I heard KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing by Amazon) just two months back.
I decided to give it a try and publish five books all blank journals(“low” Or “no” content books) the first month I sold nothing. And I thought this was not for me.

After one month, I rechecked my account, and bingo sold my two books with $2.00 per book sold lol.

And below result after publishing 32 books.

Not bad 🙂

So how do get started with KDP?

Amazon KDP = Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.
KDP lets you to self publish your books
Besides, it provides you a distribution to Amazon’s huge shopper base!
In simple its print on demand books through the KDP program.

All you need to upload is a cover, an interior(inside book content), a title, and some keywords, and your paperback book is ready for sale on Amazon. Generally, it takes 24-36 hours to confirm your book before it goes active on Amazon.

Whenever your book sold, Amazon will print the paperback book, send the book to the shopper. And you get your royalty! Easy right?

Step 1: Create a KDP Account

Sign up for KDP: https://kdp.amazon.com/

If you already have an amazon account, you can log in with the same email.

But, I suggest Sign up with a new email id.

Note: You can create only one KDP account for life for one pc never open another account for a test or any use they will ban you for multiple accounts.

Complete the inquired information.

Done 🙂

Now you can publish notebooks, journals, planners, diaries, sheet music paper, comic book paper, and more with KDP.

And the cool part is that you don’t have to be a writer.

Create Content Interior:

To get a FREE interior, go to this page on bookbolt.io interior wizard

Create a 6 x 9 No Bleed Journal with 120 pages (Black Lined Journal)
Live Example: https://bit.ly/2yrBuzq

Download PDF

Create a 6 x 9 Cover:

If you are an expert in Photoshop or Illustrator, you can create and download individual templates from here
it must be 12.550 inches wide by 9.250 tall. 

To make the process easy, I am using Book Bolt paid tool’s designer tool.

Book Bolt Designer

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Now Choose Template

After you click Submit, it will make out your cover template.

To ensure that your books go within the KDP for sale, we want to ensure that the cover doesn’t have a transparent background.

For that, click on the shapes menu on the left-hand menu, pick a rectangle shape, and give it a color, then drag it over your book.

As you can see, my book has a black background.

Now we add the Title to our Book.

NOTE: Your book cover MUST equal whatever title that you give your book in KDP.

Download PDF

Now that you have your low-content book cover and interior
Get ready for upload on KDP 🙂

Uploading to KDP:

Now go back to KDP, where you created your account and log in.

You will see +paperback. This is what you want to click.

Note: these are print-on-demand books, NOT ebooks.

You now have 3 various tabs to fill out:

First, pick a language. Select English for this cause we are selling on Amazon.com.

The second box requires you to add a book title:

Skip next boxes like Series, Edition Number, and contributor section.

But, you need to add an author.

You can use pen names. If your book gets rejected, you will want to go back and add your author to your cover around.

For this example, I’m using: Jaclin Lined Journal

Add Small Description:

check this box:

Add Keywords!

for this, you can use amazon.com itself with auto suggestion query

But I am using Book Bolt  keyword suggestion tool [Book Bolt Tutorials]

I selected these keywords:

Select Category:

Upload PDF file interior that you downloaded from the interior wizard.

December: 2019

January: 2020

August: 2020
KDP Ads:

Keyword Research Guide For No Content & Low Content Books:

Niche Research Guide For No Content & Low Content Books:

KDP Income Report April 2020 | Low Content Publishing:

Book Bolt Webinar – Research, Covers, Keywords, Listings:

Expand Your Book Business To Etsy!

Selling on KDP is great, but are you selling your business assets (all aspects of your book), anywhere else?

If not, you are leaving a TON of money on the table!

Think about it like this. You run a KDP business, right? What are the assets inside your business?

Well, there are a few! First, you have you and your time (this is harder to sell to other people). Second, and most importantly, you have the works that you create to make your book: covers and interiors.

So how can you possibly expand? There are not very many Print on Demand marketplaces for books you may say.

Easy!

Sell your interiors as digital downloads on Etsy!

Etsy has been on FIRE over the last year seeing almost exponential growth and it’s time that you take the leap and START or GROW an Etsy shop!

Starting from scratch can seem a bit daunting since this is a new way to sell Books (interiors), but the opportunities are endless.

Etsy has been on FIRE over the last year seeing almost exponential growth and it’s time that you take the leap and START or GROW an Etsy shop!

Starting from scratch can seem a bit daunting since this is a new way to sell Books (interiors), but the opportunities are endless. Don’t believe us?

• Etsy buyers are NOT very price sensitive (meaning you can price your interiors 5-10X what you would normally make as a royalty for your book on Amazon).
• Etsy shops do NOT need mass quantities of listings to create a full-time income.

Over the past year, the creators of Book Bolt have been working with multiple 6 figure Etsy sellers to create software dedicated to opening up a new stream of income for your business.

Last month, that Etsy software was launched and is called Sale Samurai.

https://salesamurai.io/

Inside, you will find:

• Long-Tail Keywords
• Etsy Keyword Search Volume
• Etsy tags, price spread, competition grades
• Competition Trackers (looking at successful shops)
• Chrome Plugin to research directly ON Etsy
• Automation (upload automation from Print providers such as Printful, Gooten, and Printify)

SALE SAMURAI REVIEW

If you already have a KDP business and are making sales, offering up your unique interiors for an amazing profit on Etsy is the next logical step. You are NOT selling your covers (which make your products most unique), but taking advantage of the fact that Etsy is HOT and everyone is looking for new interiors!

If you want to jump on Etsy before everyone ends up doing it, NOW is when you want to do it.

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Amit Surti

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