Pricing Page
Last Updated:December 8, 2014
This Pricing Page changed on the date listed above.
You can choose between 2 royalty options for each of your Digital Books, the 35% royalty option and the 70% royalty option, described below.
1. Royalties
| 35% Royalty Option | 70% Royalty Option |
A. Available Sales Territories | If you choose this Royalty option for your Digital Book, it will apply to sales of your Digital Book to customers in any territory. | If you choose
this Royalty option for your Digital Book, it will apply to sales of your
Digital Book to customers in the following Available Sales Territories: • Andorra |
B. Royalty Rate | 35% | 70% |
i. Royalty Calculation for List Price | The 35% Royalty
Rate times the Digital Book's List Price. | The
70% Royalty Rate times the amount equal to the Digital Book's List Price less
Delivery Costs, for sales to customers in the Available Sales Territories
indicated above. |
ii. Royalty Calculation for Promotional List Price | The 35% Royalty
Rate times the Digital Book's Promotional List Price set under the Kindle
MatchBook program or the Kindle Countdown Deals program. See Matching Competitor Prices below for exceptions. | The 70% Royalty Rate times the amount equal to the Digital Book's Promotional List Price less Delivery Costs, for sales to customers in the Available Sales Territories indicated above. If your Digital
Book is eligible to earn the 70% Royalty Rate based on sales of the Digital
Book at the List Price, the same 70% Royalty Rate will apply in calculating
royalties based on sales of your Digital Book at a Promotional List Price set
under the Kindle MatchBook program or the Kindle Countdown Deals
program. See Matching
Competitor Prices below for exceptions. |
C. Delivery Costs | Not applicable - we don't deduct Delivery Costs when calculating your Royalties. | Delivery Costs
are equal to the number of megabytes we determine your Digital Book file
contains, multiplied by the Delivery Cost rate listed below. For sales in JPY, we will not deduct any Delivery Cost for books 10 MB or greater. |
D. Matching Competitor Prices | From time to
time your book may be made available through other sales channels as part of a
free promotion. It is important that Digital Books made available through the
Program have promotions that are on par with free promotions of the same book
in another sales channel. | If we
price-match your Digital Book, your Royalty will be: |
E. Pre-Order Price Guarantee for KDP Pre-Orders | If you lower the
List Price of a Digital Book while it is available for pre-order, we will
charge customers that pre-ordered that Digital Book before the price decrease
the lower price. Your Royalty will be based on the actual price we charge customers as a result of our Pre-order Price Guarantee, net of refunds, bad debt, and any VAT, sales or other taxes charged to a customer or applied with respect to sales to a customer. | If you lower the
List Price of a Digital Book while it is available for pre-order, we will
charge customers that pre-ordered that Digital Book before the price decrease
the lower price. Your Royalty will be based on the actual price we charge customers as a result of our Pre-order Price Guarantee, net of refunds, bad debt, and any VAT, sales or other taxes charged to a customer or applied with respect to sales to a customer. |
*70%
Royalty in Brazil, Japan, Mexico, and India. Digital Books
enrolled in KDP Select will be eligible to earn 70% royalty for sales to
customers in Brazil, Japan, Mexico, and India. The List Price you set for
Brazil, Japan, Mexico, and India must also meet the 70% List Price requirements
for sales to customers in Brazil, Japan, Mexico, and India. If your Digital
Book is not enrolled in KDP Select or you do not meet the 70% List Price
requirements, you will earn 35% royalty.
2. Royalty Calculation Examples
• We aren't matching a free promotion on another sales channel.
• Your Royalty per sale to a customer in any location from Amazon.com is:
Royalty Rate x List Price = Royalty
• Your Royalty is zero.
• We aren't matching a free promotion on another sales channel.
• Your Royalty per sale to a customer in any location from Amazon.co.jp is:
0.35 x ¥100 = ¥35
Royalty Rate x List Price = Royalty
• Your Royalty is zero.
