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kay29000:
Yea...What's up with my proposal?

Read my signature.

G12:
I'm talking about a book that was published about 3 days ago. Just a sale and the royalty I earned from the sale was $1.05(displaying on the sales dash board). It used to be around 2bucks

I am afraid you have me lost.
What was the price of your book?
Check under rights and royalties section of the book.
Your royalty payment should be there.
Under the 70% and 30% option.
Have you seen it?

OR
Again, click view data up to 90 days.
Yes I know it was 3 days ago. Their time zone is different from ours.
Have you seen the royalty payment?

OR
Check month to date unit sales. It is possible that someone refunded.


THE SECOND WORST CASE SCENARIO
Amazon changed your list price to include tax and hence reduced your royalty.


THE WORST CASE SCENARIO........
Amazon.....
has actually stolen your royalty payment...

OR
File a complaint under contact us. Perharps it was an error.

kay29000:
Mmm! U don't do PM's? What if I want to take you out on a date and pick your brain?
Mmm!

G12:
I noticed that my new book that was published recently recorded a sale, when I checked the sales dash board it was just $1.05 on the dot com store.

On the sales dasboard?
How much did you think it should have been?

How recently?

7 days?

The sales dasboard moves everyday.
So check the view data on the dashboard and increase it to 90 days.

Does that work?
All your earnings are always taxed.

If not check month to date unit sales and see if there are refunds.

There is a cost for downloading digital books as well.

G12:
na wah o, I priced my book at $2.99 on 70% royalty and my royalty/sale is $1.05.

This is something else o. I don't understand this any more. They normally withhold tax when sending my payment which was not as high as this. I hope they will not withhold another tax when processing my payment. or is there something wrong?

I have been recording a few consistent sales but the bucks has not been adding up? Menh! This one is strong o

Are you talking about royalty payments in payonner?
I will guess you are using payoneer.
Payonneer charges you every time you are paid.

OR

Are you talking about payments in the sales dashboard?
If so, it probably means there has been a refund.
Check prior month royalties.

Or
Ask customer support if the options above failed to work.

aboveall1000:
Thanks Sarahn. Ariana Grade refers to her fans as "My loves" on tweeter. I have taken the corrections. Please can you help me with your email. I want to send a personal greeting and request. any thanks

Thanks for the explanation.

I am glad I could be of help.

I am quite flattered. Thank you for the offer,
but I am afraid I don't do PMs.

If you have any requests, please state them here.
Others may learn from your post,
especially the ones that has been viewing this thread without commenting.

aboveall1000:
Thanks sarahn. I appreciate the time and the corrections you noted. I checked for the fonts on the site you gave but did not find them. I hope am not asking for too much but I have made corrections based on your comment and I will want you to help review again. I really appreciate your time and I also welcome comments from other members of the house. many thanks

Here are the files

So judging from the words, I say these keywords are important.

Ariana Grande
Trivia
Unofficial

I still don't get fun time 4 my loves

So I would push the word UNOFFICIAL under the title and make it as small as possible.


I would rename it Ariana Grande Trivia Unofficial: Are you the ultimate fan? Take the Blue challenge!

aboveall1000:
Hello house, I will appreciate your honest and constructive opinions on what you think about this book cover. many thanks

As this is the first time I am seeing your comment, allow me to welcome you to KDP!

Now let us begin
Disclaimer: Harsh.
Summary:
Horrid. They are too many distractions that will annoy the eyes of the reader.
Please change fonts used and edit the pen name. At most please use only three fonts.

Details
I read the title as Unofficial Fun Time! 4 M Loves Ariana Grande Trivia Game.

It does not make sense. Please explain. I am certain that they may be newbies that want your book. Your title should be as simple as possible.

If the M and 4 were part of the design, please make it fade into the background.
You won't want them confused @ your book while they are better ecovers with readable fonts called your competition, now would you?
I think not.

Selana White sounds like Selana Williams.
Not a great idea for a pen name.
The font you used is NOT for author names!
Bebas Nue is better. You can download that on fontspace.com

To be honest, you are publishing in a game niche right?
Their most common and professional looking fonts are
League Gothic
Bebas Nue.

both available on fontspace.com.

Place your tagline above the title and your subtitle below.
And a tagline is best one sentence not two.

In my eyes, they appear too jumbled up.


Why I am so harsh on fonts?
Because it will distinguish your book from that of competitors. While they are using unprofessional fonts, you come in and take away their buyers with fonts.
Fonts can make or break any photo.

Easiest method: Find a cover in your niche that you admire and imitate it!

