Thank you so much for sharing this. Amazon kdp is truly a Goldmine. I published my first book this December 2021 and I've made sales in different countries that I haven't even been to. I'm committed to publishing at least one book per month on Amazon in 2022!

mk82:
Hello, I am opening this thread to create a meeting point for people who are publishing books on Kindle –Amazon’s Direct Publishing Platform. Those who want to learn about it are also welcome.

I’ve been on KDP for over a year now and I can honestly say it is the most convenient way to make money on the internet. It has more advantages than any other online money making system that I know (I know what I’m saying). Started internet business in 2009 and I’ve done almost everything, Adsense, Adsense domain, blogging, CPA, affiliate marketing, article writing and more.

Kindle will not make you rich overnight but IT CAN MAKE YOU RICH. I love it because it is a set-it-and-forget-it system. Once your books are up, you do not have to do anything again. Amazon will publish it, market it and send you your monthly payments for life and I really mean for life. The books I put up in 2012 are still generating sales up till today.

I uploaded my first book middle of June 2012 and another one a week later. My sales that month were $151 in the USA marketplace and £9 in UK and I have not stopped since. Now I have close to 30 books in the system. They would have been more but there were some challenges on the way – all of which we have overcome as of now. (By the way I had 11 Adsense websites up till 2012 but I had to let the hosting expire because I discovered KDP).

I have books that sold more than 400 copies in one month (at $2+ profit per sale) and some that only sold a few. However, it has been an interesting journey and we are still going on. I started by doing most of the work by myself but later moved into outsourcing.

I have searched on Nairaland and I am surprised that people are not talking about Kindle publishing. If you have been struggling to make some cash online, this may be the thing that will give you your first taste of success.

Kindle publishing is completely legal, you will use your real names, no changing of IP address and your money will be sent to you here in Nigeria.

If you are ready to do the work and get good books into the KDP system, the rewards are truly tremendous. I sleep and wake up to check the number of people that have bought my books in countries I have never been to.


UPDATE: 7:58 pm 31/10/13

QUICK TIPS
One thing I like about Kindle Publishing is that no one can swindle you – no apologies to our so called Naija information marketers.

I am going to make a few more points before we continue. If I get a lot of responses on this thread, we are going to have an interesting journey together.

1) Get Ready To Do Some Work. Kindle publishing is not for people who are not ready to work. If you do not have money to outsource the books, you must be ready to research, write, format, design covers and upload all by yourself. Even if you have the cash of outsourcing, you must cross-check every material carefully before uploading to KDP.

2) Be Patient. You can make some good money with your first book but it is not always so. I usually advice beginners to go for 5 books at the start. The internet marketing world is filled with people who want to make $1000 overnight. No matter how good the system you are using is, time is needed to perfect your skills and make the system work for you. At the end of the day the rewards will be tremendous.

3) Don’t Cut Corners. In the IM world, we have what we call White hat, Grey hat and Black hat. I am happy to tell you that KDP is totally WHITE HAT. You cannot cut any corners. If you mess with them by trying to upload stolen materials, you will be banned (Some of you may remember the Adsense Domain Mass banning). Of course, they will give you the chance to defend yourself but since you will not have any proof, your account may be suspended.

PS- You don’t need to play any tricks with KDP. If you do it right, you will be greatly rewarded. There are many stories I can tell you. There was a particular book I uploaded around September 2012. It was selling the normal 30 to 40 copies per month. Suddenly in December, the sales picked up and it continued up till March this year with the lowest month bringing in about 259 sales.

4) Your Income Is Guaranteed. Once your book is uploaded, you will continue to get paid as long as it sells. All the work you will do is at the beginning then you continue to have recurrent income.

5) You Do Not Have To Do Any Marketing. I have books in various genres and no external marketing has been done on them. Nothing like Twitter, Facebook, blogging bla bla bla. Everything you need is inside the Amazon system.

