KDP on Amazon.pl: prices, royalties and taxes

Amazon.pl sells to readers in Poland in PLN. KDP sells paperbacks and hardcovers here. These are its prices, royalties and taxes.

The facts

Currency

PLN

Formats KDP sells here

paperbacks and hardcovers

Paperback royalty

50% of the list price below 40 zł, 60% from it, less printing; the highest list price is 1,200 zł

Hardcover royalty

50% of the list price below 40 zł, 60% from it, less printing; the highest list price is 1,200 zł

VAT on print

5%, added by Amazon to your list price at checkout (books with bonus content and some others may pay 23%)

Fixed book price law

Poland: a draft, no law yet

Home store for

Polish and Ukrainian books

Worked examples

A 300-page 6 × 9 inch paperback in black ink costs about 20.31 zł to print here, and KDP accepts it from 40 zł. At 40 zł, where the 60% rate starts, it earns about 3.69 zł a copy.

A 300-page 6 × 9 inch hardcover in black ink costs about 37.14 zł to print here. KDP's lowest list price for it is 61.90 zł, where 60% of the price only just covers printing, so a copy earns next to nothing; each 1 zł above that earns 0.60 zł more.

Estimates the way KDP's help pages describe them; KDP's own calculator has the final word.

Other marketplaces

All 17 marketplaces side by side, or your own book's numbers in the free KDP royalty calculator.

Sources

Checked on 17 October 2026 against KDP printing cost, KDP paperback royalty. Stores, agencies and laws change their rules: their own pages have the final word.