Self-Publishing

It’s easy to overlook all the Amazon book promotion tools when you are busy self-publishing your new book. Even if you have already published your book, there are sometimes changes and new tools added by Amazon. Any book promotion is worthwhile, so you should always look at every means available. Social media, your author’s website,…

It’s not a question you ask every day, but what happens when a self-published author dies? For the family of an author, you may want to keep the books available for sale. In some cases, it’s relatively easy if there is a publishing contract and the publisher is still in business. However, it is not so…

The copyright page of your book is an essential element you should include when you publish a new book or ebook. Is it a legal obligation? No. Legally, you own the copyright of your book as soon as you write it. But it is always better to include at least the essential information to reinforce…

If you haven’t added Amazon editorial reviews to your books on Amazon, you are missing out on an excellent opportunity to sell more books. It’s not easy getting Amazon book reviews from readers and book buyers. But you can overcome this problem by adding your own book reviews to your Amazon book sales page. These…

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…

Sometimes a book simply doesn’t work out. Maybe it received poor reviews, or you’ve changed your mind about the topic. If that happens, you might wonder if it’s possible to completely delete a book after publishing it on Amazon. The short answer is no. Once a book is published, you can only unpublish it and…

I’ve learned the hard way that succeeding at self-publishing, gaining readers, and selling books are not easy tasks. However, some of my early self-publishing mistakes made it even more difficult. If you are new to self-publishing, avoiding some of these basic mistakes and problems will give you a better chance of success. The biggest turning…

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…