Founded in , it is the e-book publishing unit of online retail giant Amazon. It also has a Print on Demand service, where authors are allowed to self-publish their book in paperback and sell it. And that, finally, concludes my run-through of the terms and conditions for Kindle Direct Publishing. I had contacted Kendall several times and was not allowed access to my bookshelf or book.
When I finally threatened legal action they blocked me. One good thing to note is that it offers a free ISBN number, valuable to those of us who have titles distributed by major distributors.
One glitch I encountered was with my book cover. I used the KDP -provided template and the size was rejected. Absolutely free. You just need to format your content properly, design you cover, sign up to Kindle Direct Publishing, upload your book and cover, review the book on the online previewer, set the price for various markets and click the publish button. That's it! Your book s. Compare this to my Merch By Amazon business: 1st month, 1 sale; 2nd month, 1 sale; 3rd month, 10 sales.
Clearly, the notebook business on Amazon is much easier than Merch. Get it Tuesday, Nov 9. My second book has gone live on KDP.
Previously I've uploaded manuscripts made with D2D and have had no problem later downloading the Mobi file. This time I formatted the book using Kindle Create the only thing I did differently and I no longer get the option to download the finished product.
As for registering a copyright from India, I have no idea on the procedure. Now, the challenge is wi. Build a series on Amazon and edit the details as much as you want. Get copies of your books and see how they look in real life. I created two low content books. Exact same interiors just different covers. One got approved and the other rejected due to margin issues? Related: Amazon Kindle Unlimited. It is one of the top self-publishing companies , and currently dominates the self-publishing book market.
Kdp My Bookshelf faqlaw. Kdp Dashboard Bookshelf faqlaw. Kdp Bookshelf Dashboard faqlaw. Kdp Bookshelf Sign In faqlaw. There are two royalty fees to consider: the eBook royalty rates, and the paperback royalty rates. To see specific requirements of each, click here. Kindle Direct Publishing will pay your royalties to you every month, approximately 60 days after the end of the month that your royalties were earned.
However, a caveat to this is that your payment amount must meet a minimum threshold before it is paid out.
You can choose to be paid out through several options including direct deposit, wire transfer, or check. Related: Amazon Kindle Unlimited. KDP Select enrollment lasts for 90 days, which allows authors the option to auto-renew enrollment in KDP Select for another 90 days, or opt out. Formatting your book in Word for Kindle is really easy.
You can only apply formatting as per the technical requirements of the Kindle device, which is specified by KDP itself. And to be honest, these are not complex in any way whatsoever.
When I say formatting for the Kindle is technical , I mean there are specific ways that you can do certain things and there are features you cannot use. For example, you cannot have text boxes in your eBook file, as also headers and footers are not recognized in the Kindle device. Otherwise, certain errors or layout issues will occur. Alternatively, you may wish to hire a professional eBook formatter. In addition to formatting your Word file, which includes the text contents of your book, you will also need to create a separate cover image.
Amazon has introduced the Kindle Create tool , and the information for using this tool is also included in this guide. Using Kindle Create, you can check your Word file, add special features, etc. If there are issues with your Word file when you preview it in Kindle Create, you will have to make the changes in Word, and then preview it Kindle Create again.
Pay attention to the following points if you have already applied any character or text styles to your Word file. This optimizes fonts, line spacing, margins, etc. An important step in publishing your book file to KDP is making sure you have all the necessary front and back matter formatted for your book.
Your title page text will be centered with the title of your book , the author name below, and a page break inserted below the author name. You can include your copyright notice on your title page as shown in the above example or you can have a separate copyright page.
If you convert your Word file in Kindle Create, this will be done automatically. If you choose to, you can add a dedication page, and that will follow your Table of Contents. You can keep it simple, like in the example page below, which shows the Dedication page for the book, The Miracle Morning for Writers.
Always insert a page break at the end of a chapter so that the new chapter will start on a new page. If you are publishing a non-fiction book to Kindle Direct Publishing, you will probably have graphics in your book. You do not need to include your cover image in your Word manuscript file. Your cover image will be added automatically when you publish your eBook, and it is uploaded separately. If there are any errors with any of the above, they will need to be fixed in your Word file, and you will then need to upload the file to Kindle Create again.
On the Inspector , you can change the device you want to preview your eBook in. The options are:. My first published book on Amazon was a different experience for me. I had got a good idea of publishing, unpublishing, republishing and updating books on Amazon.
Also I understood how to properly market an eBook online. The steps in involved in updating and republishing an eBook is different from Paperback.
You can see the complete details below. The procedures to edit, republish eBook and Paperback starts with downloading your live eBook from Amazon Kindle as the Paperback does not require a download.
Sign in to your account at kdp. So you can see the option to download the eBook file, which to be edited, on your computer. Click on the HTML link, see the image below, and the file will be downloaded as [dot]zip format. Extract the file. I have already told you that there is no need to download any file for Paperback. You may have already the backup of your document file which you first used to create the eBook as well as paperback. This file is only required to edit the Kindle Paperback.
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