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Kindle Crash Course

Post category:Kindle Publishing
Post author:Roy Rasmussen

Eight Steps to Publishing on Amazon Kindle’s growth has fueled a proliferation of overhyped, overpriced Kindle courses promising instant riches on Amazon even if you can’t write or don’t want to do any work. The fact is that Kindle is just another publishing medium and, like any other publishing campaign, a Kindle promotion requires work to achieve success. Following the steps in this article won’t make you an instant bestselling author without a lot of work. But it might save you some time, and hopefully save you some money paying for information that can be found for free if you know where to look. You can find more details about the steps outlined here in Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing Help area. 1. Create Your Kindle Direct Publishing Account The first step is to create your Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing account. If you already have an Amazon account, you can log…

Book Proposal Basics

Post category:Writing Book Proposals
Post author:Roy Rasmussen

Assembling a Winning Presentation It used to be that if an author couldn’t land a major publisher, their main alternative was vanity publishing, which amounted to paying to have your book published at a financial loss. Today new opti Most books publishers receive are unpublishable, and even of the fraction that are publishable, only a small percentage are profitable. A traditional print publisher needs to sell somewhere on the order of 10,000 to 100,000 copies of a book in order to turn a profit. A winning proposal needs to convince them that your book has this kind of sales potential. Moreover, it has to make your case quickly. Major publishers receive hundreds and even thousands of proposals annually and are forced to adopt screening policies in order to get through them all. A properly-formatted proposal, especially when submitted by an agent with a good reputation, stands a much better chance…

Self-Publishing Options

Post category:Self-Publishing
Post author:Roy Rasmussen

Four Models for Getting Published It used to be that if an author couldn’t land a major publisher, their main alternative was vanity publishing, which amounted to paying to have your book published at a financial loss. Today new options make it possible to self-publish and still make a profit, often even a bigger profit than a major publisher would provide for most authors. Here are four ways to self-publish and make money doing it. 1. Ebooks An easy, quick, and cheap way to get published is to publish an ebook in PDF format. Anyone who can create a Microsoft Word document can publish an ebook, and many ebooks with amateur production quality have been financially successful. However, production quality can be much higher for professional ebooks targeted at business readers, called white papers. Ebooks can be promoted through means such as websites, electronic mailing lists, social media, and affiliate…