![]() You’ll be uploading and previewing quite a bit before you get it right, and in the process you’ll learn what to do and not do the next time. If there are formatting issues, fix them and upload the file again. The real test comes when you upload your file and check it in the Kindle Previewer. As for my preferred method, they say, “Microsoft Word with limited formatting translates well to the Kindle device.” Several authors recommend converting to Amazon’s mobi file format, but you can always try different file types to see which work best for your purposes. Some file types allow more flexibility, like being able to link to chapters from the table of contents. Amazon supports a few different file formats and published a handy guide to creating ebook files. To begin, you need to convert your book to the proper format. But believe me, if I could figure it out in an afternoon or two, you can, too - after ten years of making a living online, I still don’t own a smartphone and I struggle to download programs. Instead let’s take an overview of the process and point out some good resources for information about publishing on Kindle that cover various aspects in more detail. Then get ready to publish.ĭetailing every technical aspect of the publishing process might intimidate some readers into inaction. Edit, edit, edit, and find a volunteer to read your work and offer an objective critique. Whether it takes a week or a year to write your book, focus on quality. You don’t have to write a book in a week, although it might not be as difficult as you think when you consider than many ebooks are as short as 6,000 words or consist of a collection of articles previously published by the author. Interested in publishing your book on the Kindle platform? It’s free, and you might even make some money. Although sales have slowed now, in total I’ve made almost $2,000 from my little Kindle ebook about ultralight backpacking and thousands more on the other books. Soon I was making as much as $350 per month on KDP without any promotion, and about a third of that was from the backpacking book. Having once self-published a print book for $850, I liked the zero-cost aspect of going this route. I wrote it in a few days, which is possible when you write about a subject you know and love, and then published it on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform (KDP), along with a few other ebooks I had written. When I lived in Colorado, I took a break from exploring the mountains to write a little ebook about ultralight backpacking.
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