Publish on Amazon for FREE using the Kindle Create app

1. Intro: In this course, I'll be showing you how to turn this into this using the free Kindle create app. Back in 2017 when I published my first book, I made the mistake of thinking that the difficult part of publishing a book was writing it. I later found out that that's only the beginning, the formatting, the editing. And then we're learning how to actually get it published onto Amazon kVp. That was a hard part, took a lot of time and no small amount of money. But in this course, I'll be showing you how you can use the free Kindle create app to turn your Word document into a published book, both a print book and an e-book in just a few simple clicks and the whole process from beginning to end, we'll take you about half an hour once you've learned to. So if you want to turn your Word document into a published book, this is a course for you. 2. Preface: Before we dive into the Kindle, create your hemi referencing another course that dives more into the actual publishing and uploading process on Amazon k d p, which is super important, particularly if you're new to publishing on the Amazon P2P platform if you're on your first book. So let me just show you it here so it's easy for you to access. You'll see here at skillshare.com slash users slash Adrian jay Kwan. If you want to read about me, That's up to you, but just scroll down and the course you're looking for is this one here. You'll complete guide to Amazon kVp Publishing. You can see it's fairly extensive, one-hour 39, it's one of the longer ones. Click on here and I'll just pause it. And I encourage you to go through the entirety of this course. But particularly when it comes to uploading and publishing this number 12 and number 13 here you can see they're 16 minutes and seven minutes respectively. They're fairly in-depth. And what I was finding just because I've published a few courses, is that the publishing and uploading process for any kind of book is almost exactly the same. And I didn't want to be sticking it into every single course. When I can just reference you to one super easy course, you can look at that. And that's how I can upload and publish my book very, very simply. So we'll get into the Kindle create app now and I'll show you how to create the KPF file or the file that you will actually upload to the kVp platform. But just know when it comes to the uploading and publishing process. I'll zip through that super, super quickly. If you want more in-depth information as to the whole kVp publishing process from beginning to end, then I strongly recommend that you go and look at that course because it will fill in all the blanks. So let's get to it. 3. Overview Part 1: Let me just quickly go over what you're going to learn in this course. So first off, I'll be showing you how to use the free Kindle create app to easily and quickly publish both a print book and an e-book on the Amazon KT P. That's a Kindle Direct publishing platform from the same text document. Now that one might seem like a really small point, but it's actually a really, one of the main selling points. Are you selling points loosely because the Kindle app is free, but it's able to create an e-book and a print book from the same file. There's not really any other way of doing that easily. And that's one of the big time savers and big money savers for you as well if you use a Kindle create app. But our example, we'll be using a document that contains only words. So that's to say your traditional sort of book, like a novel. Think like a novel or let's say an article, textbook or even a fiction book. So not only are there no images or pictures in it, there are no tables in it. Not as in like a desk, but as in tables of contents will not table of contents. The table of contents. But like Microsoft Excel chart or something like that, there's nothing in there. And there's no fancy formatting. For example, with poetry and things like that. We will end up producing what's called or the Kindle create what ends up producing what's called a KPF file, Kindle package format file. It's not important you remember that but that's the name of the file that we will be creating. Then we'll go over a brief overview of the uploading slash publishing process. I use those words interchangeably. What it basically means is you're gonna go to Amazon kVp. You're going to upload that PDF file. And that's how you get your book published on Amazon and offered for sale to people around the world. So as it says here, uploading our KPF file to the kVp platform. Now for a more substantial walk-through of the uploading and publishing process, because I'm gonna keep it pretty brief and this one because I've covered that in multiple courses already. I'm going to encourage you to go watch my other course titled your complete guide to Amazon, KTB publishing. And there's lots of stuff in there as well, such as how to create a book cover, how to set up your key words, your book description or that sort of useful stuff. So we go through this course, you go through this course and you want a more substantial description. Complicate or the publishing of the uploading process than I strongly encourage you to watch that course. I encourage you to watch at course anyway. Okay, what else will you learn in this course? Well, after taking this course, I've written here, you should be able to easily publish a book within 30 to 60 minutes. And that's a pretty conservative estimate right there. I would say as long as you have reasonable tech skills, you can use a word processor, you can use a browser and Internet browser for example. Let's assume also that you have your book description, your cover already ready, your keywords, you know how much you want to charge or that sort of prep work. And you'll get a better understanding of that as you publish more books. But if you have that all ready to go, copy and paste, 30 minutes would be a long time, in my estimation to get this done. It's super, super easy. That's one of the big benefits of using the Kindle app. And obviously, the KDE platform is not that difficult to figure out either. Talking about my previous courses, I've done the publishing so many times that I could, I wouldn't say I could do it in my sleep, but I know it pretty well back to front. And it's not as difficult as a lot of people think. Now, what I need you to do is if you haven't already download the free Kindle create app, there's the link for you and unfortunately there's not an easier version of that. It needs to be the whole the whole link for some reason I never quite understood why needs to be that whole link. The easier way is just to google Kindle create, and hopefully it will take you directly where you need to go. So go download the Kindle app now, so you can follow along as we go through it in this course. 