₦airaland Forum

hamlak:
@Gaby, this is for you.

Your story is interesting. I have read it all.

Now this is my input as a self published Author on Amazon and all the other self publishing platforms including prints on demand places.

First the covers. This one here is Okay. Better than the second. Will outsell the second by over 5x. Trust me on this.

https://ewealthsuccess.com/gaby.jpg

The guy who did the cover is good. I will like to work with him and offer him some direction that will greatly assist him. Going to try and reach out to him. Hope he responds.

You can publish with Okadabooks for the Nigerian audience like I see you are already planning. As advised, try to get a lawyer to advice you and read through the contract with Okadabooks. For the Okada version, you can use a Nigerian name. It does not have to be your real name. Pen names are very common and acceptable in the publishing arena.

You can use the American name for the Amazon / International version.

Don't just limit your book to Amazon. That would be leaving money on the table.
You can sign up and publish the book via the link below: It is free to do so. And takes minutes to do.

https://www.draft2digital.com/oke

D2D will do the following for you.

They will publish your book on the platforms below:

iBooks (Apple books)
Barnes & Noble
Kobo
Playster
Scribd
Tolino
24Symbols
OverDrive

They will put your book on all these platform and only take 10% of your Royalty and pay you the balance. Believe me, this is cool. You can even make more through them than Amazon.

After you publish your first book, do not stop. Write other books. You can do Non Fiction and How to books. I see you got the talent of a Writer and will do well.

My 2 cents. Hope this helps.

lobell:
Yep, Amazon is the way to go. Createspace for hard copies and Kindle for e-copies.

But then there should be a distribution channel for hard copies in Nigeria as well. A solution could be having guys here pay into an account with the money in escrow, you then order the books, ten, twenty copies at a time, from Amazon's Createspace and deliver to the buyers yourself and get your money from the escrow service.

Make contact, if you need any clarification and for the escrow service of course.