If your ebook retail price is $2.99 on KDP’s 70% royalty rate, and it is loaded with images and reaches 20MB in size, your royalty with be -$0.01 for every book sold. Here’s a not-so-pleasant statistic about your Kindle royalties to finish. We have an article explaining how to compress images for ebooks that will help you to reduce your images considerably. If you want to avoid losing money, you should ensure that any images you use in your ebook are compressed to the smallest size possible. You can see how quickly a few large images can affect your KDP ebook royalty. It is the first item, and it will be listed in KB. To check the file size of your ebooks on Amazon, go to your book page and check your product details. Other retailers manage to deliver ebooks without any additional charges at all. It may have something to do with delivering to Kindle devices, but I don’t know why. It is because Amazon does not charge delivery costs on digital orders if you select the 35% royalty rate.Īs far as I can ascertain, only Amazon charges for ebook delivery. So much so that if the file size reaches 10MB, your royalty will be less at 70% ($1.04) than at 35% ($1.05). Once you start adding images to an ebook, the file size of your ebook will increase rapidly.īut it depends on which royalty level you select when you publish. If the list price for your ebook is $2.99 and you are on the 70% royalty rate, you might think your royalty will be $2.09.īut it will only be $1.89 for a 2MB ebook file size after the $0.30 Amazon downloads charge has been deducted.īut that is only the beginning of the story. If your cover image is very high-resolution, your ebook file size will increase dramatically. It might only look like pennies at first glance.īut once you understand that even a plain text-only ebook with a standard resolution cover design will usually be around 2.00MB in size, the file delivery costs in the above table immediately double. Most authors are probably unaware of this and don’t know that the file size of an ebook can cut into their KDP royalty payment from Amazon.ĭelivery Costs are equal to the number of megabytes we determine your Digital Book file contains, multiplied by the Delivery Cost rate listed below. Here is the list of Amazon digital delivery charges for ebook distribution. Kindle Direct Publishing > Legal > Kindle Direct Publishing > Terms and Conditions > Pricing Page. So deep that the breadcrumb to the Amazon digital downloads charge looks like this: Hidden deep in Amazon KDP Terms and Conditions is a table of the Amazon digital services charge for Kindle ebooks. Summary The Amazon digital downloads charge
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