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Your book Cover should be genre specific, converting and professional. Also, your book content must be informative if it is nonfiction and engaging/addictive if fiction. It must be properly edited and formatted too.

There are some important things you have to do before hitting the publish button to ensure a successful launch of your book. Here are some of these things:
1. Research the best fit categories for the book again.
2. Research and gather good and appropriate keywords for the book.
3. Launch the book by using promo sites that do not require review and book them to promote the book on the first few days after hitting the publish button.

As long as you are good at writing, and you have manuscripts of books already typeset and edited, you can published them as eBooks and distribute through worldwide distributors and make some money.

samadex2007:
dear steven,

can I publish christian /spiritual books on amazon because I couldn't see any related icon that relates to spiritual empowerment on their site.

thanks
sam

Yes, you can. You can just Google "best selling Christian books on Amazon" or "best selling religion books on Amazon" and you will see tonnes of them.

You might want to know the best eBook publishing platforms you can use to publish and distribute your books. The three most important ones are:
1. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.
2. Draft2Digital.
3. Smashwords.
Note that Amazon is the leader of the eBook publishing industry with over 60% of the publishing market share. Number 2 and 3 are Aggregators which you can use to publish and distribute your books to smaller eBook stores like Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iBook, Tolino etc. Although Smashwords also have its own in-house store.

As an Indie author, you need to know which social media platforms or forums you can use to promote your author brand and books. Here is a list of the most important ones from my experience:
1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. Goodreads
4. Kindleboards (Kboards).

Tips on how to format your manuscript to Smashwords eBook standard and get premium distribution. #amwriting #ebooks
http://ebookstrati..co.ke/2017/01/HowtoPublishyourBooksSuccessfullyThroughSmashwords.html?m=1

thesicilian:
Thanks. Used to think that I have been buying fake batteries for my phone, they never perform optimally after a few weeks. Now I know part of the fault is mine for allowing the battery to completely drain out and go off by itself, before charging it.

You are welcome. Leaving a phone battery to completely discharge before recharging it has always been the very reason they under perform!