4. Overview Part 2: Why use the Kindle create? To begin with? I've already alluded to some of the points. Here's a brief rundown. Well, hey, it's free, that's always good. B, I'm going to stop saying a and B. It's crazy by Amazon itself. That's a good thing because Katie P is owned by Amazon and it's called Amazon k d p. And a reminder that the Kindle Direct Publishing. So the app that Amazon has created in order for you to publish your book, it's more likely that it's going to work and not experience any weird bugs because it's created by the same people. It saves you time when I published this book as an example, and this is the exact sort of book that I'm going to show you how to create. As I said before, it's just a lot of text there. To do both a print book and an e-book. There were separate versions. I needed to hire separate formatters. I did the editing myself, so I was saved on that. But it was a long ish process, like I took them at least a week or so on each version separately and obviously needed to pay them as well. So it does take a bit of time to produce both versions and kinda create, really, really cuts down on the time that it takes you to do that. It also, as I've said, saves you money because if you save time, you don't have to hire people to do two of the same thing or you don't have to hire anyone to do any of it for you, then you're going to save hundreds of dollars. I would say conservatively, if you're getting a really high-level person to do it, then you could be saving even more. As I've said, create a physical book and an e-book at the same time can't overstate the importance of that. Now, are there any drawbacks of the Kindle app? Yes, it's not perfect. As you'll see as you go through the walk-through, you can't fine-tune the appearance. So there's only a certain number of fonts that you can use. For example, there's only a certain number of ways you can format the table of contents, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So if you're really picky about those sorts of things, then Kindle create is not going to work for you. I've alluded to this before. I wouldn't use it for books with images, tables, or fancy formatting EG poetry books. For the same reason I just mentioned above, you can't really fiddle with the editing in a very exact way. If you really have a book that's heavily, let's say got lots and lots of photos in it. And it's really important you get the texts in a certain place. I wouldn't be using the Kindle create app. I also have to say it's difficult to know what the print book will look like until you actually get to Katie P and uploading it. Because when you do that, then you have a print preview and then you can see what the book looks like. Kindle create is very good at showing you what the Kindle version looks like. It's actually got a preview version, preview function in there for that. But it doesn't have an equivalent function for the print. So you have to wait when you're actually uploading it to get an idea as to whether your print book has turned out the way you want it, which is a bit bit awkward. Hopefully they'll fix it in the future, but it's something to bear in mind. Now, here is the Kindle create workflows. So we're about to get into the walk-through, but just before he is how Kindle create goes from beginning to end. Good to get a 5 thousand or 10 thousand foot view before we dig in. So you're going to import a document for it. So we'll ask you to import a document. So it's either accepting Doc, Doc X or RTF to the first two are Microsoft Word documents. That last one's more cross-platform one Rich Text Format, RTF. So it's important to note you don't write your book in Kindle create. You certainly can go in there and edit word, AdWords and things like that, but it's not designed for you to go and they opened it up and start typing your novel. You're supposed to go away open Microsoft Word or an open office on, on Mac pages, let's say. And you type your book in there and then you're supposed to import it into kindle create. But once again, you can make some edits like you can delete words. If you find a misspelling, you can correct it, but it's not supposed to go in there and just start typing because it will ask you to import a document. The next step is you will identify the chapter headings. Now Kindle automatically does that for you. Structured your book relatively well, like for example, your title and subtitle pages on separate pages are very clear. It actually is very, very accurate at doing that, but it will ask you to just clarify these are the correct chapter headings. Then you will insert what they call front matter and back mat. And our front matter is just what's at the front of the book and back metal. What's that is what is at the back. And a lot of this has generated automatically by Kindle credit for you if you decide to enter it. For example, Table of Contents, which would be front matter. Assuming you've done the chapter headings correctly, the table of contents function will put the table of contents in for you with the chapters for your print book, at least with the actual page numbers in it. It won't have the page numbers in there for the Kindle book because Kindles don't have pages because you can change the font size. Your end-user can change the font size. So there's no fixed page number for Kindles as it would be for a print book. So I can't tell you to turn to page ten of Kindle of your Kindle book and it doesn't work like that. Then after you've inserted the front matter on the back matter, you choose a theme. Now that's not to say you choose your book theme like am I writing about science fiction or nonfiction subject? Am I writing about? It's like it's like the skins on something. It's what font do you want? What colors do you want? What do you find the one for your title and subtitle. And as I've said, you can really fine tune, edit it, but it does give you a few themes to choose from. Then you choose the print settings, and that's specifically for your print book. So when you open a print book, very often you want the page numbers on the bottom. You might want the title at the top. You might want the chapter title at the top. You might want the author name at the top. So the Kindle app gives you a few different options to play with. It's very much like the theme. It doesn't give you unlimited options, but it gives you more than a few options for your print book. Then what you do after you've done all that, you will export, they call it generate as well. They use those terms interchangeably export or generate your KPF file. That's very easy to do that one click. Then you will upload said KPF file to the KDE platform for publishing and selling on Amazon, rinse and repeat. So you want another book? Do it again. And obviously the more you do it, the better you'll get at it, and the faster you will get at it. But that's it. That's a five or 10 thousand foot overview as to what we're going to dig into now. It's not gonna be super difficult. It's gonna be pretty easy, pretty quick. So let's get into it. 5. Import your manuscript: Let's get into the walk through. How do I take my Word document or my OpenOffice document or my pages document and turn it into a published book. Well, the first thing is I'm going to show you what my book looks like in its, in its Doc format. So in Microsoft Word. So here it is, for example, and it