How to publish your book on Amazon Kindle?

At a time when the significance of book reading is rapidly decreasing with the emergence of e-book reading, it is quite inevitable for the users to understand how they can publish their book on Amazon Kindle Fire. Even though there are several platforms that are available in order to publish e-books, where as Amazon Kindle Fire still seems to hold the top most position as far as e-book reading and publishing is concerned.

One of the major advantages of using Amazon Kindle Fire is that it offers the reading apps for almost all the platforms.

Prepare

It is always desirable that users make use of tools such as Microsoft or Google Docs

Avoid Complex Styles

Use common fonts such as Arial or Times New Roman

Don’t make use of colors

The images should be always kept centered

Avoid headers as well as footers

Avoid tables as well as bulleted lists

Save the file in HTML format

In order to convert the document in to the Kindle File, make use of Mobipocket Creator tool

The image should be of size 600 x 800 that will act as a cover for the users book

Make use of big fonts in the book title so that the users should be able to read it even in the reduced size

Test

Done in order to test the layout of the e-book

Users will now have to send the file to the Kindle e-mail address that is provided for the users

Users can also manually transfer the files by means of using a USB cable

Then users will have to download Kindle Previewer software

Then test the corresponding e-book on the users desktop

Publish

Users will have to navigate towards kdp.amazon.com

Now the users will have to upload their e-book files

Users will now have to set the price tag of the e-book that they wish to publish

For the prices above $2.99, Amazon will contribute 70% of the book’s price

Anything less than $2.99, Amazon will pay only up to 35% of the e-book price

Users even have the option of correcting the content of their e-book and re-uploading the book as an updated version in the Amazon Store

Now the users can see that their e-book published in the Amazon Store within an hour or two. This is how the users publish their e-book on Amazon Kindle.