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