# KDP royalty calculator: 35% and 70% ebook royalties On Amazon.com, KDP's 70% royalty band takes list prices from $2.99 to $12.99 and pays 70% of the price less a delivery cost of $0.15 per MB. The 35% band pays 35% of the price with no delivery cost, up to $200. Enter a price and a file size to see what one sale earns in each. Last reviewed 29 October 2026. Web page: https://chapbook.ink/tools/kdp-royalty-calculator/ ## KDP's eBook royalty bands on Amazon.com Checked against KDP's help pages on 29 October 2026. Per sale, in US dollars, before tax. - **70%:** list prices from $2.99 to $12.99. It pays 70% of the list price less a delivery cost of $0.15 per MB of the file, at least $0.01. The price must also be at least 20% below any print edition's list price. - **35%:** list prices up to $200.00, from $0.99 for a file under 3 MB, $1.99 for a file under 10 MB, $2.99 at larger sizes. It pays 35% of the list price, with no delivery cost. Sources: [KDP's list price requirements](https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200634560), [KDP's digital pricing page](https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200634500). ## A worked example At $4.99 for a 0.10 MB file (the EPUB of the sample book The Pricing Playbook): the 70% band pays $3.48 a sale after a $0.02 delivery cost, and the 35% band pays $1.75. ## How it works it out The calculator uses the same arithmetic as the KDP listing in Chapbook. In the 70% band, a sale pays 70% of the list price after the delivery cost, which is $0.15 for every megabyte of the file. In the 35% band, a sale pays 35% of the list price and nothing is taken for delivery, but the lowest price allowed rises with the file's size. When the price is in both bands, it shows which pays more. KDP works out the delivery cost from the file it makes from yours when you upload. A book of text is small; pictures make it larger. Chapbook's own sample EPUB is the starting size, so change it to your file's. ## What it leaves out Only Amazon.com, in US dollars. KDP sets further conditions for the 70% band, including where a sale is made, so read its pricing pages before you set a price. Chapbook checked them on the date at the top of this page. ## Made with Chapbook: The Pricing Playbook The Pricing Playbook: How founders set a price they can defend, by Jane Founder. Nonfiction book, 9,862 words, 43 pages. A sample generated from one brief and exported unedited; it is not a customer's book. Read every page: https://chapbook.ink/examples/nonfiction/ The brief: > A repeatable method for pricing software: customer interviews, a value metric, tiering, and setting numbers you can defend. Promise: A repeatable method for setting a price you can defend to customers, investors and yourself, validated by ten customer interviews in a week. Reader: A founder who priced by guessing or by copying a competitor and now has to defend or change the number. Voice: Direct second person with occasional first person; worked examples with fictional companies; tables where they clarify; no invented statistics or named studies: reason from mechanics and examples. The outline the planner proposed: 1. Introduction (620 words) 2. Why Guessing Fails (1,014 words) 3. What You Are Actually Selling (1,004 words) 4. Interview Ten Customers (1,088 words) 5. Choose the Value Metric (979 words) 6. Draft Three Tiers (1,076 words) 7. Set the Numbers (1,130 words) 8. Say the Price Out Loud (1,063 words) 9. Revisit Every Quarter (994 words) 10. Conclusion (384 words) 11. Appendix: The Interview Script (475 words) ## Questions ### What royalty does KDP pay on an ebook? On Amazon.com, 70% of the list price less a delivery cost for prices from $2.99 to $12.99, or 35% of the list price with no delivery cost, as checked against KDP's help pages on 29 October 2026. ### What is KDP's delivery cost? $0.15 per megabyte of the file, taken from each 70% sale on Amazon.com; the 35% band has none. Checked against KDP's pricing page on 29 October 2026. ### What is the highest list price for the 70% royalty? $12.99 on Amazon.com, as checked against KDP's list price requirements on 29 October 2026. Above it, a sale pays 35%. ### Does a print edition change the ebook royalty? It can. For 70%, the ebook's list price must be at least 20% below the list price of any print edition, per KDP's list price requirements as checked on 29 October 2026. ### Are these royalties before tax? Yes. The calculator shows what one sale on Amazon.com earns in US dollars, before any tax. Other Amazon stores have their own prices and rules. ## Sources - [Amazon KDP, eBook list price requirements](https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200634560) - [Amazon KDP, “Digital Book Pricing Page”](https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200634500)