okay in this video let's just take a quick look
at the kindle direct publishing platform kindle direct publishing is owned by
amazon and it allows people to self-publish
books so years ago obviously in order to publish a book if
you had something to say or if you had a book to publish
or you wanted to tell a story or do an autobiography or a memoir or do a
self-help book or some sort of a book helping people
with some task or other then obviously you
needed a publisher and then you needed not just the
publisher but you needed somebody some business some bookstore or
bookstores to carry your book and that wouldn't be
easy obviously you needed a distributor so and so on as well
nowadays with the kindle direct publishing platform
owned by amazon anybody can publish a book and i've published a number of
books i thought it might be useful because it might be something that you
would have considered from time to time either writing a book a non-fiction book
or indeed a fiction book a book of short stories a book of poetry
a help book some sort of a book explaining how you do a particular task
or how to book or indeed just a novel so this is the kindle direct publishing
platform and this is my account and i'm going to sign in and just give you a
quick look at what it's like and what the situation
is so we sign in there
and this is the back end of the kindle direct publishing
platform so you've got bookshelf which is here
you've got my books the art of marketing your services business online
you have the kindle book and you have the paperback so you can
distribute and create both through the kindle direct publishing platform of
buying a house in ireland step a step-by-step guide of 31 irish
employment law cases i have employment law in ireland that's
a book that sells very very well i have a short book on annual leave and
public holiday entitlements and a short book on how to carry out a
disciplinary workplace disciplinary over here then if you take
a look you can edit the ebook details you can
edit the content you can edit the pricing you can promote
and advertise and you can change the cover you can
update it and so on and so forth it's precisely the same situation with
the print book and you can see there that you can make various changes and
update the book as you wish then in order to see the
book online we can have a look here and that brings
you over to this is my author page here
so buying a house in ireland employment law in ireland
27 8 employment law cases and so on and so forth and then i've got another page
here someplace which is very useful and
it allows all the books then are set out there as you can see
this is obviously a huge change and it's a game changer
for somebody who wishes to publish their own book
or has a story to tell but also from the point of view of developing
for example your business especially if it was
for example a professional services business
then you're going to have a fair degree of cachet
and a fair degree of status as a consequence of having
published a book on amazon and being a published author now i'm not sure
quite frankly what your level of knowledge
or sophistication is about book publishing
and about when you come across a book online for example
let's say you see a photograph of one of my books on twitter
or you see a photograph of one of my books on amazon or on facebook if i was
promoting it for example would you be aware that i had
self-published that book myself or would you assume that it was
published by a traditional publisher i don't know as i say whether
your degree or sophistication about this would allow
you to differentiate some people some people with literary
and writing pretensions have a certain snob
attitude towards self-publishing but quite frankly
i wouldn't have that i think it's a fantastic platform the
kindle direct publishing platform and i think it's
fantastic to give anybody the opportunity to publish their own book
and not to be waiting to be picked not waiting to be chosen not waiting to get
a publisher not waiting to get a distributor not
waiting to get book shops to carry your book
not going around door to door or business to business hocking your book
amazon.com uk or amazon.com obviously sells a massive amount of books and it's
a fantastic place for the likes of me to be selling my book or books
as you can see here and um it is a fantastic opportunity but anyway
um at the back end obviously then of the
kindle direct publishing platform this is the bookshelf area so that's all
the books here then you've got the reports so you've got the sales reports
for various period periods of time you'll see there now on
one particular day there last week the 2nd of august i sold 39 books and
the next day then on the 3rd of august i sold 21
so that's 60 books in two days that was the
building or buying a house in ireland book which was on promotion
i'm going to do a promotion and this is all of the
the kindle edition normalized pages read from these particular platforms that's
to do with um kindle unlimited and being able to
read unlimited amounts of books and so on and
so forth there's very very good records here very very good data about
units ordered about historical sales month to date and
so on and so forth you've all got that at your fingertips
it's very very useful then there's information there about the
various promotions that i've done from time to time
and i will be doing a new promotion very very soon on
this my most popular book employment law in ireland
the essentials for employers employees and hr managers
that's my best-selling book and it sells very very well and obviously it's got 28
28 reviews which is important because it's very very difficult to sell your
book without reviews and you must do
promotions to get your book promoted and to get the reviews the necessary
views anyway i hope you find that video useful
in so far as if you have any interest in kindle direct publishing in publishing
your own book it's not all that difficult
um obviously writing the book is is um the big part and the difficult part i
suppose and then you have to format it in a particular way for kindle
either paperback or the ebook but regardless there's plenty of guides
online there's plenty of information on youtube
there's plenty of information on amazon and on kindle direct publishing
anyway i hope you find this video useful if you do i would appreciate if you give
the thumbs up down below and as a matter of interest if you have any ideas
i would appreciate if you left a comment below any ideas for
new books that you'd be you'd like to see me writing for example
i've done one there on marketing your business online i've done one on buying
a house that's the property aspect of what i do
i've won unemployment law and these ones then are
obviously related to employment law but if there's any other topic that i
cover from time to time in my videos on youtube
or indeed any other topic that you'd like to see covered i would appreciate
if you left a comment down below and made your suggestion
and i'll certainly look into it because i'm feeling productive again
and i'm feeling like another book coming on i just want to
um i want to decide what i'm going to do it on
thanks for watching as i say if you find this video useful i'd appreciate if you
give it a thumbs up down below thank you