Self-Publishing

What is KENP? For new Amazon authors, it is important to understand this acronym. KENP stands for Kindle Edition Normalised Pages. Amazon uses the process as the formula to calculate the number of ebook pages read by a Kindle Unlimited subscriber. You earn royalties for every page of your ebook that a reader reads. Amazon determines…

Writing and publishing a book on Amazon is easy. But to give yourself a better chance at success, should you test market your book? Test marketing is a proven marketing strategy to measure market interest before launching new products. But how can you test market your book idea? After you write your book, you can…

Something didn’t work out. Now you want to delete a book after you published it. It can happen for a lot of reasons. You self-published a book on Amazon and got some terrible reviews. Perhaps you had a change of heart about the subject of your Kindle ebook. For whatever reason, you want to remove…

Succeeding at self-publishing, gaining readers, and selling books are not easy tasks. However, some mistakes new self-publishing authors sometimes make can make success even more difficult. If you avoid making the following mistakes, your book will have a much better chance of success. For new authors, you need to change your mindset from being a…

Beware if you are a new Amazon author considering publishing an audiobook with Audible ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange). Amazon’s marketing of its audiobooks on Audible has a very big downside for authors and narrators. As a publisher, you would have to dig deep into the terms and conditions to find it. But buyers know how…

Will self-publishing give literary fiction a new lease of life? Literary fiction is a special category of books that is often not easy to define. It is much more obvious to categorize genre fiction. For example, science fiction, romance, and fantasy follow an expected storyline and plot. In other words, the reader knows what to…

Are you planning to self-publish your first book on Amazon? Do you have the best free publishing tools for Amazon authors? For new authors, Amazon self-publishing is the easy and free way to publish your book. If you plan on writing a book or have already written one, there is a lot of free book…

Bad Amazon book reviews are infuriating, annoying, and often absurd. They are unfair, depressing, and disheartening. But poor book reviews are one of the harsh realities of being a published author today. If you’re a seasoned author, you know what I’m talking about. But if you are a new author about to publish your first…

Can you update and republish a self-published book? Yes, if you have self-published a book, you can update it anytime and as often as you like. Republishing a book means updating, changing, modifying, merging, or improving your book for both ebook and print versions. You can change your book cover design, genre, and category listings,…

Do you want to know how to self-publish a book or an ebook? It’s quite easy to do once you learn the basics. Can you succeed in self-publishing books and ebooks? Yes, many self-published authors and writers are achieving success by taking control of their work and becoming author-publishers. Become a self-published author Some indie authors…