Publishing in Amazon Kindle. In this lecture, we're going to learn about publishing in Amazon Kindle. To accomplish this, we're going to cover five topics. So I can fully teach you how to publish using the Kindle platform. Here's a summary of what we're going to talk about setting up your amazon kindle account, uploading to kindle, creating a great product listing, setting your Kindle book price and royalties. How to price your ebook right?

Let's proceed to the first topic, setting up your amazon kindle account. But first, let's head over to the KDP site. We are here at KDP that amazon.com KDP or Kindle Direct Publishing is where you're going to upload your ebook. This is also where you're going to manage all your other future book titles. Since this must be the case for most of the students of this course, it's best that you familiarize yourself with the KDP platform. When you're here, you can simply sign in.

Or if you don't have an account yet, you can actually use your amazon.com account to set up a KDP account. Just click over sign up and it's all for free. You may wonder why Amazon will take a commission for your ebook sales. As you earn money from your ebooks, so does Amazon making it a win win deal. This is good news. If you're just starting out, and you don't have much cash to invest.

So let's go ahead, I will sign in. Welcome to the inside of KDP. This is what we're interested about, create a new title. We click here on Kindle ebook, but first, this is the list of the things that you need to do to create your new title. It gives you a guide on book content, book cover, description, keywords and categories and I sbn if you want to read more, you can click here on SEO Getting Started tips. This should help you especially if it's your first time to see this page.

Let's click here now on Kindle ebook. When inside, you can see three sections that you need to fill out the Kindle ebook details, the Kindle ebook content and the Kindle ebook pricing. We will tackle each one of this, you need to fill up all these details as possible. So go ahead and take a look at them and answer them right now and then click on Save and Continue. When all these three parts are done, what you need to do is wait for the confirmation via email that your ebook is live in Kindle, because when it is, you're just waiting for book readers to find your product and purchase their own copy uploading to kindle. We are now working on the Kindle ebook content Read on the details read on digital rights management.

If you click on here, here's an explanation on how Kindle ebook is affected by DRM. I just chose no and uploaded ebook manuscript. I also uploaded a Kindle ebook cover using cover creator of Amazon. And this is what I got. It's very simple and self explanatory. Just read on, and then click on save and continue creating a great product listing.

This process of putting up your ebook into the Amazon Kindle platform is very straightforward. Just follow through the instructions in the platform as you go along uploading your ebook, the upload your manuscript here and upload Load your ebook cover here. However, be aware that some of these tabs that you fill up are going to make a significant impact on how easily your book could be discovered or found in the Kindle marketplace, when potential buyers make their search on your topic, and therefore will affect your sales. That is why we need to craft a really good product description that makes use of the keywords we have talked about, and the benefits or solutions that your book offers. You also need to choose the appropriate category for your book. And Amazon allows you to put up your book in two different browse categories.

It means that when people search in those two categories, your book can be found by setting your Kindle book price and royalties. We are now going to talk about Kindle ebook pricing. You're almost there, getting done into publishing your ebook over Amazon Kindle. But you need to set your price. Thanks to Amazon. It made it clear and easy to see how much you can earn for each book sale you make, according to the royalty feature, and the pricing you choose.

It's even broken down by country. If you go here on help topics about KDP you can find this section about ebook royalty options over here, read on this so you will be clear about how Amazon sets the price for your E book. According to the information here, you can choose royalties of 35% and 70%. To make a wise decision, you need to understand Amazon's terms and conditions. For example, bear in mind that the 70% royalty has a ceiling price, and you can choose a higher price than what Amazon has said. And when Amazon runs a special offer, you will also get 70% royalty of the special offer price at that time.

However, if you choose 35% royalty option, the amount you earn will not change. When Amazon runs a special offer, you will still receive 35% of the original price that you choose. The price that you set for your E book is an important part of this whole publishing process as it affect your turnover and profit margins. To know more about Amazon's pricing and royalties, I have included below in the resource section, this URL of Amazon's pages about these topics. Make sure that you are clear about this. When you finally decide what the price your ebook, how to price your E book, right?

With regards to pricing your E book, know that you're never stuck with a certain price. You can always change how much you price your E book. In fact, it's also good to test different price points for your E book. As a start, check out again the best selling books in your niche. How much are they price? What's their book length?

Are they the same with yours? You can probably add up their prices. If you've got the same number of words, also be aware of the low price trend in Amazon Kindle, especially for self published authors, most books are priced according to their length. Since we are targeting short books in this course, like 5000 words or 7000 words, or 1000 words, or 10,000 words, know that they are priced differently from lengthy books with 50,000 words. your readers may get upset if you price too high for very short books. The key here is don't price your book too low or too high, don't undervalue your masterpiece.

That's why it is wise to test different prices and track which has the best results. Find out your sweet spot. Consider that your pricing has got to do with many other factors such as what your audience is willing to pay for your reputation as an author, your topic demand and many others. whatever price you settle for, just see to it to wall your readers with your content quality, always over deliver, so they will keep coming back on your future book releases