Kindle Publishing Guide

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How to Publish on Kindle (and the best choices to make in the process)

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Kindle Publishing and Why You Want to Use it The Kindle has changed the way people read books. It's only one of many e-readers on the market, but it is the widest selling e-reader (Amazon has yet to actually publish complete sales numbers for the Kindle) and has the greatest share of book sales for all ebooks: at least 60 – 65% of the market.

Unlike some of the Kindle’s competitors, Amazon’s Kindle bookstore sells books on every subject matter under the sun. From how to tune your car’s engine to historical romance, you can sell it in Amazon’s Kindle store.

The Benefits Of Publishing to Kindle Kindle and other e-readers allow readers to access books, articles, magazines and more in an "on-the-go", "take anywhere" digital format. The content is published in a proprietary Kindle format that only the Kindle e-reading devices or Kindle apps can display. There are other e-readers and other formats. However, as a self-published author, the Kindle store is where you will likely make most of your money. Most authors find 80 – 85% of their profits of ebook sales come from Kindle ebook sales.

The Kindle reading platform is where the majority of your potential readers hang out. Amazon’s easy to use shopping cart and delivery service make the process of buying a book quick and easy. In most cases all prospective readers have to do is push one button on the site and the book is instantly available on their Kindle device.

In addition to Kindle being the most popular digital bookstore online, it provides a number of other benefits to authors and aspiring book publishers.

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High Royalties on a Wide Range of Pricing Amazon pays up to 70% of your sales to you as a royalty. Any New York publisher that paid a 70% royalty would go out of business (they usually pay between 4% and 15% depending on your history of success).

So, if you charge $2.99 for your ebook, you can earn up to $2.09 per sale. That may not sound like much, and you can certainly charge more for your book, however the power of becoming an Amazon Kindle publisher is that you have the opportunity to reach millions of people. We’re talking serious volume here.

Please note that if you charge less than $2.99 or more than $9.99, Amazon only pays a 35% royalty payment on your sales.

If you want to learn more about pricing and publishing on the Kindle, your can access your bonus webinar.

BONUS Kindle Publishing Webinar –The webinar goes over a range of insider tips to publishing on Kindle and discusses pricing among other strategies. You can sign up for the next available webinar session here. Signup before this training is no longer free.

Low Production Cost It can cost significantly less to produce a digital book versus a physical book. And it may be a great way to test the market before you go to publishing a physical book. To publish a book in Amazon’s Kindle store you need to:

* Write a book to publish * Edit or have your book edited * Format the book for Kindle publication or have it formatted

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* Create a cover image or have a cover image created * Upload your book to the Kindle marketplace (i.e. Smashwords or KDP) Every single one of the steps above are things you can perform and manage on your own. That means it may cost you absolutely nothing to publish your book. The result is that you earn 100% profit: the first copy you sell can generate a profit after Amazon takes their royalty percentage.

You can also outsource some or all of the tasks as well. You may wish to hire an editor to make sure your book is perfect. You may also hire someone to ghostwrite your book, format your book for the Kindle device and create a book cover. Even if you outsource the entire book creation process you still save money publishing digitally because you don’t have to pay for the cost of printing and distribution.

Simple as 1-2-3 Kindle publishing is relatively easy, and there are several ways to publish on Kindle. The most straightforward is to upload your document into their step-by-step KDP system. You answer a few questions and upload your file, after which you can preview your book before you submit it for Amazon's review.

It is important how you answer these questions for your book strategy because some of the choices cannot be changed later, but your book goes into the review cue for Amazon to look at right after you finish answering these questions.

Availability across Many Platforms Kindle books are available on a wide variety of mobile platforms, in many languages and in countries around the world. That means you can sell to people who live around the globe and use a variety of

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devices can read your book. Kindle books are available for purchase on all the Kindle devices, the Kindle Cloud Reader, and on Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, Android-based devices, and Windows Phone 7.

When it comes to publishing a book the question isn’t why become a Kindle publisher, but rather, why not? You’ll make more money and have a broader audience. It’s also important to note that you can publish just about anything via Kindle. Many other self-publishing tools limit what you can publish. Kindle accepts anything from cookbooks and dictionaries to graphic novels and fully illustrated children’s books.

Take a look at your Kindle publishing options…

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Your Kindle Publishing Options Amazon has made Kindle publishing available for everyone. If you have a book already published and available on other readers or on your own website, there are conversion tools you can use to convert your existing book into a Kindle book.

