Krista launched her first ecommerce site in 2001 and soon grew to operate two niche B2B and B2C sites. She shares her experience with Fit Small Business readers as part of office management, sales, ecommerce, and other retail content. Anyone can sell books on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). Opening an Amazon KDP account, listing, and selling books on Amazon are all free-and you get paid each time a book sells. We'll walk you through setting up an Amazon KDP account and show you how to sell books on Amazon in four simple steps. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing is a free platform that lets independent authors sell both e-books and print-on-demand books on Amazon. It costs nothing to join KDP and sell e-books on Amazon, and www.uneditedmeat.Com you're paid a royalty, ranging from 35 to 70 percent of your book's price, every time it sells. As a KDP author, you can sell on Amazon as well as marketplaces like Smashwords. Or, you can enroll some or all of your titles in Amazon's exclusive sales program, called KDP Select.
Listings in Kindle Unlimited (KU) - Amazon's very popular subscription reading program pays authors per-read rather than per sale. Listings in Kindle Owners' Lending Library (KOLL) - Gives every Kindle owner access to your title, and like KU, you're paid on a per-borrow basis. Inclusion in KDP Select Promotions - Limited-time free pricing and special pricing countdown deals help attract readers and quickly grow your book reviews. KDP authors can choose to list all, none, or just certain titles in KDP Select, so you're always in control of where and how your books are sold through Amazon. Now we'll show you how to get started with KDP and start selling e-books on Amazon, all in four easy steps. You can open your Amazon KDP account whether you have a book ready to sell or not. In fact, it's a good idea to open your Amazon KDP account even before you have a book ready so you can access KDP's many helpful tools and publishing tutorials.
This way, when you book is complete, your account is already in place. The KDP sign-in screen runs you through the basic up-front in a short video. As you can see on the yellow Sign-in button, you need an Amazon account to create a KDP account. It's important to note that Amazon seriously frowns on individuals having more than one Amazon account. "Writers or business professionals with a business entity with its own tax number and bank account can sell books on Kindle Direct Publishing without having withholding taken out of royalty payments," says Chesson. "Of course, royalty earnings must be included on business taxes, and Amazon provides the proper tax form for that. Once you've decided how to proceed-as an individual or business-you're ready to create your Kindle Direct Publishing account. Your Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing account setup is free and takes just minutes to complete. Once your Kindle Direct Publishing account setup is complete, you can log into your KDP dashboard, shown below.
Visit the Amazon KDP help center to quickly learn the ins-and-outs of selling books on Amazon. Your KDP dashboard is where you upload, price, manage, and track sales on all of your Amazon book titles. Plus, you'll find a whole host of tools to help you create and publish e-books, as well as print-on-demand paperbacks and audiobooks, and then market them throughout the Amazon marketplace. It's a good idea to explore all of these tools and tutorials even before your book is ready to publish. You should also read through Amazon KDP's content and quality guidelines to understand what Amazon KDP expects from authors in terms of writing quality. After setting up your Amazon KDP account, it's good to create your Author Page on Amazon's Author Central, too. This is a page on Amazon that lists your titles all in one place, plus it gives you a spot to list your biography and connect with readers shopping for books on Amazon.
Setting up your Author Page in Author Central is automated and takes just minutes. To create your Author Page, you need to join Author Central, but this takes just seconds to complete. Amazon pulls your information in from your account, so the entire process is fairly automated. Once you've confirmed everything, Amazon will email you a link to your Author Page setup screen, where you can add your head shot, bio, blog posts, and even your speaker or appearance schedule if you have one. It can take Amazon a few days to make your Author Page live, so it's a good idea to set it up when you create your KDP account so it's ready when you are. Your Amazon Author Page is hosted on Amazon and once set up, it lists all of your titles in one place. Joanna Penn, a successful author who publishes both fiction and nonfiction works in Kindle and print books, makes great use of her Amazon Author page as a marketing tool. This artic le was done by GSA Content Generator Demoversion!