Best of luck.
Relax, with time and practice, you would get better and you see that people judge books based on covers.

quote author=henrimoto post=30136584]@sarahn. Pls. Help me with tips, website and tools on how to improve my graphic design skills. Biko, help me. ' i no understand our naija graphic designers', the price some will give to do an ebook cover for amazon KDP.,is heart breaking.[/quote]I agree with you.
Outsourcing may be costly
but DIY is work


I don't recall the exact website but here are some:

www.graphic-design.com/DTG/Design/book_covers/index.html

jmney-grimm.com/2012/10/cover-design-primer/

http://selfpubauthors.com/2010/03/08/how-to-make-a-book-cover-in-gimp/


I tell you it is a lot of work!
Easiest method: Find a great cover in your niche and imitate it as closely as possible.
or google premade covers +niches and imitate!


Search for Derek Murphy on Smashwords.
He has an excellent book on cover design.
He designed the cover for Friends with Benefits series and some other covers.

He has a guest post on creativepenn.com about designing covers with MS Word
Forgotten the link sorry.

G12:
@Sarahn, is it just to put my description text between the html tags? can I do that in ms word and just copy and paste the text with the code in the space provided for description when adding a new ebook?

Please come to my rescue o, I am lost.

Yes. It is that simple.

adamdbt:
Hell?

i can see where you are at the moment sorry may the lord have mercy on you hell mate

Great!
So you are stupid and deluded.

350 million years of evolution
200 million years of brain development

wasted


on your brain that can't even understand simple imagery.
Wasted on a brain that resorts to ad hominems.

If you have a contribution that relates to kindle publishing, state them here instead of promoting nonsense.
Thank you.


@all, please accept my apologies for derailing.
I just have a innate hatred for affiliate promotion of any thing.

@G12 I am glad I could be of some help.
@ Iytech, what twosquare said. I will just add a little: A lot of Britions HATE AMe. Some will go as far as not reading a book that has AMe. And some would care less.

Here's the thing: Americans dominate about 60% of the ebook market. So it is wiser to stick to Ame for now, unless you are targeting only the UK market.
I hope this helps!

G12:
Greetings house,

My new ebook is up http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SIJ4T8O

Please, I want you guys to check it and let me know your view/.

@Sarahn, pls come gimme some lashes

Wtf is the black side border for?
You can do that for print books but not ecovers!

The fonts you used scream fear not confidence.
You could have used Trajanus Roman font for the title then bebas nue for subtitle and author name.
If you wish, I can attach the fonts that are much better.
Or you can search for them on fontspace.com. It is light file about 30 kb.

Html format your book description. It makes your description professional and generates more sales.

Use <h2></h2> for the title of your description. It is an amazon orange font color.
Use <h1> </h1>. It is biggest size font. Black.
h3 for subtitles e.t.c.
You can search for more on google.


You used the pen name Mcatte. Not easy to remember or spell in my opinion.
If I was looking for your book and forgot the title, I should remember your author name or at least be able to spell it. Make it more catchy.

You use the appelation, doctor. Have you put mechanisms in place to convince your readers that you are a authority? Like an author page?

Your catergories say teen and young adult.
Bear in mind that these demographics like the free stuff.
If you want to promote to them, you have a lot of work to do.
You need to get their attention.
With a stunning cover
and stunning marketing.


The cover does not make a cut.
The description just needs more tweaking.


On the good side.
I like the description.
The title is fair.
It would be more catchier if you had said

Heart Lock: How to Make Any Girl yours in 7 days or less!
Girl Magnet: Make Any Girl Yours GUARANTEED!
Mr.Rightology 101: Getting Your Mrs. Right in 21 days or less.
Prince Charming for Dummies: Get the girl you want.

God....
This is really controversial...

Her grammar!

I do not understand why and how anyone would take the comment of someone, who did not bother to capitalize the start of their sentences and proper nouns, seriously.
To make matters worse, she is "educated" celeb on social media.

Mods should stop put click bait like this on front page.
What a waste of time!


For the life of me, her post is useless anyway.
Why choose between a bomb and grenade?
Why chose between two people that will ultimately betray you?
Why bicker and fight for self serving politicans that you will regret voting or rather regret the rigged voting?
Why

twosquare:
But teens start from 13yrs but I think if viewed in the enlarge image view, it will be okay and yes, it is too short, it is a strategy.

Ah...
The-if you want to learn more tactic?
You can add triple dots to increase the effect...

But, I feel longer is better though.
In my experience, people never read the sample, they read description. It is a game-changer.

Yeah, ideally, teens are 13 years and above.
But people still look at them (13 year olds) as young kids.
In oyibo eyes, that teen looks like a 6 year old.
You get the gist?

I browse Amazon a lot; looking for books, a simple killer cover to steal/imitate.
If I can't see the title or at least a pic in thumbnail view,
then forget it.

Now put yourself in the shoes of the buyer who is flooded with a stream of books in thumbnail view.
Do you see where this is headed?

Remember that buyers never see your book in enlarged format. They see in thumbnail view under New Releases, Customers Also Bought, Search Results.

