Step by Step Self-Publishing with KDP: Book Publishing on Amazon

Self-publishing a book this year? Learn how to format your book yourself with my online course: bit.ly/formattingcourse My tutorial video on coming up with categories and keywords using Publisher Rocket is live! Watch it here: https://youtu.be/C7DJJZWWmzo

I’m 12, and I enjoy writing short stories. I showed some of them to my ELA teacher, and she said that I should try self publishing, so this video helped a lot! Thank you! Edit: I’m sorry to everybody who’s been waiting for me to say that I’ve published, but I’m a really slow writer. I’ve decided to not go with the short story from school, and instead write a completely new book. This one won’t be a short story, it will be an average size book, so that is another reason why it is taking me so long to finish writing. I’m currently only 7 chapters into writing it, so this might take a little while. Also, thank you to everyone who has commented! It means a lot, and I wish you all luck. Edit 2: as I’m a pretty indecisive person, I just ditched that book and started writing a new one a couple days ago because I lost interest in the original. I’m currently a chapter and a half into this one, so we’ll see how far this goes. Sorry to keep everyone waiting for so long

I went crazy / At the very start, I published a NINE book series - 10 days later, (after MONTHS of learning 😮)- your videos inc., I am selling all nine - at 400-500K sales rank. Thank you! ❤🙏🏻😉

Yes I plan on publishing on KDP. I love you showing the process.

This is the MOST HELPFUL video I have seen on this process! Thank you for the amazing tutorial!

THANKS SO MUCH AMAZING INFO DROPPING MY FIRST BOOK TODAY

Hey, Mandi! I left YouTube on autoplay and listened in on this tutorial. Nice job! At 16:34, you mention the ISBN and Publisher spot for ebooks. Did you know you could enter a publishing name and it'll replace the "Independently published" tag? Just a random fact. Now you can add Stone Ridge Books to your listing. I'm not sure it'll give you any huge benefit other than impressing the one random person who pays attention to imprints of ebooks.

I published with KDP and ordered Author paperback and hardback copies to help promote the Novel. I had to reorder three times, and still, the box of books arrived with absolutely no packaging inside each time. Every book was floating in the mailing box and damaged. It happened three times. There is no way of contacting KDP with photographs of the damaged package and the damaged books. All I could do was return the books. So, I then published the novel with Draft2Digital. Their author copies arrived in tightly packaged boxes and in mint condition. Their printing is also quite superior to KDP - and they publish to many different outlets - including Amazon. Will I ever use KDP as my primary publisher and printer again - not likely! The last box of books I had to return forced me to cancel a full-on pre-booked promotion and left me with seriously diminished credibility. I trusted Amazon - they let me down big time. They cost me real income and a decent promotion and credibilty.

Very detailed and informative. So helpful and visual. This helps to much and I appreciate the breakdowns you provided. THANK YOU!!!

Thank you so much for all the insights! I'm new to KDP and your tutorials are priceless!

Very professional video! (I loved the intro jam) Absolutely love it, so helpful, thank you so much!

Fabulous! Thanks so much. I needed that!

This is such a helpful series of vids, thanks Mandi 🙌

Your information was sequential, succinct and very helpful! Thank You!

Thank you for being so thorough🤌🏾🥰

I felt so out of my depth trying to wrap my mind around self publishing. Your videos are so helpful!

I am a huge fan of Publisher Rocket. It's worth every penny I paid for it.

Super helpful….straightforward tutorial ❤❤❤

You’re awesome. Appreciate the content you always put out. 🤓

Excellent information; great explanation. Thanks.