Free Self-Publishing Guide: a step-by-step tutorial to publishing Kindle books on Amazon
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2020
- Your free guide to self-publishing a Kindle book on Amazon - with lots more free resources for publishing your ebooks on retailers around the world!
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🚀 [SALES] This video is about how to publish your book using Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, but if you want more direct help selling more books, these are the best promo sites in 2020: davidgaughran.com/promo-sites
🔧 [DESCRIPTIONS] That book by Libbie Hawker on writing enticing descriptions is called Gotta Read It and I liked it a lot: www.amazon.com/dp/B00OI9HHQY
🔧 [KEYWORDS] @Kindlepreneur has some great posts and videos on keywords. Like this: • 7 Kindle Keywords: Use...
🔧 [CATEGORIES] Check Let's Get Digital for specific advice on adding up to ten categories to your books, but keep in mind you can only do this AFTER you publish. In the meantime, start surveying the Kindle Store for several categories where your book would fit well. 
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Hi David Gaughran loving the video keep them coming :)
Thank you for this, and the free book, and all the other resources. You're an absolute gem.
Great walkthrough. Thanks
you the man david
Great David!!
Thank you!
Love this. I'm totally less terrified now. (P.S. I have the book and left my review - thanks so much for your contribution to the indie author community!)
Excellent information David! Thank you much for answering some of my questions in this video. I’ve subscribed to your course and downloaded your books and will get busy preparing my first book for publishing. Thanks to you, the confusion and nerves have now been replaced by excitement! Yay!
I'm kind of jealous. You have a whole string of exciting firsts coming your way: seeing your first book appear on Amazon and everywhere else is a real buzz. That first sale is an air-punching moment, your first review, your first royalty cheque, your first email from a happy reader. The first time you hold a paperback of one of your books in your hands is a really special moment. There will be frustrations and struggles aplenty too but make sure to really enjoy those moments.
@@DavidGaughran Now I'm EVEN MORE excited! HAHA, I just had my first article published earlier this month on a large website (elephant Journal) and it was so well received by my online tribe - I can't wait for all these "first" you talk about! I'm halfway through your first book and working on my action steps.
Sharing my first article... to lighten up the mood on this pandemic Monday! :) elejrnl.com?p=2610366
Hi David - Thanks for the great video! Very helpful. My first Kindle eBook is on pre-order, and I'm soon to publish the paperback to coincide with the "launch" on December 7. But I have already sent in my additional categories to Amazon, and the paperback categories have been approved. I'm currently waiting on the eBook categories to also be approved. So, perhaps Amazon is now allowing authors to send in their 10 best categories *before* actual publication? (I see you uploaded this video in July '20, so maybe things have changed since then?)
Do you think you could make a tutorial video on self-publishing short stories without having to go through the rigamarole of trying to submit them to literary magazines?
Ian
The free book I mention here - Let's Get Digital - comes bundled with all sorts of bonus resources. One section of that pertains to shorter work - both novellas and short stories.
When I started self-publishing around 10 years ago, I was very excited for the possibilities for short stories - lots of us thought there would be a huge renaissance. Indeed, the first two things I released were short stories.
Readers never took to them, outside of a couple of very specific niches. Novellas took off in a huge way, but short stories never did. They are really, really hard to sell, even when you bundle them up in a collection.
You can write whatever you like, of course, but your path to success is infinitely trickier if you produce a lot of short stories. If you can stretch your wings a little and make them novella length, you'll have an easier time of it, and if you can go further again and make them short novels (i.e. around 50,000 words), then those are very marketable indeed.
Short stories still have their uses. They are incredibly effective when dangled as freebie bonuses to get people to sign up to your mailing list. Other authors might write a prequel novella to their series and make that perma-free to bring new readers in.
Using them as promo tools is great. Trying to sell them - very tricky.
@@DavidGaughran Cool thanks! Also, I have another quick question. Is there a way to make your book Creative Commons just in case if you want to relinquish your copyright later on and allow fans to expand on the lore of your book(s) or does that just qualify as public domain?
Free? I looked up Let's Get Digital and it was listed for $19.99 and a used third edition was listed for $206.99. Good Lord, man, as they say in Ireland.
Hi Lawrence, the fourth edition of Let's Get Digital is available for free in ebook format from Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google, and a bunch of smaller retailers - links are available in the description above. Obviously I can't make paperbacks free, but you can borrow them for free from many libraries. If you want to purchase a paperback copy, that's available for $14.99 or thereabouts from a wide range of online retailers, or your local bookstore. I have zero control over what price marketplace sellers price second hand editions on Amazon or elsewhere, just like any other author or publisher.
@@DavidGaughran Holy crap. Dan Gaughran, himself, sent me a reply. I'll never wash that part of my computer screen again. :) I am interrupting watching another one of your videos- I just discovered you within the week and am voraciously devouring your videos and an interview you had with Joanna Penn. It's also the day I find out a dear journalism instructor of mine for the old days died. So it's been a day. Thank you for the explanation. I'm curious about the book marketing aspect as after being published about 15,000 times in newspapers and the odd magazine, I'm using your advice and the hard-learned advice of others to write a fiction series. So I'm busy writing the first five or six before any are published. Your book, Let's Get Digital, will be part of my learning how to market the books before they are completed. Cheers, good sir. I enjoy your videos. And now with that, I'll return to some bearded fellow who enjoys Irish beer talking about 'Kindle Publishing 2020: the real secret to grabbing All Star Bonus." Again, thanks for the reply.
I gotta add, if a used copy of that book, third edition, is selling for over $200, it certainly shows the value people are placing on it.
@@DavidGaughran Downloaded your digital book, Let's Get Digital, for free, as you said it would be, the first thing I ever "bought" on Amazon. Cheers.
@@lawrencegleason4666 While I would love that to be objective proof of my literary brilliance, these higher prices are usually the result of two bots getting into a bidding war. Some famous cases where it really gets out of control have resulted in books being priced in the millions... but I'd say takers were few enough.