There’s no time like the present so make your book available immediately! You can make changes to it at any stage after publishing if needs be. I choose these keywords based on merchant words, Google Keyword Tool and competitors. Search keywords help your book to be found by people who are searching Amazon for relevant topics. Leave ages blank unless it is a children’s book. The more specific the niche your category falls into, the more likely it will be found by the right people. This is where a book’s category ranking is shown. I usually decide on the categories based on competing books that are performing well. Choose these carefully as they help your intended readers to find your book. You can choose up to two categories for your book. Step 8: Verify Your Publishing RightsĪs author, you own the publishing rights to your book, click here to verify that. Step 7: Add Author NameĪdd in the author’s name - that’s you! This can be a pen name if you like. Step 6: Enter Book ContributorsĬlick on the “Add contributors” tab to add yourself as an author. You can use some HTML to make your description more engaging. Make sure it is well written, interesting and informative enough to give your readers a good idea of what your book is about. This is your readers’ first real taste of your book’s content, like the blurb on the back cover of a printed book. Here are 5 more tips for naming your book. For bonus points, use keywords that your readers are searching for to increase your chances of being found. Tell your readers what your book is about so they know what they will get out of reading it. Step 4: Enter Your Book Title and SubtitleĮnter in your book name and subtitle. You can learn more about KDP Select here. It enables me to offer my book for free for a selected period after publishing, which encourages Amazon to promote it further and helps me build my email list. I do this with all my books and have seen great benefits. This will bring up the “Introducing KDP Select” screen below.

Step 2: Add New Title From Your KDP DashboardĬlick on “Create new title”. Or simply sign in if you already have one.

To get started, first create an account with Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. Follow these steps below, and you will have self-published your own book by the end of today. I’ve gone through the process over 12 times now and captured every step to help show you how to self-publish a book. You don’t have to be a Shakespeare or Stephen King to be an author these days and you don’t have to battle with pesky publishers to get your book out there either. Publishing takes less than 5 minutes and you can make changes to your book at any time after it’s live. It’s completely free and you get up to 70% royalty on sales. Your book will appear in the Kindle Store within about a day and be available to people all around the world. I self-published four books last weekend.

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