how to self-publish a children's book on
Amazon using Kindle direct publishing my
name is Eric ordinary I've published
over eight books at the time of filming
this on Amazon and they continue to do
very well for me indeed five of them of
which I've actually reached number one
bestseller which is great now what you
want to do is go to first of all KDP
amazon.com kindle direct publishing is
what KDP stands for and it's amazon's
publishing platform now you can print
publish print books and kindle books
from this particular platform so we're
going to do is you're going to go in and
actually create an account so when you
go and do that which is completely free
of charge you will at first have nothing
showing here and as you publish your
books they will all show up here in your
authors page so what you're going to do
is choose whether you're doing a
paperback that's a hardcopy book or
whether you're doing a Kindle eBook
because they just choose which one you
want and then you simply start entering
all the details now I've got one here
that I've started setting up just so
that I don't have to make you wait while
I log everything in so I'm just going to
sign in with my details and basically
when you go in to set this up it will
ask you all these questions so first
what's the language of your book what's
the title do you have a subtitle is it
part of a series or audition who's the
author
are there any contributors what's the
description or the blurb of your book
that you want to show up on the Amazon
sales pages do you own the copyright so
yes if it's your own work and then you
own the copyright so yes you'll tick
that box and you'll want to pick some
keywords that suit your particular book
and then go in and choose your different
categories so basically when you click
on this box this is where you would go
in and find you know what kind of book
does yours
best suit you're allowed to choose up to
two categories I'm just going to pick
one for this because mine's quite
straightforward a little book and is
that adult content in it so that's all
I've gone in and filled in on this bit
so far press save and continue and it
would take you through to the next step
okay then once you move into the second
stage the second step of publishing your
book what you want is an ISBN now this
is basically an international number
this it's like the barcode that goes on
the back of your book if your book has
an ISBN number then it can be searched
for by bookstores and libraries and the
like so you definitely need an ISBN now
you can buy your own I often buy my own
from a website called thought Balcom and
or you can just use Kindles ISBNs so if
you just want to keep this really really
simple free and cheap then select this
if you want to have your own ISBN so if
basically you want to act as your own
publisher then go to a website like
thought baucom you can buy about ten
ISBNs at a time for about one hundred
and eighty dollars it works at about
eighteen to twenty dollars per ISBN
barcode but if you want the free one
from Kindle just click that box there
and it will automatically assign you
once and that's one option you have now
what date is your book being published I
was filling this in the other day and so
mine shows Christmas Day 2019
and then you come into all of your
different printing options so do you
want color do you want black and white
do you want cream or white paper what
size do you want your book to be and so
on so choose do you want your front
cover to be shiny and glossy or more
matted and then you want to upload your
paperback manuscript so you need to have
your inside of your book your interior
of your book as a PDF document so make
sure that you have either saved that as
a PDF so it says here we recommend using
PDF file format and make sure it doesn't
have the cover on it this is only for
your internal file only so all I did was
uploaded that so that I didn't have to
make you sit through waiting for my
internet to upload it and I'm actually
going to just upload a new cover file
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the next thing you're going to do is now
launch the preview and what this does is
actually allows you
to have a look at what your book will
look like once it comes out of the
printing so you press launch previewer
it would take a minute just to load up
this previewing file and then it will
give you the opportunity to kind of flip
through every single page and see how
it's going to come out when it loads up
it will look like this so you can
basically click on this little arrow
here and it would take you through the
book to have a look at every single page
now if there are any problems with any
of the pages it will put like in the
little exclamation mark at the top here
and it will also put exclamation marks
along with this left hand side and how
are you if anything is wrong and if so
what is is wrong if it's not working
away it's not working so all I need to
do is just basically go through have a
look does it all look like everything
fits in the right place scroll through
the book it can take a little bit of a
while for these each of these pages to
load depending on how fast your internet
is and so I'm just going to pause the
video and just go through my book to
make sure that it all looks okay alright
so once you've gone through all of your
different pages and you're happy that
everything looks right then quite simply
go down here and press a proof now it
won't let you press approve if something
is wrong okay so if it's not letting you
press it then there is some kind of
error ie it's normally what's called the
bleed line around there so normally just
have to re-upload your file and select
the bleed out option on the details page
we were just on but I'm gonna press
approve on that now what that will do is
it will tell Amazon that I'm happy with
the book and ready for it to go to
publish so I'll show you now what has
happened so there we've got all of our
information I want bla bla bla bla bla
