Rachel Aukes , writer of The Tidy Guide series to writing and publishing novels, had gone through the traditional publishing process before. That gave her the means to become a full-time writer. Melissa McPhail , author of the epic fantasy series A Pattern of Light and Shadow , started off as a self-publishing author in She decided to go with indie publishing because she felt her writing style would not be appreciated by the more staid publishing houses. Experienced self-publishers all agree that the best place to start is online.
There is a great deal of information now available to help guide the new self-publisher though the challenges of editing, promotion, and so on, much of it excellent. There are groups on Facebook and other social networks, and a variety of books and blogs that can give you a start such as those written by Aukes and Gaughran. Face-to-face contact also helps. And be serious about your goals as an author.
A lot of people are not very good at catching all those little errors. There are a number of tools available. Two that seem most often cited by experienced indie publishers are Vellum , Mac software that helps you format and produce both ebooks and print books, and Draft2Digital , an ebook distributor that offers free formatting. And as with editing, you can also hire someone to do the formatting for you.
That can get you into a lot of trouble. Aukes tried creating her own covers when she first started, and soon gave up. So how do you find editors and cover artists? A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Good Subscriber Account active since Shortcuts. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile. Log out. Smart Home. Social Media.
More Button Icon Circle with three vertical dots. Likewise, KDP offers tools to design your paperback cover and producers to help you create your audiobook. Amazon offers a few tricks and tips you can use to generate leads to your book. They include:. I have no idea. Hopefully, this guide can help you get started. Josh Steimle. Mark Vickery. Eric Hanson. Skip to content Profile Avatar. Subscribe to Entrepreneur. Magazine Subscriptions.
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. KDP Select also gives you the option to make your book free or discounted for up to five days, as part of your promotional campaign.
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