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KDP printing costs in Japan

Printing costs and royalty bands for Amazon.co.jp, in yen. Yen figures carry no decimal places, so costs round to whole units.

Currency
JPY
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These figures apply to Amazon.co.jp (Japan).

Paperback printing cost by page count

Standard and large trims are the two printing-cost tables; the colour column is a premium-colour interior at a standard trim, for comparison.

PagesStandard trim, black inkLarge trim, black inkStandard trim, premium colour
50¥422¥680¥406
100¥422¥830¥606
150¥506¥980¥806
200¥606¥1,130¥1,006
300¥806¥1,430¥1,406
500¥1,206¥2,030¥2,206
700¥1,606¥2,630¥3,006

Rates from KDP's paperback printing-cost page, last verified 22 July 2026.

What that leaves you at different prices

A 200-page black-ink 6" × 9" paperback, which costs ¥606 to print here. The first row is the price floor — the lowest KDP will let you charge for this book.

List priceRoyalty rateYou earn
¥1,01060%¥0
¥1,90060%¥534
¥2,80060%¥1,074

Royalty bands from KDP's paperback royalty page, last verified 22 July 2026. Royalties exclude VAT — check your KDP dashboard for your exact payout.

Reading the JPY figures

KDP's tables are published per currency zone and are not conversions of one another — the JPY figures are set independently, so a book that is comfortably profitable on one marketplace can be marginal on another at the equivalent price.

The shape of the model is the same everywhere: a flat charge for short books, then a lower fixed charge plus a per-page amount once you cross the band threshold. What changes between marketplaces is the size of those numbers and where the royalty rate steps up.

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