It is worse when they are browsing mobile.
Who even uses a laptop these days?

If they like the thumbnail, they click to enlarge.
That is how it works.

twosquare:
What do you think about this kindle book cover design?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/LAPIS-LAZULI-Quest-Underworld-Book-ebook/dp/B00SEV1ALK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1421657315&sr=1-1&keywords=LAPIS+LAZULI

The description is too short.

The background overshadows the face of the boy in thumbnail view. The pic should stand out.

You say teen in your description but the pic looks like a boy. A very young boy.
A casual buyer may think that it is a supernatural story for kids.

C'mon, no one?

Not a single soul?


You have got to be kidding me!.

I like to design ebook covers for my books.
Which photo editor is the best on android?

Is it Aviary or photo editor pro?
Am not sure anymore.


It is very confusing.
Thank you all.

drered:
Proffer an effective alternative solution?

A solution?
it depends on your ideologies, my friend. What I would do is pragmatic not idealistic.


Effective?
Yes.
Amoral?
Yes.
How well is it used?
Quite well, but as a species, we forgotten it.


My method is really quite simple:
Go where you are treated best.

Forget trying to save a broken nation.
History shows time and time again that this fails.
Think about all the people that tried to stop Hilter. All those well-meaning activists could not fix a broken system and paid with their lives. Neither can we.

Forget nationalism.
The Syrians are nationalistic as well but everyday, millons are killed in a senseless war.
The Jewish Germans were as well.
African-Americans are as well but many are killed and unfair sentences are given.
Search Wikipedia, 90% of the time, resistance against a government's evil policy is futile.
it is only a 10% chance, that is why their names are in the history books.
No offense to anyone, but Nigeria is just an accident of birth. You could have be borne in Quatar.
I do not see how it makes sense to defend an accident of birth.
If you were born with diabetes?
Would you be proud?
Would you say, "I am proud diabetic"?
So, why the hell should we be "proud" of any nation? Of Nigeria?
Nigeria is nothing but three major tribes being joined togther but a greedy British overlord so that it would be easier to control.

Forgive my rant.
Like I said, go where you are treated best.
If Nigeria is in a mess, find a state that isn't.
If Nigeria is in a total mess, go to anywhere else that is better.
Countries such as Bahamas, Panama, Chile are examples. They boast of social, economic, political freedoms.

Like I said, it is amoral. But I won't go fighting a system. I got a family that needs me.

drered:
hopefully a change of government might just be what we need to revive the health sector.

So...
Change the game-players in a rotten game?
Then change the rules maybe?

You don't get it do you?
The whole system is messed up.

Buhari or GEJ,
It matters the fu©k not.
It changes nothing.


It is up to every Nigerian to save themself.
If you believe in a change of Government,

Then, you, by far, are the most naive person I have seen.

History has shown time and time again that governments are the worst.
From waging wars to determining the school your unborn child will go to.

Democracy my a$$.
Hope for change?

Hope is delusional and unrealistic.

Wake up.
You have been asleeo too long.

fembizz:
Thank you...

I know nada about forex but I do know something that should apply: Competition.


If a lot of peeps know this method you use, would it be to your demerit?
Or are you secretly charging them in the whatsapp group or have you made them affilates?

I hope you understand, in over 7 years of my life in the online business, I have become a really bitchy skeptic.

So imagine to my surprise, I stumble across this thread and you are, so far, asked nothing, promoted nothing except adding to the whatsapp group and no one has bitched you yet.

So, I conclude the following
1. You are too kind and may be the income stream I need.
2. You may have something up your sleeve.

I am just a curious reader passing by.

Iytech

Gotta warn you, my opinion has never been pretty.
if you can't take a harsh critique, it is better you don't read ooo...



THE GOOD...


It is a good thing that you were just flexing your design skills.




THE BAD...


It is Kindle Direct Publishing not kindle Publishing. This distinction is VERY important.

Your pen name sucks.
No one(referring to customers of your book such as expert indie publishers as well as the newbies who will know it is a pen name) will take a name such as Dr. Randy Donaldson seriously.

Dude, Randy = rake.
Americans have a corrupt mind, they would be too busy laughing at the pen name to take you seriously.
Use the name if you instead selling something of an e.r.o.t.i.c nature.

If you want to know more about pen names,I have given link on kindle crusher.
Better still, ask mk82 for advice.


subtitle
Huge income is too vague...
How can you say MILLIONS, then contradict yourself by writing HUGE INCOME?
Be specific.
For instance:
Kindle Cash Generator: How I make $1000 a month with KDP.



THE UGLY...

The title is misleading and incorrect.
The last I checked there was only one person who hit the millon dollar mark in KDP and it was John Locke.
But after taxes, and other expenses, it was no longer in millions.
In other words, Millions in KDP ONLY is unheard of.
Else it would be news.

