Not what one copy earns. What the whole thing earns once a reader can buy more than one thing from you, once the margin is yours instead of a retailer's, and once the buyer stays on your list afterwards.
Key in your numbers below and see your prediction. Nothing is emailed to you and nothing here is a quote.
Tier one is not where the money is. It covers the advertising and hands you a buyer. Tier two and tier three are where the profit actually sits, bought by the same reader in the same moment.
The first tier is the only one you need. Leave the rest blank if you do not have them yet.
Print cost is what you pay your printer per copy. If a fulfilment centre ships for you, pick and pack is their per-order fee. Postage is the carrier charge.
| Tier | Print cost | Pick & pack | Postage | You keep |
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| Your complete set | — |
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Three versions of the same month. The only difference between them is how cheaply the ads find a buyer, which is the part that improves as an account settles.
A retail sale ends when the reader pays. A direct sale leaves you holding the buyer, and that buyer is who you sell the next book to for free.
Same budget, same traffic, same book, your prices and your costs. The only thing that changes is whether a reader has something bigger to buy at the moment they were already buying.
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Estimates only. Acquisition costs and Amazon lift are modelled from author accounts Jeanty Digital manages, applied to the prices, costs and budget entered above. Amazon lift is held at a deliberately conservative floor and assumes no Amazon advertising is running. Net earnings are after print cost, fulfilment, ad spend and any agency fee entered, but before payment processing, returns, taxes and any management fees. Every book is different and no result is guaranteed.
We will build this against your actual title, your real print and fulfilment costs, and the ladder we would recommend, then walk you through where it holds and where it does not.