Your Profit Per Book
ECKO House Publishing does not limit the ways in which you sell your book. We give you the ability to sell your book and retain as much profit as possible! Below are the three most common ways your book can be sold and an example of how much profit you can expect per sale from each book. To calculate your own profit, we have developed a simple calculator to estimate your profit, located on the bottom of this page.
The numbers used in the charts are for demonstration purposes and may not reflect your book.
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Your Profit When Sold From Retail Locations When your book is sold from retail locations such as Barnes & Noble, Borders, "Mortar & Brick" locations and Amazon.com, the retailers purchase the book at 55% of the retail price. With our Platinum Membership, your book will be printed and distributed via a Print on Demand Distribution Service and shipped to the retailer who has ordered your books. When your books are sold, you receive a royalty payment per book. This fee is easily determined by taking the retail price of the book and subtracting 55%; leaving you with 45% of the retail price. The manufacturing cost then comes out of that 45%. The balance is your profit and your royalty fee. Unlike other publishing companies, we take no additional royalties from your profit, leaving you much more in your pocket. Retail location will not list your book unless it is discounted by at least 55%. |
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Your Profit When Sold From ECKOBooks.com ECKO Books is our personal online Web-Store. It will be up and running soon with over 5000 titles. We will track, manage and ship your books directly to your customer. For Platinum Members, we retain only 30% from the retail price, meaning more profit in your pocket. We ask that we initially keep 10 copies of your book in stock for immediate delivery. Depending on how many copies of your book you print, the manufacture cost can dramatically drop, providing you with even more profit. Your profit is calculated in the same manner as above but with a lower retail cut. ECKO House has a low 25 book minimum for print orders. |
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Your Profit When Sold Directly From When books are sold from you to a customer, you retain all profit after the initial manufacturing cost. You simply purchase the quantity of books you desire and sell them directly to your customers, bypassing all retailer fees. In the example to the right, you retain 80% after the manufacturing cost. If you are doing seminars, classes, other public speaking or plan on selling on your own website, this is a great revenue stream for you! |
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It is highly suggested that you take advantage of all distribution and sales methods.
The more ways that your book is available to the public, the more sales you will make.
To calculate your profit per book when sold, complete the simple form below and press the "Calculate" button.
Instructions: First determine the manufacturing cost of your book by entering the number of pages in your book and the desired dimensions of your book. Once you have the cost to print your book, enter that number into the manufacturing cost per book box below.
Then select whether you would like to determine the retail price of your book by profit desired or by set retail price. You can do this many times until you arrive at a final price for your book.
| Book Trim Size | This is the completed size of the book |
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| Number of Black & White Pages in Book |
This is how many Black and White pages are in the book. If there is any color at all that you want printed in color, it is not considered a black and white page. |
| Number of Color Pages in Book |
This is how many full color pages are in the book. |
| Interior Paper Color | Depending on the size of your book, we can use cream color paper at no extra cost. |
| Manufacture Cost Per Book This is how much it will cost to manufacture your book. |
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| How To Calculate You can calculate profit per book or retail rate per book. |
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