A Few Things You Need to Know About Publishing on KDP

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Hey friends. I’m back with some more self publishing talk. Hi, I’m author Allison Spooner, author of the Lost Girl: A Neverland Story, the upcoming the Things We Cannot Change, a story about the ghost created addiction, and two collections of flash fiction, all of which have been self published. So I’ve been trying to share my tips and tricks and things I’ve learned along the way with you. And I did way, way back.

If you scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll on my profile I did a couple things you need to know about publishing on Ingram Spark. Get me more followers. And I can put those in a playlist if I hit 10k so they’re easier to find. But for now you’re gonna have to just scroll way back to find them. We’re talking about kdp.

Some things you need to know about publishing on kdp. This isn’t going to be like a tutorial, but we’re just going to talk about some points that you need to shoot myself publishing on kdp. If you put your ebook on Kindle Unlimited, you cannot distribute your ebook through any other platform. So keep that in mind. I have mine on there.

I think it’s worth it. A lot of people read my book through Kindle Unlimited. I will put my next one on there. This is something I might want to reconsider in the future, but for now I have it on there. But that means I can’t have it on like Apple or Kobo or any of the other E readers available out there.

So pros and cons, right? Recently it has been pointed out to me and I have learned that you can order author copies early through kdp. This was not always the case. I don’t know the exact time frame. I keep reading that it’s two weeks.

You can order two weeks. Somebody said they ordered a month early. I’m not sure, but there’s a big but with this. A big but. And I did a video about this specifically, but I’ll include it here too.

You can order author copies early, but not if you also have your book on Ingram. I learned this the hard way. Ingram does let you order your author copies early, so that’s fine. I could order them there. I like KDP’s shipping better.

I like the tracking that’s available through them better. So I would rather order my author copies through them. But you know what? So that is something to remember. If you would prefer to order your author copies through kdp, it might be worth uploading there first, getting them uploaded, getting everything ready, ordering some author copies and then uploading on IngramSpark.

Print costs. Print costs are cheaper on KDP than on Ingram. The cost of printing your book itself. So. And then what you pay to get a copy of your own book.

For my book, the Lost girl, it is 357 on KDP. It is 428 on Ingram. It’s a big, pretty big difference. So yeah, just keep that in mind. You have unlimited uploads on kdp.

You don’t have to pay. Ingram does have a limit on how many uploads you can have. They give you like 60 and then you have to pay when you upload a new version of your book. But something to keep in mind, when uploading new versions of your book on KDP, there will be like a 72 hour waiting period. It doesn’t always take that long.

But it needs to be in review. Every time you open upload a new copy of your book, it needs to be reviewed. And when it’s in review, you can’t do anything else. So like if you’re going to change something, but upload a new version, but then you also want to go work on your keywords while you’re waiting for that to be reviewed, you can’t do that. You can’t do anything once you hit save and that’s in review.

You can’t edit anything else. You can’t order author copies, you can’t do anything else. So keep that in mind when you’re planning, when you’re doing things on kdp. That has kind of bit me in the butt before. So there you go.

Those are some more things you need to know about self publishing through kdp.

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