Createspace royalty structure for canadian authors, no. Print costs and royalty structures for amazon kdp and ingramspark. You can now manage your createspace content on amazons improved publishing services. How to calculate kdp print costs plus an online calculator. Unfortunately, the formula that createspace provides to calculate royalties for amazon sales is a.
Royalties if you enable expanded distribution for your paperback, the royalty rate is 40% of the books list price effective in the distribution channel at the time of purchase, minus printing costs, applicable taxes, and withholding. The createspace publishing checklist how to save time. And if someone buys your book through an expanded distribution channel, cs takes 60%. There are several rules and exceptions to getting the 70% royalty so you might need to take these into consideration when deciding how to price your book. Understanding createspace royalties and distribution. Because i design picture books and need options before i design, not after. Createspace royalties when you selfpublish a book with createspace, you set your own list price and your amazon royalty is based on the list price that you set. If you enable expanded distribution, the royalty is 40% of the books list price effective in the distribution channel at the time of purchase minus printing costs. To get ideas for pricing your createspace book, visit the createspace royalty calculator at this page and click the royalties tab. Book price calculator when selfpublishing, your book cost and quantity are of major concern, thats why has made a commitment to provide the best possible print on demand price with a no minimum print run requirement. Kdp print does not take down the existing book while approving new versions like createspace does. Createspace requires that you leave a blank spot on your cover.
This online calculator tool will help you arrive at the dimensions your full cover needs to be for amazon kdp or for createspace or you can just use it to figure your spine width. The minimum list price is calculated based on your book s printing cost. Here are the steps on how to use this book royalties calculator to determine your royalty rate, and book profit potential based on each publishing method. Royalty calculator use the royalty calculator to figure out how much youll make every time your book is manufactured. Mar 14, 2014 once you start creating your book on createspace it gives you clear instructions and options of selecting the price for your book and calculating your royalties profits. For customer we enter createspace in the or use this value field or map the channel column to the customer field. From the research ive done, createspace provides the highest profits on a standard trade type book, however i suggest playing with their royalty calculator before you decide on the format and. Use this tool to determine how much you will be paid on your print titles sold through the distribution channels. All prices are provided as an estimate and do not necessarily reflect actual revenue. Createspace is a platform for authors to publish books to amazon, a role it seems to be continuing this service for now.
Depending on the retail price of your title, and the specs of the book, most titles will generate between 10% 30% royalties. You plug in data and the calculator tells you how much youll make with every sale. Royalties will also show in your reports as your paperbacks are shipped to customers. How to calculate createspace royalties jenny bravo. Nov 08, 2010 and createspace essentially admits this. How self published authors get paid for paperback sales tck. Once your ebook is published, you can view and edit your ebooks retail pricing and distribution options from the my projects manage button. Kdp uses a minimum list price to ensure the royalties you earn are always enough to cover the cost to print your book.
However, i have since heard from several authors whose books were published by a traditional or independent publisher who are now using the calculator as a guideline to make sure the royalty reports from their publishers are accurate. Understanding how amazon royalties work for createspace books. Jul 05, 2015 so to calculate the royalty for these are the moments, the equation looks like this. This royalty will apply to sales of your print book to customers in any territory. The company doesnt offer professional services like createspace did. Amazon is merging createspace into kdp print the digital.
Amazon is merging createspace into kdp print the digital reader. Type createspace royalty calculator on the web and you can play around with the price and profits for your book. Why i chose createspace after first publishing with lulu. For comparison, here are two sample cookbooks that are essentially identical.
Createspace has a limited number of color and trim size option. To help authors who might be short on time i have created a pdf summary of the createspace publishing checklist that you can. Now with the clothes on the line, the child outside running free, the dishes done and the cinnamon buns cooling and waiting for icing, im at the computer and sharing the news i had predicted in an april 17, 2017 post, amazons new kdp print feature is bad news for createspace users. One of the best ways to discover the various costs and potential revenue a book could produce is to go on to the createspace site and enter the parameters of your planned book into their royalty calculator. Youll need to determine whether you want your book enrolled in kindle select. Sometimes, sales will fall outside of these royalty targets depending on international currency conversion rates, the manufacturing costs associated with.
