Untangling Amazon's KDP for Authors ... The Good and the Ugly of KDP for Authors

Part I

If you want to avoid having to invest thousands of dollars printing up a quantity of books and handling fulfillment, then use either Amazon’s KDP or IngramSpark … or both of the two services that provide print-on-demand printing and eBook publishing combined with distribution. With AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Marketing host Dr. Judith Briles is Ruth Schwartz of TheWonderLady.com.

Your take-aways include:

• KDP is the most direct way to get your book up on Amazon, to ensure that the Look Inside feature is activated and that the book will always be available for sale all over the world.

• Why you should buy your own ISBNs and have your own publishing imprint.

• Using the same ISBN with both KDP and IngramSpark, but you have to do it in that order.

• Why NEVER select Expanded Distribution when setting up your book in KDP.

• How to maximize your searchability via KDP categories and keywords, as well as titles and subtitles

• How to write an effective book description

• Ways to use your Amazon Author Page.

• Adding more book categories than the standard two that are offered.

If you don’t want you and your book to be ignored, then the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast is for you. Judith Briles has lots to share in this episode of the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast.