You can publish both paperbacks and e-books with Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct publishing)
Some of the advantages
- There is no set up fee.
- There is no yearly distribution fee.
- Amazon will not say it’s unavailable.
- You books will be available everywhere there is an Amazon.
- You can enter the Amazon Storyteller competition.
- It’s quick and easy to correct a mistake.
- The paperbacks and the e-book are more easily linked.
- You can easily alter the price.
- You can enter the Kindle edition for Kindle Unlimited and earn money for the number of pages a customer has read.
- Amazon pays promptly.
- You can do countdown deals. You set the book for a lower price than normal, reverting to the normal price after no more than a week.
- There are other types of promotion you can do easily with Amazon.
Some of the disadvantages
- It’s harder to get the books into bookshops in Europe though there is now an enhanced scheme that allows this. However, this brings the price up to higher than using Ingram’s; which is the other popular option for self-publishers,
- There is slightly less choice in formats than with other printers
- If Amazon doesn’t like something you’re doing and you haven’t done anything wrong it can be hard to convince them.
- It’s harder to get your book to where Amazon isn’t.
- You can’t carry on obtaining author copies if you take it out of print.
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