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#KINDLE PUBLISHING FREE#

When we say you miss out on billions of potential readers, we are not kidding.

Get the discoverability your content deserves, especially in Google searches.

Here are the major pros of going wide with international book publishing: To build a long-term, sustainable publishing business, don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Sign up to PublishDrive Why publish internationally to more stores? Without further ado, let’s talk about the pros and cons when you sell internationally. But remaining exclusive prevents you from reaching fast-growing markets, like China. In a nutshell, Amazon’s market share of Kindle ebooks is impressive. Try offering your first book of a series, then the rest with wide distribution to see what happens. If you have more than one book, offering them all on Amazon can result in lower royalties. However, we recommend going wide after the 90 days of exclusivity is up. Selling via KDP can be a great choice for newbie authors looking to get familiar with digital publishing.

Also, KDP payouts are getting smaller as competition grows.

For example, you can’t post more than 10% of your content anywhere else online including your personal website or blog.

You would have to meet Amazon’s content limitations.

#KINDLE PUBLISHING FREE#

This includes free book copies and samples. Amazon’s 90-day exclusivity period means you cannot distribute your digital copy outside of Amazon during the first 90 days.Regarding Amazon, we have a built-in Amazon Ads tool to help with your Amazon ad performance (and save on costs). By widening your reach, take advantage of all the other cool perks for promoting your work. Plus, limited distribution means limited promotion options.Publish to more stores or add alternate and lucrative book formats like audiobook or print-on-demand. Set up multiple ways to collect your royalties instead. Especially for those making this their full-time gig, relying on one source of income is risky. If you’re publishing on Amazon ONLY, you miss out on billions of potential readers elsewhere:

Marketing perks like the Kindle Countdown feature for discounted price promotions.īut, there are pretty significant cons with selling exclusively.Kindle Owners’ Lending Library where you earn the same royalties for books borrowed through KU.For some indies, page-reads through KU make up a huge percentage of their income. Kindle Unlimited where you get paid per page based on Amazon’s system (around $.004 to $.005 per page).Besides being a widely recognized platform and market leader in various sectors, KDP benefits include: We’ve covered the pros and cons of selling on Amazon before, and the benefits still stand.

Other services range from cover design support, printed books on demand, book marketing, and more.

Aggregator means a company (like PublishDrive) that handles book distribution for more stores under one roof.Some published authors sell directly to Amazon, then use an aggregator to sell to other major stores. Going wide means to publish books on more than one platform instead of just KDP.If enrolled in KDP, books must be sold only on Amazon for the first 90 days. Amazon-exclusive means to enroll Kindle books in Amazon’s KDP Select and have the access to also enroll in Kindle Owners’ Lending Library (KOLL) and Kindle Unlimited (KU).Before we get into it, here are the main terms to know: