How to publish on Amazon Kdp in Nigeria
Kindle direct publishing (Kdp) is one the venture amazon got right, ever since it creation it has been growing both in revenue and number of publisher every year.
Not only is kdp a blessings to amazon it is also a blessing to authors who are tired of traditional publisher. On kdp you can easily publish your book with out any inteferance provided you have all the necessary attachment on ground, attachment like book cover, well formated book, book description e.t.c.
To make money on kdp you don’t need to be a writer, you can outsource the writing to freelancer, but keyword research and other detail should be done by you, you don’t want to leave the most important part of your publishing business to some one.
How to Start Amazon Kindle Publishing In Nigeria
Research and select a niche
If you have been engaging in online business you will know that that he source of online business is to niche down as much as possible, the same apply to kindle direct publishing, you need to make research on the title you will write on.
In this business you don’t write what you want instead you write what people want.
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How to research book title on amazon
Go to Amazon, input a title in to the search bar, if it automatically complete it for you then people are searching for that topic, meaning its a good topic.
To research further, click on 5 to 10 books in the first page, if the sell rank is below 100,000, its a good topic.
Next is to check the number of book in the search result, if it is more than 2000, the title is competitive, you will need to search again.
If you need a lot of long tail keyword, go to the websites below
Write your book
Before you start writing, write out your table of content and the main point you will like to address in the book.
The best way to have a great content is to check the descriptions of books that look like what you want to write, or check their review if you see any any negative review note them down and address such pain point in your book.
Sure, everybody is not a writer, if you fall into this category you can hire freelancer on fiver or up work, I recommend upwork though you might pay more, but you will get a quality work.
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Create your book cover
To Create book cover you can use Canva or Photoshop, if you are amateur in design or don’t know design at all use Canva but if you are pro in design use Photoshop.
Whatever you use make sure you have a catchy cover.
If you want to avoid the stress of creating cover you can outsource it to fiver or upwork.
Type of cover to create on Amazon kdp
On kdp there are two cover you will create depending on the type of book you want to publish, if you are publishing only soft copy, you only need to create a front cover. If it is hard book, you will need to design both front and back cover of the book.
Amazon kindle registration
At this junction you need to register on kdp.amazon.com. provide all the necessary details. Make sure you fill correct email and phone, apart from verification this is where they will be communicating to you.
How to get paid from Amazon kdp in Nigeria
You will need to fill bank details where they will send your earning to. Unfortunately kdp only allow bank details of America, Canada and Europe, Nigeria detail is not allow.
To bypass this you need to register on payoneer, they will give you a US account detail, copy it and fill it into your kdp.
Publish your book
If you get to this place congratulations. This place is divided into three part and they are listed below.
EBook information
Here, you will fill
Book title
Book subtitle if any
Author name
Description
Keyword
Upload your book
You will be ask to upload you book and cover, if it is soft copy you will upload a page, if it is hard copy you will need to upload both front and back cover.
Pricing your book
To price your book correctly, check what price other people in your niche are selling their own. For soft copy you will want to price it below $9.00 and for hard copy you can price above $9. Whatever price you will fill let your niche guide you.
Royalty/profit
Kdp will take 30% profit of your soft copy and 40% of your hardcopy.
Promotion
After publishing your book there are two thing to chose from either you leave your book to faith or you promote it, I’m sure you will not like to leave your sweat written book in the hand of faith.
Well if you do your book will be lost in the ocean of book on kdp.
To promote your book follow below method
Enroll in amazon kindle select
Amazon kindle select is a program that alllow amazon kdp subscribers to read and borrow your book. Of course you will earn from it, the more pages they read the more your money. You might not even sell a book and yet smile to bank every month
Traffic
As I use to say traffic is king, in any online business traffic is very important. Find a way to drive traffic to your book, not only will you sell more, kdp will reward you by pushing your book to front page.
Free promotion
On kdp you have the chance of giving out your book for free. Use this period to ask people that can write you a review to download your book. The more positive review you have the more you will sell.
Conclusion
Kdp business is a profitable business, if you can have patient and didn’t cut corner you will smile to bank details. Take your time to write quality book, remember you are writing to native english audience.
