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#Author Alert – Amazon Printing Cost Changes that Will Affect Royalties

Published on by dgkaye

Happy Friday! Just a short post I’m putting out as a public service message to authors in case any of you didn’t bother opening or missed yet, another Amazon email notification. But a few days ago, I did open the email that apparently was a ‘reminder’ notification, which actually came in handy, the keyword being ‘reminder’, prompted me to open it.

For those of you who aren’t yet in the know, Amazon will be raising their printing charges on June 20th, informing us that we should check our bookshelves dashboard to find how the price change will affect our royalties. They encourage us to raise our book prices to align with the extra cost, if we choose to. If we don’t, we will receive lower royalties starting June 20th for any print book ordered. Amazon gives good instruction on this page on what to do, but they also offer a ‘one time’ bulk price change they will do for us for all our books if we accept before June 20th. And the later you choose that option, the longer our books will remain at the old prices until the system catches up.

I decided to hit the button and let Amazon do it, and if I choose to raise my books prices to accord better with inflation and everything else in this world going up, I will do that individually once the ‘print cost rush’ is done, later in June. Incidentally, when I hit the accept button to bulk change my books prices, within five minutes I received another email from them telling me it was just done. How’s that for service?

So, like I said, this was a public service message for authors and I wanted to give you all a heads up before the June 20th deadline process change. Lol. Don’t wait until June 20th, gett’er done!

Here’s the link to the page with directions. Amazon Printing Costs Change

©DGKaye2023

67 thoughts on “#Author Alert – Amazon Printing Cost Changes that Will Affect Royalties”

    1. You are most welcome Jaye. Yes, by doing it now, it’s a 5 minute deal. By waiting til late June, gazillions of books and a week or so wait with lower royalties. ❤

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    1. Oh good. I’m happy that my post was a good reminder, as I thought it may be for some. I missed the first email too and when I saw Reminder in red letters I opened it. LOL. Glad we’re done. ❤

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  14. This is on my list to do asap, along with reviewing my eBook files to cut download sizes for maximum royalties. I hadn’t considered the bulk change offer – how does this work, Debby? Do they just increase the old price by a certain percentage? Or in line with keeping your royalties the same? All my paperbacks are currently different prices according to size and I wouldn’t want them to all end up the same price!

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    1. Hi Deb. No, the bulk price change is to compensate for the higher costs. So the prices are individually raised to keep the royalties the same, but they are offering a one time ‘bulk’ change of prices for all our books instead of us having to do the math on each book. ❤

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      1. Wow! Makes me wonder if the KDP Royalty Calculator is accurate. Then again, it might be the difference between American and Canadian currency.

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  17. Thanks for the reminder, Debby. I received – and took note of – those emails as well, but didn’t know about the “bulk price change”. I’ll have to check that out. I kept the Amazon email in my inbox to take care of things, like order one more batch of author copies, since I expect those priced to change as well.

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  20. I use another distributor that prints my books and sells them to various retailers (including Amazon) . . . I’m curious to see how that will affect my book’s prices.

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  22. IngramSpark has raised their printing costs as well. When I ran the numbers at a price point that would be attractive to readers, I came to the conclusion that putting the most time into the ebook version is the best use of my marketing and promotion efforts is ebooks. I’ll still have a print version available for my books for those few readers who prefer paper.

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  23. Crazy!
    Debby, you are a gem to remind everyone.
    I buy ebooks from KOBO, so I guess that will go up as well.

    If it’s not on KOBO, or a reputable company that takes PayPal, I don’t buy. I know authors rely on Amazon, but I wish more would expand their sales base.

    ANYWAY! I finished your book, and I love it!
    I need to think about it for a bit, before I do my post. Also, I have 1 question, which I’ll send in a few days, in case I have more questions.
    xo❤️

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    1. Thanks for sharing that about your reason for Kobo. And I am stoked you’ve read and are now formulating what you want to say. You know I can’t wait to hear! And please do ask away what you are curious about. You rock girl! Hugs xoxo ❤

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  25. This was a kind post, Deb, thank you. I noticed that my costs actually lowered but I wanted to confirm it before I pulled the trigger. It took several attempts before I found someone who knew what they were talking about at KDP. After a lot of hassle, I finally confirmed that I was one of the lucky ones. I’m trying to be patient while waiting – not one of my virtues, ha! Blessings to all for success,

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