If you are starting from scratch and have yet to write a book, then see the tips in the section below. Also, if you’ve yet to publish your book, you can publish it exclusively via Kindle and earn some extra advantages.

KDP vs KDP Select KDP a.k.a Kindle Direct Publishing, is the most common type of Kindle publishing. However, if you’re interested in earning some benefits of exclusivity then the KDP Select program may be of interest.

KDP Select is a program that offers you the ability to distribute your book for free over 5 days in a 90 day period. It also enrolls you in the Amazon borrowing program that allows Amazon Prime members who own a Kindle to borrow your book for free.

By signing up for an exclusive 90-day program period, you cannot publish your book with any other publisher or website during that 90 days, and you agree that people in the Prime program who own Kindles can borrow your book for free. In exchange, you earn a percentage of the KDP Select fund, which has been paying right about $2 per book borrowed.

The more your book is borrowed, the more money you earn from the fund. KDP Select also offers publishers more tools and resources to promote your book: it’s a nice way to generate awareness for your book. Once the 90 days are over and your agreement has expired you can then publish your book anywhere you choose. However, you need to make sure you do not automatically check the auto-renew KDP Select membership or you are automatically enrolled in the next 90 day period without doing anything.

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Set Up Your KDP Account Go to the KDP sign up page here. Using an email you always check, you sign up for a Kindle Direct Publishing account. It is critical for you to understand two things.

1. You can only have one KDP account per physical address, entity, email and bank account. You MAY be able to have more than one company at a particular address for a KDP account, but, many people have had their KDP accounts shut down because they had more than one that shared one or more of the items above.

When Amazon shuts down your Kindle account, they do not pay you royalties. Treat your Kindle account like the golden goose, because it can be very difficult to re-activate it, and sometimes it is not possible.

2. Amazon will send you notices to your email address of record, sometimes in advance of shutting down an account or approving a book. Either way, you want to ensure your account email is one you check every day.

You can set up your account here.

When Your Book is Already Published If your book has already been published, either with another selfpublishing company, or on your own, you can use one or more of Kindle’s applications to convert it to Kindle format and make it available on Amazon’s Kindle store. Here are the available tools in a nutshell: THE KDP Uploader The Digital Text Uploader is the step-by-step system you use when you sign up to KDP. By following the simple process you can upload

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your book into KDP in the following formats. * Word (.doc or .docx) * ePub (.epub) * Plain Text (.txt) * Mobipocket (.mobi or .prc) * HTML (.zip, .htm, or .html) * Adobe PDF (.pdf) * Rich Text Format (.rtf) Kindle Direct Publishing text uploader converts your digital text so readers using the Amazon Kindle or Kindle for PC or mobile devices can display it. During this process you also enter basic information about your content including content description, a cover image and your list price. This tool does the work for you.

However, this tool is far from perfect and can really mess up formatting if your base document is not formatted correctly. You want to avoid this tool completely if you have a lot of special formatting. You need to understand HTML and use their formatting guide for reference or select a better tool.

Don’t get stressed if you have a lot of formatting and you don’t know HTML, you can hire someone to help - Kindle publishing is big business and there are many Kindle book formatting specialists available. Or simply stick to very basic design elements (such as bold) in a simple Word document.

There is an exciting new tool available for Kindle Formatting that make it a breeze, but it is not free. You can check it out here.

You can also use one of the following tools to format and/or preview your book before you publish it.

KindleGen v2.3 Already know a bit about HTML? Then KindleGen may be the tool for you. It converts HTML, XHTML, XML (OPF/IDPF format), or ePub source into a Kindle-ready book.

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Kindle Previewer v2.3 Regardless of the tool you use to format your book the Kindle Previewer will help you make sure your book’s layout meets your expectations.

Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesignÂŽ v0.96 (Beta) Did you use Adobe InDesign to create your book? Great! Simply download this program onto your computer and use it to convert your Adobe InDesign book into a Kindle formatted book.

Pre-Formatted Word Document There is a very helpful Kindle Publishing toolkit that includes a preformatted Kindle template. It is packed full of helpful information, and is very reasonably priced. You can check it out here.

Go here to find out more or download the free tools: http://booktread.com/kindlepublishingtools

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Writing Your Book - Tips for Creating a Kindle Bestseller Teaching you how to write your Kindle bestseller is beyond the scope of this book, which is more practical in nature. However, here are a few tips to help get you on the right track if you have not already started writing.

