this is a video that's going to show you
how to upload a paperback book to Amazon
at KDP amazon.com and I'm gonna be
specifically talking about the changes
between doing it this way and doing it
on
CreateSpace now you can use this process
to upload a fiction book a nonfiction
book or low content books such as a
notebook so what we do at KDP is go onto
the bookshelf and we click this plus
here as we are making a paperback now of
course we choose the language English
now already we are confronted with the
book title and subtitle and this brings
us on to one of the big differences
between KDP and create space although
you are allowed two hundred characters
which is quite a lot
Amazon clearly doesn't want long titles
here they say customers are more likely
to skim past long titles it's clear that
Amazon really wants our titles to have
around 60 characters so I'm actually
using word here if you put your title
into word and go tools word counts you
then get the character count there so
I'm going to create a book that kids can
write lyrics for songs they want to
write I've been doing a lot of uploading
at KDP and you can get away with a lot
of keywords here again they don't want
you to put keywords in the title but for
notebooks you really have to in a way I
mean you have to say it's a notebook and
then it's a blank line journal or
something like that here I'm saying it's
for kids which again could be construed
as a key word but I have got away with
doing that but the other thing to say is
you can't mention the trim size or the
size of the book in the title in the
same way you could do at create space so
we're gonna skip the series and the
addition number we're just having one
title here with no series and here we go
to author now author was an opportunity
to put some keywords in there
I think now it's one that you should
really just pass on and you would either
give it a pseudonym a pen name a name of
a publisher if you want to build a brand
or a completely made-up publishing name
that's just random that won't get you
into any trouble and that's what I'm
gonna do now okay Jeffrey Church
publishing that's not going to get me
into any trouble
we've got no extra contributors so we go
straight on to the description now if
you want the HTML for a description what
I usually do is Google Kindle preneur
book description HTML generator or
something like that and you've got a
really useful tool here that will allow
you to put your description in and then
give it bold italics and bullet points
and here is my text document where I
usually put all of my description titles
and keywords so the HTML for the
description I had already got and what I
do is I just copy and paste the title in
to the already existing HTML so I don't
have to write it out each time there
isn't a lot in here it's mainly just to
persuade the customer give them anything
I can think of about the book to give
them reason for buying it another thing
I do is it because we can't put the trim
size in the title I usually put it quite
prominently at the beginning of the
description so we'll put that into the
scripture publishing rights we usually
always choose the fact that we own and
hold the necessary publishing rights and
now we get onto the keywords so we've
got a marvelous opportunity to add in
words here that people would use to
search for our book there's seven fields
and they can contain 50 characters each
do not choose any of the words that
you've already used in the title because
that would be a waste and don't use
commas or full stops because that would
also be a waste
and don't repeat words in there plural
form like gift and gifts because that
would be a waste of the second word so
here's an example of my first string of
keywords what I'm doing is I'm not
thinking about the string of keywords in
that one keyword follows each other so
word artist group you know nobody's
going to type in word artist group but
they may well type in notebook for my
artist son who wants to write words to
music or something like that so anything
you can think of that is relevant to the
book's title or to who the book is for
or what the book may be bought for so
they're my keywords done now we'll go in
to choose categories and I know it's
very important but I don't tend to spend
a lot of time here what I do is go
straight to my biz at category XLS and
you can find this by googling vizak
category Amazon XLS or something like
that and then I'd either search for one
of the keywords that describes the book
closely so I'll go on music not
autobiography fine next again biography
- no that's the wrong one this is
juvenile nonfiction there's a music
category in of its own so I want to look
our music songwriting okay I probably
could have found that anyway so this
will be under nonfiction here and then
you'd go music and you had to go into a
subcategory there and there is the
songwriting category that I was looking
for I might put it in children's genre
there of music there's are two
categories remember if you want to put
it into another category that you can
find on Amazon but you can't find in
that category tree that they give you
there
all you have to do is to go down here to
contact us and let them know what
category you want to put your book in
does it contain our content no it
doesn't save and continue' so what we do
is
we assign a free KDP ISBN and you will
be doing that 99% at the time I should
imagine I will leave the publication
date blank so the print options the
default choice is different to how it
was on CreateSpace so you have to choose
the white paper whereas last time it was
white paper as default and the 6x9 is
the default trim size so we've got to go
in and choose the letter size now the no
bleed is what you should choose if there
is no ink or type or imagery or
illustration or lines if you're doing a
notebook going to the edge of the page
here's the PDF of the interior but as
you notice the lines don't go to the
edge of the page if you go into
properties you'll see that this is
exactly the same size as the trim 8.5 by
11 inches the letter size now if the
lines went to the edge then I'd have to
make the PDF a little bit larger to
include the bleed and I would choose the
bleed option here in order to make
everything simple with notebooks or
anything else I would not put any ink or
type or illustration or whatever going
to the edge of the page keep it within
the margins and I'm keeping it within
0.5 of an inch margin and then
everything is simple you don't choose
bleed and you use the same trim size for
your interior as the trim size for your
product
okay paperback cover finish that's up to
you I'm going for glossy right now here
is where we upload the PDF that I just
showed you the PDF of the interior with
all the pages and you have to wait a
little bit for that to upload but not
very long hopefully and then you've got
a choice for the book cover I'm going to
talk about the cover creator in another
video I'm going to upload a print-ready
PDF for my cover and here it is it's got
an illustration on the front
no type on the front whatsoever no text
so my title is there on the spine and
it's over a hundred pages so I can do
this and that is exactly the same as the
title I put in at the beginning of this
video it's very important your title in
KDP needs to be either on the cover or
on the spine or on both so I'm uploading
that PDF now and that won't take too
long either and we don't have a barcode
on it so we don't check this box don't
bother about that and they will put a
barcode on the back cover so no need to
worry about that now we've uploaded
everything what we've got to do now is
launched the previewer we have to do
this in order to get to the next step
and this is the moment where everyone
complains because it takes a long time
here it is it really doesn't take that
long if you go and wait and do something
if you sit here and watch it yeah a
couple of minutes seems like a long time
but it really isn't so now the preview
is open I'll leave it up to you whether
you want to check everything if you want
to check all the pages are centered but
if you're doing notebooks like me you're
pretty confident you've got it right so
you just hit approve here at the bottom
and then you go back to the same page of
the paperback content you have to scroll
all the way down in order to continue
and now you're on the last leg of the
process not long now you've just got to
decide on your price and how much money
you want every time somebody buys one of
these books so all territories I go for
and I check expanded distribution now
you might sell a few more if you do that
it's not much but the point is I got
this from Katherine Shelton really put
the price up because this is a larger
book put it for sale everywhere you know
in Europe and Japan you'll get some
sales even in Japan you'll get sales
you'll definitely get sales in in UK and
your
and what I tend to do is I put these
prices up to with a ninety nine or
something like that as the euro price is
so close to 6.6 euro I'm going to put it
down to $5.99 and put them in the rest
of the year you don't have to do this I
don't know if it's going to sell much in
Italy and maybe put a 99 at the end of
the Japanese yen price but it really
doesn't matter the point is just always
make sure you're getting between one and
two dollars royalty don't put it down
less than one dollar or one euro or one
pound even in fact you know a book like
this could be sold if it if it becomes
successful I might put it up great 99
but we'll see but that is it all you've
got to do now is publish your paperback
book and then in a few hours as long as
there isn't an issue with the title then
it will be on sale on Amazon in America
Europe Japan and every time someone buys
this book it will get printed and
delivered to them and you will receive
your royalty my name is Rob Cohen I'll
see you in another video