Royalty calculator

What do you actually keep?

Set your price and see what each platform pays you per sale — with Amazon’s delivery fee and royalty band, ACX’s exclusivity rates, and our own numbers, all worked out on the real terms.

$9.99USD
$0.99$29.99
100copies
102,000

Amazon’s royalty rate depends on the buyer’s country, not on your price. Most calculators quietly assume the United States.

Only affects Amazon, which charges a delivery fee per megabyte. Illustrated books and fixed-layout titles run large.

You keep, per sale

  • QityolHighest
    $7.5275% of cover

    80% of ($9.99 − $0.59 payment processing)

  • Amazon KDP
    $6.7868% of cover

    70% of ($9.99 − $0.30 delivery fee)

    Includes KDP's $0.15/MB delivery fee on a 2 MB file.

  • Apple Books
    $6.9970% of cover

    70% of $9.99 — no delivery fee, no price band

  • Spotify
    —

    Does not distribute ebooks

Over a year

$632 more on Qityol

At $9.99 and 100 sales a month, versus the best-paying alternative for this format. Same book, same price, same reader.

Figures use each platform’s published standard terms as of August 2026, and assume no promotional discounting. Where a rival’s terms are ambiguous we model the reading most favourable to them. Rival rates are set by those platforms and can change — check their current terms before deciding. Qityol figures are computed with the same fee module that runs at checkout.

One price, priced for everywhere

The same $9.99 book, priced so people can actually buy it.

You set one price. Qityol adjusts it by purchasing power in every market automatically — so a reader in Nairobi or Manila sees a price that makes sense where they live, instead of a US price they will never pay. On every other platform this is a spreadsheet you maintain by hand, per marketplace, forever.

$9.99

You keep $7.52

USA · UK · Japan · UAE

$6.99

You keep $5.19

Brazil · Turkey · Thailand · Mexico

$3.99

You keep $2.86

Kenya · India · Nigeria · Vietnam

$2.49

You keep $1.76

Ethiopia · Nepal · Somalia · Madagascar

Tiers follow World Bank income classifications. Prices shown are after rounding. A reader connecting through a VPN from a higher-income country is charged that country’s tier.

Run the numbers on your own book.

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Questions authors ask

How much does an author keep per sale on Qityol?
Qityol pays 80% of the net sale amount — the cover price minus payment processing (2.9% + $0.30). On a $9.99 ebook, processing is $0.59, net is $9.40, and the author keeps $7.52. There is no delivery fee, no file-size charge, and no price band that changes the rate.
How does that compare with Amazon KDP?
Amazon pays 70% only inside the $2.99–$12.99 band, and subtracts a $0.15 per megabyte delivery fee first. Outside that band the rate drops to 35%. On a $9.99 ebook of 2 MB, KDP pays $6.78 against Qityol's $7.52. On a $19.99 book, KDP's 35% pays $7.00 against Qityol's $15.29.
Is there any price where a competitor pays more than Qityol?
Only below about $1.09. Apple Books takes a flat 70% of the cover price with no fixed cost per sale; a card payment carries a fixed $0.30 regardless of who processes it, and below $1.09 that alone exceeds our entire margin — we already reduce our own cut to $0 as price drops toward there, and it still isn't enough to close the gap under roughly $1.09. From $3.10 up, Qityol pays more than every alternative with no exceptions, and the gap widens as the price rises: at $9.99 it is $7.52 against Apple's $6.99, and at $19.99 it is $15.29 against Apple's $13.99. Between $1.09 and $3.10, Qityol reduces its own cut as price drops specifically to stay close to Apple, and ties or beats it at almost every price in that range — the calculator above shows the exact number for whatever you actually charge.
What did Amazon change in 2026?
On 7 July 2026 Amazon widened the 70% ebook royalty band from $2.99–$9.99 to $2.99–$12.99. The change is opt-in: titles priced between $10.00 and $12.99 stay on the 35% rate until the author switches it by hand in Rights & Pricing. Separately, in April 2026 ACX raised audiobook royalties to 50% for exclusive distribution and 30% for non-exclusive.
What royalty does Spotify pay on audiobooks?
Spotify pays around 50% of list price on à la carte audiobook sales. Since Findaway Voices separated from Spotify in August 2025, an author with a direct Spotify for Authors account keeps 100% of that royalty with no aggregator taking a further cut. Spotify does not distribute ebooks.
Does Qityol require exclusivity?
No. You can publish the same title on Qityol, Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo and your own site at the same time. Amazon's KDP Select requires 90 days of digital exclusivity, and ACX's exclusive audiobook terms run seven years.