Box Set Sales
When a box set sells, each book inside it gets a share. Here is how the shares are worked out and where you see them.
How a sale is shared
Every sale of a box set or anthology is shared between the books you've said are in it. This works the same for every sales source you connect, and the same for box sets and anthologies.
- Equally: three books get a third each.
- By weight: each book gets its weight divided by the total. With weights 2, 1 and 1, a $10.00 royalty becomes $5.00, $2.50 and $2.50.
Shares are rounded to the cent. When a sale doesn't divide evenly, each leftover cent goes to the book whose share was rounded down the most, and on a tie to the book listed first, so the shares always add up to exactly what the store paid. $10.00 shared equally between three books is $3.34, $3.33 and $3.33; $0.10 shared at weights 1 and 2 is $0.03 and $0.07.
Copies and page reads are shared the same way, which is why a book can show part of a copy, such as 0.33 sold.
Pen names
Each share goes to the pen name of the book it belongs to. An anthology with stories from three of your pen names adds to all three pen names' sales, not to whichever pen name the box set is filed under.
When only some of the books are yours
An anthology often holds stories by other authors that aren't in your catalog. Add the books you have, and the anthology's sales are shared between those books only. Nothing is left over or lost: with one of your books in it, that book gets the whole sale.
Where you see it
- Sales Studio → Titles: a book's row includes its box set shares, with a note such as Includes $3.34 from Box set: The Cursed Coast Collection.
- A title's page: the Sales card lists each box set the book is in and its share, already counted in the book's totals.
- The box set's own page: the Sales card shows what the box set sold and each book's share of it. Those sales count toward the books, so they aren't added to the box set's own title as well.
- Pen name filters: each share counts toward its own book's pen name.
- Your assistant: sales reports and per-book store figures share box set sales the same way, and name the box set each share came from.
Turning a title that already sells into a box set
If your box set or anthology is already a title with sales of its own, choose that title when you set it up. All of its sales, past and future, are then shared between the books inside it, and they stop counting on the title itself, so nothing is counted twice. Your totals stay exactly the same. Delete the box set and the sales go back to the title.
Totals don't change
Sharing moves money between books; it never adds or removes any. Your account's total royalties, copies and page reads are exactly the same with or without box sets.
What isn't shared
Store and buy link breakdowns and ad results stay with the box set's own format, because that's the product the store sold and the ad promoted. Their totals are the same either way. The original sales records stay as the stores sent them: a box set sale appears once, on the box set.
To set up a box set, see Box Sets & Anthologies.