My first time publishing a Kindle e-book on Amazon and how you can do the same

When I was young, in my high school years, I found that I was good at creative writing. Then I usually excel at English composition, whether it’s an English language test or exam.

He could easily make up an imaginative story and do it so well you’ll think it really happened. If you are asked to recall an interesting experience on my last long vacation; I know you just made my day I will write and write as if my life depended on it. It came naturally to me and I loved it. I found it very easy to do.

I thought I would be a writer / author, when I grew up. But along the line, I lost interest in writing and found myself in the profession of Accountant. But writing was still easy for me.

I lost interest and didn’t pursue a career in which I was writing, especially after reading so many rejection stories from aspiring writers who had their 200- to 300-page books rejected by every publisher they sent it to. They all had nothing for their efforts except the rejection letter. I was not prepared for that. Imagine spending years writing what you think is a masterpiece, only to have your dream turn into a nightmare. I wanted to save myself from this agony. So I lost interest in pursuing the dream of writing.

Then came Amazon and Kindle Books. Amazon created the Kindle Reader and they needed unlimited content that people could read on their e Reader. They had to encourage people to write and upload all kinds of content on their platform. This is how Kindle Direct Publishing came about.

Many aspiring writers saw this opportunity and seized it. Soon there were many stories of people who made a killing with this. There was even an unknown writer named Amanda Hocking who made more than a million US dollars from the platform.
Every day I saw that my dream of being a writer through Kindle and Amazon could come back to life. So I decided to give it a try. I had to publish my first e-book on the Kindle platform.

In this article, I will write my experience.

I remember it like yesterday. I wrote a story about a girl who had a vision of Jesus Christ. Let’s say you had an encounter with Jesus Christ, who led you on a journey through heaven and hell.

I think I read the story several years ago as a child, but it stuck with me as a young man with a Christian background; my grandfather was a pastor and founder of a church.
It took me one day to make the eBook and another day to do the editing. And I was ready with my first e-book for the Kindle platform.

From the beginning, I found the Kindle platform intuitive and very easy to use. I was surprised and relieved. Uploading my first e-book was a breeze because the Kindle platform automatically converts your document file (in my case, a Word document) to Kindle format. You don’t have to do any conversion yourself. Just upload the Word document and you are good to go.

Uploading your ebook cover is easy too. But let me confess here that the ecover almost pushed me off the platform. Let me explain; He had no technical knowledge of graphic design. I thought it was difficult and I couldn’t do it. How wrong I was.

When I showed the courage and decided to go for it, I found that Amazon even has an ecover maker of their own that anyone can use to make a simple yet beautiful ecover. That was what I used and it was also very easy.

Once I uploaded my Word doc and ecover manuscript, my eBook was approved and will be available on Amazon Marketplace within hours. I still remember the feeling. Now he was an author. My childhood dream and vision have come true.

While uploading my e-book, I found that anything I wasn’t sure about was pretty much covered on Amazon’s site. If there is something you do not understand and you want a response from a human being, you can email Support and get a response very soon.

There were several thousand titles in each category on the Kindle platform and it was necessary to put your e-book in the right category if you want to have a good chance of getting people to discover and buy your e-book.

You must add keywords to help people search and find your e-book. If people can’t find or view your e-book, the chances of you making a sale are slim to none. This is how it is the place is very large with so many e-books.

After I published my e-book, I checked every day to see if I had made any sales. Soon I began to see that sales were leaking. It wasn’t much, but every day that I found out that I made a sale was a very beautiful moment for me.

Let me tell you that back then (when I published my first e-book), the platform was not yet as advanced as it is now. The search for my sales was not like it is now. The results were specific to different Amazon markets. There are markets for USA, Canada, India, UK, Denmark, Germany, etc.

I was just checking the US market sales. I thought that the results I had in the US market were all I had. You can imagine my surprise when, upon receiving my first royalty payment, I discovered that I had made over $ 100 in my first month in the UK market. Hahahaha I still laugh at that even until now that I am writing this article.

I have been writing and publishing Kindle e-books on and off ever since. I have been doing this along with many other things online like blogging and affiliate marketing. I wish I had focused on the Kindle as I realized that it has brought me a lot of money.
Even the first e-book still wins today and has done so repeatedly every month for a few years. Sometimes I imagine what it might have been like if I focused on Kindle publishing and now I had like 100 e-books on my shelf at Amazon.

Maybe I could have retired now. It’s a joke. I will not withdraw online. It’s like a hobby for me. Every day I like to log online and browse a bit and will continue to do so as long as I can. For me, it is like reading.

Now back to my purpose for writing this article. I want to show you that you can do it. Anyone can write and earn money online using the Kindle platform. You just have to have a little knowledge, skill, and the will to do it. Then get an e-book that shows you how.

There are many e-books on how to join and benefit from the Kindle platform. Many have written about this, including my humble self, because we want to help those who want to work and earn money online.

In this period of covid-19 and the lockdown in which many people are out of work, imagine what it can feel like to continue to earn passive income from your Kindle eBooks.

As a Kindle publisher, you are your own boss and can work full or part time from home. No need to commute. For my own e-book on how anyone can easily join and benefit from kindle, see my signature at the end of this article. Make sure to check it out.

I encourage everyone to get on the Kindle platform. There is an eBook in all of them. You have an experience that can benefit someone, somewhere in a corner of the world. It could be how you lost your job and how you survived until you got another job. It could be about how you survived after a bitter divorce. You have a story that can benefit someone somewhere. Write and share your knowledge with the world.

Get the Kindle platform today. You never know; maybe you’re one of the Amanda Hockings. Yes, there are a lot of Amanda Hockings on the platform today – people who have made more than a million dollars just from publishing the Kindle.
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Go for it. You can do it!