was an adult that had some adult language and it's I'm going to apologize upfront for that. But you can see up here, this is the very beginning is not a long book. I've got the title or the chapter title on a separate page. And then it's just text. I've just typed type, type, type type, no fancy margins. This is just a default page setting of A4 might be letter sized paper if you're in America, I haven't had to do any fancy formatting. That's one of the big time-saver. Then here's another chapter. I've put one in there for chapter one, you don't have to do that. But you can see I put it on a separate page. I did go to the trouble of using the title, the title format for my title, and then the subtitle format for the subtitle of the chapter. If you have that. I thought that would help create identify. It turns out it was able to identify that this was a chapter heading without that anyway. But then you can get more tax. So you can see the idea here. It's very much how you would write a book in Word. You go to the cafe, open up a Word document and you just start typing, typing, typing. So I wanted to show you this because there's literally no fancy formatting. I haven't set up any margins or any page size or anything like that. So I haven't said, for example, that I want a six by nine inch book and then made this a six by nine inch page size. This is just I don't even know. I think this is a a4. A4 page size, just the default in Microsoft Word for me. No particular font. Don't worry about what font you are using. What kind of font, what size, because that's all going to be taken care of later. So that's what my book manuscript looks like. Now, welcome to the Kindle app. You will see here you have a couple of options here. Open an existing file, choose Create New. You will see once again, there's no option here to say create new. If you say Create New, it's going to ask you to. In fact, let's do this. Here's what happened and you can see that the only option you have is to choose a file. So dot, dot, dot doc x or dot RTF Rich Text Format. Again, there's no option here to just open a blank document and start typing. That's not what the Kindle app is for. You certainly can make some edits, but you're supposed to create your book in Word or in OpenOffice or something like that. Now, the one that we're going to be focusing on here is what's called reflow trouble. Reflow trouble simply means that's a term that only that only applies to kindle books or ebooks. Reflow, which means that when you open up your book, someone opens up your e-book on Kindle or the Kindle app on their phone. If they have the option to make the font bigger or smaller. Now, as they do that, obviously the bigger the font gets, the fewer the words can be fit on a page. And the Kindle app will allow the person to do that. That's what it means by a reflow trouble. That's also why you can't have set page numbers because it depends how large the font is that the end user wants to use. And if they're using, let's say a big tablet, they're gonna be able to show more than I can show it on my phone, for example. That's what reflow double means. As opposed to down here you'll see what it says is print replica. And I don't know if you can see that, but you can see they're using the example of a cookbook here. With a cookbook, obviously, refillable would not be so good because if someone makes the font bigger or smaller. And you can see here I think that having an ingredients list on the left, a nice photo on the right, then probably the instructions underneath. If that formatting starts going haywire, then that book might almost be unusable. So that's a print replica. That means a person on the app won't be able to resize it. Which might sound good in theory. But if it's a really, really dense book, lots of texts there may not be able to read it. So we're not doing that. We're doing reflow ball, obviously we're not doing comics. I haven't used the comics feature. Sounds kind of cool, might give it a go someday. But we're going to hit the flowable and we're going to hit Choose file. Now, I'm going to navigate and select that exact document that I showed you before, which is this one here, rough manuscript. And it's going to begin importing. It won't take long depending on how big. It obviously will vary depending on how big your actual document is, but it's not going to take hours and hours. It will take minutes at most. So let me just let it do its thing. And here we are. So I'm going to just close it, for example, because I know what I'm doing. And as I've said, the first thing we're gonna do is start working on the chapter titles. 6. Identify chapters: Alright, so we're going to identify our chapter title. Let's just hit Get Started. And what you'll notice here, you can see here that it's done it perfectly. These are the seven chapters together with the introduction that I want in my book. So I'm going to hit Accept except selected here. If you, if it doesn't get picked up properly, I would just suggest going back to your Word document and tidying up the formatting there. As I did putting let's say your title and subtitle on separate pages may be using that title format and the subtitle format to help kindle create workout which one is which? But it's been pretty good. It's done it perfectly for me even without those fancy formatting. So I will go here and I will say except selected because that's right. What you'll see here now on the left is that if I click here, There's the introduction. Here's chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, chapter four, et cetera, et cetera. So this is the first step. This is really important that you do this correctly because this is what's going to show up in the table of contents when we do it. So you want the chapters to be identified correctly so that when you generate your table of contents, assuming you're going to generate one, and I certainly would encourage you to do so. And you put it in that front matter of the book. That's going to make sure all the chapters turn up in that table of contents. It's also going to make sure that all the page numbers for your print book anyway, remember only print books actually have page numbers, reflow or Kindle books do not. It's gonna make sure all those things show up correctly. So make sure that you identify good those chapters. Identify correctly. If for some reason it doesn't work. What you can do here is highlight, Let's say for some reason it didn't. It didn't. Let's identify this as a title for some reason. You can see here on the right, elements on page chapter titled chapter subtitle, chapter first paragraph. If for some reason let's say it didn't have so I'm gonna hit clear. So now it doesn't know can the grade doesn't know that this is a chapter title. It's actually disappeared from the left as well. So all you need to do is highlight your chapter title. Chapter title. And you can see here it's become bold again. So if for some reason it doesn't pick it up, don't fret. You don't even really have to go back to Microsoft Word or your word processor. Just highlight your tidal hit chapter