Amazon's 70 percent option comes with a price floor
KDP's own royalty page shows the 70 percent ebook rate is conditional on territory, price floor and file size, not a flat number.
3 min · source-led record↗
Explore / Publish independently
What are you handing over—and on which terms?
Understand the route from manuscript to retailer, reviewer and reader.
No matching record. Try fewer words or reset the filters.
Apple's ebook royalty holds steady across every price
Apple's own documentation states a flat 70 percent ebook royalty with no exclusivity requirement, a different bargain from Amazon's tiered program.
3 min · source-led record↗
Kobo's royalty rate depends on crossing a price line
Kobo's own earnings page ties its ebook royalty rate to a price threshold rather than to the retailer alone.
3 min · source-led record↗
Barnes and Noble Press ties its print rate to printing cost
Barnes & Noble Press documents a flat ebook royalty and a print royalty set against a variable per-book printing cost.
2 min · source-led record↗
IngramSpark separates its fees from its print cost
IngramSpark's 2025 rate card shows title set-up and pre-approval revisions are free, with cost concentrated in a per-sale market-access fee.
3 min · source-led record↗
Draft2Digital pairs a flat fee with a per-sale commission
Draft2Digital's own FAQ and terms show a flat activation fee, an annual maintenance fee and a nonexclusive license alongside its commission.
3 min · source-led record↗
PublishDrive sells shelf space, not a cut of royalties
PublishDrive's own pricing page sells tiered subscriptions with a stated 0 percent commission, a different bet from percentage-based aggregators.
2 min · source-led record↗
BookBaby pays more when a reader buys direct
BookBaby's own pages show a direct-storefront royalty well above its stated range for sales through other retailers.
2 min · source-led record↗
Lulu's storefront pays more than its wide reach does
Lulu's own selling page ties a higher royalty share to its own storefront and a lower-friction path to wide retail distribution.
2 min · source-led record↗
Reedsy prices self-publishing from its own quote data
Reedsy's 2026 guide prices self-publishing services from its marketplace's quote data, labeled indicative rather than a survey finding.
2 min · source-led record↗
Print still led a record year for UK publishing
The Publishers Association's own 2025 figures show UK revenue at a record high while print still supplies most consumer sales.
3 min · source-led record↗
TikTok's BookTok sales number is a platform's own claim
TikTok cites NielsenIQ and Media Control data for 50 million BookTok-linked sales in Europe, a platform claim, not proof of causation.
3 min · source-led record↗
Sanderson's record Kickstarter took years of quiet prep
Kickstarter's own data and retrospective show a $41.75 million campaign built on an existing fanbase and a 30-person publisher.
3 min · source-led record↗
NetGalley charges by listing, not by review received
NetGalley's own pricing page prices advance-copy distribution per listing and promotion, not per review, as retrieved 16 September 2026.
3 min · source-led record↗
BookSirens prices reviews by reader, not by review
BookSirens' own pricing page ties author fees to reader downloads, with a stated average review rate it does not guarantee.
3 min · source-led record↗
A book review's free-copy origin still needs disclosure
FTC guidance and its 2024 reviews rule both reach book reviews obtained through free copies, regardless of who or what wrote them.
3 min · source-led record↗
Goodreads polices review manipulation, not just opinion
Goodreads' own guidelines separate rating manipulation and undisclosed free copies from ordinary negative reviews.
3 min · source-led record↗
Amazon's review rules ban conduct, not how text was made
Amazon's own community guidelines prohibit compensated, fake and seller-linked reviews, rules written without regard to a review's origin.
3 min · source-led record↗
APA's sales survey and its consumer survey differ
The Audio Publishers Association's own release separates a Toluna-run sales survey from an Edison Research consumer survey.
3 min · source-led record↗
A famous word-of-mouth study measured rank, not sales
Chevalier and Mayzlin's own paper explains it tracked Amazon and Barnes & Noble sales ranks from two days in May 2003, not verified sales.
3 min · source-led record↗