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<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n“Can anyone tell me how to publish my\u00a0book on\u00a0Amazon?”<\/em><\/p>\nIt’s a question I see in online groups over and over and over.<\/p>\n
They’re asking about converting their manuscript to an ebook that can be read on a Kindle, not referring to Amazon’s print-on-demand service, CreateSpace.<\/p>\n
Uploading to Amazon through Kindle Direct Publishing — KDP — can be a daunting process, even if you’re tech savvy. What if you make a mistake? And if you do, can\u00a0do you fix it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,12],"tags":[725,726,727,728,729],"class_list":["post-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tactics","category-tools","tag-kdp","tag-kindle-direct-publishing","tag-mike-fishbein","tag-self-publish-on-amazon","tag-upload-to-kdp"],"yoast_head":"\n
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