Amazon has made it EASY for anyone — and I mean ANYONE — to publish e-books and start making money on Kindle. This blog post will serve as a guide to breaking down exactly how you can get started publishing e-books and making money online. Getting started with making money on Kindle is fairly simple. You simply sign up for a free KDP Kindle Direct Publishing account. With your KDP account, you can easily add a new book to your bookshelf within minutes.

You simply fill in the title of your book, author name, description, upload a cover, upload your e-book file, select your book price, and hit publish.

KDP then reviews your book within 24 hours and will publish it, making it available for sale on Amazon around the world. Of course, there is work you have to put in. You must come up with a book idea or niche. You must come up with a title for your book. You need to have a cover made for your book. You can either write the book yourself, or hire writers to do it for you. And of course, there are many ways to market your Kindle book, begin getting reviews, and optimizing your Kindle book for optimal sales.

It took me about two weeks to write this book, spending several hours per day. You can click on the image to enlarge it, or also view the books page on Amazon.

The e-book is then instantly delivered to them, which they can read on their computer or on their Kindle e-reader. At the same time, I immediately get paid for this sale and KDP will send me my royalty earnings via direct deposit to my bank account every month.

Amazon handles the marketing and promotion of your book. They host your book online and deliver it to your customers. They handle all of the payment processing.

They deal with any potential refunds or customer support inquiries. They do most of the work for you.

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The more popular your book becomes with sales, reviews, etc… then the more they will market and promote your book on their website. They even have over million credit cards in their system, so customers can easily buy your books at the click of a button.

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How much do I get paid every sale? KDP has two royalty options: How did I do it? Keep reading to find out. The way that I come up with a list of potential Kindle book ideas is simply by searching websites like Amazon.

Alternatively, you could also think of fiction ideas as well. Acne Weight Loss Photography Dog Training Binge Eating Self-Confidence Getting Rid Of Stress Parenting Stock Trading How To Write A Business Plan. With this list, you next want to determine which ones would be the most profitable remember: The first thing that you want to do is see if there is actually a market on Amazon for your book idea. This is a big mistake most people make, as they often just create a Kindle book without doing the proper market research.

One of the ways I do this is by simply typing in the keyword for the book idea in the search bar on Amazon. When doing this, often times a drop-down will show up where Amazon will give you suggestions for what to type in. Check out the image below to see what I mean.

Some of the suggestions are: What does this mean? This means that these are all words or phrases that people are TYPING IN on Amazon. What if I were to create a book on a Acne Treatment or Acne Diet? Or, what about even creating a book on how to get rid of Acne Scars?

For each keyword that you type in and search for in the Kindle store, there will be a certain number of competing books. The first book has 10 reviews, the 2nd has 2 reviews, and the third has only 1. Now, this is just a basic explanation of how to analyze the profitability of a niche, but there is a few more factors you want to look at. I usually use a software for doing my research now, which makes things much faster and easier. I recommend a software called AK Elite , as it will basically do the keyword research for you once you pop your keywords into it.

It also has a lot of other cool features, such as finding reviewers for your Kindle book and tracking your books ranking for your keyword. There are cheaper options as well, such as KD Suite and Kindle Samarai. When it comes to creating a title, you want to make sure that you have the keyword for your niche in it.

This will help to get your Kindle book noticed and ranked in Amazon for that keyword. The Acne Treatment Guide — Proven, Step-By-Step Treatments To Get Rid Of Acne. You want to make sure that your title is compelling, descriptive, has benefits in it, and really grabs attention.

The more keywords you can have in the title, the better, as your book will show up in the search results more often. You can also look at the competing books and try to do something different as well, so your book will stand out. The cheapest option would be using a website like Fiverr. You want to make sure you pick someone that has good feedback and has a good portfolio. Alternatively, you could invest more in a more quality book cover by hiring a more professional designer. It will cost you a bit more, but investing in a quality cover can really make a big difference in the sales of your book and make it stand out from all the rest.

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The next step is to write your Kindle e-book, or to hire someone to do it for you. There are many freelancer writers that you can hire that will write your book for you inexpensively and do all of the research to put it together.

I will mention that you want your books to be high quality. Make sure that your book is well proof-read too! Once you have your book written, you need to format it for Kindle.

Kindle books require unique formatting before publishing, as it needs to look good in a Kindle e-reader. If you are good with Microsoft Word or Pages, you can do it yourself, but need to follow the Amazon Kindle Formatting Guidelines. I personally use the AK Elite Book Maker software for all of my books now, as I can easily format them within minutes and publish it in Kindle.

All you have to do is sign-up for a KDP account and click on the Bookshelf. Everything is fairly straightforward. Most Kindle books on Amazon have horrible book descriptions, so you really want to spend time here to write up a really great one.

KDP gives you characters, which is up to words, so you want to use as much of it as you can. This book description uses all characters. I will also mention that with most of my books, I use a pen name.

