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Amazon's ebook royalties look simple until you read the small print: price between $2.99 and $9.99 in a 70%-tier marketplace and you keep 70% of list price minus a delivery fee of about $0.15 per megabyte; price outside that band, or sell where the 70% tier does not apply, and the rate falls to 35% with no delivery fee. Most authors never run the numbers on their actual file size, so they cannot see how much the delivery fee quietly eats. This calculator nets both tiers on your real list price and file size, tells you which tier your price qualifies for, and shows the per-sale difference in dollars.
Enter your ebook list price and file size — the calculator shows what you actually earn per sale under Amazon's 70% tier (minus the per-megabyte delivery fee) versus the 35% tier, and tells you which one your price qualifies for.
Amazon's 70% tier applies to ebooks listed between $2.99 and $9.99 (or the local equivalent) in the large marketplaces such as the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Canada, Australia and India. Below $2.99 or above $9.99, the royalty drops to 35%.
At the 70% tier Amazon deducts roughly $0.15 per megabyte of delivered file size from your royalty. A typical 2 MB novel therefore loses about $0.30 per sale — which is why compressing images and embedded fonts genuinely protects your earnings.
Sometimes. The 35% tier has no price band and no delivery fee, so very low-priced books, very high-priced reference titles, and sales in marketplaces outside the 70% list all fall to it. Run both figures on your real numbers before assuming 70% wins.
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