FAQs: Book Royalties

You set your own book price and the royalty that you will receive for each book sale before you publish during our simple publishing steps. FeedARead enables authors of all nationalities to receive considerably higher royalties for each book sale than the standard for author paperback royalties. Examples below for UK, US and Euros.  Our paperback royalties are higher than the norm of the largest print-on-demand (POD) publishers and also higher than the norm for mainstream publishers.  Print-on-demand (POD) is the process by which a bookstore quality paperback is printed and delivered each time a reader orders a copy. Click here to view feedback from authors on the quality of our paperback books

Book Distribution Channel Sales For sales of your book through bookseller distribution channels, the author will receive 80% of royalties and FeedARead will receive the remaining 20% after print costs and after the retailer - Amazon etc - take their ‘bookseller discount’. The bookseller discount is the amount a bookseller takes for all books in the book industry as their book profit for selling a book and is typically 30 to 60% of a book's retail price. So the author receives 80% after the above are deducted and FeedARead receives the remaining 20%.

UK Royalty Example Example royalties for a 200 page book at £7.99 book in bookseller distribution. You can set your book price and royalties higher if you wish when you publish and see the exact royalty according to your book size before you publish. 

Book Price £7.99 minus bookseller discount minus print cost = £1.55 net royalty to the author per book sale via book sellers. For direct site sales bought through the FeedARead site the author receives £3.27 net royalty per book as there is no bookseller discount for these sales.

United States Royalty Example Example royalties for a 200 page book at $12.94 book in bookseller distribution. You can set your book price and royalties higher if you wish when you publish and see the exact royalty according to your book size before you publish.

Book Price $12.94 minus bookseller discount minus print cost = $2.89 net royalty to the author per book sale via book sellers. For direct site sales bought through the FeedARead site the author receives $5.51 net royalty per book as there is no bookseller discount for these sales.

Euro Royalty Example Example royalties for a 200 page book at €9.04 book in bookseller distribution. You can set your book price and royalties higher if you wish when you publish and see the exact royalty according to your book size before you publish.

Book Price €9.04 minus bookseller discount minus print cost = €1.66 net royalty to the author per book sale via book sellers, and €3.79 net royalty to the author for copies bought direct by readers from the feedaread website.

Copies bought direct from the FeedARead website have higher author net royalties as outlined above as there is no bookseller discount. The bookseller discount is as outlined above the amount a bookseller takes in the book industry as their profit for selling a book and is typically 30 to 60% of the book's retail price.

The royalty depends on your manuscript page count and you can access the royalty calculator once you upload your book manuscript as the system then knows your final page count.

These royalties ensure that you, the author, receive the majority of royalty profit from sales of your book.

Sales are reported by our printers as reported to them by booksellers. Our printers are the largest print-on-demand publisher, printing approx 7.5 million titles and part of the Ingram group, and as part of this they have direct channel partner links with sites like Amazon who report sales direct to them.

The key points to bear in mind re royalty statements as also displayed on your royalty page on site are as follows, please read these carefully to familiarize yourself with how sales are reported:

Important Notes:

• Royalties are updated and reported twice annually on your royalty report page on site: by the third week of April, for the preceding 6 months up to March 31st, and by the third week of October for the preceding six months up to September 30th.

So, for example, by the third week of April the system will add your sales reports for the preceding 6 months up to March 31st. Then, by the third week of October, the system will add your sales reports for the preceding 6 months up to September 30th. 

Royalty statements are available to view on each author’s private royalty account page. You can view your royalty account page by logging on to FeedARead and clicking on My Royalties which is a button in yellow type font on the left hand menu of your Author Account page. Royalties are paid to you online via paypal.

• Booksellers report and forward payment for sales to our printers 3 months after a sale is made. This means, for example, bookseller sales made in January to March are not payable in the April royalty period but in the next October royalty period. Similarly, bookseller sales made in July to September are not payable in the October royalty period, but in the following April royalty period. This also means you may have made additional sales in the previous 3 months that have not yet been reported by booksellers to the printers.

• Royalties are paid on copies bought by readers which are listed on your royalty report page on FeedARead as either 'FeedARead.com Sales' or 'Distribution Sales'. FeedARead.com sales are of copies bought by readers directly through the FeedARead site. Distribution Sales are of copies bought by readers through other bookseller sites. Author discount copies bought by the author do not receive royalties and are listed as 'Author Sales'.

• Some booksellers such as Amazon often have a small stock of print-on-demand books according to their own stock decisions. This is why you will often see Amazon enabling next day delivery for a book. It can sometimes take them some time to sell stock, and this sometimes means that sales they report during a period can be for books they have bought in a previous period to enable them to stock and enable quick delivery. So, for example, sales they report themselves in a period may have been books they bought some time earlier which have already been accounted and paid for on your royalty report page in a previous royalty report period. One example in practice would be that one of books reached number 12 on Amazon and sold thousands of copies, and Amazon ordered a large stock to meet demand. The author received royalties for the stock bought in the next applicable royalty period. When, as with all book sales cycles, the demand for the book decreased they still had some remaining stock for the book which they had bought already and which they then sold over a longer period of time, and this stock had already been accounted for  in royalties to the author as above in a previous royalty period.