Publishdrive Abacus | Royalty Splitting Service for Co-Authors

About this video

Dale explains PublishDrive Abacus, a royalty-splitting service from aggregate publisher PublishDrive. He notes PublishDrive distributes to dozens of platforms including Google Play, Apple, and Kobo for a 10% cut of revenue. Abacus is presented as a calculator/dashboard for co-authors and small publishing houses to track earnings and expenses, described by PublishDrive as a solution for KDP and Kindle Unlimited authors. Crucially, Dale stresses you do not have to distribute through PublishDrive to use Abacus - PublishDrive distributors instead have a similar feature called Team Royalties. Users import KDP, ACX, and other reports into one shared dashboard so co-authors can see the same figures instead of trusting one account holder or sharing logins. Features include tracking co-author payments, tracking additional costs and revenue, downloadable royalty and payment reports, adding/editing/removing contributors at set percentages, adding end dates to team contracts, and a built-in message board. Abacus was free in beta until August 12, then priced at $2.99 per title, an expense Dale says to account for when negotiating with co-authors.

Key takeaways

• PublishDrive is an aggregator sending books to dozens of platforms including Google Play, Apple, and Kobo for a 10% revenue cut
• Abacus is a royalty-splitting dashboard for co-authors that does not require distributing through PublishDrive
• It imports KDP and ACX reports into one dashboard so all contributors can view earnings, expenses, and expected payouts
• Features include downloadable reports, adding/removing contributors, contract end dates, and a built-in message board
• Pricing stated in the video: free in beta until August 12, then $2.99 per title

Episode details: published August 1, 2019 · 6:08 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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