Here are your details: Everyone gets a 50% discount on the trade paperback's cover price of $13.95 (a lower price point to catch that younger market, the kids who maybe don't have as much disposable income). That leaves you with $6.98 per copy. Rygel gets industry standard 6% on the first 25,000 copies--that's $.84 per copy.

So let's look at it like this:

The publisher earns ($6.98 * 12,000 =) $83,760

$83,760
- $21,422.34 (publisher expenditure)
- $6,480 (author earned royalty)
= $55,857.66 (total publisher profit)

Anna,

If Rygel gets $0.84 per copy and 12,000 copies were sold, shouldn't author earned royalty on the trade paperback be $10,080?