![]() Either way, authors who do opt in to the program are only locked in for 90 days, so it is easy to experiment with what offers the greatest return. For more established authors or those with significant sales on Nook, Kobo, and elsewhere, the math makes less sense. For those who already sell most of their e-books through Amazon or whose top priority is getting more readers (rather than high payouts), KDP Select offers attractive benefits. The catch in all this is that authors have to publish exclusively through Amazon. Authors can participate in the promotional tools Kindle Countdown Deals or Free Book Promotion. The program gives self-publishers the option to join the publishing giant’s Kindle Owners’ Lending Library (from which Amazon Prime members can check out as many digital books as they want) and the even more expansive catalog of Kindle Unlimited (in which those paying a monthly subscription fee can read as many books as they want). This makes it desirable for an author to distribute across as many platforms as possible, typically publishing with Amazon and then using Smashwords or BookBaby to distribute to all other major retailers.īut Amazon has complicated this with its introduction of KDP Select. These services are for the most part nonexclusive, so an author holds on to her rights and can use any or all of them simultaneously-making revisions, price changes, or removing the work altogether, whenever she chooses. The first major choice a self-published author makes is which major retailers ( Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, Barnes & Noble Nook Press, Kobo, Apple iBookstore) and distributors ( Smashwords, BookBaby, Blurb) to use to publish his or her e-book. But with so many good options, it is also more important than ever for authors to choose carefully how best to position themselves for the greatest chance of engaging the largest possible audience. The wealth of tools, platforms, and services available to self-publishers continues to grow and be refined for an ever-broader reach and greater efficiency. If you don't have the ability to do hand-coding for your FXL mobi, you can try to use one of Amazon's DIY tools, which allow you to put a PDF into a PDF wrapper, that will function as a fixed-layout MOBI file.It has never been easier to publish your own e-book. We just did a book for Jeremiah Tower-and it's reflowable. There are exceedingly few that need to be FXL. Fixed-layout is the format of last resort, not the format of first choice. Also, most cookbooks should NOT be fixed-layout. You can see the coding that you should be using in the Kindle Publishing Guidelines, and the downloadable sample Print Replica books. Unlike reflowable, they are not 98% similar. The two differing types of formats have completely different code. You cannot convert a fixed-layout ePUB into a fixed-layout MOBI. Your issue has nothing to do with Previewers. which (Previewer 3 versus the 'Online Previewer' used during manuscript upload) is the more accurate to use for the purpose of testing how my ebook appears on Kindle readers? ![]() ![]() ![]() However when I uploaded the manuscript on KDP and previewed it on the 'Online Previewer' during the uploading process, it looks wonky with numerous formatting errors, such as out of whack character spacing and paragraph styles running amok. It also looks perfect on Kindle Previewer 3. I verified this book on ePub verifier and there were no errors.
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