this video is part two to creating and publishing your very own hardback book
on amazon via the kdp platform now in part one we looked at creating and getting your interior
which in this case was a lined notebook interior here we have the pdf file for that which you can
download from my gumroad shop completely free of charge which i'll leave a link to in the
description below and we also went through creating the cover for our book and this is
a travel journal now if you've not watched part one i suggest pausing this video and going to
watch part one first which i'll leave a link to down below in the description so we've got the
interior for our book together we've got our cover and now it's time to upload it to the kdp platform
and hit that publish button now before we do that welcome to my channel my name is Paul Marles and i
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okay so we've got our cover and interior and we've logged into our kdp account
or you've just created your your kdp account by signing up for one which is free of charge and
here you'll see we've got this option to create a hard cover book which it says is in beta or beta
and all we need to do is just click on that and here we have the first page which is our hard
cover details now first of all we want to put in our title now the title of a book has to appear
on the front cover or the spine of the book and our book was called a travel journal so
we'll write that in the top book title next we come to the subtitle which is a little bit more
information about the book so we could put in something like blank lined notebook for travelers
again this is very quick and very simple to show you how the process works we can ignore the series
we can ignore the edition number and we come along to author where you can put in the first middle
and last name of the author this can be a pen name it can also be a brand name be aware that amazon
or kdp doesn't like the use of keywords here so just be careful if you start putting in things
like notebook or journal into the author name here i'm just going to use something i've used before
as an example and that is retro press so that'll be the first and last name contributors we can
ignore description again will be very similar to the subtitle but you want to put in some details
about you know the number of pages the the size of the book who it's intended for so i'll just
write something in here quickly and what i've written there is extremely simple now remember
this is a bit like your sales page so just put something a bit enticing a few more details
that describes your book now the next stage is the publishing rights now for this you click
on i own the copyrights and necessarily necessary publishing rights where it says here public domain
work that refers to public domain works that you're putting inside the book and that might
be a non-fiction or fiction piece which is out of copyright and is in the public domain however i'd
be careful doing this because amazon does say that if there are already books published with those
public domain works and they're for free it's likely that they won't publish your book because
why because it's already there what they don't want is whole lists and you know all the space
taken up of amazon of just free public domain works so we've clicked the correct box there
now when it comes to keywords i've done a video on this on how i choose keywords and i've done
another video on how i use keywords now basically if we go to amazon and just type in travel journal
we'll see that we get these options here which can be used outright as phrases some people will put
these phrases in the seven keyword boxes so one keyword box might have travel journal for women
the next might have travel journal for couples next might be travel journal notebooks etc what
i tend to do is something slightly different and is that i will put in individual words now
in the title i've already used travel journals so i won't repeat that in my seven keyword boxes
but i would put in these individual words so just as a quick example here i will
type in women couples notebook kids for men gift now i've done this very quickly i will tend to
to fill up these boxes with with more single words so what happens is when someone searches
they may put in sort of travel journal for women or travel journal for couples and because you've
got travel journal in the title that combined with the keywords in these seven keyword boxes
hopefully your book would have a chance of being found doesn't mean 100% it would be found because
you're probably in competition with a lot of other books but there is a chance that it could be found
next we choose our category and for this we've got lots of different categories to choose from
so you need to choose categories that are most appropriate to your book and there's no quick way
unless you use paid for tools of doing this other than by going through the different categories
so here i've clicked on non-fiction scroll down and we've got a section here on travel
so to be quick i'll just click on general and museum tours points of interest now
it's probably not the most accurate of category to put it in but again this is just an example
okay so go and pick two that are most appropriate to your book then we click on save and continue
the next is the isbn number now you can purchase your own isbn numbers but there's no real point
in doing that because you can just get a free one from amazon so i just click on the assign me a free
kdp ISBN number assign ISBN and that's it it's all done for you don't need to fill
out anything on the publication date now here we come to the print options and you've got a
choice of a few different options here black and white on cream paper black and white and white
paper premium color on white paper if you start using color it's going to cost you a lot more to
have the book printed which could eat away at your profits most likely you'd have to price your book
quite high which might mean you're ending up pricing yourself out of the market for this it's
a lined interior can just be plain black and white and i normally just use the white paper you could
try cream paper if you like but i think sticking to something basic like black and white and white
paper is advisable interior trim size well from our first video we know that our interior is six
by nine inches you can select a different size if you've created a different sized book and you've
got the choice of five here there's no option at the moment to create custom sized hardcover books
which you can with paperback books then we come to bleed settings now because this is a lined
interior and the lines go from one edge of the page to the other this is going to be a page with
bleed so we click on bleed and then we've got the choice of cover now my personal preference is matt
i've bought some of my own books that have the mac cover and i really like the feel it's got a nice
quality feel and i notice in reviews people say the same thing when i first started i did produce
a lot of glossy covers now apparently if the cover is very dark or black glossy is good because
it doesn't show the finger marks up as much as matte would do but i actually like the mac cover
it feels thick it's just got that nice texture to it but the choice is yours next is the manuscript
which is the interior of our book now i showed you earlier on the interior which was that lined
interior in pdf format with 120 pages so we click on upload hardcover manuscript find where you've
downloaded your interior to your computer and from there just upload it to kdp usually takes
a few seconds depending on your internet speed and as we can see it says uploaded successfully next
is the book cover now we've created our own book cover in canva which we did in the last video
so we can click on upload a cover you've already made and again click on upload your cover file
again find on your computer where you downloaded that to and upload it to this particular section
this sometimes takes a little bit longer and you'll see it says cover uploaded successfully and
as we scroll a bit further down this launch previewer will change from white to orange
and we need to click on that next and again this will take a few moments to do its stuff and when
that's done our print previewer will automatically open and you'll see here we've got our
book cover and if we click on the arrows we have our interior and you can see here where they're
going to print the isbn number now what you're looking for are any red warning triangles here
and any warnings written down here on the left hand side menu and on the cover we don't have any
of those and on the interior we don't have any either if you are using my free lined interior
again you should have no problems you should have no warnings and it should upload without
any issues now you can go through every single page if you like just to check they are all okay
don't need to do that i know this particular interior is absolutely fine so what we can
do is click on approve so once we've approved that we'll see down here we have our printing
costs now the print cost here is going to be 6.94 which is going to affect the pricing of
our book and that is the next page so we click on save and continue and this takes us to our last
page before publishing now when it comes to territories i normally just leave this
check mark which is all territories worldwide rights primary marketplace i leave as amazon.com
that's the biggest marketplace where you hope to make the most sales so why not leave that there
then we come to pricing now for most paperback journals of this size and also larger sizes
the average price is usually around 6.99 however with that print cost over six dollars
obviously that pricing isn't going to work so we're going to have to price these higher
and it says here the minimum price of 11 is 11.57 max 250 so i think the pricing
is going to have to be somewhere around the 14.49 mark to 14.99 mark so if we put that in
here we can see it will tell us our royalty now with the paperback 120 pages at 6.99 our royalty
is usually around about 1.90 so it looks like 14.49 is going to be around the price mark now
there's not many hardcover books published via kdp on amazon at the moment so it's difficult to tell
what most people are going to be selling their book at but i keep an eye out for that and aim
for around that price it might be that 14.99 is the price that most of these books are published
at and kdp will also populate these other boxes in relation to what you've put in as a dollar
price and you can leave them as is or change them to whatever you prefer sometimes i might change
this to something like 10.49 same here 12. 29 etc and then the next stage which is the most
scary stage for some people and that's to click on publish your hard cover book your book will then
go into review now it does say here it can take up to 72 hours when i first started it used to take
only about 10 to 12 hours don't be surprised if it takes longer than 72 hours if things get very busy
on kdp and that may be the case with this new hardcover version there may be lots of people
converting their paperback books into hardcover books it may overwhelm the system a bit so you may
find sometimes it can take five to sometimes up to 12 days to get your book reviewed and published
but once that happens congratulations you're an author publisher and you've published your hard
cover book now if you didn't watch part 1 of this video then i suggest clicking here to watch this
next or you might be interested in this link here to my book publishing tutorials when i go
into certain aspects of the publishing process in more detail thank you very much for watching
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