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Amazon Self-publishing: Self-publish a Kindle/Paperback Book

Self-publishing Kindle eBooks and paperbacks on Amazon: Self-publish your book and cover: Enter KDP Select vs SmashWords
Rating: 4.3 out of 54.3 (63 ratings)
3,072 students
Created by Brian Jackson
Last updated 9/2017
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • You'll learn why you should self-publish exclusively with Amazon
  • How to format your manuscript for Kindle eBook publication using Microsoft Word
  • How to publish your manuscript on Kindle eBook using KDP
  • How to name your book to be found
  • How to price your book to be sold

Requirements

  • This course requires you to have access to Microsoft Word to format your manuscript for publication
  • This course requires that you have a written manuscript you'd like to publish

Description

Have you written a fantastic manuscript but now you're unsure what to do with it?

Please allow me to make a suggestion...

This is a course that advocates self-publishing over traditional publishing.  At the same time it takes a potentially controversial stand by suggesting that you should be publishing exclusively with Amazon companies.

This class also serves as an introduction and guide to publishing on Amazon KDP.

But before getting all tangled up with a whole course, the first four lectures in this course cover short but important topics that need to be nailed down before we can proceed:

  • Why You Should Self-publish Your Book
  • Why You Should Self-publish on Amazon
  • Why You Should Enter the Kindle Select Program
  • Why You Should Publish a CreateSpace POD Paperback
  • Why You Should Watch the Rest of the Amazon Self-publishing Series

The next section in the course is where the rubber hits the road...

In the second section you'll learn how to format your manuscript using Microsoft Word for publication on Amazon Kindle.  This is the first of a pair of sections to dealing with publishing on Amazon Kindle, the second being how to actually publish your book through the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) web based interface.

I'd recommend that you pause the course after each lesson in order to perform the task just described using your own manuscript.  By the time you finish the class you'll have a formatted manuscript.

In the third section you become a published author...

In the fourth and final section, you'll learn how to price your book at the sweet spot to be sold and to name your book using keywords so that it can be found.  These two steps are probably the most crucial in marketing your Kindle book.

The two topics addressed in the final section are:

  • Price Your Book to Sell
  • Name Your Book to Be Found

Be sure to watch the entire course if you're interested in self-publishing.

I'll see you in the classroom,

---Brian

Who this course is for:

  • This course is appropriate viewing for any author undecided about whether to self-publish or traditionally publish their work
  • This course is appropriate viewing for any author looking to self-publish their manuscript on Kindle eBook using KDP

Course content

5 sections • 29 lectures • 1h 28m total length

  • Preview01:33

  • Preview06:36
  • Preview01:10
  • Preview06:18
  • Why You Should Publish a CreateSpace POD Paperback
    02:45
  • Why You Should Watch the Rest of the Amazon Self-publishing Series
    02:42

  • Introduction to Amazon Self-publishing
    00:55
  • Enabling Show Formatting Symbols
    01:46
  • Converting Special Characters
    03:43
  • Adding a Title Page
    02:14
  • Configuring the Page Layout
    01:51
  • Defining Normal and Header Styles
    06:27
  • The Last Resort: Reset All Reformatting
    01:31
  • Formatting Chapter and Subchapter Headings
    01:46
  • Including Images
    01:26
  • Formatting Hyperlinks
    01:34
  • Inserting a Table of Contents
    02:18
  • Amazon Self-publishing 2: Kindle eBook: Microsoft Word: Self-publish and Formatt
    00:25

  • eBook Publishing Introduction
    00:57
  • Getting Started with KDP
    03:27
  • KDP Publishing Step 1: Your Book
    05:59
  • KDP Publishing Step 2: Rights & Pricing
    02:09
  • Book Approval and Modifying Your Book
    02:53
  • Monitoring Your Sales Activity
    03:07
  • eBook Publishing Summary
    00:28

  • Introduction to Book Marketing
    00:40
  • Price Your Book to Sell
    12:30
  • Name Your Book to Be Found
    09:14
  • Amazon Self-publishing Conclusion
    00:26

Instructor

Brian Jackson
Author, Publisher and Educator
Brian Jackson
  • 4.3 Instructor Rating
  • 7,679 Reviews
  • 143,490 Students
  • 47 Courses

I was born in the middle of the last century in Los Angeles, California.  After moving for a time to the Silicon Valley, I graduated from Humboldt State University amid the redwoods of Northern California.

Two weeks after graduation I was working as a computer systems programmer for Lockheed Missiles and Space (LMSC) back in the Silicon Valley.  Two months after that and I was married as I have been happy ever since (for 40 years).

After 14 years at Lockheed, I moved from working on IBM mainframes to using PCs running the Unix operating system and encountered a thing called the Internet.  Cisco Systems seemed to be the right place to work, so I joined the company as their 650th employee.  Eleven years later Cisco had grown to over 20,000 employees.

I retired at the age of 48 and instantly became bored!

Throughout my professional career, I'd always enjoyed both writing and providing technical training.  So, I attended creative writing classes at my local junior college and began to write.

I managed to write and self-publish a handful of books, but things didn't take off until my wife, Melanie Jackson, an established author with a New York company, left traditional publishing to join me in self-publishing.

In 10 years, from 2010 to now, Melanie and I have made half-a-million dollars self-publishing well over 100 books.  I also managed to record a pair of audiobooks for Amazon and Audible sale.

By 2014, our rapid rise to Kindle fame had already dwindled.  I decided to pursue my second passion of giving training presentations.

Since 2014 I've published over 48 online video training courses for training sites such as Udemy and Skillshare. My goal is to provide low-cost high-quality screencast-based educational material focusing on my areas of expertise; namely, self-publishing and book cover design using the GIMP.  I continue to expand my video training catalog while focusing some energy on resurrecting our flagging book sales using various marketing techniques.  Finally, I spend a portion of my time maintaining both my website and my wife’s website, which was developed using WordPress.

I currently live in Las Vegas, Nevada, with my lovely wife and Butterscotch the cat.

I'll see you in the classroom,

---Brian

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