Authors who have any book that they want to publish. Here they got two choices available in the market: Traditional Publishing, in which the publishing house will publish the book or self-publishing, where the author will publish their book themselves.
In self-publishing format, if you have done some research then you may definitely hear about Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. As Amazon holds at least 80% of the e-book market, and definitely you want to make sure that your book is available on their platform.
But here the problem is that what is KDP and how authors can take advantage of it. In this article, we will know how kindle direct publishing works. So without wasting time let's get started.
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP): Platform to publish your books
Kindle Direct Publishing is Amazon e-book publishing unit which is basically launched in November 2007. Amazon launched the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), earlier known as Digital Text Platform, which is being used by the authors and the publishers. The author can just upload the documents in several formats for the delivery and it charges $0.99 and $200 for their work.
Kindle Direct Publishing is self-publishing interface easy to use once you log into the KDP dashboard. Here you will be greeted with the prompt to create a New Title. Just before starting the publishing process, get ready with all the necessary elements.
How to get started with Kindle Direct Publishing:
Here publishing with Kindle is free so all you need is time and effort. And the best part of publishing an eBook will let you earn money in a matter of days. Amazon Kindle will let you write your own eBook in just a few steps. The starting two steps are all about researching and analysis to make sure by launching your eBook is profitable into the marketplace or not.
Just follow these simple steps:
1) A Potential Niche For Your Kindle eBook:
When you have a potentially profitable niche then it will create an impact in the market along with reasonable low competition. All you need to is to come up with potential book ideas. You may have some idea that's why you are still going with this guide, anyways let me move.
You can just come up with a niche idea, just spend some time on the various social media sites like Instagram and Pinterest. These sites will definitely provide plenty of inspiration which you need to start something extraordinary.
2) Profitability of Your Niche Idea:
If you really want to make money from KDP, then one is the most important step which is basically split into two parts:
The important thing is that accessing the market size of your niche idea along with the analysis of the competition you may face in your niche market. Here the best thing is that you can develop some skills in this area will definitely help you surpassing the average income for eBook authors.
Taking on the first one...
Accessing the Market-Size:
Simply, go to Amazon, select 'Kindle Store" form the search bar and just type your niche keywords in the search bar. In the starting when you will be typing the keyword, it will start telling you if it has the same thing along with some type of suggestion.
These suggestions are all generated by the Amazon's knowledge of what others are trying to search. Just by doing that you may get some of the more specific ideas. These suggestions will provide you with longer-tail keywords.
The long-tailed keyword tends to have more buying intention right behind them. You may end-up with many suggestions areas that have big profit potential.
Analyzing the Competition:
Here to get with this you need to stay with the Amazon 'Kindle Store' search, just after typing your keyword you will have the list of the competitors in the same market.
If you choose to go with competitive and the broad market, you will be going to see lots of competitors. Just narrow your search whenever possible due to which competitors fall away if you are more specific. You should end up with the targeting parts with the greater buying options. If you are looking forward to publishing your first eBook just go with the keyword which has few hundreds of competitors.
That's not all about the competition, you should always check out the quality of your content you are coming up on the market.
Let's move on to the other important factors...
3) Eye-Catching Title:
After all the effort you have made in the niche keyword and analysis, the time has come to name the work you are going to start. The title plays an important role in getting the best rank for that keyword.
You should just think specific and end-up with the most attractive keyword so that people can easily get attract with it.
4) An Eye-Catching Cover:
Your cover plays an important role in your success. The potential buyers always look through the search results, the cover as it viewed as a very small image. You will need an image of 1563px by 2500px for your book cover.
For doing this job you must hire some expert in this area unless you are having the design skills that match that level of crafting. Just invest in quality cover by hiring a professional. As it will cost you few bucks but trust me it will let you book stand out from the competition that will definitely pull on the sales.
Keep one thing many people just judge the book by its cover....
5) Text of the book: Write or Get someone else to write that book for you
If you are capable of creating the content for your book then it's good. If you are not able to do that task on your own then just outsource the Kindle Book writing work. All you need to go to some of the freelancing sites and find the best one to do that work.
You should check out this article here:
Apart from that, I will say, just enjoy writing your book, have a faith in yourself and believe me you are a good writer! Just go ahead by yourself and beat the competitor with your unique thoughts and ideas..
6) Selecting the Price: At what price you want to sell your book
Be precise in the pricing matter, while you are selecting the price just select the reasonable price so that everyone affords you creativity. Don't make the price too high or too low linger somewhere in the middle and the average price.