title. And it will begin showing up on the left in your makeshift table of contents. And you can do the same with the subtitle. That just came up as body text or normal texts. Highlight it, hit Chapter subtitle. And you can see that within reason anyway, chapter subtitle, within reason, it will get it right. Play around with these, let me just play around with these different different options. So for example, there's an option here for chapter first paragraph. I don't use that because I think it looks a bit weird, but you might want to use that. So let me hit clear on that. Then you also have subheading block quotes, poems, separators, opening quotes, opening called credit. So have a play with that and use whatever fits your book, whatever you deem necessary for your book. 7. Front and back matter: Our next step, once you've identified the chapters in your book, is to start inserting front matter and dark matter. Now, you can see here over on the left, we've got front matter. The big one is going to be a table of contents. So we hit the plus up here and we go to table of contents. You can see that it's picked up automatically our chapter title, so we'll say, okay, and boom, it's inserted it at the front. That's why it's called front matter before actual body of the book. And it's got contents. It's got a chapter headings here. And in the print book it would have the page numbers. Remember, because Kindle doesn't actually have page numbers are three flowable. But on the Kindle, what will happen is if someone clicks on introduction, it would go to the chapter introduction. So I think I might actually, let me do this here. If I click this one, there you go, it actually links straight. So we'll take the reader straight through to the chapter. So that's definitely one front matter that you would assume you want to put in. Another one would be title page. And this is where you put in your book title, which is required. You can put in the title, the author name, the publisher allows you to put a publisher logo. You might put that in, might not. Once you put it in, it will generate it automatically. But this is how you do front matter and a lot of it is automatically generated where appropriate. So you can see title page, copyright, Dedication. We're going to go to table of contents. That's why it's grayed out. We can do it again. Preface, introduction, prologue, forward, standard page front matter. At the back. You will have books by this author about the other books in the series price or the Epilogue Afterward, acknowledgment, standard page back matter. That's the front matter and the back matter. The table of contents is definitely a big one. So I'd encourage you to, once you've imported your book, identified the chapters, at least go away and put in the table of contents and probably the title page and probably the copyright page as well. If you want to put in more, you can put in more. And in my book, I actually have the introduction already written so you can see it's turned up as a chapter. I'm okay with that. If you want it for some reason the introduction to have to be in the front matter, then you could certainly move it until you could create it in the front matter here, like this. And then I could remove it from the body of the book, but I'm not going to do that. So I will highlight that. I do hit Delete. Let me delete sections or right-click delete section that's gone. So I have my introduction here, but that might be a consideration. For example, if you didn't want Introduction to appear in your chapters, then you would need to move the introduction out of the body of your book and into the front matter. So maybe I can just do it like this will allow me to do this. Now it will not. So I can just move the introduction up into the front matter. So if you want it to move the introduction out of the body, that's the only finicky thing I would say here. Create it in the front matter introduction. You could just copy paste and then deleted from the body. Here. 8. Pick a theme: Now we're going to pick the theme for our book as in how we want the fonts, the chapter pages to look, et cetera, et cetera. So let's just go up to here. I'll pick a chapter, a chapter page at chapter title page for a star. Go up and hit theme, and you will have these options. So as I said, if you want unlimited options, you're not gonna get that in Kindle create. Having said that, one of these options is probably going to suit you. So you have modern, this is the one that I've used in the past. Classic cosmos, cosmos with some really futuristic sci-fi fonts. And then a more with some cursive font for this book because it's a non-fiction book. I would probably go with this or this. So I'm going to pick just this modern slash current theme because I think that one is pretty good for a non-fiction book. I hit Select. Now you might not see much of a change here because that was already the correct font and the correct formatting. And you can see here the current element chapter title. I was beginning to freak out for a sec because I thought that the subtitles hadn't pulled over correctly, but the problem was a subtitle, I hadn't put the actual subtitle, hadn't picked the element on the page, this chapter subtitle we had just been it had looked like that and let's go ahead and do change. So if it doesn't change, just make sure that if you have subtitles are actually using this chapter subtitle format. So if I go back up the theme now and let's say I change it to classic. You can see it's changed there to make it a bit more left aligned, and it's changed the font. If I choose the Cosmos theme, the sci-fi one, there you go. That's probably appropriate for some book, probably not for this book. And then last but not least, are more, which is probably for a fiction book. You can see it's made discursive. And then this, so just make sure don't freak out if it doesn't seem to change, make sure that your titles actually have the chapter title formatting associated with it applied to it. Make sure your subtitles have the same. Then if you clear the formatting, then it just becomes body texts or normal text. So that's what you want for the actual what's in the chapter, but in the contents of your chapter. So let me put it back to Chapter subtitle. I'm going to go back to my modern theme, select. And I'm just going to quickly go through the chapter pages to make sure you can see this one here didn't work. So I hit Chapter subtitle than it does work. Chapter four, again, highlight the subtitle. Chapter five doesn't have a subtitle 67, so that's about done. My introduction is still there and the contents looking good. Once you've done that, then you can say Kindle that kinda crap. Wants me to save it. So I'll hit Save. I'm going to just leave that in here for now. That's done. So now go ahead and pick one of those themes, whichever one is appropriate. Again, there's only four themes. So if you really want something different or you just hate all of those seams and you're going to have to do it the old-fashioned way and format the book yourself, but my bed is at one of those scenes is going to