E-Book Royalty Calcumatic

E-Book Royalty Calcumatic

Rather than clutter up this page, I’ve created a separate Notes page, including my disclaimers.

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Pricing

Your Book’s Price:

Note: Pricing affects royalty rates on Amazon and Barnes & Noble in particular.

Which E-Bookstores Do You Wish to Sell Through?

Note: Right now, I’m using Smashwords as the aggregator because I found their numbers first and they’re arguably the most popular. I will update this page with others.

Apple’s iBooks:

Through an aggregator:

Amazon’s Kindle:
Barnes & Noble’s Nook:

Through an aggregator:

Google’s (direct sales):

Note: Google does not require an ISBN, but they will assign one if you sell through independent booksellers (checkboxes below); they strongly suggest using a cover image.

Google’s Resellers:

Sales through book resellers, e.g., Kepler’s, Powell’s.

How Many Books Do You Expect to Sell?

Your final royalty: $0.00

Note: Amazon reduces your royalty with delivery costs based on your e-books’ file sizes. To account for this, I’m assuming that every 99 cents of book price equates to a quarter of a meg of file size. Your results will almost certainly differ.

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Last updated: 2011-07-07