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Every comparison below uses each platform’s own published terms and Qityol’s real fee calculator — not hand-typed numbers.
Start publishing freeEbooks
35–70% royalty, limited to 41 territories for the top rate, with a delivery fee and price band.
CompareAudiobooks
50% exclusive / 30% non-exclusive, and only open to rights holders in the US, UK, Canada, or Ireland.
CompareAggregator
A distributor that takes its own cut on top of whatever each retailer pays — not a direct platform.
CompareSpotify doesn’t sell ebooks — it’s an audiobook-only comparison. Since the 2025 split from Findaway Voices, a direct Spotify for Authors account keeps 100% of Spotify’s own audiobook royalty, which is roughly 50% of list price, with no aggregator skimming a cut on top.
Spotify for Authors
$7.50
50% of $14.99 list price
Qityol
$11.41
80% of net on a $14.99 audiobook
Spotify figure computed from lib/competitorRoyalties.ts’s spotifyAudiobookPayout function. This isn’t a full comparison page — see /publish/audiobook for how Qityol audiobook publishing works.
80% of the net sale amount (after payment processing), the same rate for ebooks, audiobooks, and podcasts, with no exclusivity requirement at any tier. Amazon KDP pays 35–70% depending on the reader's country and file size; Audible ACX pays 50% exclusive or 30% non-exclusive and is only open to creators in four countries; Draft2Digital pays out what each retailer sets, minus its own distribution cut.
No, never, at any royalty tier. You can publish the same title on Qityol and anywhere else — Amazon, Apple Books, Draft2Digital's retailers, your own website — at the same time.
Direct. Qityol sells to readers on its own app rather than distributing your file out to other stores and taking a cut of what they pay. That means one royalty rate, calculated one way, rather than a distributor's cut stacked on top of a retailer's own share.
Free to start. No exclusivity. 80% of every sale goes directly to you.
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