The cover art is too bland. It looks more like a poster
than an ebook cover.
The unprofessional fonts you used mismatch and does not provide a contrast.


Try reducing the pic to a thumbnail size.
What did you see?
Me? I just saw blue.


SUMMARY.
Change the pen name
change the title and subtitle.
Resdeign the cover and make it more sensual.

Harsh? That just the way I roll...

Happy Publishing!

Bestlyf:
The last time I checked Nigeria was not among the countries listed for this service. Don't know if they've included it since this year.

They have included it.
Just got my bank account added.

Haven't withdrawn yet.
Cos I am too chicken to try...

wisyno:
Hi All.
This is a great thread. Thumbs up tO everyone keeping it real here. I just registered an account in amazon. Please, how do I download free kindle books in the KDP? I wanna download some books and go through them.

Alternatively, search for the books on Smashwords.
If it is not in KDP select.

YES!

*Throws away garrium*

*Dancing skelewu*

Keep it up!
Make us proud!

@mk82
Happy Holidays.
Your one good turn in creating this thread deserved another. If we had more Nigerians like you, the world won't be such a bad place.



@prettyboi1989
Dude, come on, give us a break!
Did you even read the other pages of this thread before you came to ask a question that has been flogged to the death more time than death itself remembers?

Sigh...
I blame you not.
I was guilty of this. The op can testify to that.
You do know who the op is right?

Anyways, preferred method of payment is payoneer as it is way more reliable than NIPOST. You have to apply to get one though. You will need a proof of id to apply.

Is it hard? It is nothing compared to the man-made hell of getting an ATM at a Nigerian bank. I still shudder at the hell I went through...

In other words, application for a payonner card is easy and straight forward.
Most of the time...

But feel free to use your postal address if you wish.
According to my amazon affilate friend, Amazon can either send checks to your home or postal address. Sometimes, it is slow, sometimes fast and you risk Nigerian postmen tampering with your check at the P.O Box depending where you live in.

Your choice, your call.
In case you really never read the other pages of this thread, the op is mk82.

So if you decide to join the boat of indie publishing, I say welcome and Happy Publishing

Happy Holidays!

Hi, all
I would like help in generating word searches, anyone assistance would be appreciated.

skillmyman:
finally published.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RHU9HQY

i will be happy to get opinions of the gurus in the house please on this please.

thank you and have a nice evening

I love the cover art.
It is clean and looks professional.

You should create an author page.
Try adding Dr. at your pen name. It does wonders to sales!

I felt you gave too much info away in the description.
In the sense that the customer already knows what the book (your selling point) is about before buying.

Customers buy HOW TO- book to find out How to do sth. If you give that away before they buy, you may not have so many sales as you wish.

If I were you, I would simply mention the benefits the readers will stand to gain by reading the book and I will never mention HOW the book will help them acheive that.

In other words, mention the WHAT and market the HOW.

They will buy the book to find out HOW.

Get my drift?
Happy Publishing!

The Rogue

@P3trCruzZ

Congrats on publishing your first book on Kindle!
Children books is a very profitable catergory. It is also competitive but not saturated. You book could stand out.

My Observations

Here is My Disclaimer:
I will be harsh, if you cannot take it, don't bother to read. Maybe your competition will read instead.

Are you ready?
My opinion is never pretty...

Get All The Support And Guidance You Need To
Be A Success At Maintaining Your Teens Weight!
Does trying to get a grip on how to understand
ways to maintain your child’s weight but just
don't know how to trying to make your life
difficult... maybe even miserable?...

Who is the book meant for? A child or a teenage child?
Judging by the cover and the title, I would say children aged 3-13 years not teens aged 14-18 years. Don't interchange the words, they are not the same.

You have no author page, yet you claim to be a doctor.
How do you expect them to trust your authority when there is no author bio?

Please it is not nice to put a title in all caps. CHILDHOOD OBESITY. Not very pleasant on the eyes eh? The same goes for your author name.

The cover picture is misleading. You should have used something relating to child obesity.
The font used for the subtitle is called Great Vibes.
It looks great...
On Romance ad E.r.o.t.i.ca covers not health and fitness.
It is better to use Optimus Princeps or League Gothic, Bebas Nue.

On the bright side.
I like the description, it is lively and addresses the pain of the reader. You could use html codes to add more spice.
You placed the book in the right category.
You may want to increase the book price...
It seems too good to be worth .99.
Just saying, you could price the book on the value you believe that the customer will gain reading the book.

These are just my opinions, feel free to accept or reject them.

Hobe:
That trade was unsuccessful.

Hi, just read this thread.
I am new to binary trading. So I have some questions

1. What materials did you read when you started out? Where can I get them?
2. What broker did you use?
3. what is the minimum you are allowed to fund?

Thanks.