Calculate your exact royalty per sale on Amazon KDP. Switch between paperback and eBook calculations using the tabs below.
Royalty at Different Price Points
Paperback royalty curve for a 250-page B&W book on Amazon.co.uk:
Hover over bars to see exact royalty amounts. Prices in GBP.
KDP Printing Cost Reference
Amazon’s printing costs vary by marketplace and ink type, and KDP has revised them (most recently in its 2025 print-pricing update), so treat the figures below as indicative and confirm current rates on KDP’s printing-cost page before relying on an exact number:
Printing cost is banded by page count, not a single flat rate. Short books are charged a flat per-book price with no per-page cost; longer books switch to a lower fixed charge plus a per-page rate. All figures below are Amazon’s own, for regular trim sizes, read from KDP’s Paperback Printing Cost page on 11 August 2026.
Amazon.com (USD)
| Ink Type | Pages | Fixed Cost | Per Page Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black & white | 24–110 | $2.30 | — |
| Black & white | 110–828 | $1.00 | $0.012 |
| Standard colour | 72–600 | $1.00 | $0.0255 |
| Premium colour | 24–40 | $3.60 | — |
| Premium colour | 42–828 | $1.00 | $0.065 |
Amazon.co.uk (GBP)
| Ink Type | Pages | Fixed Cost | Per Page Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black & white | 24–110 | £1.93 | — |
| Black & white | 110–828 | £0.85 | £0.010 |
| Standard colour | 72–600 | £0.85 | £0.020 |
| Premium colour | 24–40 | £2.59 | — |
| Premium colour | 42–828 | £0.85 | £0.0435 |
Amazon.de / .es / .fr / .it / .nl / .ie / .com.be (EUR)
| Ink Type | Pages | Fixed Cost | Per Page Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black & white | 24–110 | €2.05 | — |
| Black & white | 110–828 | €0.75 | €0.012 |
| Standard colour | 72–600 | €0.75 | €0.024 |
| Premium colour | 24–40 | €2.85 | — |
| Premium colour | 42–828 | €0.75 | €0.0525 |
Amazon.com.au starts its black-ink band at 108 pages rather than 110, and Amazon publishes no standard-colour rate for that marketplace at all — the calculator says so rather than guessing.
Paperback Royalty Formula
Your Royalty = (List Price × 60%) − Printing Cost
The 60% rate applies to titles priced at or above each marketplace’s breakpoint (about £7.99 on Amazon.co.uk, $9.99 on Amazon.com); lower-priced titles earn 50% (KDP’s June 2025 update). Expanded Distribution is 40%.
The printing cost is calculated as:
Printing Cost = Fixed Cost + (Page Count × Per-Page Cost), using the band your page count falls in
For example, a 250-page black-ink book priced at £12.99 on Amazon.co.uk. At 250 pages it sits in the 110–828 band, so the rate is £0.85 plus £0.010 per page:
- Amazon’s share: £12.99 × 40% = £5.20
- Printing cost: £0.85 + (250 × £0.010) = £3.35
- Your royalty: £12.99 × 60% − £3.35 = £4.44
The same book at 100 pages would fall in the flat band instead: £1.93 with no per-page charge.
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