Kindle Direct Publishing

The line isn't where most writers think it is.

So today we're going to share with you what you have to disclose when you self-publish on Amazon's platform, Kindle Direct Publishing, known as KDP, for your words, your cover, and your illustrations.

So between Shelly and I, we've published over 70 books, most of them through Kindle Direct Publishing, Amazon's self-publishing platform.

which again, most people call KDP.

These days, I am the one clicking through the setup screens.

This question comes up on many of our coaching calls.

So we just want to kind of clear the confusion.

And at any time, we always recommend you go to the source.

And final, final files will include EPUBs.

your digital side, it will include your text in a PDF format that would be uploaded into whether it's for an outside printer manufacturer or for Amazon's KDP and IngramSpark, text files on that.

And then the third components would bring in your cover, full cover files for both Amazon and IngramSpark if you're going in that route.

um on that and then I would always make sure you get jpegs and get a ping also of just your front cover so you have those those are all in your now essential file did I miss anything Nick

you know everybody's.

Dave Kuntz, it's the technology has gotten so good now that.

You know, their PDF files are foolproof because, you know, if you put them into KDP, you get to launch the previewer on your bookshelf site, and you can see the book as Amazon seeing the book.

So you can go page by page and see how it's looking in layout.

If I may read his actual wording here in regard to Twitter, it says...

in my original forward that was published with the initial paperback I had written that self publishing the novelization was a careful process to avoid any legal entanglements the truth and you heard it here folks is that I saw the copyright disclaimer on Amazon's KDP service I most definitely said in an electronic but very much legally binding agreement that I had the copyright and or permission to publish something I very much did not have the copyright and or permission to publish

yes

He says, I never thought anyone would notice or care.

self-publishing

or whether there's other podcasts about writing in general or other authors who have podcasts just to talk about their books or just to talk about Amazon KDP or going wide or Draft2Digital or any of those things.

Yeah.

And then this is the touchy one for the grace of Joe.

Royalty share titles are not eligible here at the launch of Kindle Plus.

Listening will be paid by the page through the KDP Select Global Fund, and here's the catch.

You're paid only the first time a subscriber reads or listens to a page.

If they listen to a chapter and later read it in the e-book, that counts as a reread and earns nothing extra.

I suspect that the earnings will change in some way.

If the pool is not increased at all, then theoretically people who have books in virtual voice or who have audio books that are enabled for Kindle Plus will see some kind of increase, those who have them.

And people who do not have any of those will see some sort of decrease if the Kindle Global Fund, the KDP Select Global Fund, is not increased.

We don't know.

Just give us all of the information.

So the book, you can get a book on Amazon KDP, Apple Book.

It's on Goodreads.

I think some places I saw some people selling the book, some other places that I don't even know who they are.

So when we first started, we started out on a print-on-demand model.

And really because in order to do offset printing, you're going to have... a warehouse or a garage full of a thousand books that you then have to sell where print on demand is fantastic because it allows you to, you know, you get an order and then IngramSpark prints it, right? And then you get another order and it's printed, KDP prints it.

So we did start off when we started in 2020 on a POD model, we did not have traditional distribution.

So I wasn't running, you know, a thousand copies and selling out of my garage.

This seems very doable, which is good because I feel like, you know, I do want to say this, that a lot of TPT sellers are feeling like I need to get an email list going and then Pinterest.

And then what about selling on my own website? And now I need a blog and then I need to do Amazon KDP.

And honestly, like they're all good.

So just pick one.