KENP Read Royalty Calculator

A borrow is not a sale, and it is not a payment either. In Kindle Unlimited nothing is owed to you at the moment a reader downloads your book; you are paid for pages they actually turn, which means a title with hundreds of borrows and a weak middle section can earn less than a shorter book nobody abandons.

That single fact makes two numbers matter more than the borrow count: the normalised page length of your book, and the proportion of it an average reader finishes. This calculator holds both, multiplies them by the per-page rate you supply, and turns the result into a per-borrow figure, a monthly projection and a reverse calculation showing how many reads a given income target would need.

Read-through is the lever most authors ignore. Take a 300-page book and 100 borrows in a month. At full completion you are paid for 30,000 pages; at 70 per cent completion, 21,000; at 40 per cent, 12,000. Nothing about the book's length, price or borrow count changed between those three lines, and the earnings differ by more than half.

How to use KENP Read Royalty Calculator

  1. Open your KDP reports and find the KENP figure for the book, plus the current per-page rate for the marketplace you are checking.
  2. Enter the book's normalised page count, or pick one of the length presets as a starting estimate if the title is not published yet.
  3. Type the rate into the custom rate field so the projection uses your marketplace's actual figure rather than the built-in placeholder.
  4. Set the read-through percentage to what your reports suggest, not to 100, unless you know readers finish the book.
  5. Read the per-borrow earnings and the monthly projection, then check the income-goal table to see the number of reads each target would require.

What KENP Read Royalty Calculator does

Frequently Asked Questions

What does normalised mean in Kindle Edition Normalized Pages?

It means the page count is derived from the book rather than from any one reader's screen. Because font size, device and margins all change how many screens a book fills, a raw screen count would pay two authors differently for identical text.

Why does the calculator not just tell me the current per-page rate?

Because the rate is set after the fact, from a fund whose size and total pages read both change every month, and any figure written into this page would be stale within weeks. The calculator ships with defaults so the arithmetic is visible, and a custom field so you can replace them.

How do I work out my read-through percentage?

Compare pages read against the pages that were available to read. If a hundred borrows of a 300-page book produced 21,000 pages, readers got through 70 per cent on average. It is the one figure here you can actually change by editing.

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