How do you publish a book on kindle?
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
How can you publish a book on kindle the fastest and most effective way possible?
I no wonder you want to publish your book on kindle because it is the fastest and easyest way to get attention and make a living as a publisher without all the hassle, delay, expenses of traditional publishing.
In many cases my finished books were up and running with all the automated promotions set up in half a day. Actually you can do all the work in ten minutes, the rest of the 12 hours was just waiting for the book to get accepted by amazon.
Amazon book publishing is a new opportunity for the skilled but never recognized writers to shout out and find their way to their potential fans having equal or greater potential than big publisher companies. The fact is that publishing services know way less of kindle publishing than the fresh and upcoming generation of self published writers.
The kindle market is one of the fastest growing industry nowadays. Hundreds of thousands of kindle devices are beling sold every day which means kindle publishing has not even reached it’s true potential.
Fact is that now kindle books penetrated even the laptop and smart phone market which is an even bigger reach for you to get readers for your books.
There are many self published authors on kindle who become a millionaire just by clicking through the simple publishing process of amazon kdp select. For example there is Amanda Hocking who is selling more than 400.000 copies of her self published kindle books.
Now that you became pretty excited I show you how to start publishing your books. I hope you already have opened the book in a word document. Now just hit the button and save that text as html.
You have to include only 3 code snippets in the html file so amazon can convert your html into the proper kindle format.
| Kindle Code | What It Does |
| <mbp:pagebreak/> | Forces a page break. Used at the start of new chapters |
| <a name=”start”> | The beginning of the book with the author information and dedication if you want to do one. |
| <a name=”TOC”> | A Kindle book will automatically open to the table of contents with this tag. |
Right after the <body> tag insert the <a name=”start”> tag into the code. I recommend to use the pagebreak tag after each chapter so the book will have a nicer look while reading.
Now lets see how do you publish a book on kindle with 3 simple steps!
Fist is to get an account at kdp.amazon.com. The registration is easy and won’t take longer than 30 seconds.
After you logged in you just fill out your personal information and you are ready to publish with two clicks.
Just hit the add new title button, where you can upload the html fila you have just created, upload your book cover insert your prices and that is it!
You have officially published a book on amazon kindle!
But don’t leave just yet because I want to share with you 2 great strategies to hit the best seller status right after you published your books on kindle.
First: look for the top reviewers on kindle and get in touch with them. At first look at their reviews they have written and if they have a good personality and you feel comfortable to send them a greeting email then don’t hesitate to get in touch with them and ask for a honest review.
Once you gathered about 5 reviews on your book do a one day free promotion for your book. This will brin a lot of eyeballs on your books and in 5 days the orders will start rolling in.
I did a test recently with two os my scifi books. I had other projects but I published two of them Without the free promotion they were sitting on the virtual shelfs without anyone noticing them.
But right after the free promotion the sales started adding up.
I hope I could help you to get your first book published on amazon kindle!