Different printers use different paper, which determines the spine width, which is why this calculator is specific to amazon kdp and createspace same paper. Createspace cover template book cover design selfpublish. Createspace provides a free royalty calculator you can use to determine how much you will earn each time you sell a book using createspaces pod publishing system. Uploading to createspace and kdp kindle createspace. Login to get started with kindle direct publishing, manufacturing on demand, or print on demand for publishers. A stepbystep guide to book publishing with createspace. If you ever published a kindle book on the most popular book publishing site amazon, chances are you also created or contemplated a print. Obviously i had originally set it to make a little from sales on amazon, but for some reason.
Royalties for expanded distribution units will display approximately 30. Apr 12, 2014 invaluable createspace cover template calculator by deborah s. When you self publish a paperback book via createspace, lightningsource or another print on demand pod service, how much money do you actually get paid when you sell a book. Links to amazon author help pages, calculation formulas. Weight and spine width calculator cover template generator use this tool to determine how much you will be paid on your print titles sold through the distribution channels. Traditional publishers are considered the big 5 publishing houses. Feel free to put in a book price and click calculate royalty. Amazons new kdp print feature is bad news for createspace. The royalty rate times the print books list price, less printing costs.
Eft eft royalty payments to bank accounts were introduced by createspace in 2012, but they were limited to only a very few countries. What will happen to my titles, royalty payments, and sales rank if. Once you start creating your book on createspace it gives you clear instructions and options of selecting the price for your book and calculating your royalties profits. Jul 21, 2014 it costs you nothing to make your book available in print with s printondemand pod service. When it comes to pricing your book, its pretty simple. But kdp print seems to allow authorspublishers the opportunity to choose a number of nontraditional trim sizes and even set their own. The net profit from the sale of a print book project sold on is split 8020 between the creator and lulu.
Aug 23, 2018 createspace has a limited number of color and trim size option. Enter the number of pages in your book and your desired. Up until april 2018, it was also a platform where authors could hire the selfpublishing services needed to produce a book. Its free to publish an ebook or print book with kdp. The minimum list price is calculated based on your books printing cost. Just enter the number of pages in your book and the book size you decided on earlier, and it will generate a downloadable cover template. May 12, 2015 previously createspace had a calculator that showed the actual cost of a book, but this is what they have now. Prices, royalties, and rates are subject to change. Createspace royalty structure for canadian authors, no direct. Self publishing and free distribution for books, cd. If you are interested you can also explore royalties further. Nelson, authorbook coachspeaker one of the first things i do, and one of the first things i suggest all my writerclients do, is to create a book cover right away.
The royalties tab lets you see the royalties that you will pay to have your book promoted on amazon. The createspace royalty earnings report is an excel xlsx file. The first page of the distribution information section is the royalty calculator. This post is written for the author who wants to use createspace to publish their paperback book, leveraging amazons reach using the print on demand model of selfpublishing. Paperback royalty and pricing paperback royalty printing cost. I hope the post helps you speed up the createspace process and saves you some money with the free resources at the end of each section. Createspace indie print publishing made easy acx indie audiobook publishing made easy. So when any book is published, just like any product, this is a product. Nelson, author book coachspeaker one of the first things i do, and one of the first things i suggest all my writerclients do, is to create a book cover right away. As a new author, i was prepared to make less money in exchange for the chance of a broader readership. The 2020 guide to amazon fees and royalties for kindle. Your createspace royalties equal the list price minus the cost of printing the book and minus the sellers share amazon or createspace. Unfortunately, the formula that createspace provides to calculate royalties for amazon sales is a little roundabout.
