I review all of my trad pub royalty statements when they come in, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for beyond checking that the various royalty rates are as they should be and running the math (
cost of book x royalty rate x no.
Not exact matches
MARIS KREIZMAN That they've talked to publishers, that they have a price quote for how much it would
cost to print
x amount
of books... I often say that self - publishing is not something that you should really do on your own.
XYX program
costs X... How many
books can I expect to sell as a result
of spending
X?
Most
of my picture
books are 8.5 ″
x 8.5 ″ because I can print both hardcover and paperback at a reasonable
cost.
A hardcover 8
x 10 full - color
book of 96 pages
cost over $ 40.00 each at Blurb.
Example: For a US Dollar sale, if your Digital
Book has a file size
of 0.400 megabytes and a List Price
of $ 8.99, and we sell your Digital
Book at the List Price, the Delivery
Cost for a sale in US Dollars will be $ 0.06 (0.400 MB
x $ 0.15 = $ 0.06), and your Royalty will be $ 6.25 -LRB-($ 8.99 — $ 0.06)
x 70 % = $ 6.25).
If your publisher is telling you that you need to price your
book at
X because
of their print
costs, that's one thing but you should fully understand what their internal
costs are before you make your decision.
Royalty Rate
x (Amazon price - taxes and Delivery
Costs) = Royalty By «price - match» we mean where we sell the Digital
Book in one or more
of the Available Sales Territories at a price (net
of taxes) that is below the List Price to match a third party's sales price for any digital or physical edition
of the Digital
Book, or to match our sales price for any physical edition
of the Digital
Book, in any one
of the Available Sales Territories.
That would mean the average KU member is borrowing 6.5
books a month and reading a grand total
of 1, 579 pages every month (6.5
x 243 pages), which would
cost Amazon around $ 9 in royalty payments to authors (1,579
x $ 0.0057 per page).
There are free programs that let you create and view PDFs, but this
book focuses on the features that justify the
costs of purchasing Adobe ® Acrobat ®
X and XI Standard or Professional.