Book Business Toolkit – Profit Calculator + Pricing Model (Excel + PDF)

How profitable is your book, really?

This toolkit is designed for small publishers, indie authors, and creative entrepreneurs who treat publishing like a business. It gives you the financial tools to calculate, model, and improve your book's bottom line — before you invest in printing.

You’ll get a fully customizable Excel workbook and detailed PDF guide to help you automatically:

• Calculate total production costs (printing, royalties, translation, press outreach, design, and more)
• Model your breakeven point
• Find your optimized retail price based on real margin data
• Simulate profit margins under multiple sales and return scenarios

If you're launching a book and want to know what it will actually earn you — after distributor cuts, royalties, and production costs — this toolkit will help you make smarter pricing and budgeting decisions.

Created by a successful independent publisher, this system is designed to reflect real-world business constraints — not just theoretical models.

Included:

• Excel workbook (.xlsx)
• PDF user guide