Check out our blog post that details how to get approved for more categories on Amazon. We also did a fantastic podcast episode with Dave Chesson of Kindlepreneur and the creator of Publisher Rocket to teach you how to find the best categories for you. Check it out below:. First, you have to make sure your manuscript is in the right format to be uploaded to Amazon. Once Amazon finishes uploading your file, a confirmation message will be sent and you can preview the uploaded file to check for any errors.
You can upload the manuscript as many times as you want and the new version will override the existing. This feature is often the first thing your prospective readers will click on when checking out your book. If the formatting is off here, it can deter readers from picking up your book. Take this extra step to make sure your formatting looks good here too or consider hiring a professional ebook formatter to ensure it looks good. When it comes to publishing a successful book on Amazon, having a perfect book cover design is one of the most important aspects to get right.
Contrary to what we were told growing up, people do , in fact, judge a book by its cover. Make sure that your cover is created professionally and that it will stand apart from the rest of the books in your genre or category. You can find cover creators on freelancing sites such as:.
Prices will depend on the level of service, but these sites will give you plenty of amazing graphic designers to choose from! We offer Self-Publishing School students a list of qualified, trusted book cover designers they can work with in order to get a worthy cover. Make sure to do your research regarding what type of book cover does best in your genre. If you write fantasy books , for example, it will be a lot different than writing a memoir or even a historical fiction. The royalty payments vary depending on the country, but you can learn more on KDP Select pricing page.
At some point, your sales will begin to dip. Here are the 4 main pricing strategies to consider in order to be competitive and sell books:. You can get legitimate and honest book reviews from:. Experiment with these strategies to pinpoint the price for your book, it will drive long-term success.
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Scott Allan is a student success coach and in-house content creator here at Self-Publishing School. Scott has a passion for teaching strategic life skills and inspiring people to take charge of their lives. Sales during the first four months exceeded 4, downloads.
It gives us the tools to create and sell digital books; print and sell paperback copies on demand; add author pages and even market books.
Here are five Amazon services, all of them free to set up, that every indie author needs to know about. Kindle Direct Publishing. This service, known by the shorthand KDP, enables indie authors to sell the digital version of their books on Amazon. There's no charge to upload the file. However, in my experience it looks better if you start out with a mobi file because any formatting you create — for example for images, charts and tables — stays intact.
Let's say you have written your book in Word and want to convert it to mobi. You can do this using the free software Calibre available for PC or Mac. Another option is to pay one of the many digital publishing or formatting companies that offer the service of converting a Word file to the digital format of your choice.
Pricing is either per book or based on the number of words. With a professional service you should expect to pay in the hundreds of dollars to have your book set up, formatted and converted from a Word DOC to a mobi or ePub file. You can locate less expensive services through fiverr. One of the nice things about KDP is that Amazon does not require digital exclusivity.
So authors can still sell the same digital book anywhere else on the Internet on through other stores like The Nook Book Store or iTunes. KDP Select.
By using this service, rather than the plain-vanilla one, you tap into Amazon's marketing muscle. To do that you must give them an exclusive on your digital book for 90 days.
Authors get paid a percentage of the total amount Amazon Prime members pay for each book lent out. This month alone people have grabbed Everything I Know from the lending library, so it's a decent chunck of "sales. You have everything you need to start sharing your message today—fingers, keyboard, and the Internet. The stigma of self-publishing is fading away, replaced by countless success stories from first-time authors making a name for themselves.
How are they doing it? By publishing eBooks on Amazon. Forget what you think you know about Amazon. It has a lot going for it:. Yes, you can get published, see your message spread, and make good money using nothing more than a keyboard and your brain. When publishing an e-book, the first step is, of course, to write it. Think in terms of three drafts:. Each draft may, in fact, have multiple versions and iterations.
But this three-step approach will help you get the work finished without endlessly stalling. To create this article, 15 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. There are 20 references cited in this article, which can be found at the bottom of the page. This article has been viewed 98, times.
Learn more Want to write the next great novel or a how-to guide about writing amazing novels? No matter what you want to write, Amazon offers a program called Kindle Direct Publishing which makes it easy for you to publish your books and have them available in the Kindle Store. Amazon is the most powerful paid search engine in the world. People go to the website with their credit cards ready.
Why not have them purchase your Kindle published work? Before you publish your book, make sure the text is clean and free from spelling or grammatical mistakes. Save your file as a Word document, PDF, or rich text format so you can easily convert your book. You can also publish paperbacks directly through Amazon to go with your eBook. For more tips, including how to market your new Kindle eBook, read on! Did this summary help you? Yes No. Log in Social login does not work in incognito and private browsers.
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Write and edit your text. Then start writing. After you have a review draft, start to focus on structure and grammar. Have friends and family members look at your text to help perfect it.
Write a strong hook. Think strategically. Think about the Kindle platform and gear your writing to it. What aspects of the Amazon page convince users to click the purchase button? Potential buyers have the ability to peruse its opening pages. This is just like going to a book store and reading the back cover and flipping through quickly. When you are writing your text make sure that the first couple of pages are really engaging. Have something scandalous occur immediately.
Make sure that your prose is impressive. Whatever you want the reader to take away from your text needs to be fore-fronted. Look at successful ebooks and model your style on them.
Figure out what your genre is and then look at the best-sellers in that genre. Figure out what their formula for success is. How long are they?
How many chapters normally are included? How do they open their story? Is their book a part of a series? Many mystery novels on Kindle come in series. Consider turning your single, stand-alone mystery into a series. Some people like to invest in long series.
There is a sense of accomplishment in it and if you have 20 novels in a series, someone will purchase them all. Create a title page. Your title page should be centered. Write the title of your book and then your name or pen name.
Nothing else should go on this page. Include a copyright page. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except in the case of a reviewer, who may quote brief passages embodied in critical articles or in a review.
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