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What is KDP?

What is KDP?

Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), which has previously also been known as ‘CreateSpace, allows authors to self-publish their books or creative works, and gain access to Amazon, where you can sell your book (and future books) for free. 

KDP doesn’t charge anyone any money for writing and publishing a book nor for using its tools. Instead, Amazon only makes money off of you from the books you sell (more on that later)

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Easy usage + assistance

The author-dashboard is set up incredibly simple and understandable, even for a first-time author, who sometimes lack the ‘author terminology’.

And when you don’t know where something is, how to use a feature, or have questions about the set-up of your book, its dimensions, cover, ...

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Kindle Unlimited (KU)

Kindle Unlimited (KU) is a program where Kindle readers pay a monthly fee and can read as many books as they want, and keep them as long as they desire. Why is this beneficial to you? 

Because you get paid ...

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Book Preview

You can see a very realistic preview of what it will look like. You can virtually flip through your book and see everything ready to go.

On top of that, you can even order a proof copy, for which you only pay the cost of printing, and can check out your book and se...

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Why choose KDP?

  1. It’s free and you get high royalties; 
  2. It’s incredibly easy to use , with lots of assistance available; 
  3. The author has complete creative control .  

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The Amazon Algorithm

Amazon has its own selling algorithm. One that you can easily use to your benefit. 

  • The most important factors in strategically maneuvering y...

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Network Brainstorm

The first step, before you even start actually start your marketing process, is to brainstorm your own network. Most likely, you know a lot of people. 

People who might be interested in your book or who have connections in the literary field or the marketing/advertising field. You neve...

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Publishing process

They walk you through it, step by step, and have little ‘info’ pop-up boxes for each category or item that you can fill in. You can’t move ahead to other sections either, meaning you have to work through the initial details in a focused manner, before you can move to upload your manuscript, book ...

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Websites

If you wrote a book, it’s a good idea to also have your very own website. This way people can find you, your book, and any other creative projects of yours, whether past or future. 

Share your website link in your social media bios or on your Amazon author profile (tha...

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Free + high royalties

You get to pick the price of your book, and depending on which price range your book falls, you either get 30% or 70% of your sales once printing costs or digital downloading costs have been subtracted. 

The 30% or 70% that you, as the author, can get, are called royalties – it’s the a...

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Manuscript & Formatting

KDP provides an easy outline of some of the basics: what to include, where to put it, and what type of content it should have.

Alongside clear guidelines and instructions on how to set up the content within your book, the program also provides actual word documents which are set up...

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