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While uploading your paperback at Kindle Direct Publishing, you’ll eventually reach the Manuscript section on the Paperback Content screen.  You’ll upload your formatted manuscript in the section. Presumably, you’ve already formatted your book. If not, you’ll need to do that first. A variety of document types can be used to upload your book to KindleDP. YourContinue reading “How to upload your manuscript at KindleDP”

When uploading your paperback to Kindle Direct Publishing, the first screen – Paperback Details – provided Amazon with information it can use to build a page for selling your book as well as telling them how you’d like them to promote your book. Now you need to upload an actual product to sell. That’s done on theContinue reading “Filling out KindleDP’s Paperback Content screen”

When uploading your paperback to Kindle Direct Publishing, the book description section often trips up authors. It appears on the Paperback Details screen. The description is the text that summarizes your book in the Amazon.com page. Getting it to read well is vital. In addition to your book cover and title, most potential buyers of yourContinue reading “Filling out KindleDP’s Book Description section”

When self-publishing a paperback at Kindle Direct Publishing, the first screen where you’ll fill out information is the Paperback Details Page. To access it, go to your Bookshelf screen. Presuming you have not already uploaded an ebook version of the book, look on the top right for a big yellow box that says “Create.” Click it.Continue reading “How to fill out KindleDP’s Paperback Details page”

When self-publishing at Kindle Direct Publishing , one of the key screens that you’ll start from and return to is the Bookshelf. The Bookshelf essentially is a digital listing of all of the books you’ve uploaded to KindleDP and are selling on Amazon. You’ll be able to choose if you want to look at your ebook,Continue reading “Understanding KindleDP’s Bookshelf Page”

One you’ve created the paperback cover for your self-published book, the next step is to upload it. Before doing so, save the cover as a .pdf. The cover should be no more than 40 MB in size. Kindle Direct Publishing actually will take covers up to 650 MB in size, but the loading takes forever, andContinue reading “How to upload your paperback cover at KindleDP”

Once you’ve selected your artwork for your paperback cover, you next have to prep and place it on the document that you’ll use to build the total cover. This can be the most time-consuming part of the cover creation process, but not rushing through it is vital. Get the artwork wrong, and you’ll lose sales, ifContinue reading “Guidelines for Placing Artwork on Your Cover”

The next step in the paperback cover design is to sketch what your cover will look like. This is your cover’s blueprint. Creating a sketch to follow as you gather the materials needed to bring your design to fruition, you’ll save yourself time by not having to redo work if you’re just pantsing it. Your sketchContinue reading “Sketch Your Paperback Cover Before Building It”

Just as construction workers follow blueprints, so should you when creating your cover. If you don’t, you’ll probably build something that can’t be uploaded or that won’t pass your self-publishing company’s vetting process. You’ll then have to start all over or will end up paying someone to fix your errors. To begin with, understand that theContinue reading “Create Document to Build Your Paperback Cover”

An paperback cover – perhaps wrongly – tells the reader a lot about the pages that follow. A poor cover hints at unprofessional writing. So invest a little time working on the full cover, even though you’re a writer. After all, you’re not a fashion designer, but you still wouldn’t dress your child in rags duringContinue reading “Paperback cover consists of three major parts”