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The 2020 guide to amazon fees and royalties for kindle. A publisher pays authors royalties in exchange for the rights to publish their work in book form. One billion android users, over 50 countries, and multiple platforms. Royalty rates for print books vary from contract to contract and from publisher to publisher. Your ebook royalty is the money you make from selling ebooks and usually works out to be a percentage of the retail price.
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