Tag: Amazon KDP

Where to Sell Your eBooks Online

Christine John
Book Sales

I have been self-publishing and selling eBooks on Amazon since 2013. Although my book sales are okay, I have often wondered if I could increase my sales by selling my eBooks on other websites. I found this video on YouTube that talks about other online platforms where you can sell your eBooks. First, watch the video and then scroll down to read a summary of each eBook selling platform and click on the link to check out the website. Payhip.com An e-commerce platform Sell digital products and memberships Free to…

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How to Self-Publish Your Book on Amazon KDP

Christine John
Self-publish to Amazon Kindle

After all the writing, editing and formatting of your manuscript and designing your book cover, you have finally come to the part you have been waiting for: to self-publish your book on Amazon KDP. If this is your first book, congratulations for making it this far! I know that writing a book can be a daunting task and a lot of people give up before completing the first draft, but not you. You stuck with it until your book was completed and now you are ready to publish it on…

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How to Create a Book Cover

Christine John
Book Cover Design

Creating an eye-catching book cover is the last task you have to do before you publish your book. Before you can create a book cover, you first need to find out what are the requirements for designing a professional-looking book cover for Amazon KDP and Draft2Digital. Draft2Digital’s Cover Art Requirements It is very easy to design a cover for Draft2Digital because they have very few requirements. The only thing they require is that you provide a JPEG image at 1600 x 2400 pixels to upload to their website. This can…

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How to Format Your Book for Amazon KDP

Christine John
Format for Kindle

Last week we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of self-publishing on Amazon KDP and Draft2Digital. Today we will cover how to format your book to publish on Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). What this means is that you will be able to upload your completed manuscript to KDP so that it can be published as a Kindle e-book. If you wrote your book in Microsoft Word, then it will be very easy to format your book for Kindle. First, if you have not signed up with Amazon KDP, you need…

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Self-Publishing on Amazon KDP and Draft2Digital

Christine John
Self-Publishing books

Now that we have gone through how to plan, outline, and write your book, the next step is to format your book for self-publishing on one of the online publishing platforms. However, before you start changing the margins, font, and layout of your Word document, you need to choose which platform you will use to self-publish your nonfiction book. Many writers choose to publish their book through Amazon KDP and then upload their book to a book aggregator site, like Draft2Digital, to reach more readers through online book retailers. The…

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