Self-Publishing

Amazon book review guidelines over the years have attracted more scams than you can imagine. Most revolve around click farms and amassing lots of Amazon accounts. By creating hundreds, if not thousands, of Amazon accounts, scammers could boost free Kindle ebook downloads, add customer reviews, or manipulate book sales ranking. There have been many articles…

Self-publishing is not for dreamers, and it is certainly not a quick and easy get rich quick scheme. A significant change has hit the art of writing in the last few years. It’s the wild expectation that by quickly self-publishing a book or ebook, readers will rush to buy it. This assumption could not be…

Before you self-publish a book, make sure you have everything in place and ready. Too often, new authors get carried away with the excitement of becoming published authors and rush way too fast into publishing. For a new Indie author, it is all too easy to upload your book. Then, within twenty-four hours, you have…

Self-publishing ebooks on AmazonKDP and Smashwords or Draft2Digital are the most popular choices for authors. They all offer different distribution channels, which is ideal for getting your ebook to as many ebook retailers as possible. If you publish with standard Amazon KDP, you are not restricted from publishing and selling your ebooks elsewhere. But what…

What are the advantages of publishing wide in self-publishing and becoming an independent author? I have written before about the pros and cons of Amazon KDP Select. For many authors, it is a difficult choice to make. On the one hand, Amazon is by far the largest online book retailer. But it demands exclusive rights to…

Do you want to know how to publish an ebook for free? Free is the operative word on the Internet, so why shouldn’t free be applied to self-publishing an ebook? Yes, you can self-publish an ebook without spending a cent. But authors who want to make a lot of money by self-publishing a book for…

Many self-published authors fail to give their books the best chance of success because they are in such a rush to publish that they overlook so many basics. It is the main reason for low book sales. Many authors new to self-publishing get many basic things backward, upside down, and back the front. The result…

How does book metadata work with SEO? Metadata is the text written and added to web pages specifically for resource purposes for computer systems and search engines. It helps them understand the page content for discovery and identification so that pages can be ordered and ranked by relevance. You can use metadata for ebooks, books,…

Do self-help books sell? Everyone has heard of Dale Carnegie and his New York Times bestseller, How to Win Friends and Influence People. People are still reading this book. Although first published in 1936, it remains listed in the top 20 business books on Amazon and has sold over 15 million copies. It has been popular…

Self-publishing on Kindle with Amazon KDP is the only way to go. However, in my judgment, this is not always true. The dominance of Amazon and Kindle in the ebook market is well known. So, it doesn’t need any elaboration. However, there is a natural assumption that this is a worldwide phenomenon and that ebooks…