While some authors choose to put all their eggs in one basket with KDP, many others find more success by "going wide," or making their books available on Barnes and Noble, iBooks, etc. One option is to create accounts on...
Year: 2016
Marketing Tips
Author Central – The Best Tool You Aren’t Using
Author Central is an Amazon service provided to authors that serves two main functions. First, you can create a single "landing page" within the Amazon store with your biography, photos, and, most importantly, a listing of all your published works. Author...
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Amazon’s Tricky Algorithm
Everyone always talks about The Algorithm, specifically, the one that Amazon uses. So what is it exactly? In laymen's terms, it's a set of rules that Amazon applies to products in its store to determine where that product lands in...
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All About KDP
If you're going to self-publish, familiarizing yourself with Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is probably pretty high on your priority list (right behind getting the manuscript written and edited). When you first arrive, Amazon tells you that your book will be...