Audible offers production services through its Audiobook Creation Exchange program, but to receive a 40 per
cent royalty rate publishers must hand over exclusive distribution rights to ACX (compared to 25 per cent if rights are retained.)
Audible offers production services through ACX, but to receive a 40 per
cent royalty rate publishers must hand over exclusive distribution rights to ACX (compared to 25 per cent if rights are retained to distribute on CD, to libraries, on other retailers and internationally.)
It's free to self - publish and authors earn a 35 per
cent royalty rate for books below # 1.99 or 70 per cent for books priced between # 1.99 and # 9.99.
Not exact matches
If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per
cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a
royalty regime which lowers
rates when prices are low.
Indeed, at 24 per
cent in 2012, it is considerably lower even than the ETR observed for the fifth North Sea hydrocarbons producer, the German Federal Land of Schleswig - Holstein, whose government has been increasing the statutory
royalty rate in line with rising oil prices in recent years — from 12.5 per
cent in 2003 to 21 per
cent as of the time of writing — with the result that the ETR in the German sector of the North Sea in 2012 came to 33 per
cent.
They can say «well, we sold it on sale in Iceland for the equivalent of $ 5.00, but with the exchange
rate at time of sale, and the fees of transferring and converting currency, your
royalty is 0.04
cents.
I earn $ 2 on a sale of that one, but I only earn 35 and 60
cents respectively on the first two adventures, because ebooks priced under $ 2.99 receive a 35 %
royalty rate.
Kindle Countdown Deal gives you the ability to give away your book for as low as 99
cents and still retain a 70 %
royalty rate.
The
royalty rate is only 30
cents on those sales, but over 2 bucks if you price at 2.99.
That means you'll make only a few
cents or dollars in
royalties per book sold through these outlets, even with great
royalty rates.
What kills the earnings of the indie / self - pubbed authors are the numerous 99
cents and $ 1.99 eBooks at the 35 %
royalty rate.
I think the bottom
rate for the 35 percent
royalty will now be 99
cents / pence — the same as it has been in the US.
I sell my ebooks for 99
cents and I get something like 35 %
Royalty Rate and Amazon handles everything else.
Some good news: If you ordinarily earn a 70 %
royalty rate for the e-book, you apparently receive 70 % on the promotional price through Kindle MatchBook, even if this price is 99
cents or $ 1.99.
Also, many authors sell some books at 99
cents for the lower
royalty rate but then later books in the series at 2.99 for a much better
rate.
Though it's not possible to calculate how much money an author with that many sales has made without knowing the price of each ebook, every writer who has sold this number of books has made between a low of $ 17,500 (if every book is priced at only 99
cents, for a 35 %
royalty rate) to a high of $ 350,000 (at the highest
rate that KDP allows — $ 9.99, with a 70 %
royalty rate).
Many authors err by believing that there's no difference between a 99
cent cover price, of which Amazon pays the author 35
cents per copy sold, and a $ 2.99 cover price, of which Amazon pays the author $ 2.09 per copy sold, due to the
royalty rate changing from 35 % to 70 % at the $ 2.99 level.