Help With Smashwords Royalty Understanding

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MissWrite

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I think I'm going to like Smashwords. I've only ever published at Amazon before, but I think I'm going to start pulling more of my stuff out of KDP and cross publishing it at Smashwords as well. I have one more older novel that isn't in the KDP program that I think I'm going to put up here too. I like the way it works all the way around. I'm a little confused though and wondered if any of you with experience at Smashwords could shed a little light on this.

Can somebody explain the difference in the two purchase notices from Smashwords? I just published this book there yesterday, so it is still in review for premium. So both sales have to be from the Smashwords site itself. That's why I don't understand why they aren't the same royalty amount.


Title Qty List Price Coupon Price Paid Gift Discount Proceeds
Married To A Rock Star 1 $3.99 None $3.99 $0.00 $3.14
Total items: 1
Total proceeds: $3.14

Time: 2012-05-03 22:04:22 PT
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Married To A Rock Star 1 $3.99 None $3.99 $0.00 $3.23
Total items: 1
Total proceeds: $3.23

Time: 2012-05-03 19:56:08 PT
Transaction id:
 

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The difference in royalties is because of the location of the purchaser and the fees associated with the transfer of the file. If you go to your smashword dashword into sales reports you can see an itemization for each sale including the smashwords cut, the file transfer fee etc... Amazon has that fee as well, it's just not as noticable because they only show us sales figures in lump sums, not per sale.
 

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Oh thank you! That explains it. I'll check out that detail page too. Takes a little getting used to a new platform, but I do like how Smashwords works, and how they report.
 
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