this is what I want there's my interior
there's my cover I've launched the
previewer and now what will happen is it
will tell you how much it will cost you
to print your book so this particular
brick I have here this children's book
it's full-color all the way through and
it's 25 pages long and for me to print a
copy myself will cost me three dollars
and sixty-five cents if I click on the
other marketplaces again it tells me and
all of the other different shops how
much it will cost me so as you can see
this is where you have the opportunity
to actually make some money
Amazon acts as the print
on my behalf so if I wanted to order a
whole bunch of copies for myself all I
would have to do is order as many copies
as I want at three dollars and
sixty-five cents each plus shipping I
can have a massive box of those books in
my spare room which is exactly what I do
and then when I go to events or market
stalls or anything like that I can then
sell these books for you know 15 20
dollars each as you can see making even
after shipping quite a decent profit so
the other option is that Amazon
basically will ship and send out all of
your books for you so if I went to
Amazon and I bought your book obviously
I would be paying whatever it is that
you're charging on Amazon and Amazon
will just ship the book out to me so
I'll show you a little bit more about
where you set the pricing because that
comes next so now I know that it's going
to cost me three dollars and sixty-five
cents to actually print this particular
book now I get to choose how much I want
to sell it for so the first thing going
to do is select where do you want to
sell it or I want to sell it everywhere
let's go worldwide because that's the
whole point of going out on one of these
massive platforms and what's the primary
marketplace and how much you're going to
sell it for so for instance I'm based in
oh I'm based in Australia but that's not
coming up so let's just go to amazon.com
I'm gonna sell this for a 1199 so I'm
gonna stick in here 1199 US so this will
tell me now exactly how much money I
will get in my royalties so yes if I
print physical copies myself and take
those physical copies away and sell them
in person then obviously I will make a
lot more profit but if Amazon is doing
all of the dispatching printing posting
for me even when it's old 1199 I will
actually only be taking three dollars
and 54 cents profit with the expanded
distribution which basically takes out
two bookstores and online retailers
libraries and things like that I
actually only get one dollar and 15
cents for my book and that's because
there's a number of different people the
shippers the Packers the loaders the
shops everything else that has to take
their cut on the profit margin - so look
this puts some people look at this again
oh my god
Rhodri selling a book on Amazon well
because it's got millions and millions
of buyers and these numbers do add up
and I'd like to use this platform as a
place for people to be able to find me
so anyway look that's that's another
conversation for you to have outside of
this video but if you show all of the
other places that it can be it will be
sold you'll see all of the different
profit margins that you get what your
royalty is that you take home and you
understand that it would take about 72
hours for your book to be available for
purchase on Amazon look this is the
ninth book that I have published and all
of them have taken less than 24 hours to
go up so it always takes a lot quicker
than they suggest it will but just allow
for 72 hours for those of you that are
doing pre-sales or anything like that
don't tell people it will be ready
tomorrow just in case it takes a little
bit longer do you want a printed proof
of this book yes you can and quite
simply you press the big yellow button
publish your book so I'm gonna press the
publish your book oh I'll let us take
100 years and my amazing Australian
Internet and voila there we go so this
is now a little summary I have a 9th
published book Bundy ghosts bears
Bundy's adventures and it will now be in
my book store
now one of the things you need to do
next so I can press Start your ebook now
and I do actually have an e-book file
for it but I'm not going to do that for
now so I'm just gonna press closed
because I'm gonna do that a bit later on
what I want to show you something you
need to do now is you know I want to
make sure that you have all of your
books basically attributed to you when
you people go to your Amazon profile so
what you need to do now is just quickly
go to Amazon Amazon
what's it called author central Amazon
author central just type in Amazon
author central into Google and author
central to amazon.com will come up make
sure you log in you're logged in as
yourself and you have a couple of
options here so the first thing is to
setup your author page so this is
basically a little bio about you you can
add in your blog you can add in pictures
of yourself
and in social media URLs and all that
business and when basically when people
search your name on the internet or in
Amazon and that profile will come up but
what you need to do now is basically
assign books to yourself so you're gonna
go to add more books and I'm gonna now
search for Bundy's adventure Bundy
coaster bears just published press GO
now it might not show up yet so it's
saying it's not there yet so what I'll
do do tomorrow is our way today and I'll
come back in here and I'll press search
again because by then it should have
loaded onto the Amazon System and what
will happen then is it will actually
show up here and all you do is click on
that and say this is my book and of
course it will know that it is because
it knows that you you are who you say
you are and then it will basically add
it to your Amazon profile so that people
can see all of your books that you have
published so that is how you very simply
quickly and easily publish a book on
Amazon in print copy and exactly the
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