Author Royalty Calculator
Enter the list price, royalty rate, copies sold and return rate to get the royalty.
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- Enter your values in the fields above.
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About this calculator
Publishing royalty statements are calculated net of returns: bookstores and distributors can send unsold copies back to the publisher, so the author is only paid on copies that actually stayed sold. The math is list price × royalty rate × copies sold × (1 − return rate), mirroring how real royalty runs are reconciled twice a year.
Authors, literary agents, and small presses use this kind of estimate to sanity-check an advance against likely earnings, or to forecast a royalty statement before it arrives, since standard trade contracts typically pay 7-15% of list price on hardcovers and less on paperback and digital editions.
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