suit. You. Just find, let's say for your first book. 9. Print settings: Okay, The print settings for your books. So these only applied to the print version of your book. You go up to here, hit Print Settings. And again, it's super easy. It's pick which one do you want? Now, if you have a look, it gives you a few options. So page numbers, this one has page numbers on the left and right. This one, for example, has page numbers in the center. And you can see there are a few different options here. This one puts the author name on the top of every left page and your book title on the top of every right page. This one does the same but puts them in the center. This one is the same as before. This one has no author name or book title at the top. This one has the page numbers at the top together with the author name and the book title. This one actually has a book title, one chapter title rather than author name. So I'm not going to go through all of these, but pick whichever one you want for your book. I would probably I obviously I want page numbers in my print books. I'm not sure I wouldn't use one of the bottom four. And I do like having the page numbers on the sides. So I'm probably just going to go with this one. So I'll double-click that or hit. Okay. Now, you're not going to, Here's the big thing. You're not going to notice any immediate change because what it's showing you here, it's still the Kindle version of the book. Remember what I said? One of the drawbacks with a Kindle create app as powerful and as cool as it is, is you don't really get to see what your print book version is going to look like until you begin the uploading process, don't worry. You will be able to see what it looks like before you hit Publish. So don't go, Oh my God, Well, I don't want people buying my book before I know what it looks like. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is you can't see it and the Kindle app, at least no, no easy way that I found out. Once you've changed those Print Settings, just do me a favor. Let's just double-click, click in here and make sure we've got that. And then make sure you hit Save. Okay. Because there is no immediate change. And what you're seeing as I said, you might forget to hit Save and then you might export it. And you had the wrong print setting selected in the need to go through the whole thing again. But that's how you pick Print Settings. Again, it's only for the print version of your book. 10. Export your book: This is the easy and exciting part of the process. So just give you a book, a once through because we are going to generate the file that we're going to use to create our books. So make sure your chapter titles and subtitles are looking good and make sure you pick the right theme, the right Print Settings. Then you go up to here. Hit Generate. I will just mention quickly the preview that you can hit here. It does give you a preview, but only of, as I said, the Kindle version. So we're going to see what our print book looks like when we actually upload it to the KDE platform. So I'll close that, but you can have a look at that. Hit Generate, pick where you want to save it. And then it will say don't want to replace it because there's already one there I'll hit yes, you might not get that. Then it's done. Now all we're gonna do is upload that file for both print book and an e-book. And I'm going to show you how to do that. But it's super, super simple. So that's all the heavy lifting done generally to get to this stage. So for a book like this, which I did the old fashioned or hard way and had people format it for me and I had to pay for that. This book, on the other hand, which is the book that we're working on. I did have it published. It was so, so much quicker, easier, faster and cheaper. So that's what we're gonna do now. We're going to begin the uploading and publishing process to the KDE platform. 11. Publish your paperback: Okay, Now that you have your KPF file, let's get into how to uploading or publishing it on the Amazon platform. And I use those words to mean the same thing. Uploading slash publishing, which we'll see here in a second. Just a really quick reminder, I've mentioned it a few times now. The other course, we'll walk you through the Amazon kVp publishing process in a bit more depth. I'm going to zoom through it here again, only because I didn't want to put the same information in every single one of my courses. Because the publishing or uploading process is almost identical regardless of what type of book you're producing, whether it's a paperback book, a hardcover coffee table book on eBook. So make sure that you know where that course is. I mentioned it in the second video. Here. Go and check that out. Maybe later, I'll walk you through it now, then go back to that cause even need a bit more information or detail as to why I'm doing what I'm doing. Okay, so let's get into it here. This is the kVp publishing platform. If you haven't published anything yet, then you won't have as many entries here as I do. But that's okay. You'll get there eventually if you choose to, you're going to want to go to Create and either choose Kindle, e-book or paperback. Now we'll be doing both obviously, but which one you choose to do first is, we'll make no difference. I'm just gonna go back for a second because you can see here I've got this book that I've imaginatively titled, sample title, sample subtitle. This is a book that I started creating for this course, and I can't delete it. So I don't want to keep creating dummy books and just fill up my whole KT P bookshelf with dumpy books. So this is one that I started on the paper bag. But for you to get to that, remember hit Create and hit paperback. So let's do that paper bag first. And then in the next video we'll circle back and do the Kindle e-book. But you'll hit Create and then you will get to I'll hit Continue setup. You'll come to this first page here, which is paperback details. Now regardless of whether you're publishing the paperback or the e-book, you will walk through basically the same three pages, details, content. Whoops, sorry, I didn't mean to click Details content and writes slash pricing. So let's go through these details. Super quick. Language makes sense. Obviously your book title and your book's subtitle just bear in mind what is optional? This is optional. If kVp says it's optional, that really means you don't have to put anything in there if you don't want to. Series edition number, obviously that's applicable to you. Author named self-explanatory, I've just put Adrian Kuan. You could put a prefix and middle name and a suffix if you wanted to. Contributors, if you have an illustrator or if you co-wrote the book, I guess you could put that in there. I've not had to use that field so far. And then obviously for your description, particularly if you're planning on selling this book to the public. But please put a much better description then test description. But just for the purposes of this course, I just put test description. You can also use some basic formatting here, such as bold, italics, and underline. There's some bulleting