6) Starting Is the Hardest Part – Once you understand the system, you can be uploading as many books as you like per week or per month. One of the people that started with me has over 50 books already and all his income comes from Amazon (here in Nigeria). Imagine 50 books making just 10 sales each per month. If your profit is $2 per book, that is $1000/month. The more books you upload, the more money you will make. One of my American friends has over 100 books in his account and he’s presently building up his wife’s account to the same number.


UPDATE 2 02/11/2013

THE BASICS OF KINDLE DIRECT PUBLISHING

Step 1. Register
Go over to kdp.amazondotcom (replace dot with .) and open an account. This first step is necessary so you can commit yourself to the project.
-Use an email that you open frequently because they will communicate with you.
-Use your real names, real Nigerian address and other relevant details.

Step 2. Research
Research is one of the crucial aspects of success with Kindle Direct Publishing
Go to Google and enter Amazon Bestsellers in the search box. Click on the Amazon bestseller result to go to Amazon.
Once you are there, click on the kindle category, then kindle eBooks and start searching for books that are selling.
There are other research methods but this is my favorite.

Step 3. Write Or Outsource The Content
Get materials and write quality content for your books. The content must be original or your book will not be published. Ensure you proofread properly. Kindle readers will kill you with bad reviews if there are a lot of errors.

Step 4. Design A Cover
Just check other books in the category you chose and make a similar cover.

Step 5. Format The Book Properly
Formatting is another aspect that can easily mar your work. In fact some people are offering this service online and they are making a lot of money from it. You need to know the right way to format so the book will work well on different types of mobile devices apart from the Kindle Reader. Amazon provides extensive information on this topic.

Step 6. Write A Good Description

This is self explanatory. Your description could be two or three paragraphs or more. This is what will represent your sales page so you need to do it well.

Step 7. Upload Your Book To KDP

At This Point I Will Need Questions So We Can Continue.
This is just a 5% summary of what it takes to make it in Kindle.
If you are following this thread, you can start your own Kindle journey immediately and I’ll assist as much as I can. If you just want to “gist”, I will not have much time for you


UPDATE 3 08/11/2013

ONE-ON-ONE TRAINING

I have been receiving several emails from people who want one-on-one training so I've decided to provide the information here.
Previously, this training was N25,000. However, in the spirit of what we are doing on this thread, a lower price will be accepted.
This training is for those that want KDP to pay their salary every month.


FEE For One Day One-On-One Training: N20,000
BENEFITS:

About 8 hours of practical training covering

1. Research for finding the right keywords for creating books that sell
2. Getting content for your books
3. Writing skills and tricks
4. How to avoid plagiarism
5. Professional kindle formatting
-page setup, font, clickable table of content etc
6. Simple but effective cover design
7. Simple marketing tricks that will ensure every book gives you money each month.
8. Outsourcing
-Putting up a good job post on the freelance website
- how to get good writers at low prices
-how to check their work properly
9. Easy way to get your payment in Nigeria every month.
10. A DVD of over 2GIG of the best kindle publishing training materials that I have. (Includes videos and eBooks)
11. Follow up support for the first 3 months after your training

I am located in Lagos
Contact 247article@gmail.com
My phone number will be given to those who are ready.

UPDATE 5 - JULY, 2020 ONE-ON-ONE TRAINING IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE
Disregard The Information Below

UPDATE 4 30/06/2015
ONE-ON-ONE TRAINING MODIFICATION

After due consideration I have decided to stop the one-on-one training officially by the end of this month (June 30 2015). It is creating too much work for me. I now have many people that I have to follow up and give support to and I want to conserve my resources.

Anyone who comes after this month will have to pay at least N50,000 to make it worthwhile for me. Price for the DVD of materials is also raised to N20,000 for the same reason because I provide the same support to those who order only the DVD.

I will still continue to answer your questions on this thread and through email as much as I can.

Thank you.