Understand What Makes Your Audience Tick Whether you’re writing fiction or non-fiction, it is important to know who your audience is. Who will want to read your book? For example, if you’re writing a book about training dogs then your audience will be dog owners, right? If you’re writing science fiction then your audience may be young males. Understanding your reader is important. Take time to research your audience and write a book that fits their interests or solves their problems.

Focus Narrowly within Your Audience Non-fiction: Instead of trying to write a book that is all things to all people, narrow your focus. For example, if you’re writing a book on dog training then focus on a niche within dog training. Write a book on how to train small dogs, how to train Poodles, or how to train dogs to get TV commercial work. Or, focus on "positive reinforcement" dog training techniques.

A highly focused topic offers more value to your readers than a book that simply highlights the basics, and attracts more purchases than a book that tries to be all things to all people.

Fiction: Focus on the types of people and things the typical reader in your genre likes, fears and aspires to be or own and weave these throughout your book just as you do the theme and the story elements.

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Offer a Benefit and Make Sure Your Title Conveys That Benefit The more valuable your book’s topic and title, the better it will sell.

For example, David Bach’s Start Late, Finish Rich offers a very distinct and tangible benefit. It tells potential readers that they can do well financially even if they’re older. Spend time crafting your book’s title.

It is the first thing potential readers will see and often what they base their decision on when choosing a book.

Book Reviews Once your book is available on the Kindle store, people will begin reviewing it. However, it pays to have a few good reviews published right in the beginning. Ask a few friends or associates to review your book before you publish it - you can add those reviews to your book’s inside cover.

You can also ask them to write and publish their reviews as soon as your book is published so potential readers view your book favorably.

Beware of friends writing too many glowing reviews. They should be honest reviews. If you have all 5 star glowing reviews, it can look fake and take away credibility.

WARNING: Never buy reviews to be posted for your Kindle book on Amazon.com. Although many services offer to review your book in exchange for money, Amazon is cracking down on this practice.

Edit and Polish One of the biggest criticisms of self-published books is that they’re often put together sloppily with little attention to spelling, grammar or proper formatting. Take the time to edit and polish your book. You might consider having several friends read it first for errors and you may even want to hire a professional editor. Your book represents you, so take the time and effort to put your best effort forward. If you do not put out your best work right away, you can alienate readers from ever buying a book or anything else from you ever again. So

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please take the time to put your best effort into your books and have someone else go over your book to polish the finished product.

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Before You Publish: Amazon's Requirements Before you begin the process of uploading your book into the Kindle digital text format, make sure you take the necessary steps to get your book accepted the very first time you upload it. You probably want to follow a few guidelines to ensure your book’s layout fits your readers' expectations.

You Must Have A Cover Image For Your Book If you don’t have a cover image, Amazon will use a placeholder including the title of your book and the first contributor name you entered. It’s much better to have a book cover: it really motivates people to buy your book. If you’re handy with graphic design, create one yourself. Your book’s cover must be: * A JPEG (.jpeg) or TIFF (.tif(f)) file * At least 500 by 800 pixels. (a max of 2000 pixels). * Height/width ratio of 1.6. * Save at 72 dots per inch (dpi) * Color is better than black and white * Original - not infringing on anyone else’s copyright * Clear of any mention of pricing or promotional offer including no website address Aside from Amazon’s requirements you also want your book cover to capture attention. It should convey what your book is about and you look professional. Your book cover represents you and your book: take time to create the best image possible. Even better, hire a professional book designer (the best one you can afford).

A book cover can make the difference between selling a dozen copies or tens of thousands of copies. If you want to learn more about having a best seller book cover designed that will compete right up there with the big six publishers you can see the resource section at the end of this guide. You can also hire a professional who specializes in designing covers that sell.

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No Page Numbers Ebooks are read and experienced by readers much differently than a printed book. Page numbers in a print version will not correspond with the Kindle digital formatting. In fact, depending on the Kindle device a person is using, the page numbers can vary drastically.

Imagine how different your reading experience is if you are reading a book on your phone versus on your laptop! The page numbers wouldn’t match, right?

For this reason, Amazon asks that you remove page numbers and any reference to page numbers (for example, in your table of contents) from your book. If you have a table of contents and you want it to be clickable (meaning your reader can click on Chapter three and be immediately taken to that page), then visit the Kindle Publishing and formatting guidelines which walk you how to set up a linkable table of contents in HTML: http://booktread.com/KDPHelp

Copyright Data As you go through the step-by-step process of uploading your book into the Kindle publishing system you’ll be asked a number of questions. Many of the answers to these questions are optional.