and some format here. And a source. If you want to use HTML formatting publishing rights, I own the copyright keywords. Very, very important, particularly if you want to sell your book to be found by the public. It's optional though, and for the purposes of this course, I'm just leaving it blank. Categories super-important. Again, check my other course. I've just, for this one put nonfiction self-help and general nonfiction self-help, personal growth, success. Your Tunisia's should be accurate, but they don't need to be exactly the same. That's what I'm going to say. It's not a low content booklet, not a large print book at all content now this book actually does have some adult content in it, some swear word. So I put yes. If your book doesn't have that and obviously book no. I put no. If you put yes for the adult content doesn't mean kinda was like, Oh, we can't have that. It will just mean it probably, hopefully one, recommend your book to children. So we hit Save and Continue. That's the first page done. And now we come to the second page. Now for the vast majority of you, you will just get a free ADP ISBN. You'll hit this button. And you can see here that it's already given me one, this string of numbers here. If you had your own that you wanted to use for some reason, then you can do that to publication date. I'll leave it at all, leave it blank. That means when I get approved for publishing, Amazon will automatically put in, put in today's date. Now print options for this book, I am going with a black and white interior with whitepaper, fairly standard for text-only book. Six by nine inch or so is very standard. You can see the different options you have here, but six by nine is standard. No bleed because it's a text-only book. And then the paperback cover finished. I'm going to go with Matt. You can pick glossy or do you want That looks great. I just find Matt looks a bit better ones. I want to take a photo with my book, that glossy cover tends to reflect flash photography. And then the camera can really see the book that the person is holding. Now here's the important part. You're going to click on Upload paperback, manuscript. So click there, then go and find the KPF file that we created in the previous video. Now for me. It is here. I won't click it because I already uploaded, but you will click the KPF file, double-click it, and then upload. It will take awhile. And then eventually you will get this message here saying it's uploaded successfully. Depending on how large your manuscript actually is in the speed of your Internet. That could take anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes. If you're just uploading a KPF foreigners as a text-only book and it's not too big. It should probably take less than a minute, but I just want to let you know. You might not need to give that some amount of time. Then you need to go down and create your book cover. Now, remember, we're talking about book here. So if you already, I don't know, credit your own cover. We've got someone to create a cover for you. Hopefully you've done it in your print ready PDF format. Then you would just click here and you could upload there. And again, I'll remind you, watch the other course that I referenced you to. You'll get a lot more information about how to do that. Well, how to do that properly? I just use the cover crater here and I'll walk you through it quickly so you'll hit Launch cover crater. And then I will do this little thing here because this is saying my book is narrow enough, doesn't have enough pages that can actually fit tests on its spine, which might make sense because the bulk needs to have a certain spine width. The more pages it has, the wider the spine is. And it needs a certain spine with before can actually print texts. This is a cover I did up before. You will initially come to this page here where it's similar to the Kindle app in that you'll have a few themes to choose from. Amazon will populate the designs with your title and your subtitle information that you put in your author name. And then you just pick which one you want to use. You'll be able to change bits and pieces of this. Let's just say I choose this design. If you don't like this image here, you can click on it. And you can say, choose a new cover image. So if I choose that, it will open up a bunch of the image gallery which you can use. I will just put women in the search box because this is a book on self-help, especially targeted at women. And you can just find whichever image you want here. Okay, That was a lot harder than I thought, but we're just going to go with this one. This is a terrible image. I wouldn't normally use. This format was not a terrible image, but I was certainly not use this image from my actual cover, but for want of a better one day you go. So it's put that image in there. You can come in here, change your author name if you want to. The title and the subtitle just makes sure that the information you put in here for the title and the subtitle is the same as the information you put in the previous. In the previous information. If it finds out you titled your book something different to the information you entered previously, it will flag it as, hey, there's something wrong here and your book won't be approved. So when you're ready with that, I'm just going to hit Save and hit preview here when you are happy with your cover. Now, obviously I wouldn't normally go with this covered. There's all sorts of things wrong with it. But just for now, I will hit Save and Submit. And then you scroll back down to the bottom. And you will see the thumbnail of your cover appear there. And it will say cover uploaded successfully. Now we hit Launch preview. And now this step here may take, again depending on how large your manuscript is, it could take awhile when I published my coffee table book, but obviously, the manuscript of file thought was very, very large because it had color photography and all sorts of other things and it was quite thick. I needed to leave this step for about ten minutes. I'd go away and make yourself a cup of coffee or grab a glass of wine, whichever one floats your boat. And just wait for this to do its thing. But this is where you're really importantly going to be able to see finally, what your print book is going to look like. Remember when I said in the Kindle app, one of the weaknesses is that you can't easily see what the print book is going to look like. It's very easy to see what your Kindle book will look like. But the print button, there wasn't a preview. This is the first time you're gonna be able to see what your print book is going to actually look like. Okay, so here we are. It's opened up. There's my terrible, terrible cover. You can click through. And I encourage you to do this to make sure everything looks right. Make a last check for spelling errors. I would suggest that you'd want to check for spelling errors in your original Word document before you even imported into kinda create. If you click thumbnail view here, that's very useful. You can see your whole manuscript for your book laid out in front of you