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How much does Amazon take per eBook sale?
eBook Royalties Calculation The royalty rate you get paid from Amazon for eBooks is 70\% of the retail price if the price of your eBook is between $2.99 and $9.99. If your book is priced between $0.01 and $2.98 or greater than $9.99, you get paid 35\% royalties.
What percentage does Amazon KDP take?
For print book royalties, on KDP’s website, it states: “Paperback royalty rates are 60\% of the list price displayed on Amazon at the time of purchase, minus printing costs, applicable taxes, and withholding.” Cost: It’s free to publish an eBook or print book with KDP.
How many copies does the average eBook sell?
Research suggests that the “average” self-published, digital-only book sells about 250 copies in its lifetime. By comparison, the average traditionally published book sells 3,000 copies, but as I mentioned above, only about 250-300 of those sales happen in the first year.
What percentage does Amazon take of book sales?
Here’s what happens to your money when you buy a book through Amazon but from a third-party seller: Amazon gets 15 percent of the total sales price, including shipping, plus a flat rate of $1.85 per item. The rest goes to the third-party seller.
What percentage does Amazon take on ebooks?
35\%
Avoiding the Kindle eBook file delivery cost Except as noted below, the only way to get around this charge is to select the 35\% royalty option.
What are royalties in KDP?
KDP offers a fixed 60\% royalty rate on paperbacks sold on Amazon marketplaces where KDP supports paperback distribution. Your royalty is 60\% of your list price. We then subtract printing costs, which depend on page count, ink type, and the Amazon marketplace your paperback was ordered from.
How many books sold 100000?
The average book in America sells about 500 copies. Those blockbusters are a minute anomaly: only 10 books sold more than a million copies last year, and fewer than 500 sold more than 100,000.
What is the average length of an ebook?
The average Kindle book size is about 300 pages, or 75,000 words of text, and the average Kindle e-book file size is 2.6 MB.