And you get little calculator that shows you how much money you have. It costs you nothing to make your book available in print with s printondemand pod service. Kindle ebooks or kdp print books formerly createspace sold on amazon begins. How much money will i receive when my printed book sells. The cover size depends on the number of pages, because that determines the spine width. May 19, 2017 understanding createspace royalties and distribution options. One of the channels indicated that it allows bookstores and other independent sellers to buy my book at wholesale prices which. Apr 06, 2014 it has to do with the royalty payment structure createspace uses with canadian authors. The createspace publishing checklist how to save time and. Aug 27, 2018 acquired by amazon in 2005, createspace started life as a dvd and cd production service, but later added book pod services after it merged with booksurge which amazon also bought in 2005. So you have to go to the buying copies tab to see the printing cost of your book and the shipping cost. One of the channels indicated that it allows bookstores and other independent. It ensures that your royalties earned are always enough to cover the cost to print your book. Have you tried to calculate createspace royalties for your book.
Also on this same page youll find a download button for the kdp print cost calculator available as an excel worksheet. To find more about your own royalty, visit the createspace site. When we originally created this amazon book sales calculator, we did so with the selfpublished author in mind. You earn royalties every time a book is printed to fulfill a new customer order. It lists each sales transaction by date and provides the name of the sales channel for each sale. Selfpublishing tools what you need in order to learn how to self. Before you approve your book for sale, createspace will tell you exactly how much your royalty will be for a book sold through any of the channels. To estimate your printing cost and paperback royalty, use our calculator. Now that you have the cost to manufacture your printed book you can compute the sales commission. So to calculate the royalty for these are the moments, the equation looks like this. We now offer specialized options for your different publishing needs. The createspace publishing checklist how to save time and money before you publish on createspace.
Luckily theres a createspace spine width calculator. For instance, amazon kdp formerly createspace has its pricing segmented under different tabs. Calculating amazon paperback selling commission and your royalty. Since kdp keeps your old version available until the new one is approved, there is no interruption.
When will i no longer be able to create new disc titles or edit existing ones on createspace. Judging by the website, createspace has operated essentially unchanged since that merger, right up until amazon started shutting it down earlier this year. How to use createspaces book cost calculator a column. To find out the estimated royalty for a paperback for which youve enabled expanded distribution. Today, were talking about how to calculate createspace royalties. Print costs and royalty structures for amazon kdp and.
When a canadian author self publishes a paperback version of their book with createspace, we arent given the option for direct deposit for royalties accumulated. Enter the number of pages in your book and your desired royalty in the white boxes, and see the resulting total price. At least if by cost, we mean a direct upfront payment a publishing fee. I have just looked at one of my books costpricing and although profits on lulu for it are high, its only because a high price has to be set for elsewhere amazon in order to make a bean. You can use the handy royalty calculator widget from createspace to experiment with different royalty rates based on the books characteristics. Your royalty figures will be calculated automatically.
We now offer specialized options for your different publishing. Understanding createspace royalties and distribution options. Choose the print options, and then add the list price. The 2020 guide to amazon fees and royalties for kindle ebooks. How to self publish on createspace in three easy steps. Createspace royalties authors earn a royalty every time a copy of their book is printed to fulfil an order submitted through any of the distribution channels you have selected. So in this example, its not possible to price that book between 12 and 12. Jan 31, 2018 as a side note, the current pricing calculator for a 200page book with standard 6. If they buy it through amazon which, lets face it, is the most likely scenario cs takes 40%.
How self published authors get paid for paperback sales. Invaluable createspace cover template calculator by deborah s. I always found the createspace royalty calculator online to be. Can i update titles that ive published on createspace after theyve moved to mod. When you selfpublish a book with createspace, you set your own list price and your amazon royalty is based on the list price that you set. It has to do with the royalty payment structure createspace uses with canadian authors. How to use createspaces book cost calculator a column by. Selfpublishing tools free selfpublishing resources for. Jan 31, 2018 createspace is a platform for authors to publish books to amazon, a role it seems to be continuing this service for now. In this way, you have the freedom to determine your own royalty rate. Full cover design dimensions calculator for amazon kdp and. To calculate your minimum list price, we divide your paperbacks printing cost by the royalty rate. Nov 08, 20 if readers buy your book via createspaces own online store, cs takes 20%.
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