the way it's gonna be printed. What pages are on the left? What pages are printed on the right? You can also see if you click on the thumbnail, but if you click and you can see more clearly that my author name is on the left and the title of the book is on the right, and the page numbers are on the bottom, far corners, the outside corners, which is exactly what I wanted. So the print settings in can they create, they worked properly and they are there. And that is looking good. Don't worry about these dotted lines by the way, those are just guides. You can get rid of them. Once you are happy. Hit Approve. If you're not happy, you'd want to exit Print Preview. Go back to your Kindle create app or your Word document if you need to make the corrections and then come back resubmit. But once you're ready, you hit Approve. And now we are. Back to this page one more time. So you've uploaded your manuscript, you've done the cover, you've launched a preview, you're okay with it. This is just where Amazon will tell you about the printing price, hit Save and Continue. And then this is the final page, as I said, three, we're now on the rights and pricing page. I generally put all territories. I'm in Australia, so I put.com.edu and I've just put the pricing here in-between the min-max price, you can see minimum $7.48, maximum $350. That's expensive for paperback book. I put $9.99 again for more depth into the pricing, how I prize books, checkout the other course. If you want to, if you are in a different country, obviously, pick a different country here that just changes which bookers at the top. I will just quickly point out that if you change the price at the top, it filters through an Amazon works out a basic equivalency in all the other countries currencies. But if you wanted to change one individually, let's say this dot code dot UK, you can change that individually there, affecting all the other prices. So it's just the price at the top that flows on down here. And as far as I've been able to tell, That's the only difference when it comes to determining what your primary marketplaces. If I put.com, that's now a $9.90-nine us and it will go down and work out prices based on $9.99 us. In fact, I'm happy to leave it like that. So now it can take up to 72 hours for your book to be available for purchase on Amazon. I'm going to hit Publish here, publisher paperback book. And now you will come to this screen here that basically says that you can see up here you're paperback has been submitted. They are now reviewing my book. If it passes our view. They said it can take up to 72 hours to be available for purchase on Amazon. So your book is not available yet. Amazon is reviewing it. Can't speak generally with a text-only book, particularly given that you created the manuscript in Kindle create app or given that you've used a kinda create app, I'd say with a high degree of certainty that you're going to be approved on the first time, particularly if you also used their cover creator. The main reason that I've seen people get rejected, it's not that all your books not good enough. Or your book on this subject. Because Amazon is pretty flexible with it. What it usually is, a cover that is not quite the right size or images on the inside and the manuscript that haven't been formatted quite correctly. Now, what you need to do is wait, as I said, up to 72 hours, keep an eye on your e-mail address. The one that you've registered with Amazon. And Amazon will send you an email there and will either say basically, congratulations, your book has been approved, or here are some issues that need to be fixed. If you get, hey, congratulations, it's been approved, then people can buy your book on Amazon straightaway all around the world. They'll send you the link and you can share that link. If it says your book has not been approved, that doesn't that's not a final statement and you go, Oh my God, I can't get published. It will give you the reasons that your book wasn't approved. All you need to do is go back, fix those reasons, make those corrections, then go through this process again, resubmit it. In fact, you probably only need to resubmit, re-upload the menu script file, and then click Publish and your, your trigger the approval process again, so you need to wait another I've actually been finding as closer to 24 hours, but another 24 to 72 hours. And then hopefully on that second time, Amazon will say, Hey, all is good now. And your book has been published. Now. That was the paperback book. Next, we'll be digging into the Kindle e-book. 12. Publish your eBook/Kindle version: Alright, so in the previous video, we published or uploaded a paperback book. In this video, we're gonna be uploading the e-book. Now, very importantly, if you hit Create here, which you certainly could do, and you can hit a Kindle e-book. You will begin exactly the same process as in the previous video, but with your e-book manuscript versus your paper book manuscript. Having said that because you did it in Kindle create, it's exactly the same file. But the problem with that is you'll create two separate books. So you will have here, for example, let's say with his Confessions of a pageant queen. If I did a paperback version and an e-book versions separately, two separate listings on Amazon, which is not what I want. What I want is one listing that when the person goes to it, they can pick whether they want a paperback or hardcover. If you had one or an e-book, you don't want each one to be in a separate listing. So rather than going Create, we're going to do create Kindle e-book here. So you can see this is my paperback. You can see it's in review. And I want to click on this Create Kindle e-book link here, rather than going up to the top hitting that yellow button because I will, as I say, Create a new listing. Hit here. And you're going to find that most of this information has been pulled over from the information you put in the paperback version. So there's very little you need to do, so should be super-quick. All of this information here is the same language, book title, Tour de France was already series edition number, even the author contributors the description. Again, remember make sure you don't use that as your description. Publishing rights, keyword, categories is all the same. The only difference here is children's book age range optional and the US grade range optional. This is not a kids book that I'm publishing publishing here. So I'm just going to leave that aside difference here. And again, remember to check out the other course, I go into more detail about what these different options are for the e-book specifically why you might want to use them while you might not want to use them. I'm going to say, I'm ready to release my book now, hit Save and Continue. You can see that's the first page done here. Again, it has three pages at the top. We're now on eBook content, digital rights management. I tend to leave this as no. If you are super concerned about it and maybe someone being able to read your bookers and paid for it, you could hit, Yes. Here's a big one. Upload your e-book