We may change our policies at any time and it is your responsibility to keep up-to-date with and adhere to the policies posted here. We will notify account holders via email upon changes to these policies.
You can more affordably create audiobooks with Google Play Books’ advanced text-to-speech offering.
- Create audiobooks from ebooks in .epub format.
- Upload a new epub or use an epub from your Play Books Partner Center account.
- Choose from a wide variety of narrator voices.
- Edit narration elements.
- Add the required price and metadata.
- Publish audiobook content to the Google Play Store.
- Download your audiobook for distribution.
Important: You must own the audiobook rights to ebook titles you select for auto-narration.
Program Fee
During the Beta testing period, there's no program fee to generate and publish an auto-narrated audiobook. Google will notify you of any changes to the fees and such changes will not be applied retroactively.
Sales of auto-narrated audiobooks
自動読み上げオーディオブックをダウンロードして、他の書籍配信プラットフォームで販売することは可能です。ただし、他のプラットフォームで販売するすべての国で、Google Play でも販売する必要があります。Google Play での自動読み上げオーディオブックの正規価格は、他の小売プラットフォームでの自動読み上げオーディオブックの価格より高くならないようにしてください。
自動読み上げオーディオブックを広告で収益化する場合、Play ブックスの自動読み上げの正規価格は、広告対応プラットフォームでの自動読み上げの収益と同程度の金額である必要があります。
これらのポリシーに記載されていない価格設定のシナリオに該当する場合は、Play ブックスの正規価格を他のプラットフォームの同等の価格より高くしてはならないという原則に従ってください。
Previews
Google では、以下の基準に従ってオーディオブック コンテンツからプレビューを作成します。
- 再生時間が 10 分以下のオーディオブック コンテンツ: 1 分間のプレビュー
- 再生時間が 300 分以上のオーディオブック コンテンツ: 30 分間のプレビュー
- 再生時間が 10 分超 300 分未満のオーディオブック コンテンツ: 再生時間の 10% 以下のプレビュー
ヒント: パブリッシャー アカウントの設定で、より長いプレビューを提供することもできます。
Reports
Google will make reports on the sales of auto-narrated audiobooks on Google Play available via our Partner Center. These reports will show sale transaction dates, list price at time of sale, revenue share and ISBN.
Refund Policy
Google will accept refund requests for purchase cancellations that are made within 7 days of sale, although we may also consider requests outside of this period, for example to comply with applicable laws. Google will grant a refund request for a purchase at any time if an auto-narrated audiobook on Google Play does not perform as stated, but the determination of whether an auto-narrated audiobook on Google Play performs as stated will be in Google's sole discretion. Google may also consider factors other than the performance of the auto-narrated audiobook on Google Play, such as whether an error was made during the sale and whether the refund request appears to be abusive. When a refund is granted, the sale transaction will be reversed: the user's access to the auto-narrated audiobook on Google Play will be discontinued, the user's money will be recredited, and your account will be debited. (Users may, in some cases, retain limited access to a refunded auto-narrated audiobook on Google Play if they have already downloaded a copy to a reading device.)
Content Policies
Auto-narrated audiobooks that you sell on Google Play must comply with the applicable Publisher Content Policies for Books on Google Play. For auto-narrated audiobooks containing sexually suggestive content that has no artistic, educational or political purpose (where permitted under local law), you must: i) mark them as mature in your metadata, ii) limit the preview to 0%, and iii) charge a minimum of $1 USD or the local equivalent for these audiobooks.
Buyer Currency
Google may permit you to provide List Prices for your auto-narrated audiobooks on Google Play, and a user to purchase your auto-narrated audiobook on Google Play, in a currency different from that of your designated bank account ("User Currency Purchase Transaction"). For any User Currency Purchase Transaction, you will be paid using Google Payments by wire transfer in US dollars or in the currency of your designated bank account, as determined by Google from time to time, based on an exchange rate that will be applied to the purchase amount (denominated in buyer currency) at the time the transaction is submitted. For example, you may price your auto-narrated audiobooks on Google Play in euros (EUR) for a Belgian user and, if your bank account is located in the United States, Google will pay you in US dollars (USD). The exchange rate will be determined by a financial institution utilized by Google to calculate exchange rates, and may be adjusted based on market conditions without notice. If a User Currency Purchase Transaction is subsequently subject to refund, reversal, chargeback or other adjustment, Google will apply the same exchange rate and currency that applied to the original User Currency Purchase Transaction in calculating the refund, reversal, chargeback or other adjustment. Google reserves the right to impose fees on this currency conversion.
Buyers view prices for auto-narrated audiobooks on Google Play in their local currency, USD, or EUR, at the discretion of the Google Play Store in that country. If you can't provide prices in the purchase currency, you may choose to enable currency conversion in the Payment Center of your account. This will allow Google to automatically convert prices provided by you in a base currency into other currencies. (This feature is not available in all accounts.) If you already publish ebooks on Google Play and have enabled currency conversion for ebooks, it will automatically be enabled for your auto-narrated audiobooks, too. Learn more about currency conversion.
Client Services Agreement
If you are acting as a distributor for auto-narrated audiobooks published by another company, you must enter into a Client Services Agreement with Google. The Client Services Agreement allows you to provide Digital Files and to implement settings for the Partner Program and for Google Play for each publisher you represent. Each publisher will also need to have an agreement directly with Google. Learn how to become a Client Service Provider.