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Simple Makes [Life, Software, Everything] Better.
Reader support is crucial, especially for indie authors. If you’ve got a book or an author that you love, here are some additional ways you can support your favorite author, without forking over anymore cash!
My book, Agile Discovery & Delivery, is one year old and I just set-up a KDP Select Book Promotion for the first time to celebrate. It was so easy! Here are the steps I took to do it.
I’ve just added Agile Discovery & Delivery to Kindle Unlimited. That means if you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, you can now read my book FOR FREE! For authors, the way we get our books included in Kindle Unlimited is by enrolling in KDP Select.
My book, Agile Discovery & Delivery, is now also available via Ingram Spark! Ingram Spark distributes to bookstores (Barnes & Noble, Target, all the independent bookstores) and libraries. So, you may very well see my book at your local library or bookstore soon!
Last year, I published my first book through Amazon’s KDP and later also published it through Ingram Spark. This post describes the publishing process for Ingram Spark.
My self-publishing series may is complete for now and I’ve published a new self-publishing series page this week.
This is the final article in my self-publishing series. Here, I discuss my self-publishing timeline, then (with the benefit of hindsight) what I would have done differently and how that would have changed my self-publishing path.
According to Seth Godin in his post entitled Advice for Authors, the best time to promote your self-published book is three years before it comes out. Most of us are woefully behind, but here’s what you can do to promote your self-published book.
If you’ve been following all of the steps in my self-publishing series, then you’re here because you are ready to upload & publish your book on Amazon KDP! This post is all about the uploading process. By the end of this process you will have a published book!
How to format your book for KDP. Formatting the file for a paperback and hardcover book took more time than the eBook did, but I was able to use the exact same file for both the paperback and the hardcover copies of my book. Here’s how!