manuscript. Now you're going to click on there. And because you've been created, creating your manuscript in the Kindle app, you get to upload the exact same file. Let me just find it here. The exact same file. You upload it for your paperback book. Remember this is one of the big beauties of using that kinda great app. You just have one file and you can upload it for both your e-book and your print box. So we'll double-click there. It's gonna go away and do it. Uploading thing shouldn't take too long depending on your Internet speed on how big the manuscript is. You can see here it's uploaded success soy processing in the background. The e-book cover. A cover for an e-book is obviously similar to your print book. You'd want to make it similar to your print book. You don't want to, probably to be completely different. But the Ebook Cover, if anything, is simpler. It doesn't have a spine and it doesn't have a back cover. It's basically just a front image. So we will go into the launch cover Credo once again. And it's gone straight into the images. I'm going to close out of that and just find a title now, I honestly can't remember what I know my title for the print book that I showed you was terrible. So let's see, we're going to pick maybe a better one for my e-book. So this is not fancy at all, but I think it works. There's a title, subtitle, and the author name. You do have a few different options as how you want to have it laid out. So pick whichever one suits you. I certainly would do more work on this. It's okay, but it's not great as a cover design. I will hit Preview. And if you're happy with that, just hit Save and Submit. Otherwise you can go back here, start over, or you can even go back to the Choose design or the style that I would save and submit for now. And you can see now here, cover uploaded successfully, it's processing my file. You can do the launch preview here and I'll show you it just says loading up. Just remember in the Kindle create app, There's actually a preview it in there. And it's going to show you the exact same preview that the Kindle app showed. You. Just bear that in mind. Okay, So here's the preview launched up in kVp. And it will look exactly like the preview that you had in the actual Kindle create app because that's what that was originally designed for, for creating Kindle e-books. So when you can have a quick look through this, and I certainly would encourage you to do so. But there should be borrowing some disaster. There should be no difference between what this preview looks like and what the preview look like in your Kindle create app. So when you are happy with this and go to the top-left, it's a little bit hidden. Go back to book details. Scroll back down to the bottom. It says ISBN is optional, so I'm going to leave that publish optional. I'll hit Save and Continue. Now on the final page, ebook pricing. I will enroll my book MKT p. Select one more time for more information on these ones. Go view that other course that I've told you about. All territory's, I'll leave it as Amazon.com is my primary marketplace. I'm going to hit the 70%. And I would put, what does put as a price for $1.90-nine, Amazon will go away and do its thing, calculate equivalent prices and other currencies. This is locked because of 70% royalty option. Down here, we're almost done. So Terms and Conditions, again, 72 hours for your title to be available for purchase on amazon. Exactly the same as your print book. So now we hit Publish. And you can see, congratulations, your Kindle eBook has been submitted. Just to notice here about again, the approval process taking up to 72 hours, I'll hit Done. Now what you should see in your kVp bookshelf is this. So here's, here's the book with its terrible, terrible cover. But you can see a Kindle e-book is in review, retailing that at $4.99 paperback in review, $9.90-nine. Just a reminder, keep an eye on your e-mail, the one that you have associated with your Amazon account. And you'll get an e-mail either saying that your book has been approved or that there are some corrections that need to be made. If it's approved, then you can share the link that it emails you with everyone in the world that you want to buy your book. If there are some corrections that need to be made, remember you don't need to fret, go back, make those corrections, re-upload whatever was fixed, and then trigger the publishing or the approval process again. And you just need to wait those 24 to 72 hours once again. So that's it. 13. Conclusion: Well, that's it for this course. Thank you for watching. If you have any questions about what I've gone through, first off, make sure you watch the course. Again, that's the great thing about courses. You can go back, watch the same part again and again and again. Also remember with this course that repeatedly mentioned the complete guide to Katie P. Publishing that other course that you have access to. Make sure you go through that course too, because that gives you a lot more of the grounding of the fundamentals as how to publish a book. The different types of books you can publish, especially with print books. You can see just behind me there, those are hardcover coffee table books that have magnificent full color photography in them. 8.5 by 11 inch. So you are by no means restricted to just paperback, six by nine black and white text-only books on the Amazon KTB publishing platform. But we kept it simple for this course, which was focused on Kindle create, a free app that allows you very easily and simply to publish simultaneously a print book and an e-book, which is frankly a function I wish I'd had back when in 2017 when I had published this book, maybe it was around and I just didn't know and end up paying hundreds of dollars that I didn't need to. But if you have any questions after watching this course and the other course, E-mail me info at Adrian jay Kwan.com. I'll be more than happy to help you out or you can visit my side. Hadrian jay Kwan.com, I do a lot of book publishing, book publishing Courses, also, entrepreneurship stuff. I will say if you subscribe, I'd give you access to a lot of the templates, not necessarily for, let's say this pocket, I do give you some cover templates, but if you want to easily create children's books, or you want to get access to the very templates that I've used to create books such as the one behind me, for example, the cover, how I created that cover, which looks absolutely amazing. I know you can't really see it. I just went and got it for you. But if you want to learn how to do things like this, how I've done things like this, then do subscribe on my website because one of the things that I give you for free is access to templates and things like that, showing you how I created some books. And I'm really, really happy with. And Franklin never would have known it was possible to create on the kVp platform. So this course, thanks for watching. Watch the other courts email me with any questions. Visit my website, subscribe if you want access to templates shown you how to create things like this. Otherwise, I will see you in the next one.