Thank you so much for all your help on my publishing journey. When I first found your account on RU-vid, it was like finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Thanks to all your helpful advice and content, I published my first book at 14! I really appreciate all that you share and how you inspire others to follow their dreams.
Thanks. Good, clear speaking voice, good clear acoustics. I was afraid going in that amazon was charging to publish books, beyond what Mandi Lynn mentioned, but she put my mind at ease. Now, I just have to get past the amazon censors!
Thanks for this video. I did not realize before I watched it that you can order a proof copy-that makes me feel a lot more confident about the whole thing!
Very informative! Thank you for your version of "Self Publishing for Idiots." 😆 I'll be checking out the rest of your videos because yours was slow enough and not jargon loaded. I could take notes or stop the video in time to do so. I see there are hundreds of vids about this subject but my military mind tells me to just stick with one that seems qualitative and informative at a pace a retired 62-year-old man can follow. Thank you again!
I'm bummed by your ingramsparks experience, because I felt like they were the one for my upcoming book, but is it all "preorder" stuff? I wouldn't be interested in that anyway.
What if a person doesn't want royalties at all? If they just want to give their ebook away for free, basically just using Kindle as a free distributor? Not just as a promotion but full time I mean. I'm on a mission, don't want a dime of profit for it.
Great! Question: can you order in bulk to sell by publishing on Barnes and Noble Print and how can you get your book on Amazon to deal with having a bulk of books. Printing with Barnes and Noble sounds great BUT how do you get KDP with a hardcover book with less than 75 pages?
Thank you for this brilliant resource! Was wondering, when you mentioned the cost of hiring a cover designer, editor, etc. Are these add-on services provided through the KDP self-publishing process, or do you have to hire them seperately?
KDP doesn't offer these services. Typically you'd hire a freelancers, so the costs can vary a lot depending on how much experience the person you hire has.
I tend to run into a lot of tech issues in general. I'd be pretty nervous to go with a company like ingram spark when it seems like you can't contact them easily.
@@christinec.7917 yes... but people don't generally buy published screenplays as books. It doesn't seem like you understand the market you are writing for. As far as I know, studios don't want to use published screenplays in films because the 'surprise' would be spoiled. It's one thing to write a novel based on your screenplay to build up a fan-base that would be likely to buy tickets to that movie and therefore help you sell it to a studio, but there's a long list of reasons screenwriter's don't publish scripts. The biggest being: only film students would buy a famous published screenplay; people don't typically read those for fun. Isn't that much obvious to you? The market for a non-famous screenplay is so small it might as well not exist.
@@melindawolfUS Production companies just don't take scripts. There's lawyers involved and it is a big production. Looking for a more simplified way of doing it.
@@christinec.7917 Do it! There are traditional ways to protect yourself (sending the finished script to yourself in a sealed envelope, in case you later find an agent or publisher stole it), but I think that publishing it yourself is the best way (though do the old-fashioned stuff, too, so production worker steals your work). Plus, you'll make some money off of it, and you'll get to refer to it as published, when you shop it to prospective agents, actors, and producers. Hals-und-Beinbruch! (Break your neck and your leg! It's an old, extra-thorough German saying from my student days that was one of the only Yiddish sayings that hadn't been killed off.)
How do I use KDP but give my book away for only the cost of shipping $ handling? The purpose of my book os to build authority in my niche and to serve as a lead magnet to acquire customers for my paid course? Will KDP allow me yo put $0 as sales price then to put, say. $9.95 for S&H? I would assume the recoup their cost and royalty out of that? Or do I have to but author copies and fill orders and ship from home?
Can you sell a book on KDP that’s been published through Lulu with the author’s purchased ISBN directly on Amazon without going through Lulu Global Distribution?
I guess my real question is: Do you bypass an extra fee if you publish straight through KDP rather than going through Lulu global distribution to sell on Amazon? Also, can you bypass fees by publishing through Lulu and buying your own ISBN and selling the already published book on Amazon KDP?
I was technically a minor when I started, so from what I remember, it was more or less the same. However, as with anything involving a minor, parents should be involved and aware of what's going on.
ehhhhh, 1 week trying now with no luck. get spit back out every day saying theres an issue with the format this or that. and u can guess from these 9 pages what the issue is. amazon sucks ass