A pen name is essentially a made-up name that is common for authors to use. Mark Twain is a pen name, for example. In the case of my Life Mastery book, I use my own name behind it because I personally wrote it and am proud of it. On the next page, KDP will ask you to verify your publishing territories and to choose your royalty.

As you can see, you can make your Kindle book available worldwide. This means people from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, all over Europe, Australia, Asia, South America — literally anyone and everyone can now purchase your Kindle book.

Of course, the majority of your market will be the United States, but I still make significant money from sales around Europe and around the world. It even shows you how much you will make on the other Kindle platforms around the world. The more people that buy and review your Kindle book, the higher the ranking will be for your book for your keyword and in the Amazon bestseller list. Anyone that has purchased anything on Amazon before knows the importance of reviews.

Reviews are one of the biggest factors that will determine whether or not someone will buy your Kindle book. On the other hand, if the book has a decent number of 4 and 5 star reviews, then most people will likely buy it. People also usually compare books based on reviews. If they are searching for an Acne Treatment book, then people will likely buy the one that has the most reviews. A verified review means someone actually bought or downloaded your Kindle book, then posted a review.

See the example below:. A review that is unverified means that someone did NOT purchase or download the book and left a review.

All reviews for your Kindle book help, but verified reviews are more important and powerful. It is said that verified reviews can significantly help the ranking of your Kindle book in the Amazon search.

Give it away to as many people as possible.

You could also join forums, such as Acne. You could also find people on Twitter and tweet people about your book. There are also a ton of Facebook groups of other authors and Kindle readers that you could send your book to, and many of them will be willing to receive your book and review it. Keep in mind, if your book sucks, you will get negative reviews for it. If your book is good, people will naturally want to say good things about it.

Here are a few below:. When you publish your book, you get an option to enroll your book in the KDP Select Program. KDP Select is a program that Amazon offers that allows you to take advantage of a Free Promotion for your Kindle book, as well as the Kindle Countdown Deals.

Despite this, I find it still to be very beneficial as it can help you rank your Kindle book fairly easily and quickly. With KDP Select, you can offer your book for Free for a total of 5 days. When you do run the Free Promotion, Amazon will list your book in the Free Books section of their website and help you promote your book.

Kindle Countdown Deals allows you to offer a discount on your Kindle book for a period of time. This can help your book get noticed and generate sales. Your Kindle book must be in KDP Select to take advantage of this, which you can do so in your Bookshelf. There are a ton of websites out there that you can submit your Kindle book to for free. I usually submit my Kindle book to up to 40 websites during my KDP Select Free promotion to get extra downloads for it, while also submitting my book to websites like GoodReads , LibraryThing and Shelfari.

The more exposure you can get for your book, the better. I also use Facebook and Twitter to heavily promote my Kindle books. There are a ton of Facebook groups that you can join of Kindle readers that are looking to download new Kindle books. You can use many of these Facebook groups to get reviews for your book as well.

The same goes with Twitter. There are many people on Twitter that have large followings that will Tweet your Kindle book to their followers for free. Here are a few of them…. These are just a few strategies that you can use to start promoting and marketing your Kindle book. Having an KDP Author Profile can really help boost sales and help people find out more about the author before purchasing.

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It also allows customers to find more books from you. You want to create a series of books so that you can offer your customers more. If a customer likes your book, then they will likely buy others you have as well. In the case of Acne Treatment, you could create a book on Acne Diet, so that these two books could cross-promote each other and help you generate more sales for them.

You want to use the inside of your Kindle book to help you promote your other Kindle books and make money as well. I usually have an excerpt of one of my other Kindle books inside of my Kindle book, with a link to it.

This makes it easy for customers to buy your other books. I also will use the inside of my book to link to a squeeze page, which will offer something for free to my customers in exchange for their e-mail address. This can help you start building your customer list, so that you can promote additional books and products directly to their e-mail.

I use LeadPages for my squeeze pages and Aweber for managing email addresses. I hope this guide has really helped you understand more about the process of Kindle publishing and making money on Kindle. I wanted to really cover the basics in this Kindle publishing guide, to help you get started and see how easy it is.

If you are looking for more, or are wanting to seriously pursue making money on Kindle, then I want to invite you to join my Kindle Money Mastery program. Kindle Money Mastery is a step-by-step video training course that walks you through everything.

In the program, you get to see me create a Kindle book from scratch, publish it, market it, and start making money from it. I even share in the program exactly how much my Kindle book is making after 2 weeks, 1 month and 3 months. I share the writers that I use for my Kindle books, my book cover designer, all of the websites and groups I use to promote my Kindle books, and even how to scale up this business by automating and outsourcing the entire process by using virtual assistants.

To find out more about Kindle Money Mastery, click here. I hope you enjoyed this Kindle publishing guide. Killer blog post Stefan! Wow, awesome job, I can tell you really put a lot of effort into this guide. Hoping this will be the answer for me!

I am already having a book written that I believe will sell very well! I would strongly encourage you to start now.

