As of July 1st, authors who enroll their books in KDP Select are being paid differently for borrows. The payment for borrows is now calculated based on how many pages of the book have been read, rather than the number of borrows that reached a certain percentage. This means that a longer book read cover-to-cover […]
How to benefit from Kindle Select Marketing Tools from Amazon KDP
Sometimes the amount of options and tools available to an author can be overwhelming. You have your book, you want it published, why does it have to be so complicated? If you want your life to be a little more stress free then you’ll be happy to hear more about Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing program. […]
Amazon Kindle now has Pre-Orders for all publishers
Received this exciting news: Hello, We’re excited to announce that you can now make your new books available for pre-order in Kindle Stores worldwide. With a few quick and easy steps you can create a pre-order page up to 90 days in advance of your book’s release date–your pre-order product page will be created within […]
Amazon Author Page: What’s in a Name? Apparently Everything
To take advantage of Amazon Author Page internal marketing, Self Publishers need to understand the author page rules for books and ebooks.
Increase Sales with Kindle Countdown Deals (Kindle Select)
Kindle Countdown Deals is a new KDP Select benefit that allows authors to run limited-time discount promotions on their books, which can help earn more royalties and reach more readers. Customers can see the regular price and the promotional price on the book’s detail page, as well as a countdown clock telling them how much […]
Kindle Select Updated – new Manage Benefits feature
KDP Select program makes it easier to Manage your Benefits. You ncan see at a glance what promotions you have run or have scheduled for your books. IMPORTANT: You can only have one program enabled at a time. This means, if you have pre-scheduled KDP Select Free book promotion set (as shown in the above […]
Amazon Description with HTML Issues: Amazon KDP and Author Central NOT on same page
When you are angry with someone, you probably stop talking to them, right? But what if you worked for the same company and didn’t share or communicate information? Thus is the relationship between KDP and Author Central (and Create Space as well). Here’s a good (and nicer Post) on the same issue: http://www.betterbooktools.com/amazon-removes-html-author-central/ If this […]