Good evening my people ,please I need your help with this - how do I run amazon ads to get my books to sell better . Is there anybody that can help with a reasonable price ? Thanks a lot

TeeAL:
Good evening my people ,please I need your help with this - how do I run amazon ads to get my books to sell better . Is there anybody that can help with a reasonable price ? Thanks a lot

You can't determine by fiat what your advertising cost will be until you start running your ads and start removing keywords that are costing you money and not making you money (this is a very simplistic explanation).

Your best bet will be to start with a small daily budget which may not give you the desired impressions to get your book seeing and may also not win the bids.

Start with a daily budget you can afford and sustain for the next 60 day's. This is not a universal opinion but exactly what i advice my students based on what works for me which also depends on the competitiveness of your niche and your targeted keywords.

Even as an experience self-published author on Amazon, I'm still optimizing my Amazon ads every 48 hours which means it is a continuous process.

You start to understand what keywords are getting you the desired results after Amazon algorithm must have indexed your book and you now have data's to work with which can be found on the "search terms" of your ad.

Best of luck

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byrron:


You can't determine by fiat what your advertising cost will be until you start running your ads and start removing keywords that are costing you money and not making you money (this is a very simplistic explanation).

Your best bet will be to start with a small daily budget which may not give you the desired impressions to get your book seeing and may also not win the bids.

Start with a daily budget you can afford and sustain for the next 60 day's. This is not a universal opinion but exactly what i advice my students based on what works for me which also depends on the competitiveness of your niche and your targeted keywords.

Even as an experience self-published author on Amazon, I'm still optimizing my Amazon ads every 48 hours which means it is a continuous process.

You start to understand what keywords are getting you the desired results after Amazon algorithm must have indexed your book and you now have data's to work with which can be found on the "search terms" of your ad.

Best of luck

Happy new year people

Hello Victor, obviously your course was optimized for non-fiction books; but what’s your take on going into fiction books?

Thanks.

JerkyChan:


Happy new year people

Hello Victor, obviously your course was optimized for non-fiction books; but what’s your take on going into fiction books?

Thanks.

The book creation strategy is the same and the only difference is the genre the author decides to proceed with.

Fiction books are created from the imaginations of the writer such as mysteries, science fiction, romance, crime thrillers while Nonfiction books are fact-based books.

The same book creation procedure applies just that one is purely based on imagination and the other is based on documented facts and there are lots of open-source resources available to use and create a nonfiction book, unlike fiction books where you will have to task your brain to make up a captivating nonexisting storyline.

As an Individual, I will struggle to come up with a fictional story from start to finish and even if I hire a ghostwriter to write my fiction book, my contribution/input to the making of that book will be equivalent to zero since I have zero clue and will be leaving my book completely on the mercy of the ghostwriter which could turn out to be a hit or a miss.

There are lot's of self-published authors doing extremely well in the fiction genre but I opted for nonfiction books so I can be deeply involved in its creation like creating the outline for my book and providing the resources for each outline with a laid down template that will guide the ghostwriter towards writing a value-ladened book.

Writing a fictional or nonfictional book is based on the preference of the author but I always advise my students to start with nonfiction books.

byrron:


The book creation strategy is the same and the only difference is the genre the author decides to proceed with.

Fiction books are created from the imaginations of the writer such as mysteries, science fiction, romance, crime thrillers while Nonfiction books are fact-based books.

The same book creation procedure applies just that one is purely based on imagination and the other is based on documented facts and there are lots of open-source resources available to use and create a nonfiction book, unlike fiction books where you will have to task your brain to make up a captivating nonexisting storyline.

As an Individual, I will struggle to come up with a fictional story from start to finish and even if I hire a ghostwriter to write my fiction book, my contribution/input to the making of that book will be equivalent to zero since I have zero clue and will be leaving my book completely on the mercy of the ghostwriter which could turn out to be a hit or a miss.

There are lot's of self-published authors doing extremely well in the fiction genre but I opted for nonfiction books so I can be deeply involved in its creation like creating the outline for my book and providing the resources for each outline with a laid down template that will guide the ghostwriter towards writing a value-ladened book.