The sooner you take action, the better. I have many that do so and make more. Some markets or niches are bigger and more profitable than others. Some are also more competitive than others. So those play a huge role in the profitability of your Kindle books. I also now have a virtual assistant that helps me with almost everything.

This is a good guide, but do yourself a favour and get the actual program with the videos and everything. Great article Stefan, I will definitely do a research and publish a book, but i was wondering where can i find the different payment options? I have heard that to my country Bulgaria Amazon only pays by check! They made direct deposit more available now to Canada and some of the bigger countries, and I think are slowly expanding to more over time.

You could also use http: Hey, just wanted to chip in. Yes, you can sign up with Payoneer at http: They will mail you a Payoneer Debit card that you can receive royalties directly. Once you sign up using the above link, there will be instructions via email of what you need to do next. Instructions will also be given upon receiving the card to activate it. Yes, my tip is to outsource it. You could even tell them what you want in the book too. Check out my course, it shows everything.

Hey Stefan, one little question. When promoting several books with different author fb accounts, how do you avoid the phone verification facebook have? Got a quick question. That way he gets more free downloads to his ebook to help rankings. Not that he is selling it on other websites. It is very informative and to the point. This article makes it a whole lot easier to write and publish on Amazon Kindle. SO HERE I COME!!! I only personally put my name behind books that I personally write.

This is really an eye opener to me as a beginner. Thanks for the free information. Will definitely join you Kindle Mastery Group. Thank you so much for educating me on kindle publishing. Though I see you are marketing yourself and your books while educating us. I will be starting my kindle journey soon and I will update you on my success! So many people started doing this its crazy.

I read a lot of blogs like this, and everyone seems to be doing this. The other blog i read the guy is doing this and sharing profits monthly, but his last book kinda bombed because he got some bad reviews. Whats your thoughts on this? Do any of you books get bad reviews? Hey John, all books out there get negative reviews — they keep is to quickly improve our book and use it as feedback, always making things better and better so your books gain positive reviews and help others.

Awesome information, I am brand new at this. I did research like you said and found a niche with only 3 books, does this mean the market is weak. Thanks for sharing all the gr8 stuff, I look forward to subscribe to your ebooks are start my journey. Could you clarify if words ebook would be sufficient to publish on kindle. Does Kindle have any criteria around minimum no.

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I am planning to write and publish a book between words. Your prompt response will be appreciated. Hi there, you mentioned that you usually submit your Kindle book to up to 40 websites during your KDP Select Free promotion to get extra downloads for it- however with KDP Select you said that you are not able to promote or sell your book anywhere else except Amazon. Can you clarify this please? Hi Haley, you are not allowed to PUBLISH your book anywhere else. However, now we recommend and developed K Optimizer to submit your books, which is much faster than manually doing it yourself: Hmmm, what an eye opener to making money online.

I am really interested but i do not know how to write. I Appreciate the information — Does someone know if I could possibly find a fillable My Life Planning Workbook form to fill out? Or can I use also a Pen Name? Also what about having multiple author profiles? Thanks again for your time Stefan! I see the comments below are quite old.

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The Ultimate Guide To Making Money Publishing Kindle E-Books by Stefan James. How Making Money On Kindle Works Getting started with making money on Kindle is fairly simple. Your list could look something like this: Acne Weight Loss Photography Dog Training Binge Eating Self-Confidence Getting Rid Of Stress Parenting Stock Trading How To Write A Business Plan You get the idea? This is just an example of a list that I came up with off the top of my head.

Analyzing The Profitability Of Your Kindle Book Ideas The first thing that you want to do is see if there is actually a market on Amazon for your book idea. Write Your Kindle E-Book Or Hire Someone To Do It For You The next step is to write your Kindle e-book, or to hire someone to do it for you.

Getting Amazon Reviews Anyone that has purchased anything on Amazon before knows the importance of reviews. See the example below: So how do you get high quality, 5 star Amazon Verified Reviews?

Here are a few below: KDP Select Program When you publish your book, you get an option to enroll your book in the KDP Select Program. Kindle Countdown Deals Kindle Countdown Deals allows you to offer a discount on your Kindle book for a period of time.

Submitting Your Kindle Book To Websites There are a ton of websites out there that you can submit your Kindle book to for free. Promoting Your Book On Social Media I also use Facebook and Twitter to heavily promote my Kindle books. Here are just a few… https: Here are a few of them… http: Create a KDP Author Profile Having an KDP Author Profile can really help boost sales and help people find out more about the author before purchasing.

Create A Series Of Books You want to create a series of books so that you can offer your customers more. Use The Inside Of Your Book You want to use the inside of your Kindle book to help you promote your other Kindle books and make money as well.

My Invitation To You… I hope this guide has really helped you understand more about the process of Kindle publishing and making money on Kindle. The Ultimate Guide To Making Money Publishing Kindle E-Books. Anyways, hope that helped! Would you still recommend the K Money Mastery program?

Glad you are doing so awesome with it! Hi Stefan, Got a quick question. Thanks for sharing all this awesome information. Thanks for such a valuable information. I am interested in it and you helped me a lot.

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