Why should you care about how to publish on Kindle, if you're already selling books? Because the biggest online book shop in the world, Amazon, recently published new and shocking facts: they sell more Kindle versions than printed books.
Last summer, Amazon revealed that the Kindle eBooks sale now was ahead of hardcover versions. However, since January 2011, even the paperback sales were surpassed. For every 100 paperbacks, they sold, they sold 115 Kindle eBooks. And equally since the beginning of that year, Amazon has reported selling three times as many Kindle books as hardcover.
What does this mean for you?
It signifies that you should expect to sell less books this year and in the years to come, unless you how to publish on Kindle.
Actually, even if you're publishing eBooks already, you should still consider Kindle versions as a supplement. People, who are already used to read eBooks, will love the convenience of reading it on a Kindle.
So, how difficult and expensive is it to self-publish a Kindle book?
Good news! It's easy and free!
You need to create a customer account with Amazon, and to log into the Kindle Direct Publishing area. There, you have to fill out a form with your name and address, after which you're taken to your publisher dashboard.
Use the dashboard to add a new title, and again, you have to fill out the forms with the title of your book, a description, author names, etc.
You'll also have to upload a cover and the book files.
There are several available formats to send your text in. The best format is HTML, and most word processing programmes can save or export to that format. If you include illustrations in your book, remember to save those pictures in a folder, and compress folder and files to a zip-file.
When you've uploaded the content, you can do a preview in Kindle format to see, how your book will look, once it's finished.
In your next step, you'll have to decide upon a royalty form as well as a price. You can choose between 35% and 70%. The conditions for the latter is that you own the copyright over the material, and that you price the book between $2.99 and $9.99. Do a bit of calculation, and you'll see that it's probably better to pick $9.99 than $19.95.
Now that you know how to publish on Kindle, you only have to concentrate on writing more books.
To get more details about how to publish on Kindle, go to my blog at http://getmoneymakingideas.com/512/create-kindle-book/
There, you will also find a link to a free version of the eBook "Amazon + Facebook DOUBLY Whammy!" that teaches you how to combine the two to make more sales (no opt-in).
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