The best part of being a Kindle author is getting that Royalty Check. But as we all know, the check only happens if all the marketing was in place for starters.

Amazon helps by providing detailed SpreadSheet analysis on a monthly basis, but there are few authors that are "Power Users" of SpreadSheets INDIVIDUALLY, let alone being able to collate all the data from 12 months of such Reports.

KindleCalc solves that problem by providing a comprehensive Analysis Report on all aspects of your Kindle Sales.

So here is an example of a Report prepared for Mark Berent, a famous and much decorated Fighter Pilot from the Vietnam Era who writes books in that genre. It is for the first 5 months of 2013. Please take a look [opens in new window] and return here. N.B. for brevity this example only gives individual results for 5 books. But before going there, we should mention a new feature that appears on pages like page 11.

The new feature addresses the often asked question at book Forums of "if I drop the price it will surely result in more sales but will the overall royalties increase?"

We see that for this book [and 3 others] the answer was yes. In this case the price was dropped by 67.5%, sales increased by 700% AND royalties INCREASED by 150%.

Moreover, the overall Trend Graph of page 23 [repeated below] shows that this "experiment" in May, if continued in its effect for the rest of the year, would result in an extra $8,000 or so in royalties.