How to Upload your eBook on Kindle Direct Publishing?

Self- Publishing on KDP Is Free One of the best things about self-publishing your book through Kindle Direct Publishing is that it costs you nothing. Yes, there are no hidden costs for publishing your book on Amazon – it is a 100% free, and you get to set the price of the book as well.

You Can Make Changes to Your Book After You Publish KDP also allows you to make changes to your books after it is published. So, you can change the keywords you used originally if they are not working for you.

How to Upload your eBook on Kindle Direct Publishing?

Publishing your eBook on Kindle Direct Publishing is a fairly straightforward process. Here is an overview of the process. We don’t want you to miss out on any details.

Make an Account on KDP to Get Started To get started on Kindle Direct Publishing, you will have to open anaccount on the website. Click “Sign Up.” This will redirect you to a page where you can sign u p on Amazon. Don’t enter your details here. Look at the bottom of the sign-up box. There you will find an option that says, “create your KDP account.” Once you select that option you’ll be redirected to a page where you can create a Kindle Direct Publishing account.

On the sign-up page for a Kindle Direct Publishing account, you will be asked to provide your name, email address, and a password for your account. Go over the terms and conditions so that you are clear on what you are allowed to do and what you must avoid. After you enter the required details and accept the terms and conditions, you will be redirected to another page in which you can create a new title for an eBook. Here are a few steps you will have to complete to publish a new book.

Select the “Create New Title” Option After you have signed up and logged in on the KDP website, go to your bookshelf. There, you will find an option called “create a new title.” Select this option to start the uploading process. Under the “Learn More” tab, you’ll be asked to join the KDP Select program. With this program, you will get paid for each page that the reader reads. However, for 90 days, you won’t be allowed to publish your eBook on any online platform other than Amazon. Therefore, make sure to uncheck this option if you plan on publishing your eBook on other online platforms as well.

Fill in the Description in the HTML Format Once you select the “create new title option,” you will have to fill in the book description. We recommend that you write all of the content in the description box in the HTML format. You don’t need to worry if you are unfamiliar with this format; we will teach you how to write in this format. The first thing you need to do is to write the title of your eBook. Write down the title and subtitle as you would normally. This means that your title can include the correct capitalization, quotation marks, forward or backward slashes, and other punctuation marks.

How You Should Write Your Title The only thing you need to do is to make this in the HTML format is add <h1> before the title and </h1>. In this case, h1 means heading 1. <h1> is referred to as an H tag. Any letter between the two brackets is known as a tag. You will have to add a tag before and after all of the text you want to upload. The forward slash before the h1 in the latter tag is used to end the heading (in this case). Therefore, your title should look like this: <h1>This Is the Title: This Is the Subtitle</h1> . Just remember to add the relevant tags in the correct position, and you will be okay.

How You Should Write Your Paragraph If you are writing a paragraph, you will have to use paragraph tags before and after your text. The beginning paragraph tag is <p> and the ending paragraph tag is </p>. Paragraph tags operate in the same way as the H tags. Therefore, you can write anything between the appropriate paragraph tags. Here is an example of how you should use your paragraph tags: <p>This sentence is a paragraph.</p>. There are two things that you need to observe inthis example. The first is that the period is enclosed within the paragraph tags. Therefore, make sure that your ending paragraph tag is after whatever punctuation marks you include i n your paragraph. The second thing that you should be aware of when using tags, in general, is that there should be no space between the tag and the first and last character of your text. That is why the ending paragraph tag is right after the period. There is no space between the period and the tag. If you added a space between these two, space would also beincluded in the text. Therefore, you must be extra careful when you are writing in a dialogue box that has limited characters.

How You Can Write Bold Text You should make the text bold when you’re writing about a special discount for your eBook. Bolded text will do a better job of attracting customers than regular text. To make text bold in the HTML format, you’ll have to use a strong tag. Therefore, the starting strong tag is <strong> and the ending strong tag is </strong>. An example of bolded text in the HTML format is: <strong>This text is bold!</strong>. You can also add big tags in the middle of a heading or a paragraph. To do that, you’ll have to add big tags before and after the part of the text you want to make bold. These big tags must be enclosed with the H tags or paragraph tags (depending on whether the text is a titleor a paragraph). To help you understand, here’s an example: <p>This is a paragraph with <strong>bold</strong> text.</p>.

How You Can Write Italic Text You can italicize a word or phrase in your text to add a bit of emphasis. You can italicize text in HTML format by using italics tags. These tags are written as <em> (for the starting italics tag) and </em> (for the ending tag). Here’s an example sentence with italics tags: <em>This text is italicized.</em>. Like the big tags, you can also add italicized tags in the middle of the text. Just follow the same steps we provided for the strong tags. Both tags work in the same way but have different purposes.

How You Can Divide Text You can divide your content or add space between two paragraphs with division tags. The starting division tag is <div> and the ending division tag is </div>. These tags are used to divide different parts of an HTML document into sections. This can help you in making useful separations in your text.

Add Book Contributors The next step is to fill in the Book Contributors section. This section allows you to give credit to the people who helped in creating the book. If you don’t want to add an editor’s name or any other contributor, use this to add the author’s name. You can add more than one contributor. You have to include your first and last name. If you want to publish your book under a pen name, add that instead of your real name. This way, you can stay anonymous when publishing your eBook.

Complete KDP Pricing and Royalty Your next step will be to set the price of your book. Set an affordable price for your customers. The low price will do a better job of attracting customers. More purchases will result in more money for you. If your book is priced at $0.99, you’ll have a good chance of making the bestsellers list. This is because more people will be willing to purchase a book at that low price. As a result, Amazon includes your book in its bestsellers list, which will increase your popularity and increase your sales.

You’ll Receive Lower Royalty at Lower Prices You should note that you will receive less royalty if you keep your book’s price at $0.99. For those of you who don’t know, royalty is the sum of money paid by a party to another party that owns an asset so that they can continue using it. In the case of Amazon, Amazon will pay you a percentage of each sale they make on their website. That percentage is the royalty you receive every time someone purchases your book on the Kindle store.

You’ll Receive More Royalty at Higher Prices When you are selecting the price and royalty on KDP, you must select 35% royalty if your eBook costs $0.99. However, if your eBook costs $2.99 or more, you must select a 70% royalty. The advantage of pricing your eBook at a relatively high price is that you get double the amount of royalty than you would from an eBook priced at $0.99. However, readers won’t be drawn toward buying expensive books, especially if you are not an established or popular writer. Therefore, calculate what will be best for you when you are selecting a price for your eBook. Follow the rest of the instructions to finish this step.

Compare the Prices of Your Competitors’ Books Don’t settle on a price without first checking what price your competitors are selling their books. Look at the prices of some similar books in the same category you are writing on and evaluate whether your book can compete at the same price. You must keep in mind that