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After publishing your book, join facebook groups and then you can post your book links into them to promote it. You can use this link to join such groups: https://ebookstrati..co.ke/p/book-promotion-groups-on-facebook.html?m=1

To be able to make Amazon KDP a consistent and reliable source of income, these are what you have to do:

1. The more books you write and publish the greater your chances of making daily sales. So, be a prolific writer and ensure your books appeals to universal audience.
2. Don't see Amazon KDP as a rich quick scheme but rather as an additional stream of income and hence be resilient in working at it by writing and publishing more books. Also use social media platforms like Facebook to occasionally promote your books through its book groups.

On Formatting:

You need to know that if you want to publish your book in both eBook and paperback (Print) editions through Amazon, then you need to format the book into both eBook and Paperback KDP publishing standards.

Andrew Watts wrote 50 pages of a novella while deployed on an aircraft carrier and now is a successful full-time writer with his own publishing company. His secret? He's constantly testing new things and learning from his mistakes.

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For your Payoneer identification document, you can use any of the following IDs: National ID, International passport, or Driver license.

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As an indie author, it is more professional to publish your books in both eBook and paperback editions rather than in only eBook edition. It will encourage potential readers to have faith in your work and hence willing to try them out.

Writing and publishing is 50% art and 50% business " Dakota Krout".

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"Self-publishing is 50% art, 50% business." Dakota Krout published his first book on KDP in 2016 and shares his journey to success.
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Publish your books with KDP because it is the largest book publishing platform and where most digital book sales are made worldwide!

When you want to publish your book on Kindle (KDP eBook), know that you don't use PDF file of your manuscript to do that but you use your manuscript's formatted Microsoft Word file.

This is a list of FB groups that you can use to promote or market your Amazon KDP Published books.
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How to Add Payoneer Bank Account Details to You Draft2Digital Publishing Account:

*Click on the "My Account" menu and then click on "Payment Options".
*Fill in all the details there.
*Under where you have "Payment Information" fill in all your payoneer bank account details like name of account holder, bank account number, name of bank, routing number etc.
*For the Payment Method chose Payoneer and for the Type of Account chose Checking.
*For the Payment Threshold set it to 0.00.
*Fill in every other details there and submit it.
*You will need to take the Tax Interview too if you are yet to do that.

View this Amazon KDP free webinar to inspire you take the next step in your publishing journey: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G202193670

Follow these Steps to Add Payoneer Bank Account to Your Amazon KDP Account:

*Login to your KDP account.
*Scroll down to just after the tax interview and click on the "Add Bank'' link.
*Select the country from the list which is US since Payoneer bank account is a US account.
*Enter the bank name, account number, routing number, your name as the holder in the fields provided for them and select checking as the type of account. This will automatically be added to all the national market places.
*Click on the + sign in front of each market place to confirm that EFT payment option is selected and also set the currency of your choice which should be US dollars.

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OFFENSES THAT CAN LEAD TO THE SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION OF YOUR KDP ACCOUNT
There are some things you must avoid as an independent author who publishes through Amazon so as not to get your account suspended or terminated. The following are some of these things which are all against Amazon Terms Of Service:
1. Copyright infringement: In this case, you must make sure the contents of your eBooks are original and not just what you cut and paste from the internet. At times, they might block any of your eBook which they believe has content that is widely available on the internet. But if you continue to have copyright issues with your other eBooks, they might terminate your account.
2. Use of inappropriate keywords like names of other authors to game the system.
3. If your eBooks are enrolled in the Kindle Select Program, and you arranged with some marketers that promise to increase your KENP reads, you might get into trouble. This is because such marketers creates some multiple Amazon accounts to game the system by offering KENP read services to gullible authors. Once Amazon realizes that you are having unusual numbers of pages read, they might investigate and once you are found guilty, your account will be terminated out rightly or suspended.
4. You can publish an eBook in Kindle and still do same with Draft2Digital, Lulu, or Smashwords. But make sure you do not enroll such eBook in the Kindle Select Program because if you do that, it means you are exclusive to Amazon for the 3 months enrollment period and cannot publish it anywhere else otherwise your account will be terminated.
5. Another possible offense is paying people to review your books. This may not lead to account suspension or termination but those reviews will certainly be removed once they find out and you will be warned. So, be creative and resourceful as an independent author.

Good head start tips.....

One way to find out what works for you with respect to publishing on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing is writing and publishing books in different genres and see what works for you and then concentrate on it afterwards.

KDP AND PAYONEER ACCOUNT CREATION

You can use the links below to create your Amazon KDP account and the second one to register and open a US bank account through Payoneer with which to receive your royalties.

Follow the tips I provided to guide you in the process and feel free to contact me for any clarification as you create the accounts.

KINDLE DIRECT PUBLISHING (KDP) ACOOUNT CREATION
This is the link for Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing Account Creation: https://kdp.amazon.com/

Tax Interview

These are what to take note of:
1. All the part concerning "Tax Treaty" and hence TIN, leave them blank because Nigeria don't have tax treaty with America. Continue the rest till the end of the tax interview and save.
2. Towards the end of it, Tick the check box to Agree to the terms. In the place of signature, put your full name that you are using to open the Amazon account. Select individual. Fill the date. Download or Print it and keep it for reference purpose. Submit it.


PAYONEER BANK ACCOUNT REGISTRATION
This is the link to register for Payoneer US Bank Account!
https://share.payoneer.com/nav/yS0vWe6Y6e0wsp4CfaesRgh9hCSCZxL5wbwBBJPiwx87BubcMuO3nTjVJ4F97LM_hOxmhHZ-OvDeGN90XUPV3g2

NOTE:
*Note that in both the KDP publisher account creation and registering for Payoneer bank account, you will be required to input a P.O Box mailing address or the postal code of your area, hence make sure you know that correctly.
*KDP Tax Interview: When Taking the Tax Interview, Any thing that has to do with the Tax Treaty under which you have the TIN, Use the Second option of "You have applied but yet to get it" and you will be fine.
*Make sure you use the same information (Names) to open the two accounts.
*Also, for the publishing account, there is a place where you will be asked if you are a US citizen, say No. There is also a place where you will be asked if you are going to be publishing as an individual or company, you should say individual.
*Make sure you use a valid email.
*Make sure you take your Amazon tax interview which is part of the KDP account creation process.
*As for the bank account information for Amazon KDP, you will enter those details once Payoneer has provided you with the required details: Bank name, Bank country (which is US) because Payoneer bank account is a US bank account, Bank account name, Bank account number, and routing number.
If you are yet to be provided with the Payoneer Bank account details, choose the option "I don't have a bank account" on your KDP publishing profile setup and continue the process. You can then go ahead to publish your book once you are done with the account setup as you can add the payoneer account details anytime you have it.
*Once Payoneer approve your application, they will want you to prove your identity with an ID. They will also want you to prove what you want to use the account for. In that case just tell them you are an Amazon author and publisher. They will then ask you to provide a link to your online business, in that case u put in a link to your Amazon author page or ASIN of your book. That will be after you book is published and “Live”.
*To do that, once you login to your Payoneer website, click on "Global Payment" and then scroll down to submit the proof of Identity and answer the Questionnaire.

If you are ready to take the next step in your publishing journey, here is an Amazon kindle direct publishing free webinars you can watch to bring you up to speed: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G202193670

A good alternative publishing platform to Amazon kindle direct publishing is Draft2Digital. It is quite reliable and distributes books to many digital publishing and sales companies including Amazon kindle direct publishing.

So, you can try it out too and see how it works out for you and your publishing endeavor.