You can compare Amazon book royalties with BooksOnline royalties with these three beautiful little calculators that are super easy to use, and yet produce shocking results. While selling your books on Amazon is still a good idea, being able to sell your book on other distribution platforms is also a critically important strategy. Of course, when you don’t give Amazon an exclusive right to sell your eBooks and when you don’t give ACX the exclusive right to sell your audiobooks, they cut your royalties to paltry sums. It’s really a disgrace how they take most of an author’s gross retail revenue.
But as has often been said in other contexts: There’s a new kid in town, and that kid is the new book publisher and book distributor BooksOnline.Club. Here’s very dramatic way to compare Amazon book royalties with BooksOnline. We’ll include links below to each of these three calculators so you can enter your own book prices and sales numbers and get an instant comparison. Let’s look closely at these examples.
As you can see, BooksOnline pays way more than Amazon or ACX. And the real power behind our distribution model is our Affiliate Program, which Amazon cannot possibly compete with. All BooksOnline Affiliates earn 30% for every sale while “Associates” which is Amazon’s effort to create an affiliate program for eBooks only pays about 5% and you have to jump a number of hurdles to get approved at Amazon plus you have to create your own lead generation system on the Internet.
The trap for many authors is that Amazon only pays 70% royalties on eBooks if your eBook is priced from $2.99 to $9.99, but if you price your eBook above $9.99 Amazon only pays you 35%. Is that insane or what? That insanity does not exist at BooksOnline, so you earn far more, and when you add Affiliate sales at BooksOnline, authors can end up earning more than Amazon by an order of magnitude.
Not sure what an Affiliate Program is or how it can make you far more money? We have an entire section for Affiliates in our menu, including how easy it is to market an Affiliate link to reach large numbers of potential consumers.
Here are the direct links to the two calculators that compare Amazon eBook royalties and audiobook royalties with BooksOnline royalties:
