- I've got five reasons
you should be self publishing
on Amazon KDP in today's video.
Stay tuned.
What's happening, it's Dale here,
and make sure you stick around to the very end
because I'm actually going to give you
some practical steps in publishing your first book,
or third book or fourth book and so on.
Here are five reasons you should be self publishing
on Amazon KDP.
Number one, the path of least resistance.
Amazon is the big dog
in the self-publishing arena.
They have the vast majority
of global publication profits online,
so it would make sense that you would
align yourself with them,
at least starting out.
And the thing is,
between say my channel
and numerous other avenues
on YouTube and podcasts,
and even on Amazon's own website,
there's enough information to get you going
and stating right away.
So as long as you've got the manuscript,
and you've got the willingness
to sit down and learn the system,
you'll be able to get on to Amazon KDP
with zero issues.
Number two, print and Ebook distribution.
You're going out to roughly about
a dozen different websites with your Ebook.
And a little less than that
when you're distributing with your print book.
But that's not to say that there isn't global reach.
You're able to get your book
out into as many hands as you can possibly imagine,
and the next reason is one
of the reasons why I think it's another
exemplary reason for you to jump in
to Amazon KDP head first.
Number three, decent royalty structure.
Okay so Ebooks, you get about roughly 70% royalty.
So that means that you get $0.70 out of every dollar
for a sale of your Ebook
on the Amazon platform.
And then for your print books
you get about 60%, minus the print fees.
So sometimes it can work right about 35% to 50%,
but that's not too bad.
The exception to the rule include, of course,
35% for Ebooks when it's outside
their preferred pricing range.
So if you go outside of $2.99 to $9.99,
it will be 35%.
They want you to price your Ebooks between that,
otherwise it's 35%.
And then if you want to get expanded distribution
of your print book,
that means going out to various other avenues
by way of Ingram Content Group,
you're gonna land in places like walmart.com
and Target and so on and so forth.
That's 40% minus any of the print fees.
Now you're not obligated to have to
actually go through expanded distribution.
You can actually leave that blank,
and if you want to
you can go directly over to IngramSpark.
Number four, native advertising.
If you publish onto Amazon elsewhere,
fantastic, nothing wrong with that.
The problem is you lose out on Amazon advertising.
Being able to natively advertise
over on the Amazon platform
sets you up at a greater advantage
than those that don't have it or use it.
Number five, highly accessible.
Amazon KDP can be accessible
to just about any region you can think of.
Now if you're outside of the normal regions,
so for instance U.S., UK, Canada,
Australia, some other areas,
that's okay, they tend to work around whatever you have.
It's just going to be tough
getting the tax information dialed in,
and getting some way that you can get your funds
by way of check or say through wire transfer for banks.
So it's a little difficult at first
if you're outside the regions.
But the nice thing is Amazon KDP wants to work with
all authors, in all regions.
Hey, I told you I was gonna give you
some practical steps on how to self publish a book.
In fact, I got a full video series right over here.
And I'm gonna start you out
at the very beginning
and work you up to more advanced steps.
And if you've already seen this playlist right here,
come on over and check out this other video.
YouTube says you should check it out.
You choose.
Which one will you choose?