• UK Delivery Costs = £0.10/MB
Royalty Rate x (List Price - Delivery Costs) = Royalty
• Your royalty per sale to a UK customer from Amazon.co.uk is:
0.70 x (£1.39 - £0.04 - £0.10) = £0.87
Royalty Rate x (Amazon price - taxes - Delivery Costs) = Royalty
In this example, we deduct £0.04 for taxes, equal to 3% of the sale price. Effective January 1, 2012, when we sell a Digital Book to an EU customer from one of our EU websites, the price includes value-added tax at the rate of 3%, the statutory Luxembourg rate. Tax rates for sales in other countries and from other Amazon websites may vary.
• Book's file size is 1 MB
• We don't price-match your book.
• Your Royalty per sale to a JP customer from Amazon.co.jp is:
0.70 x (¥149 - ¥1) = ¥104
Royalty Rate x (List Price - Delivery Costs) = Royalty
• Your royalty per sale to a JP customer from Amazon.co.jp is:
0.70 x (¥139 - ¥1) = ¥97
Royalty Rate x (Amazon price - taxes - Delivery Costs) = Royalty
• U.S. Dollar Promotional List Price = $0.99
• We aren't matching a free promotion on another sales channel.
• Your Royalty per sale to a customer in any location from Amazon.com is:
0.35 x $0.99 = $0.35
Royalty Rate x List Price = Royalty
• Your Royalty is zero.
• Your Royalty is zero.
• U.S. Dollar Promotional List Price = $1.99
• U.S. Delivery Costs = $0.15/MB
• Book's file size is 1 MB
• We aren't matching a free promotion on another sales channel.
• Your Royalty per sale to a customer in any location from Amazon.com is:
0.70 x ($1.99 - $0.15) = $1.29
Royalty Rate x (List Price - Delivery Costs) = Royalty
• Your Royalty is zero.
• Your Royalty is zero.
3. Changing Your Royalty Options
If you would like to make changes to your Royalty options, just visit your Bookshelf. It may take up to 48 hours for your change to be effective
4. Setting Your List Price
You must set your Digital Book's List Price (and change it from time-to-time if necessary) so that it is no higher than the list price in any sales channel for any digital or physical edition of the Digital Book.
But if you choose the 70% Royalty Option, you must further set and adjust your List Price so that it is at least 20% below the list price in any sales channel for any physical edition of the Digital Book.
By "list price in any sales channel," we mean the suggested or recommended retail price or, if you sell your book directly to end users, your own sales price, for an edition of the book available outside of our Program.
When you set your List Price for our EU websites, you have to factor in the additional 3% value-added taxes (the Luxembourg statutory rate effective January 1, 2012) we will add for EU customers, so that your List Price complies with this section after adding these VAT taxes.
5. Additional 70% Royalty Option Terms and Conditions
i. Book Eligibility: Books that consist primarily of public domain content are not eligible for the 70% Royalty Option.
ii. Distribution Territory: If you select the 70% Royalty Option for a Digital Book, you must make it available to us for distribution in each territory for which you have appropriate distribution rights, and you must comply with any other restrictions or requirements we may provide from time to time for the 70% Royalty Option in the Program Policies.
iii. New Features: Any new feature incorporated into the Program will apply to all Digital Books distributed under the 70% Option even if we make the feature optional for other Digital Books.
iv. Non-Compliance: If at any time your Digital Book does not meet the requirements for the 70% Royalty Option, the Royalty for the Digital Book will be as provided in the 35% Royalty Option and we can adjust previously reported or paid Royalties based on the 35% Royalty Option.
6. Other Pricing Terms
i. Minimum and Maximum List Prices: To be accepted in the Program, Digital Books must have List Prices within the range of minimum and maximum List Prices indicated here.
Note that if your Digital Book is eligible for the 70% royalty option, your Digital Book will earn 70% on each sale of the Digital Book at a Promotional List Price set under the Kindle MatchBook program or the Kindle Countdown Deals program regardless of whether the Promotional List Price is within the maximum and minimum list price requirements for the 70% royalty option.
ii. Price Matching Determinations : If you notify us through Contact Us (by selecting the topic Pricing & Royalties – Price Matching) that you believe we have made an error in price-matching your Digital Book, we will review the issue and make best efforts to correct the error, if any, going forward as soon as practicable.
