KDP on Amazon.se: prices, royalties and taxes

Amazon.se sells to readers in Sweden in SEK. KDP sells paperbacks and hardcovers here. These are its prices, royalties and taxes.

The facts

Currency

SEK

Formats KDP sells here

paperbacks and hardcovers

Paperback royalty

50% of the list price below 110 kr, 60% from it, less printing; the highest list price is 2,500 kr

Hardcover royalty

50% of the list price below 99 kr, 60% from it, less printing; the highest list price is 2,500 kr

VAT on print

6%, added by Amazon to your list price at checkout (books with bonus content and some others may pay 25%)

Home store for

Swedish books

Worked examples

A 300-page 6 × 9 inch paperback in black ink costs about 48.57 kr to print here, and KDP accepts it from 97.14 kr. At 110 kr, where the 60% rate starts, it earns about 17.43 kr a copy.

A 300-page 6 × 9 inch hardcover in black ink costs about 88.69 kr to print here. KDP's lowest list price for it is 147.82 kr, where 60% of the price only just covers printing, so a copy earns next to nothing; each 10 kr above that earns 6 kr 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.