Publish A Book In Less Than A Week, No Publisher Required…
Posted By Jasper Longfellow on August 26, 2010
Book publishing is changing rapidly, and one of the latest options available to authors is publishing an e-Book or even just an article for the Kindle device and its readers. When Amazon.com first released the Kindle (November 2007), they couldn’t keep up with the demand for the e-Book reader. However, getting publishers to publish their books in Kindle format proved problematic as well. Amazon.com currently sells over 17 million titles in its printed book warehouses, but they currently have a small percentage of that number in Kindle titles. Not even 3% of Amazon’s titles have been converted from printed format to a Kindle e-Book equivalent. For now, the Kindle owners of the world have no choice but to choose from a much shorter list of books to read.
Creating a Kindle property is a terrific way to create a passive income stream. Publishing a book or article for the Kindle, Amazon.com only requries that you have an Amazon account. If an author has a book or other marketable reading content, or if an author would like to get real customer reviews on their book’s title before going to the expense of some version of self-publishing, there is a very accessible tool for proceeding. Once their book is released on Amazon’s Kindle, the author has the full force of the Amazon.com’s online engine to help them promote their e-Book. Amazon.com is far and away the top online bookseller, and one of the biggest reasons for this success is that they give authors very powerful and flexible online tools to market and promote their own books and e-Books on the site.
The market for any product sold by Amazon.com is worldwide. Kindle has an advantage in that it is an electronic product, so shipping costs, warehousing or international issues, other than possible language details, are not a problem.
A typical cut of 65% of the retail sales price goes to Amazon, a fair and expected amount that is standard for book distributors of all types.
Books need to be ready for release before they are released onto the world stage. They should be edited well, and a reasonable cover design needs to be part of the release plan. This is true for all printed books as well as all e-books. It’s possible to sell an e-Book without a cover, but experience shows those with covers generally sell much better. So Kindle is a perfect platform for previously self-published books where the content has been prepared, and the author owns the creative rights. The author can easily take their content and create an extra marektable product by taking advantage of the Kindle opportunity.
The Kindle format opens the door to products that push the envelope of what is defined as a conventional book. For example, speakers who have workbooks can republish on this platform and expand their audience.
An ISBN is not required for publishing a product on Kindle, unlike conventional books, so even this initial cost of self-publishing can be avoided. If the original manuscript is in a word processor file, such as in Microsoft Word™ it’s generally very easy to save the content as an HTML document, ready for submittal to Amazon’s Kindle service.
Kindle readers are always hungry for more titles to browse, and now that Kindle has expanded to the Ipad, Iphone and Android platforms, the size of the reading market is growing by leaps and bounds. Any author with a valid Amazon.com account is eligible to publish content. So, this type of book publishing doesn’t require a publisher. The Kindle platform provides a completely new way to get books out into the world, and there is a lot of good content out there primed and ready for this great publishing opportunity.
Other e-book readers, including the new Barnes & Noble Nook, use the e-pub format. Its submission process is backlogged at this point in time, and the number of books available in this reader is also limited. The Nook is a very new product, so stay tuned as more and more tools for helping authors to publish with Nook are being brought online.
There is roughly a week-long approval process when using the Kindle development tool. Amazon.com verifies with the author that they own the rights to publish the book, so even if it is more informal than other publishing processes, Amazon.com still does their due diligence insuring copyright integrity.
Amazon.com is the world’s largest online retailer. With an approval process of roughly a week, it is possible these days to publish a book and release it on the world stage in less than a week, without a publisher – and with no expense for the publishing tool!
For specific directions on “How to Create a Kindle e-Book“, visit Getting-Published.com.
Become a “Passivillionaire” by publishing Kindle e-books! The tools are yours for the using. Happy publishing!