Well, I’m here to tell you that anyone can be a writer and editor through Kindle Publishing, which is a division of Amazon Inc. Yes, you heard me right. I’m not kidding you.
Kindle publishing is not as difficult or difficult as you think and there are ways you can accomplish the feat and become an author. Thanks to Amazon, anyone with a little education can upload a manuscript and start selling in a matter of days, not months.
Here in this article, I am going to tell you some secrets about publishing Kindle books that you didn’t know about.
Are you ready? Here we go.
1) Your Kindle book doesn’t have to be 100 pages.
Some people have thought about writing books and claiming the prestigious title of author, but they have been intimidated by the idea of sitting down and writing pages and pages of words that eventually reach hundreds of pages.
In fact, in the world of ancient physical book publishing, a book had to have a minimum of pages. But thanks to the digital world and Amazon, that restriction no longer exists.
A Kindle eBook can be any number of pages and people will still buy it.
What people are looking for is information or a solution to a problem. They look for information that will give them a solution to their problems. They don’t really care about the number of pages. Once you can offer the solution, that’s what counts.
And if you can do this on fewer pages, the better for them. Who wants to read hundreds of pages online? I personally will not read a book like that. My limit is 50 pages. If you can’t give me the necessary information on that number of pages, I’m afraid I’m going to skip your e-book. This is true for many people online.
Your Kindle eBook can be 4-10 pages maximum. Can you write a book that number of pages? I bet you can. Then you can write and publish e-books on Amazon. Yes, you read me right.
2) The pages of Kindle books are much smaller than the page of Microsoft Word.
Yes, I discovered this with my first e-book on Amazon.
The size of the Word document that you use when preparing or writing your manuscript is quite different from what appears on the Kindle reader. If you look at the Kindle reader, you will find that it is quite small.
So a twenty page Word book, when you load it up and view it on Kindle, it will be much more than it was originally. It was a nice surprise for me.
Imagine you have a 30 page book. By the time you upload this to Amazon and it becomes a Kindle e-book, you can have the same e-book that is listed as 40-46 pages in the Kindle Store.
3) You may already have the necessary content for your book
If you’ve been writing some niche content online (for example, a blog or articles), you may already have a lot of materials to create your Kindle e-book.
Take, for example, someone who has been writing about how to make money online. All you need is to organize some of your previous writing or articles in a logical way and, bang, you have a Kindle eBook.
I once organized a series of articles that I had on Beauty Tips and titled them appropriately. I posted this on Amazon as a Kindle e-book and a physical book through their old division called Createspace. That division has now been merged with the Kindle publishing section.
The articles that you have previously written, you can even stretch or add them simply by adding some images to your eBook. Bang, you have your Kindle eBook.
A tip here. Then load your eBook with a lot of images or Amazon will change you a lot for that. They claim that it increases the cost of shipping. If it is a lot, it can affect your earnings. I generally don’t use images in my Kindle e-books, except when necessary, such as a cookbook.
4) Amazon makes it so easy that anyone can be a publisher.
Amazon changed the publishing business forever. With Amazon, anyone can upload a manuscript of any length and publish it in a matter of hours, as long as the content is original.
No more stories of rejection from every publisher you submitted your manuscript to. I have uploaded e-books that were approved and placed in Kindle stores in less than 5-10 hours. And some of these e-books had been sold a few days later. This was unheard of in the good old days where there was no Kindle and none of the other readers.
Amazon has made things easy for everyone.
Do you know that you don’t need to do any special formatting or conversion for your e-books? You just need to prepare and submit your manuscript as a Word document, which is the same way you wrote it on your PC. If you wish, you can also send your manuscript as a PDF. Personally, I ship all of my Kindle e-books as a Word document and let Amazon take care of the technical issues for me.
Finally, when you’ve finished your manuscript and are ready to upload and publish, Amazon made it a simple step-by-step process that you can follow and submit your manuscript for processing and approval. Kindle e-books are generally approved and published within 24 hours.
As you have seen in this article, Kindly Publishing is not as difficult as it sounds.
I usually say that Kindle publishing is something anyone can do online and make money doing it.
You don’t even have to write. They are people on many freelance sites who will even write and prepare your Kindle e-books for a small amount of money. You can get a short e-book written for you at a cost of $ 20 to $ 30. You will publish this in your name and you will get hundreds of them. Many people you hear about today as Authors are doing exactly this on Amazon.
I think that, from this article, you have seen that it is not as difficult or intimidating as you thought to be an Author and Publisher on Amazon.
Anyone can be an author today, thanks to Amazon and their incredible creation: the Kindle Reader.