Amazon Self-publishing: Self-publishing in Kindle/Paperback

Self-publish your book to control timing, pricing, and promotion with e-books and print-on-demand. Contrast traditional publishing's lower royalties and upfront costs with self-publishing's higher revenue share and full creative control.

Embrace Amazon as the 800 pound gorilla of indie self-publishing to maximize revenue from Kindle eBook sales, since most earnings come from Amazon while other stores lag.

Enter the Kindle select program for 90 days to earn 70% royalties, run five days of free or countdown deals, and earn through Kindle Unlimited lending, with exclusive Amazon publishing.

Publish a CreateSpace print-on-demand paperback to boost your Amazon product page, attract readers, and leverage higher paperback pricing with discounting, while avoiding upfront costs.

Explore the Amazon self-publishing process for Kindle and paperback, from writing and formatting in Word or Scrivener to publishing via KDP and CreateSpace.

Learn how to format your manuscript for e-book publication on Amazon Kindle using Microsoft Word 2016 on Windows 10, preparing for self-publishing.

Enable show formatting symbols to reveal hidden characters in your manuscript. Then remove extra spaces and tabs to prevent blank pages and create a clean Kindle-ready document.

Learn how to clean up manuscript formatting for Kindle by removing tabs, converting dash characters to em dashes, and standardizing spaces between sentences.

Add a simple, centered title page using the template. Replace text in square brackets with your title and author, include the month and year version, and copyright details.

Configure the Kindle page layout by using the layout menu to set 1-inch margins, portrait orientation, standard letter size (8.5 by 11), and a single column.

Apply styles to define normal text and heading levels (heading 1–4) for a Kindle manuscript, using Times New Roman 12, 14 bold for headings, and 0.3 inch first-line indent.

Learn how to reset a poorly formatted document as a last resort by selecting all and applying the normal style, reclaiming clean formatting for headings.

Format chapter headers using heading styles and page breaks, and locate them with advanced find to ensure consistent heading levels from heading one to heading two in Kindle paperback formatting.

Center images on their own line for Kindle ebooks, keep them reasonably small, and ensure text breaks rather than flows around images for a clean, Kindle-friendly layout.

Use styles and headings to map your document structure and navigate with the navigation pane. Format and insert hyperlinks using Insert Hyperlink to connect text to your Kindle resources.

Learn to insert a custom table of contents, delete an existing one, place a contents heading upfront, and configure options like hiding page numbers for Kindle and enabling hyperlinks.

Learn to publish a properly formatted document via the Kindle Direct Publishing web interface and make your book live for sale on Amazon.

Learn to publish your formatted manuscript as a Kindle ebook using the KDP web-based interface and monitor sales with the KDP report tab in Amazon self-publishing.

Navigate the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) web interface to publish your manuscript, sign in with your Amazon account, and set up title basics like cover, description, keywords, and categories.

Explore creating or editing a Kindle title in KDP, including enabling KDP Select, and learn about title structure, keywords, categories, language, contributors, and HTML descriptions.

Set worldwide rights and pricing to maximize royalties, noting 99 cents yields 35% while 2.99 to 9.99 can increase earnings, and enroll in Kindle matchbook with lending before publishing.

Amazon reviews your book before publishing; you can modify it from the bookshelf, and learn how title formatting, Kindle Unlimited, print price, and audio options appear on Amazon.

Monitor your sales activity through reports, tracking units ordered and loans from Kindle edition and normalized pages read to understand revenue from sales and loans.

Publish your formatted manuscript using the KDP web based interface and monitor sales with the KDP report, as part of the Kindle self-publishing course series.

Set your book price at $2.99 as the sweet spot to maximize sales, and learn how to name your book with keywords to improve discoverability.

Price your ebook at 2.99 to earn 70 percent royalties, explore 0.99 and 9.99 price points, and use bundles and serials to maximize revenue.

Research long tail keywords with Amazon search and the completion database, then embed them into your book title, subtitle, series name, description, and search keywords to improve visibility.

Price your Kindle book at 299 as the sweet spot for selling more copies, and name it with keywords to improve discoverability. Continue with the seven-class series.