If you plan on writing a book on Amazon do not make the mistake of thinking the project is complete once the book is finalized. It’s hard to get those first one or two book reviews or break into the top rankings. It’s hard to get your book noticed at first. You pour a ton of work into something that’ll sell for so little, if you can even get it to sell at all (continue to the next point to see what I mean). But my point here is that one of the negatives at least in my perception was the limited upside. I’ll likely turn this concept into a video course in the future. I got about 6,000 words into it, out of a goal of 20,000 or so, and decided it was WAY too much work for something that’ll sell for less than $5. I actually started writing a longer book, the basic concept being how to navigate a “Career Change at Any Age”. Not a bad deal considering they let you use their technology to publish your ebook, and then help you promote it on their massive eCommerce platform with millions of regular visitors. You can start earning money quickly, and if you price your book between $2.99 and 9.99, Amazon gives you 70% of the cut. Overall you’re looking at very minimal costs of $20-50 for cover design (a good cover is SO important for sales, more on this later), $20-50 for a proofreader or editor, and that’s about it for getting your book out. You can even create a print version of your book based on the eBook version, with a service called CreateSpace.
If you want to get a bit fancier with the formatting, you can upload an HTML file (you can quickly save your Word doc into HTML with one click, so Word is still viable!) You can write and upload a Word document as your eBook and it’ll look fine on Kindle and other platforms.
Here’s everything you need to know about Amazon self publishing… Pros of Self Publishing on Amazon: Self publishing is becoming more popular so I wrote this post to talk about the pros and cons of self publishing on Amazon… The pleasant surprises, the frustrations, the things I didn’t find out until it was too late.
I recently published a short book on Amazon using their Kindle Direct Publishing platform (KDP).
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