However, you will be asked for one author/contributor name - at least one name is required. You can use your own name or a pen name – one KDP account can include books from a number of different pen names.

Copyright data helps protect you should anyone pirate your book’s contents.

Digital Rights Management – Yes or No You can protect your book by checking DRM – Digital Rights Management. When uploading your book you’ll either check to have your book protected or unprotected. DRM is Amazon’s tool to “inhibit

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unauthorized distribution of the Kindle file of your book.�

If you want to encourage people to share your content then don’t sign up for DRM. Once you publish your book, you cannot change your DRM setting so make sure you choose the option that is right for you. The most important thing to know about this option is that if your reader wants to change from reading your book on their Kindle and switch to their iPhone, if you have DRM enabled, that reader would need to buy another copy of your book just to read it on their iPhone. Therefore, we recommend you do not check the DRM box.

While it sounds good in theory, it is irritating to customers to have to pay for a book again to read it on another device they own. People expect when they pay for a book they own the content to read as they choose. If you are building a following and you want them to buy more books in the future from you, you don't want to alienate your potential fans.

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Some Additional Sales-Boosting Suggestions…

Include a Description of Your Book Your book description is what customers see on your book's sales page when they shop in the Kindle store. You have 4,000 characters to work with, make them count.

Consider how you shop for books and what information is important to you. Much like the back cover blurb on a paperback, a well-written book description can motivate a prospect to buy your book.

This book description or book blurb is sales copy for your book. It has to make potential buyers want to have your book right away so they click the buy button. Amazon has made it extremely easy to make impulse purchases from the Kindle bookstore, so if your book blurb does its job, you have a sale. There are rules about what you can and cannot do in your book description. You should check for the latest rules in the content guidelines section here.

According to Amazon’s terms, your description cannot include the following:  Pornographic, obscene or offensive content.  Phone numbers, physical mail addresses, e-mail addresses, or website URLs.  Availability, price, alternative ordering information (such as links to other websites for placing orders) or alternative shipping offers (such as free shipping).  Spoilers regarding Books, Music, Video or DVD listings (information that reveals plot elements crucial to the suspense, mystery or surprise ending of a story).  Reviews, quotes or testimonials.  Solicitations for positive customer reviews.

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 Advertisements, watermarks on images or videos, or promotional material.  Time-sensitive information (e.g. dates of promotional tours, seminars, lectures, etc.).

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ISBN - International Standard Book Number An ISBN is an identifier. You don’t have to buy an ISBN, but you can. If you do not, Amazon will assign a number to your book. However, if you plan on selling your book in other digital venues like Smashwords or Barnes & Noble then you may want a unified way to identify the number, such as an ISBN. If you have or intend to have a print version of your book you need a different ISBN for the digital version.

Here is the question answered in KDP frequently asked questions.

Search Information – Make Your Book Easy for Prospects to Find As part of the process of uploading your book into the Kindle system you have the opportunity to make it easier for your prospects to find your book. You can include browse categories. For example, if you’re writing a cookbook, then your browse category will be “cooking.” If you’re writing a romance novel then you’ll choose “romantic fiction.”

You can choose up to two browse categories for your book. You should choose the two categories most closely affiliated with your book and list both.

You can also assign or identify search keywords. You can enter up to seven keywords to help readers find your book. These would be words that people might use to find your book. Choose these keywords wisely.

According to Amazon, once you complete the uploading and metadata process and click “Save and Publish,” your book will appear for sale on the Kindle Store in approximately 24 hours. Amazon states that “within 48 to 72 hours, all other book features should be available on the detail page, such as the product description and links to related physical editions.”

Your book will go through an Amazon review process before being published for any obvious problems. This includes a scan of the books

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contents to ensure you are not publishing PLR (private license rights) or public domain material that is already published on Kindle or the Internet.

What if You Want to Change Details after You Publish?

There are several things you can change after you publish your Kindle book. Take a look at this list to make sure that all your other decisions are correct before you hit the submit button.

What If You Want A Print Book Too? Create Space is Amazon’s self-publishing option for those who want to produce a print book. Like KDP, the process is free to get started.

You earn royalties on your books and they provide a number of tools and resources to make the process as easy as possible. Services include creating your own book cover, ISBN assignment and even distribution and marketing help. And you can link your ebook and your print book together so potential buyers have a choice.

