How to publish your book on Amazon for free?
You are a published author but by the time your manuscript gets approved by the publishing house, the new story inside you is making you restless. So why not try self-publishing on Amazon for free? Even better, if you are a good writer and now want to become an author, try your luck at Amazon for free. Your author journey can kick start from Amazon in simple steps.
Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)
Create an account on Amazon KDP or if you already have an Amazon account for your shopping, use the same one here. Now follow the steps on the page and follow their simple instructions. You need not worry about anything else except that your story is properly written and edited.
- Enter your title and subtitle of the story with a description.
- Choose if you want to publish an ebook, paperback or hardcover.
- Choose your primary language.
- Enter author details and each and every field is important that will reflect you as an author on the internet. So be intelligent while filling in.
Keywords
After you finish with the above selection process, keywords come in where you should put all relevant keywords that would fetch your book on the search engine. One of the best ways to search keywords is to go yourself and type in the book title and let Google finish it for you. There would be a number of keywords that people search and now Google has given all of them in front. Make a list and fill it with your keywords.
Manuscript
Complete your manuscript on a Word document, edit it and upload it on KDP. Do proofread your manuscript properly because if you want to edit something, you need to do it in the Word document and upload it again through the same process on KDP.
Book cover
Another important step in the publishing journey is to upload an impressive book cover. KDP offers you an option to design your own book cover or you can even make it on Canva. A book cover plays like a recall too. Your readers may connect instantly with the cover design and buy your book.
To follow one on one steps for KDP publishing, check this out.
Self-publishing is also an art. It’s not like you are publishing it yourself so it can be done anyway. Make your strategy wisely and promote your book well once it’s published on KDP. You are the publisher and marketer of your book so be the connection between the two. There are endless possibilities to publish your book on Amazon for free but the question is when are you starting?
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