The Author Break-Even Calculator

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Know When Your Investment Pays Off.

You paid for the editing. The cover. The formatting. Maybe advertising, audio production, or a launch campaign.

But has the book actually paid for itself yet?

The Author Break-Even Calculator is a simple interactive Excel workbook that helps indie authors compare what they’ve invested in a book, series, or launch with what it has earned—and see exactly where they stand.

Enter your costs and revenue, and the calculator automatically shows you:

• Break-even revenue
• Current profit or loss
• Current ROI
• Percentage of your investment recovered
• Revenue still needed to reach break-even
• Revenue earned above break-even

Go One Step Further

The included Scenario Planner helps translate your remaining break-even gap into an estimated number of additional sales or readers based on your average net revenue.

Because knowing “I still need to earn $1,200” is useful.

Knowing approximately what it could take to close that gap is even more useful.

More Than a Calculator

Reaching break-even answers one question:

Have I earned my investment back?

It doesn’t necessarily answer another:

Was this a good investment?

Built by an indie author and statistics professor, The Author Break-Even Calculator includes plain-language guidance to help you understand what the numbers mean—not simply calculate them.

What You’ll Receive

1 downloadable interactive Microsoft Excel workbook (.xlsx) containing:

• Break-Even Calculator
• Scenario Planner
• Built-in instructions
• Sample data
• Plain-language interpretation of your results

No advanced Excel or statistics knowledge required. Replace the sample figures with your own numbers and the workbook does the calculations for you.

Please note: This is a business-management and decision-support tool. It is not accounting, tax, or financial-advisory software.