How to Calculate a Net Rate

An RRP, so that's the recommended retail price in the UK or the sales price. If you're being offered a royalty on the RRP, then the percentage will be £2 if it's 10%. We have a small children's imprint and many of those books were RRP'd. But we don't get £4 because for that Amazon sale, we have a distribution charge which is another 10% and we might have some delivery costs. And there can be all sorts of costs that you could potentially lump in, and you might end up receiving 50p for the book, and then paying the author 10% on 50p - not very much. The other one to look out