Writing a fictional or nonfictional book is based on the preference of the author but I always advise my students to start with nonfiction books.

Thanks a lot.

ChinweAmaka19:
Thank you so much for sharing this. Amazon kdp is truly a Goldmine. I published my first book this December 2021 and I've made sales in different countries that I haven't even been to. I'm committed to publishing at least one book per month on Amazon in 2022!

Try to write more books. Don't just write anything, write what customers are looking for

JerkyChan:


Thanks a lot.

You're most welcomed

Hello. I just published my first Kindle e-book but I noticed the scrolling is left to right tapping. Other ebooks are usually up-down and again, some header falls at the lower page. Pages in word is 40 same with kindle. Pls advice?

Note: I use word 2013 to format.

TeeAL:
Good evening my people ,please I need your help with this - how do I run amazon ads to get my books to sell better . Is there anybody that can help with a reasonable price ? Thanks a lot

I can help you with ads tutorial.

Message me at metaboltjobs@gmail.com

eliok:
I can help you with ads tutorial.

Message me at metaboltjobs@gmail.com

Just sent a message to your mail.

Awaiting your response.

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Galacious1:
if you're that good with keyword research, you won't be here doing ads. KDP millionaires aren't doing this.

A very lame way to think. Anyone who understands business doesn't have such a narrow, parochial perspective. You think life revolves around only publishing on kdp. Reality will dawn on you.

JerkyChan:


Happy new year people

Hello Victor, obviously your course was optimized for non-fiction books; but what’s your take on going into fiction books?

Thanks.

You better go for non fiction books. You will compete better. Can you compete in the midst of high cabals of fiction writers?

There are lots of high calibre best seller fiction writers on Amazon whose books will swallow yours. Your book will get lost. If you are going in for the money and not for fun, then go for non fiction books.

It's easy to make sales with non fictions. Don't waste your time on fictions. But it's still all your choice to make at the end.

MissSweet:
Hello. I just published my first Kindle e-book but I noticed the scrolling is left to right tapping. Other ebooks are usually up-down and again, some header falls at the lower page. Pages in word is 40 same with kindle. Pls advice?

Note: I use word 2013 to format.

Try and watch a video on how to properly format your book.

Mcslize:


Try and watch a video on how to properly format your book.

Thanks for your response. I've figured it out.

MissSweet:

Thanks for your response. I've figured it out.

Ok, good.

Is anyone making use of TransferWise?

1stbest:
Is anyone making use of TransferWise?

Yes...how may I be of help?

Grupo:


Create an account on TransferWise.com

I already have a payoneer account but it stopped receiving funds due to verification issues.

The NIN slip, voters card & Digital plastic NIN I submitted were all rejected.

The question is, if I great account with transferwise, can I use it to withdraw my kindle funds instead of using payoneer?

Or is transfer wise same as payoneer?

AllyPolly:
Anyone with a working alternative method to receive royalties from KDP aside Payoneer gets $150 from me. I'm for real.

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What's the way out bro? Having issues with payoneer. They have refused to verify my account.

Please how did you get your kindle funds aside using payoneer?

Gerarduq:

Of c, but as a family, anything you offer will not be disputed. I can even offer a free sample to enable you evaluate my ability.

Send a sample let me see. My phone number is on my signature...

chrisokhamera:


You no need comot for house boss. I can buy your funds and give you naira equivalent. Sharp Sharp

Funds that is still in kindle account

ineaghe:


Boss, I received money through the Xoom yesterday. I was paid in dollars at Union bank today.

I don't understand bro. You received your kindle funds through zoom or what?

How long did it take to process everything?

Niom:



I already have a payoneer account but it stopped receiving funds due to verification issues.

The NIN slip, voters card & Digital plastic NIN I submitted were all rejected.

The question is, if I great account with transferwise, can I use it to withdraw my kindle funds instead of using payoneer?

Or is transfer wise same as payoneer?

You can use transferwise to receive your earnings.