kindle direct publishing royalty calculator

My five Hyperion ebooks (the sixth one came out in July so no royalties yet) each earn an average of $803 per year on Kindle.

It doesn't take a math whiz to see that the biggest profit is with low priced ebooks. We can draw some simple conclusions looking at these numbers.Įbooks priced at $4 sell an average of 1100 ebooks per year.Įbooks priced at $8 sell an average of 342 ebooks per year.Įbooks priced at $2 sell an average of 4900 ebooks per year. I get 35% of the price I set on Kindle, or 70 cents per ebook download. Shot of Tequila at $1.99: 900 sales, $630 earned. Now lets compare these to my self-published Kindle sales. We can draw a simple conclusion looking at these sales: a $4 ebook sells 3 times as many copies as an $8 ebook. Depending on the deal my publisher makes with Amazon, that can be anywhere from 62 cents to $3 per ebook sold. I get 25% of the amount received by the publisher. Rusty Nail priced at $7.99: 153 sales, $341 earned.ĭirty Martini priced at $6.39: 202 sales, $604 earned.įuzzy Navel priced at $7.59: 152 sales, $341 earned. Whiskey Sour priced at $3.96: 550 sales, $341 earned.īloody Mary priced at $7.99: 180 sales, $381 earned. Here are my ebook Kindle numbers from Jan 1 to June 31, 2009. They gave me my ebook figures.Īuthors are usually quite secretive about their sales and their royalties. Hyperion publishes six titles in my Jack Daniels series.

I got quite a shock last week, when I got my bi-annual royalty statement.

Kindle direct publishing royalty calculator