Self-Publishing on Amazon

Posted: July 02, 2019

[caption id="attachment_12977" align="alignright" width="487"] Image: Daily Writing Tips[/caption] Self-publishing a book, before about 10 years ago, was a time-consuming and costly way to get your work out to the public. Fortunately, with the advances in technology, more options to publish your own book have become available. Whether you take advantage of print-on-demand or ebooks, making sure you market them properly is another important step, and the cost of that has decreased, as well. Self-publishing is now a great opportunity for both seasoned and new authors alike. Ali Hale, contributor to Daily Writing Tips, shares tips and resources to self-publish your book.

How to Self-Publish a Book on Amazon [With Tools and Resources]

Fifteen or twenty years ago, self-publishing was looked on as a last resort option for books that a publisher wouldn’t want to take on. It was also an expensive and time-consuming way to get a book out there. Self-publishers had to pay for a whole print run – maybe 1,000 or 2,000 copies – and they had to market it. During the past decade, though, there’s been a huge rise in the popularity of self-publishing. Print-on-demand technology has made it possible to print just one copy of a paperback at a time, and e-readers like the Kindle have made ebooks far more popular than they once were. There are also many more options for marketing a self-published book – for instance, authors can pay to advertise on Facebook or Amazon, carefully targeting an audience who they think will be interested in their book. The low cost of self-publishing also means it’s suitable for authors who are working on a book as a hobby – for instance, perhaps they’re writing a family memoir that they want to print for their grandchildren. If you’re thinking about self-publishing a book, you might be wondering how to even begin! In this post, I’ll take you through the basics you need to know – and give you plenty of links to further information.

Are You Publishing a Print Book, an Ebook … or Both?

Before we go further, you need to think about whether you want to self-publish a paperback (or even a hardback) book that you can physically hold in your hands, or an ebook that can be downloaded onto a device. Read the entire article, How to Self-Publish a Book on Amazon [With Tools and Resources], on Daily Writing Tips.