Up until that point, through the Apple iBooks store, Barnes & Noble, and Sony’s Nook eBook store, I had sold a grand total of zero copies.Įvery single sale I’d made was on Amazon. Exclusivity? Sounds like a tough decision, right? It wasn’t for me. The catch: it must be exclusively sold on Amazon. (The rest of the time, it remains paid for people who aren’t part of the lending club.)

Authors can give their book away for free, as a promotion, for 5 days during a 90-day period.

Everyday Amazon users can buy the book as normal and.

Paying members can ‘borrow’ books as part of their membership.

I’d read about a program called KDP Select, Amazon’s lending program, at which they’re throwing lots of money and promotion. I wondered what the next step was: How can I get the book into more people’s hands? Over the next few days, sales trickled in slowly, and I even had one positive review. Soon after, an email arrived saying that I was now live on the Kindle Store. Remembering the encouragement of several ‘real’ authors much braver than I am, I hit the button.

“What have I done? What if no one likes my book?” I thought, finger poised on the yellow ‘Publish’ button.Īfter 9 months of writing, the moment had finally arrived to send my book out to the world. Looking for More Kindle Publishing and Amazon KDP Resources?.Step #8: Experiment with different promotions.Step #7: Enroll in the KDP Select program.Step #6: Create an author page on Amazon Author Central.Step #5: Create an Amazon KDP account, upload your book and set the price.Step #4: Convert your MS Word Document to Amazon’s format.Step #3: Create a cover, or get one designed.Step #2: Format it using Amazon’s quite strict but very logical Formatting Guide.

Reviews bring more authenticity to your book Getting in the top twenty lists, and staying there after the promotional period People like freebies, and they like “expensive” freebies Why My Kindle Book Sales Increased By 600%.

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