During the publishing process, the KDP system will attempt to match title, author name, and other title information to physical counterparts available in the Amazon catalog.

Pricing Your Ebook How much should you charge for your ebook?

That may be the most difficult question you have to answer. Of course you want to make as much money as possible. However, you also want to make sure you’re sending the right message to your buyers.

Amazon has a few hard and fast rules including: * Your digital book’s “List Price” cannot be higher than the list price in any sales channel for any digital or physical edition of the Digital Book. Essentially, your Kindle book’s list price must be lower than or the same as the list price on every other website.

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* If you choose the 70% royalty option, you have to set your list price so that it is at least 20% below the list price in any sales channel for any physical edition of the book. * When you set your List Price for Kindle’s EU websites, you have to factor the additional 3% value-added taxes into your price. * Digital books with a file size greater than 3 megabytes and up to 10 megabytes must have a list price of at least $.99, and digital books with a file size of 10 megabytes or more must have a list price of at least $2.99.

Taking all of that into consideration, here are a few tips to help you come up with a good starting price. Keep in mind that you can change the price of your book later; you just have to keep Kindle’s pricing rules in mind when you change that price.

What is Your Competition Doing?

Take a look at your competition and evaluate what they’re charging for their books. You don’t necessarily have to charge less than your competition. However, it is a good idea to price yourself competitively. Want to go head to head with the big boys? You must have flawless prose, a killer book design and perfect formatting or you will get poor reviews.

Your Publishing Options Also explore your other publishing avenues. Will you publish via another medium like Smashwords or Barnes & Noble? What are their rate guidelines? How can you price your book to stay competitive amongst all of your publishing avenues? You can start out just with Kindle to focus on the biggest payback for your efforts. Once you work out any kinks, you can add additional channels.

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What Is Your Goal for The Book?

While many people publish to make money, many do not. In fact, one of the most common reasons to publish a book is to establish credibility. When you publish a book you can use it as a tool to market your business. And if you’re publishing fiction or a memoir, then you may simply want to tell a story. The price of your book should fit your goal.

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The Little Extras That Help Set Your Book Apart From The Rest You already know the importance of a good book cover and a description that captures the attention of your readers. There are a few other things you can do to help set your book apart from the millions of other books available in Amazon’s Kindle store. They include:

Free Chapters Many authors are afraid to let readers peruse their book for free.

However, giving your readers a small taste of what your book has to offer has proven to be good marketing: it turns browsers into buyers.

If you’re writing and selling fiction, then consider making the first chapter available to read. And make sure it ends with a hook – you want them to have to buy the book to find out what happens next.

If you’re selling non-fiction then make your best chapter available for review. It doesn’t have to be your first chapter but it can be. You want them to be able to see the benefit of buying your book.

When you publish on Kindle, you don't have a choice, Amazon will allow readers to preview the first 10% of your book. Use this to your advantage.

Author Page One of the best ways to sell books is to connect with your readers.

Create a website and/or blog. Also use Amazon’s features to create an author profile. You can upload a picture, include a biography and even include contact information so your readers can connect with you personally.

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Social Networking Chances are you already have a social networking presence. Use it to promote your book. You can create separate profiles on Facebook and Twitter or integrate your book promotions into your existing profiles. Comment on relevant industry blogs and join forums that are associated with your book’s genre and topic of interest. For example, if you wrote a cookbook then participate in blogs that discuss cooking and recipes.

Many authors are also using advertising, book trailers, and other means to promote their books. You can also become an affiliate for Amazon and earn an additional 4% from each sale of your own book!

And of course you should link to your book from your website and if you have any other books available for sale then by all means promote them in your Kindle book and include links to them. Crosspromotion is smart business!

At this point we’ve covered the basics about publishing a Kindle book. You know that you can publish on just about any topic and that it’s a pretty straight forward process. Now, you know the basics of setting your price and promoting your book, and you've taken a look at the essential elements you need to have before you publish including a cover image, a formatted book and author information.

Now, let’s look at the top Kindle Publishing FAQs.

Kindle Publishing Links at Your Fingertips You can download a Kindle Publishing toolbar for your browser if you use Firefox, Google Chrome or Internet Explorer. This toolbar has all the top Amazon Kindle Publishing links for instant access to the FREE and paid Kindle Bestseller lists, KDP login and signup, Bestselling in books, Amazon author forums, KDP Publishing guidelines, KDP announcements and KDP tools from Amazon.com You can download the toolbar from: http://KindlePublishing.OurToolbar.com/

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The Top Five Kindle Publishing FAQs How Do I Sign Up for Kindle Direct Publishing?

