Temporary KDP Publishing Process Page

...and here's how publishing at Amazon KDP was back in 2011 when I wrote the book "So You've Written A Book"

Making Your E-book Available at Amazon

1. You’ll need to create an account at https://kdp.amazon.com
2. Once you’ve logged into the site you’ll find yourself at a page where you can click the button ‘Add a new title’.
3. Enter your book details in the ‘Enter Your book Details’ section
     
   In my case I left blank the series and edition number sections.

4.   Click the ‘Add contributors’ button.
 

The <Select title> area is where you declare that you are the author or editor. Save what you’ve entered so far as a draft.

5.        Select the appropriate publishing right. Normally this will be the ‘This is not a public domain…’ option unless you are re-producing an out- of copyright work. `

Next, you’ll need to tell Amazon what categories you would like to put the book under. Click the ‘Add categories’ button and select up to two:

6.        Add some suitable keywords to help your book be found too.
 
Even though my book contains the cover, I use the ‘Browse for image…’ button to locate the front cover I used at the Create Space website. Once you have uploaded it you’ll see the image displayed rather than ‘No image available’ At this point you’ll see if the image you created is clear enough to be displayed as a thumbnail. If it isn’t, go back and re-do it.

7.        Time to upload the book file and to unset DRM. DRM stands for digital rights management. What this means is Amazon will protect your book to prevent it from being passed from one user to another. Only the purchaser will be able to use the file (on up to five readers). There are disadvantages though:

• DRM prevents a purchaser putting your book on a different reader they own e.g. Nook

• DRM won’t prevent an experienced computer user from sharing the book, only the ‘average’ user.

Once you’ve set DRM [Read what is said about that - I advise this is NOT selected] and uploaded the book you should see this:
 

Clicking the ‘Preview book’ button will launch  Amazon’s idea of what the book will look like. You should quickly be able to spot any errors you’ve made but there is no real substitute for examining the book on your own Kindle reader. Fortunately we’ve already seen what it looks like when you converted the file on Calibre so you shouldn’t get any surprises.

Everything OK? If so then click the ‘Save and continue’ button. If there are errors then save your work as a draft and go back and fix the problems.

8.        Publishing territories  - If you are the sole author of your book you have Worldwide rights to it. If you are a co-author or just distributing the book you may not have full publishing rights and should select the countries you have the rights in.

9.        The royalties and book price – Amazon offer two different royalties 35% and 70% Easy choice – yes? Wrong. To get the 70% royalty you have to meet Amazon’s conditions

• The e-book must sell for between $2.99 and $9.99

• The book must be on sale in at least one of these countries: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, San Marino, Switzerland, Spain, United Kingdom (including Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man), United States, Vatican City

• In the past Amazon has required that the book be available at a higher price elsewhere (e.g. a paper copy) This no longer seems to apply

On the face of it, it seems obvious that you should sell your books for between $2.99 and $9.99 and get the 70% royalty after all at $2.99 you would get:
($2.99 - $0.15 upload fee) x 70% = $1.99 per e-book sold and at $0.99 you would get:
$0.99 x 35% = $0.35 per e-book (no delivery fee on the 35% royalty rate).

You make 5.7 times as much on the 70% rate.  John Locke, who has sold over a million e-books, has a different view. His idea is that if you have a big enough target audience you should ask yourself ‘Can I sell seven times as many e-books at $0.99 as I can at $2.99?’ John felt he could and became the first independently published author to join the Amazon million sellers group – long before Stephanie Meyers (Twilight books) or J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter books).

If you can sell seven times as many at $0.99 then you’ll make more money but many writers have found their sales actually dropped when they reduced the price. Presumably people thought ‘At 99 cents it can’t be much good.’

So what was I selling this e-book at? $0.99. Not because I expected to sell millions but because I wrote it and published it in less than a week, it’s small and I don’t expect (or need) to make a vast profit on it. I’m even giving it away free on my website (https://www.jaydax.co.uk/downloads.htm). Amazon, however, normally won’t let you set a price of less than $0.99 but if they find it on sale somewhere else for less, then they will match that price.

If you wonder if you have set the price correctly, don’t worry – you can return to your bookshelf at any time and make changes.

10.  Just one step left. Click the ‘Save and Publish’ button. You’ll get a warning message:

You will be returned to your bookshelf and will see your book marked as ‘In Review’ Within 12 hours it will appear in the Amazon catalogue as available to be purchased. Congratulations author!

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