Amazon KDP

by Averil Johnston
23rd February 2018

I have a finished book which I would like to self publish. Can anyone tell me if you have to be very computer 'savvy' to self publish with Amazon KDP? Thank you.

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Hi Averil,

If you're working on a Mac I would highly recommend Vellum - it creates beautiful e-books very easily. You pay a one-off fee and can then publish as many books as you like, paperback and e-book formats for all the online platforms.

Good luck with publishing!

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Helen Jones
13/03/2018

I've done it too, including CreateSpace print-on-demand service. They have intuitive do-it-yourself guide to follow.

The much-harder work is marketing your work, which unfortunately, I am not savvy. Good luck, however.

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Marlon Viloria
26/02/2018

I'm not and I've done it. They publish a pretty comprehensive guide to formatting, which is the major pain - such as going through your MS and taking out all the hard returns, which .mobi doesn't like.

Best of luck!

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