How Much Can You Make From Amazon Ebooks
That s why we love this piece from forbes on how one author earns 450 000 a year self publishing on amazon.
How much can you make from amazon ebooks. How much money you ask. You can easily have your ebook converted into a print book which is an easy way to sell more books as there are many people who still prefer physical print books. For example with paperback amazon self publishing you get up to 60 percent royalties instead of 70 percent.
Sell 1000 ebooks earn 2 090. Part 1 covered what to write about and how much and part 2 outlined how to format your ebook and create an ecover for 5 or less. How much can you make.
You ll probably want to price your book between 2 99 and 9 99. Now let s say you were able to sell 240 ebooks every month like our canadians from earlier. Sell 100 ebooks earn 209.
Morerealistically however is somewhere in between these two points many ebook authors make between 5 000 and 20 000 a year. If your book is priced between 0 01 and 2 98 or greater than 9 99 you get paid 35 royalties. The uk based author mark dawson writes thrillers and crime novels and has sold 300 000 copies of his thriller series about a british assassin named john milton.
Part 3 explained step by step how to publish your ebook on amazon and part 4 gave you some hints and tips on how to promote it. In that range for sales in most countries amazon pays a royalty of 70. Otherwise you get 35.
At a price of 16 00 for example you ll make 5 60 35 but if you price you book at 9 99 you ll be paid 6 99 per sale 70. The royalty rate you get paid from amazon for ebooks is 70 of the retail price if the price of your ebook is between 2 99 and 9 99. Welcome to the fifth and final part of how to make money writing and publishing ebooks.