Reader Agreement
The short version: you read scenes with actors and are paid 40¢ for every paid minute, plus 90% of tips. You are your own boss, you handle your own taxes, and you can cash out through Stripe once you have earned $25.
1. This agreement
This agreement is between you and [legal name of the business], which operates Reader Room. It applies when you read for other members, and adds to the Terms of Service.
2. Who can be a paid reader
You must be at least 18, located in the United States, and able to complete Stripe's identity and bank verification. You can swap reads without setting up payouts.
3. Independent contractor
You are an independent contractor, not an employee, agent or partner of Reader Room. You decide when you are available and which reads you pick up. You are responsible for your own equipment, internet connection, taxes and insurance.
4. What you earn
- Paid reads: actors pay 50¢ a minute in credits. You earn 80% of that, which is 40¢ for each charged minute. Minutes are measured by Reader Room's servers and rounded up, and a paid read is charged for at least 5 minutes. Reads shorter than 20 seconds are not charged and do not earn.
- Tips: you receive 90% of the value of any tip. The rest covers payment processing.
- Swap reads: you earn swap minutes, not money. Swap minutes have no cash value.
We may change rates in the future. We will tell you in the app before a change takes effect, and it will not apply to reads you have already done.
5. Getting paid
Payouts are made through Stripe to the bank account you provide. You can request a payout once your earnings reach $25.00. Money from recent purchases can take a few days to become available, so a payout may occasionally need to be retried. Your use of Stripe is subject to the Stripe Connected Account Agreement.
6. Taxes
You are responsible for reporting and paying taxes on what you earn. If your earnings in a year reach the IRS reporting threshold, you will receive a Form 1099 and the same information will be reported to the IRS.
7. Being a good reader
You read live, yourself. You confirm that you are a working actor with real training or credits, and that the profile link you gave is yours. Every read must be you, live on the call. Never use an AI-generated or synthesised voice, text-to-speech, a recording, or another person in your place. Doing so ends your access to Reader Room and forfeits earnings from those reads.
Show up when you pick up. Serve the actor's scene. Treat sides as confidential: do not copy, keep or share them. Do not ask actors to pay you outside Reader Room for reads arranged here. Do not present yourself as a casting director, agent or coach unless that is true.
8. Recording
Actors may record the read, including your voice and image, to prepare and submit an audition. By reading you consent to that use. You do not acquire any rights in the actor's audition, and the actor does not acquire the right to use your performance for anything else.
9. Adjustments
If a read was charged in error, or earnings came from fraud, abuse or a payment that was reversed by the actor's bank, we may adjust your earnings balance to correct it.
10. Ending
You can stop reading at any time. We may pause or end your ability to read for payment if you break this agreement or the Terms. Earnings you have legitimately earned remain payable to you.
Contact
Questions about this document: [contact email].