Publishing Your eBooks On Kindle

The Kindle, in case you haven’t been paying attention for a DECADE, is an electronic device made by Amazon.com that is about the size of a large paperback book.

They’re made to read the electronic versions of books so they don’t have a traditional computer-type screen. They have a screen designed to mimic what reading books printed on paper is like.

Unlike a book, with the Kindle, you can change the size of the type, zoom in on a page, search for specific words and jump to a chapter without all that inconvenient fumbling around with pages.

You can also make notes and, if you’ve connected your Kindle to the Internet, see notes that other people have made about the book.

Now there are apps that let people read Kindle books on their computer, their phones and their tablet devices such as the iPad.

Sales of Kindle books has boomed in the last few years. This is great news for anyone marketing on the web. If you have any free reports, any eBooks that you’ve created to either give away or sell, any series of blog posts, even, that you could put together into a book, you can put them on Kindle and sell them to one of the largest markets on the planet: Amazon.com.

Getting a book ready for Kindle is fairly straightforward. For a simple report or eBook, simpler is better. There are lots of instructional videos and forums on the Internet that can help you get everything in order and uploaded.

The KDP site (Kindle Direct Publishing) is free to sign up for and free to use.

You can set your own price and you make a large percentage of what Amazon collects for each copy of the book you sell. And, when you put links back to your own pages within your book, those links can be live and people can go directly to your site.

One of the things to think about when publishing on Kindle is the use of keywords in your book title and the book description. (This is a web marketing strategies blog, after all!) Do a search on Amazon for other books on your topic to see what they have used.

Check Google Keyword Tool to see what people are generally searching for.

Getting your eBook on Kindle is a great way to get people to know about you, get people to your web pages AND make a buck or two. 😉

Hopefully more…

Talk Soon,
Ryan