Drakenscroll

Because when you see that dragon, you know it's strong and solid.

The hearth is cold. Choose how you would like to be received — and the fire, the sound, and the story will rise to meet you.

Either door turns the sound on. Change it whenever you like.

The Long Memory

The house keeps a long memory. Leave an address and you hear of new voices, new instruments and new work before the world does. No course, no call, no salesman.

Drakenscroll dragon shield emblem

Free to every author. Forever.

The Reckoning

Every book is an investment, and an investment deserves an honest number. Name what the work costs you, name what a copy sells for, and the bench will tell you plainly how many hands must hold it before you stand level — on every channel there is.

Name the figures

Where it sells

To stand level

489copies

$18.44 comes home from each copy on sold by your own hand.

0% recovered · 489 still owed

Per month

41

Per week

10

Per day

2

Every channel, one investment

Ebook · full share$13.49 · 668 copies

Seventy percent of list, less a small delivery charge on the file itself.

Ebook · lesser share$7.00 · 1,287 copies

Half the share for the same book — price and territory decide it, not quality.

Paperback$7.49 · 1,201 copies

Sixty percent of list, less the cost of the body of the book.

Hardcover$2.49 · 3,609 copies

The same share, but the case and boards take more from every copy.

Audiobook$8.00 · 1,126 copies

Forty percent of list, and no unit cost — nothing is printed.

Sold by your own hand$18.44 · 489 copies

Almost all of it comes home. Only the payment house takes a bite.

What each milestone returns

25 copies$461
100 copies$1,844
250 copies$4,610
500 copies$9,220 · clear
1,000 copies$18,441 · clear
2,500 copies$46,101 · clear
5,000 copies$92,203 · clear

Estimates on standard retail terms. Print costs, territory and price bands move these figures. Nothing you type here is uploaded, stored or seen by this house.