Comments on: How Does Amazon’s KDP 70% Royalty Delivery Cost (Delivery Fee) Work? http://empty-grave.com/2012/03/how-does-amazons-kdp-70-royalty-delivery-cost-delivery-fee-work/ Independent PoD and eBook Publisher Mon, 18 Sep 2017 19:19:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: Nicolai http://empty-grave.com/2012/03/how-does-amazons-kdp-70-royalty-delivery-cost-delivery-fee-work/#comment-8587 Thu, 11 May 2017 22:43:44 +0000 http://empty-grave.com/?p=372#comment-8587 Hi Alison. Congratulations on your book going live! I would be happy to lend a hand with the size problem if you like. How many pages/words and does the book have any images in it? Books converted from PDF are sometimes problematic and while it may appear the text converts fine I often find that programs turn the PDF into individual images of the text. If you are unable to highlight or copy/paste the text in the eBook file then that is probably what happened. Many other programs that claim to convert PDF files to editable text actually run OCR on the file and the results are typically awful and riddled with errors. Some programs are also a bit sneaky in that they repackage the book in multiple formats in the same file to increase device compatibility. The result of that, though, is a bloated file that is expensive to sell on KDP.

As I said, I would be happy to help. You can contact me directly at Nicolai(at)Empty-Grave(dot)com. If you feel comfortable with me looking at the source PDF and the converted file I can get a better idea of what’s going on. If you haven’t already, I can also help with publishing in print format via Createspace, which I highly recommend as there are no Createspace fees and everything feels so much more real when you have a paper copy of your book in your hands.

Thanks for dropping me a line! Sorry it took a couple days for me to reply. I rarely receive comments or feedback. Yours was stuck in the moderation queue and, for whatever reason, the site didn’t automatically email me to let me know there was a comment. It was pure luck I happened to be checking the site today as I haven’t looked at it in a couple months.

- Adam

]]> By: Alison Roscoe http://empty-grave.com/2012/03/how-does-amazons-kdp-70-royalty-delivery-cost-delivery-fee-work/#comment-8519 Tue, 09 May 2017 14:55:51 +0000 http://empty-grave.com/?p=372#comment-8519 Hi Nicolai and thank you so much for this insight!
I’m brand new to this and my eBook is just live, using Kindle Text Book Creator (converted from pdf by clicking “package for publishing” on KTB and saving before uploading). It saved it at 1MB though when I click to look at reports within KDP site it says average file size is 30.82MB thus a delivery cost of 3.08! List price without tax – 1.92 ( I’m lost and will make no money as I’ve priced it at $2.99 with 70% royalties).

]]> By: Pricing Children’s Picture Books for Kindle and B&N | Sarison Productions http://empty-grave.com/2012/03/how-does-amazons-kdp-70-royalty-delivery-cost-delivery-fee-work/#comment-5790 Sat, 20 Sep 2014 22:45:21 +0000 http://empty-grave.com/?p=372#comment-5790 […] doesn’t sound like a big charge, but it turns out to be huge. According to Empty Grave, a small publisher, “The truly devious part is that Amazon’s own tools for creating […]

]]> By: Nicolai http://empty-grave.com/2012/03/how-does-amazons-kdp-70-royalty-delivery-cost-delivery-fee-work/#comment-5353 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:47:30 +0000 http://empty-grave.com/?p=372#comment-5353 Thanks for the info Jean-Christian! I’ll add your note to the page.

]]> By: Jean-Christian Imbeault http://empty-grave.com/2012/03/how-does-amazons-kdp-70-royalty-delivery-cost-delivery-fee-work/#comment-5349 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 06:08:48 +0000 http://empty-grave.com/?p=372#comment-5349 kindlegen now has a parameter t not include the source in the generated .mobi file. This reduces the file size by at least 50%.

The parameter is: -dont_append_source

]]> By: Nicolai http://empty-grave.com/2012/03/how-does-amazons-kdp-70-royalty-delivery-cost-delivery-fee-work/#comment-5311 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:43:33 +0000 http://empty-grave.com/?p=372#comment-5311 Hi Romulo. I don’t speak Spanish but Google Translate did a great job. I understand you are asking which royalty option–35% or 70%–you should choose for a 4.7MB file. The calculations below assume Guatemala Amazon KDP has the same structure as the US.

A 4.7MB file will have a $0.71 delivery fee if you choose the 70% royalty. You will want to price your book at $1.49 or higher if you choose the 70% option. If you charge lower than $1.49 then you should go with 35%. For example, if you charge $2.99 for your book you would receive $1.60/sale under 70% royalty versus $1.04/sale under 35% royalty.

Hope that helps!

]]> By: Rómulo Mar http://empty-grave.com/2012/03/how-does-amazons-kdp-70-royalty-delivery-cost-delivery-fee-work/#comment-5308 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 05:54:17 +0000 http://empty-grave.com/?p=372#comment-5308 Nicolai: yo no entiendo nada esas explicaciones. Tal vez porque lo leo en traducción al español. Al parecer no hay una explicación sencilla sobre qué opción tomar en cuanto a las regalías. Por qué no decir si la opción del 70% es la más conveniente para cualquier publicación, o si la opción del 35% es la correcta. ¡Qué enredo! Al parecer tiene que ver con el peso de la obra. Quiero publicar una novelita que tiene 4.70 MB. ¿Qué opción me conviene? Soy de Guatemala. Saludos para ti, y gracias por el favor al compartir tus conocimientos.

]]> By: Nicolai http://empty-grave.com/2012/03/how-does-amazons-kdp-70-royalty-delivery-cost-delivery-fee-work/#comment-5283 Sun, 06 Apr 2014 03:38:34 +0000 http://empty-grave.com/?p=372#comment-5283 Hi Andy. The only reason I can think of where a book would default to 35% is if you set the book to “public domain.” Amazon only pays 35% for public domain material. Certain international markets also default to 35% regardless of the material.

If you are in the US, publishing non-public-domain books, and you aren’t seeing the 70% option then I would contact KDP support. You may also want to try logging into KDP from a different browser to cover all your bases.

]]> By: andy http://empty-grave.com/2012/03/how-does-amazons-kdp-70-royalty-delivery-cost-delivery-fee-work/#comment-5282 Sat, 05 Apr 2014 20:22:53 +0000 http://empty-grave.com/?p=372#comment-5282 I can’t even get the option for 70% on the royalties. Is there a certain size the file/book has to be to get the 70% royalties to even show up?

]]> By: Nicolai http://empty-grave.com/2012/03/how-does-amazons-kdp-70-royalty-delivery-cost-delivery-fee-work/#comment-3630 Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:21:28 +0000 http://empty-grave.com/?p=372#comment-3630 Hi Hark. Depending on which option you choose, you will either be getting 35% or 70% (minus delivery charges).

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