Netherlands – Award-Winning Audiobook, Author Gets 8.5 Cents a Listen: Who’s Really Responsible?

Dutch poet Lieke Marsman earned just €200 from 500,000 streaming minutes. But is the platform to blame — or the publishing contract upstream of it?
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