Books on Demand
Prices
Royalties when a Customer orders your Book
When a customer orders your book, the royalty you earn equals the list price you set minus our share.
Why upgrade to Pro?
A $39.00 fee per book offers the following benefits:
- Keep more of each sale
- Pay less when you order copies
See Pro Plan below for details
For each sale to a customer, we calculate our share by taking a percentage of the list price, plus a fixed charge, plus a charge per page. The percentage of the list price varies depending on where each sale occurs.
Each book you set up comes with our Standard Plan by default. For a $39.00 fee per book, you can upgrade to our Pro Plan at any time.
Upgrade to our Pro Plan for Free
$39 upgrade fee waived through July 31, 2008
| Our Share - Percentage of List Price | |
|---|---|
| CreateSpace E-Store | 20% of list price per sale |
| Amazon.com | 40% of list price per sale |
| Charges for Black & White Books All trim sizes |
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|---|---|---|
| Standard |  Pro |
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Books with 24 - 108 pages Fixed Charge |
$3.66 per book |
$2.15 per book |
| Charge per Page | None | None |
| Books with 110 - 828 pages Fixed Charge |
$1.50 per book |
$0.85 per book |
Charge per Page |
+ $0.02 per page |
+ $0.012 per page |
| Charges for Color Books All trim sizes |
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|---|---|---|
| Standard | Pro |
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| Books with 24 - 40 pages Fixed Charge |
$6.55 per book |
$3.65 per book |
| Charge per Page | None | None |
| Books with 42 - 250 pages Fixed Charge |
$1.75 per book |
$0.85 per book |
| Charge per Page | + $0.12 per page |
+ $0.07 per page |
Royalty Example
Sixteen Summer Stories is a black and white book of short stories with 150 pages. The author has set the list price as $16.00. This example shows how the royalty is calculated for sales with our Standard Plan.
| E-Store Sale | Amazon.com Sale | |
| List Price | $16.00 | $16.00 |
| Our Share see details below |
$7.70 | $10.90 |
| Your Royalty list price minus our share |
$8.30 | $5.10 |
Our Share Details
| E-Store | Amazon.com | |
| Percent of List Price | $3.20 20% of $16.00 |
$6.40 40% of $16.00 |
| Fixed Charge | $1.50 | $1.50 |
| Charge per Page 150 pages at $0.02 per page |
$3.00 | $3.00 |
| Our Share Total | $7.70 | $10.90 |
Pro Plan - Upgrade for Free through July 31, 2008
Download our Comparison ChartPlug in your own numbers and see how we stack up.
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Each book you set up comes with our Standard Plan by default. For a $39.00 fee per book, you can upgrade to our Pro Plan, which lets you keep more of each sale and pay less when you order copies of your own book. The $39 upgrade fee is waived if you upgrade before July 31, 2008.
You can upgrade to Pro at any time. A $5.00 per year annual fee applies to books on our Pro Plan.
Standard vs. Pro Example
Let's go back to our example book, Sixteen Summer Stories. The following chart shows the royalty earned for each sale of this book under the different plans:
| Standard Plan | Pro Plan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E-Store | Amazon.com | E-Store | Amazon.com | ||
| List Price | $16.00 | $16.00 | $16.00 | $16.00 | |
| Our Share |
$7.70 | $10.90 | $5.85 | $9.05 | |
| Royalty | $8.30 | $5.10 | $10.15 | $6.95 | |
Downgrading
If you would like to downgrade your book to Standard, simply contact us with your Title ID and we'll take care of the rest. The $39.00 upgrade fee is nonrefundable.
Cost when you order copies of your book
Orders you make for multiple copies of the same book shipped to a single address are called wholesale orders or owner orders. For these orders, you pay just the fixed charge and per-page charge plus shipping and handling as shown above.
Upgrading to our Pro Plan will reduce the fixed and per-page charges for these orders as shown above; we don't offer discounts based on volume.
You pay for these orders when you place your order and you don't earn royalties when buying copies. You will be charged sales tax on certain orders unless we have a valid resale certificate from you in our system at the time of your order
Book Proof Copies
The cost for a proof copy is the same as the cost for a single book order. You pay this amount when you place your order and you don't earn royalties for proof copies.
