay 8% of list or $0.99, whichever is more.OverDrive audiobook terms | 20% | 80% of what it remits |
| Hoopla | Library | Per checkout, by runtimeNo waitlist. The library pays each time a patron borrows, typically $0.50 to $3.99, and the rights holder is paid a share of that fee.Hoopla, Instant pricing | 20% | 80% of what it remits |
| Storytel | Subscription pool | Share of the monthly pool, by time listened | 20% | 80% of what it remits |
| BookBeat | Subscription pool | Share of the monthly pool, by time listened | 20% | 80% of what it remits |
| Nextory | Subscription pool | Share of the monthly pool, by time listened | 20% | 80% of what it remits |
| Everand | Subscription pool | Share of the monthly pool, by time listenedFormerly Scribd. | 20% | 80% of what it remits |
| Bookmate | Subscription pool | Share of the monthly pool, by time listened | 20% | 80% of what it remits |
| UBook | Subscription pool | Share of the monthly pool, by time listened | 20% | 80% of what it remits |
| Globook | Subscription pool | Not published | 20% | 80% of what it remits |
| Lex StoreLex is the retailer | À la carte | Lex is the retailer. You keep 100% of the reader's price, less card processing and sales tax. No store share, no partner share. | 0% | 100% less processing and tax |
The store shares above are what each store, or the largest audiobook distributor, publishes for that store. The partner does not publish its own per-store contract terms and pays 80% of what it receives. Audible on this path is a wide listing, so the exclusive Audible rate does not apply. Your monthly statement shows each store's gross, its share, the net, and your 80%. A store that declines a title is skipped and the rest go ahead.
The rest of the partner network.
On the distribution agreement but not yet open to AI narration. The partner adds each one to your title as it opens.
- 24symbols
- 3 Leaf Group
- Anyplay
- Apple Music
- Barnes & Noble
- Beek
- Behear
- Bibliotheca
- Books-A-Million
- BookWalker
- Calm Radio
- Cliq Digital
- Deezer
- Divibib
- Downpour
- EBSCO
- eStories
- Follett
- Fonos
- Grupo Vi-Da
- hibooks
- Instaread
- Kids.Radio
- ListenerU
- Mackin
- MLOL
- My Audiobook Library
- Napster
- Nook
- Odilo
- Permabound
- PocketFM
- Rahva Raamat
- Speechify
- Spotify Streaming
- Ulverscroft
- Wheelers
- YouScribe
- YouTube Music
How the narration is disclosed.
Set by Lex at upload on every store that asks. Verified August 21, 2026.
| Store | Path | Disclosure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audible / Amazon | Publisher agreement | AI-narration flag set at upload | Lex agreement |
| Spotify | Direct upload | Digital voice flag; Spotify prepends its disclosure sentence | Spotify |
| Google Play Books | Publisher agreement | Narrator type: Synthesized voice | |
| Kobo | Publisher agreement | Synthesised voice (male, female, or unspecified) | Kobo |
| Apple Books | Publisher agreement | AI Generated by role, plus description | Apple |
| Everand, Storytel, libraries, and the rest | Publisher agreement | AI-narration flag set at upload | Lex agreement |
Listed is not the same as listened to.
Amazon Virtual Voice and Google auto-narration run one automated pass and keep the files on their platform. Spotify and the other streaming stores pay on listening time, and a flat robot read is easy to skip. Lex casts a narrator for the book, directs the performance, scores and mixes it, and hands you the masters. Same affordable idea. A listen people finish.
The full comparison is on the Virtual Voice alternative page.
Doing it yourself.
The Studio pack gives you the masters and a commercial license. If you would rather publish them yourself, this is the route.
- 01
Go direct where you can.
Google Play Books, Kobo Writing Life, and Spotify for Authors each take a direct upload with a metadata flag for AI narration.
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Cover the rest in one wide submission.
One submission reaches Audible, Apple Books, Everand, Storytel, and the library systems, flagged as digital voice narration.
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Sell direct to your readers.
BookFunnel, Shopify, or Payhip on your own site keeps 90% or more after processing. Your Lex commercial license already covers it.
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Disclose the narration everywhere.
Every platform that accepts AI narration asks for the flag. Hiding it is the only way to actually get in trouble.
Distribution questions, answered
Hear it before you publish it.
One chapter, free. Directed, scored, mixed, back in about a day.