Just look at the Amazon, the average size Kindle Book sells at different price and the price ranges between $2.50 to $3.50 just to buy a book of thirty pages.
Most of the times it happens that many of the Kindle Books buyers are not looking for a large number of pages, they all looking for the information it has. They make sure themselves that this information will help them or not.
The most important point is that just think according to a reader's perspective, and create the unique content. If you want some good review then just hire some quality writer from the freelancing websites.
7) Formatting For Kindle:
Your Kindle Book must be formatted correctly before it's able to publish on the Kindle platform. The most crucial part of this guide don't ruin all your work here, better the format better the understanding of the information.
You should outsource this work to one of the Kindle Formatting experts online. Somehow if you want this to this yourself then just convert your Word Document to the 'mobi' Kindle Format. You may find many software's for the formatting but the Kinstant Formatter or Scrivener is still the best to do this task efficiently.
Choose one of them and just follow their instruction and upload your Word Document and the cover image to their servers. Don't worry you will be able to delete it from their servers once you finished the process. After that when you are all done just use the Kindle Previewer to check the Kindle book.
Hey, I know this takes time but every great thing needs to invest time and efforts...
8) Publish in Amazon's Kindle Store: And start making money
The final part is simple, like getting the work done after a long time. All you need to do, log in with KDP, just sign up for a KDP account and click on to the 'Bookshelf' all in the header menu.
Just click on to the 'Add New Title' and follow the simple instructions there. Make sure to care about the following things:
- Choosing two categories: This will make your eBook easy to find in the stores. Make sure you have created the book category.
- Adding your seven keywords: You can do this easily because you have been considering them in all the way through the production of your work.
- Book description: Just write the best description you can come up with. Really you should work hard just to write the better description as possible, try to be unique because this is the factor which will help you stand out from the competition and rock the sales. KDP allows adding a description of 4000 characters, which in case a good amount to write the description.
Now you should upload the cover. It's up to you that you want the Digital Rights Management protection for your book or not. Now its time to upload your Kindle Book. Right after submitting the above information along with hitting the "Publish" button your e-book will be accessible to the Kindle Browsing public. The author can use KDP for switching covers, updating descriptions along with the changing the price for promotion.
9) Getting Reviews:
Everyone would like to check the review just before buying anything, it depends on the review that he/she is going to purchase it or not. If you have got the best review then this factor will help you in making money just by publishing these Kindle eBooks.
Beware, all the books are compared based on a review. Basically, there are two types of review:
- Verified- When someone buys or download eBook and the posted a review.
- Unverified- Someone just left a review, who didn't buy or download the book
As you have the idea now, verified reviews will be much more help in ranking you book in the Amazon Search results.
Just give your eBook away! In case you want to get more verified eBooks reviews.
Try some of the alternatives also:
- Tell people within the group about your new eBook
- Find groups and communities that benefit you on the Social Media and Forums
- Ask them if they are willing to receive your eBook for free and in return, they should write Amazon review
10) Marketing Kindle eBooks: Maximize the Sales
Here, Amazon will help you in promoting your book so that it reaches to the potential buyers. But before that Amazon needs the book to achieve a certain amount of sales. They use KDP select to this promoting the book.
Let's invest some time in knowing KDP Select.
KDP Select:
When you upload your digital book to the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing platform, you can select the "KDP Select" if you want to do. Just by selecting it you give the Amazon absolute exclusivity for next 90 days.
In this duration of 90 days, you cannot upload that book on any other digital platform. You have the option to renew this plan after the span of 90 days. In return, Amazon will let your book available in the Kindle Unlimited. And in kindle unlimited, it will let download the book free just for one month.
Use another way to promote your Kindle book.
Social Media:
The best option you have got to promote your Kindle Book. You can just arrange free eBook Giveaways just for the promotion of your eBook. You can also use the same strategy for getting the reviews perfectly.
Try to share quotes on all trending social media platform along with attaching the Book's cover.
Also, read:Now you have got all the necessary information about the KDP. Now it's time to influence the world by your innovation and thoughts...
Conclusion: Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing
Here, Amazon Kindle Store provides the great opportunity for anyone looking for the self-published books and make money with these kindle eBooks. Some people will find it difficult to promote the books, don't worry just follow this guide and beat the competitors.
I hope you found this guide helpful"How Kindle Direct Publishing Works". Do let me know if you have published your eBook on Kindle Direct Publishing in the comment section along with dropping your valuable feedback.
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