Estimate net royalty and the sales needed to recover your production costs. Enter the current royalty rate and per-copy printing or delivery charge from your KDP setup. This calculator does not fetch Amazon rates or predict sales.
The defaults are hypothetical. Royalty eligibility depends on format, territory, price, and other KDP terms. Use the price basis and cost figures shown in your KDP setup, including the applicable tax treatment. Add editing, cover preparation, and launch costs to the fixed-cost field. Ongoing advertising cost per sale belongs in the per-copy field.
At a hypothetical price of 4.99, a 70% royalty, and a 0.15 per-sale deduction, the estimate is 3.343 per sale. Recovering 60 in fixed costs requires 18 sales. This says nothing about how likely those sales are.
Confirm your actual figures with Amazon KDP. Then prepare reader language in the fiction keyword workbench. Inputs stay in this browser; no account is needed.
Two short reads that help you ship more consistently: