Book Pricing Calculator

Charm pricing — ending a price just below a round number — is a long-standing retail convention that studies suggest makes a price feel meaningfully lower than it is, even by a single cent. Ebooks round to the nearest fifty cents plus .49, while print books round down to the nearest dollar minus a penny, matching how each format is typically priced in the market.

Minimum Viable Price is the exact price needed to hit your cost and profit targets with no rounding, while Suggested Price rounds that figure up to a conventional charm price. Because the rounding almost always rounds upward, the Suggested Price typically nets slightly more profit per sale than your original target.

No — they're shown purely as reference context for typical ebook platform fees and print wholesale distributor discounts. The Royalty / Revenue Rate you enter is assumed to already be your net take-home percentage after any such cut, so double-counting a platform fee on top of it would understate your true price.

It divides a flat $5,000 assumption for upfront costs like editing, cover design, and formatting by your Profit per Sale to estimate the number of copies needed to recoup that investment. If your actual upfront costs differ significantly, this figure will need adjusting by hand — a shorter or self-edited manuscript may cost far less than $5,000 to prepare.