I have been meaning to write a series on how you can publish your own content on Amazon Kindle. In truth, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how to publish your own content on Kindle. Many folks are already doing it, and you can find a lot of junk content available for Kindle already. So if you have a decent e-book or valuable content to share, you just can’t afford to not publish it on Kindle.
Amazon Kindle platform may be in its infancy, but early-movers are going to get a big leg up those of us who want to wait a little longer. There is no question that there is value in learning the ins and outs of Digital Text Platform. For starters, it teaches you how to easily publish your own book on Amazon. You also learn how to format your books properly to make your content more presentable on Kindle. But here is the biggest advantage of them all. The sooner you get started with the platform, the faster you can get your book published, and once you are there, you don’t want to stop writing.
Digital Text platform is not that hard to get a handle of. Once you log on to your Amazon account, you are going to see the following menu:
As you can probably, guess, My Shelf is where you will be adding your content to. You will have the chance to set your own price, submit an image for your book, and even preview it all. My Account is about your personal information. Here you can enter your bank information as well as your social security number. You will need to complete this page to get paid by Amazon!
My Reports helps you keep track of your monthly sales and progress. Here you get a chance to run MTD and previous months report. You should keep running these reports to make sure your book is on the right track. If you are not making any sales and you believe you have great content, you may want to take your promotions to the next level.
As you can see, publishing a book on Kindle is not rocket science. If you have written a book, you have already done the tough part. As you will find out in the next parts of this series, putting your content in Kindle store is the easy part.
Stay tuned!
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#1CameronMarch 24, 2009, 5:17 am
I am curious what publishers think of the Digital Text Platform.
Most editing and layout work can be easily outsourced. Amazon’s mechanical turk is one of the best places to do that.
If i am a author, and i can outsource the editing and layout work easily, why do i need a real publisher?
I guess advertising is also important, but again fairly easily done through outsourcing.
The future is going to be very interesting for the publishing industry. I just hope it is a good future.
#2Jon HJune 18, 2009, 3:22 pm
I for one am getting annoyed at all the self-published stuff that clogs up the Kindle store, along with the myriad multiple versions of public domain texts that are probably swiped from Project Gutenberg.
Last night I was browsing through the History selection, sorted by release date, and there must have been 10 pages or more of spam from one publisher alone. For instance, they published Samuel Pepys’ diaries, split up so each text covered only one month. What’s the point of that?
It’s really annoying wading through that stuff.
#3P. RadJune 18, 2009, 6:59 pm
You are absolutely right. I love the fact that anyone can write a book for Kindle platform but there is a lot of garbage out there. I hope Amazon changes its search to help us consumers find and rate products in a more effective passion.
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