If you already have an Amazon.com account you’re good to go. Just visit the KDP page and get started. If you don’t have an Amazon account just sign up for one; it’s free. Many experts recommend creating a separate account for your publishing efforts. You decide which is best for you.

Can I Unpublish My Book?

Yes. To unpublish your book or remove it from the Kindle bookstore you simply log in, visit your Bookshelf and select “Unpublish.” Your book will be removed from the Kindle store within 24-72 hours. It will become unsearchable within a week. You can republish it later if you choose.

You can use this option to update your book as you need to.

Can I Change or Update My Book Once It Has Been Published?

Yes. Visit your Bookshelf and make any changes to your book. Click Publish to republish it and you’re good to go.

How Are My Royalties Calculated?

As a KDP publisher you have two options. You can choose either 35% royalties or 70% royalties. Why would anyone choose 35% over 70%?

If you choose the 35% then you earn royalties off of your list price.

So, if Amazon chooses to sell your book at a lower price, you earn your royalties for each book sold off of the price you set, not the price Amazon sold it for.

If you choose the 70% option then you earn a royalty based on the price Amazon sells your book for. They can set a lower price to match

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a competitor’s price. So if you set your list price for $4.99 and they sell it for $2.99 you earn 70% of 2.99. Read the pricing page and terms and conditions before choosing your royalty option.

How often does Amazon mess with this pricing? It's hard to say. The point is they can. Only you can decide if this is a deal killer or not.

How Do I Track My Sales?

As a KDP publisher you have access to the following reports: * Month-to-Date Unit Sales * Prior Six Weeks’ Royalties * Prior Months’ Royalties It may be helpful to establish your own means for tracking your Amazon sales. There are third party tools and plug-ins that can help you do this.

Wrap up KDP puts the power of publishing directly in your hands. Embrace this new technology to realize your dreams. Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, Kindle can be the key to your new life as a published author.

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In the next section you have a list of recommended Kindle Resources that help you publish a profitable Kindle book.

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Recommended Kindle Publishing Resources Kindle Publishing Reports The following reports are available at an update discount. Each report below is $4.95 for a limited time when you pre-order them. You can also order all 14 reports at a huge $22 discount for only $47. Many of these reports will be priced way above $4.95 once they are revised. In case you receive this guide after the sale is over: When the offer is pulled down, the regular pricing will be reflected. Sign up at www.Booktread.com for ongoing news and tips. Occasionally, the reports do go on sale. If you are on the list, you will get an email when the reports go on sale.

Browse the titles below and click here to order. More titles may be available on the website…  How to Write a Book Blurb that Sells More Books  How to Have a Best Seller Book Cover Designed  The Best FREE Ways to Advertise Your Kindle Book  How to Use KDP Select to Create Steady Long-Term Sales for Your Book (and then Ramp it Up for Huge Profits)  How to Use Paid Reviews to make your Kindle book a Best Seller (within Amazon's TOS)  How to Publish on Kindle to Make Your Book a Best Seller  The 3 Power Strategies to Design Your Kindle Book for Long Term Income Streams  Strategies to Pick a Great Book Title  How to Profit on Hot Selling Kindle ebooks  How to Professionally Market Your Kindle Book on the Cheap

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 How to Find Best-Selling Kindle Niches  How to Find Out FREE How Many Copies of a Kindle Book Your Competition is Selling On any Given Day  The Six Best Free Press Release Sites to Issue Your Press Release  The Elements You Need to Increase Kindle Books Sales from Your Website

Order the Kindle Publishing Reports above>> here Easy Kindle Formatter – Inexpensive, hassle-free doc converter Best Seller Quality Book Covers -- Your book cover makes or breaks sales How to Write Sales Copy - For Book Blurbs that Sell Books Like Crazy Kindle Publishing Kit – Great "getting started" kit Self Publishing Secrets – Self publishing your book in physical form at minimal "out-of-pocket" cost

FREE Kindle Publishing Webinar – Sign up now so you don't miss it Kindle Publishing Toolbar – All the top Kindle publishing links at your fingertips for one click access to KDP, Kindle bestseller lists, formatting guide, content guidelines, author forums and much more

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