Digital publishing involves publishing and sales of books through online publishing platforms like Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and Draft2Digital. Books can be published digitally in both eBook and Paperback (Print) editions). This method of publishing is terned self-publishing or indie publishing as it does not involves the services of a publishing agent.

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On eBook and Print (Paperback) Editions:

Things you need to know about book edition as you plan to publish your book through KDP in 2019!
* There are eBook and Print (Paperback) Editions.
*Paperback edition is the book format that will be
printed and delivered to a buyer just like the
textbooks or novels you are used to while the eBook
will be delivered electronically to the buyers
device (Kindle reader or phone).
*Paperback cover has both front and back while an eBook cover is only a front cover.
*It is not compulsory to publish your book in both
editions. You can decide to publish it as only an
eBook.

Be careful about the devices or computers you logged in your KDP account into. This is because you can't access more than one KDP (Amazon) publishing account from one computer or any other device as Amazon will conclude that one author is operating more than one account at a time which is against its terms and conditions and hence terminate the two.

An online presence offers another way to keep in touch with your readers. How are you using social media to market your book?

Author brand is one great thing to build as an author. You can create and maintain an author brand in the following ways:

1. Write a series book which will have a unique and professional covers. The covers for each book in the series should be closely knitted such that readers can easily identify them.

2. If you write stand alone books, make sure they are all in the same line of thought and unify them with a unique but similar covers.

3. Use social media to create profiles, pages and groups that promote your writing and books.

You might want to know the best eBook publishing platforms you can use to publish and distribute your books. The most important ones are:

1. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.
2. Draft2Digital.
3. Streetlib
4. Publishdrive

Note that Amazon is the leader in the digital book publishing industry with over 60% of the publishing market share.

There are some important things you have to do before hitting the publish button to ensure a successful launch of your book. Here are some of these things:

1. Research the best fit categories for the book again.

2. Research and gather good and appropriate keywords for the book.

3. Launch the book by using promo sites that do not require review and book them to promote the book on the first few days after hitting the publish button.

You can do these things more accurately to get better results if you have and use Publisher Rocket.

Do you want to know how you can easily market your books, then check out this thread on "Goodreads" to see what experienced independent authors are saying about book sales and marketing! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2233200-sales-and-marketing

Some sure ways to enhance your independent publishing experience are:

1. Connecting with and sharing ideas with other authors to get to understand what they are doing right that you can learn from.

2. Joining author Facebook groups and hence socialize with other self-published authors.

3. Join book specific social media platforms like Goodreads, Kboard and Facebook book groups.

With know-how of CorelDRAW or Photoshop, you can design Cover for your books. Also, with know-how of Microsoft Word, you can format your manuscript to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing standards (Kindle and paperbacks).

There is nothing stopping you from sharing your writing with the world. Prepare your book to self-publish with KDP today.

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These are what you need to do in order to independently publish your books digitally:

1. Typeset your manuscript in Microsoft Word.
2. Edit and proofread it.
3. Format the manuscript to ebook and paperback book publishing standard.
4. Design a Cover for it.
5. Go create a publishing account with Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.
6. You can now go ahead and publish the book through your Amazon KDP publisher account.

You do not have to wait to finish your full length novel before you launch your eBook publishing career through Amazon KDP. In fact, it is a good marketing strategy to write and publish at least three short stories in three different genres to test the water and see which of the genres performed best for you.

You can then focus your full length novels in that genre and maximize your output. So, go ahead now and test the waters!

It will interests you to know that publishing your titles as eBooks or paperback book through Amazon KDP do not require you to buy ISBN catalog numbers has Amazon will assign it their own ASIN catalog numbers for free during the publishing process.

Also note that the assigned ASIN catalog number does not in anyway contest the copyright of your book. You own the copyright of your titles 100%.

As an independent author, writing a series book remains one of the best marketing strategies ever devised in the publishing industry! So, creatively apply this strategy to your publishing endeavors.

You might want to know the best digital book publishing platforms you can use to publish and distribute your books. The four most common ones are:

1. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing
2. PublishDrive
3. StreetLib
4. Draft2Digital

Note that Amazon is the leader of the digital book publishing industry with over 60% of the publishing market share. The other 3 are Aggregators which you can use to publish and distribute your books to smaller eBook stores like Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iBook, Tolino etc. Although Smashwords also have its own in-house store.

Being a writer is a source of joy and creativity just like being a published author is a source of fulfilment and pride. But in all, being an author whose books are selling is the climax.

Thanks to digital publishing platforms like Amazon the Largest digital publishing platform and others such as StreetLib, Lulu, PublishDrive, an author can now easily monetize his/her craft. The following are five tips that will enable a Nigerian writer/author get the best in publishing on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) or any other digital publishing platform.

1. Write books that has the Potential of Selling: This is the most important factor. Ask yourself the question "Will I be willing to put my money on this book if it were written by another author?" Your answer to this question will help you to have a realistic value/potential of the book. If the book has information or entertainment value that will make you buy it, then others can too.

2. Properly edit and Proofread it: This will further enhance it value and chances of success.

3. Set a right and reasonable Price for it: qualify the book to know what price to set it at. Don't be greedy by thinking that you are targeting westerners and hence you have to prize high. Those people are as careful in spending as you do. To qualify it, compare it with similar books by other successful author in your genre.

4. Properly format the content to Amazon KDP standard and design a professional cover for it: These two components are the packaging aspects of the book product. And you know the importance of packaging in sales conversion.

5. Promotion/Marketing: This is also very important. But as a newly published author, you can successfully use Facebook book groups to great advantage in marketing your books for free. Also, once you have made enough sales, you can reinvest it into the business by making use of Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) to promote your books.

As a writer who is about to publish your first book , it is always better to publish it exclusively through Amazon for greater visibility through its Kindle Select Program.

There is one great secret to being a good and successful author. This secret has to do with the following:

1. Having a good knowledge of the genre you write.
2. You need to know the expectations of readers of that genre.
3. Know the plot styles of successful books in that genre.
4. Know the cover design that appeals more to readers of the genre.

To be able to get a first hand knowledge of these important factors, find out who are the best selling authors in that genre on Amazon! Get and read at least five books by these authors. Learn their approach to all the factors listed earlier and then create your own writing style from what you learned from these authors books.

If you do this well, your writing will be good, top notch, and meet the expectations of readers of the genre and hence you will get sales and good following early enough.

Never make the mistake of thinking that if you published only one book through Amazon KDP, you are going to make a lot of dollars with it. This is because if you have such mentality, you will easily see a reason to chicken out!

Rather, have it in mind that it is a game of numbers, hardwork and time! Once you are able to discover the genre that gives you the best results, and you focused on it, in no time and with five or more books, you will be surprised at the outcome you will be getting.

If you don't want to publish your books exclusively on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, then you can use PublishDrive or StreeLib or Lulu to go wide with them that is to get them distributed to iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Scribd, etc.

It will interest you to know that if you are currently working on any book which you intend to publish through Amazon KDP, it will be advisable to publish it early January or in February. This is because there will be a lot of new Kindle users (those you just got their first Kindle) and hence there will be good chance of sales for even new authors as these set of buyers are more likely to try books from new authors.

The Art of Writing:

I will consider this topic from two broad perspectives. That is, fiction and nonfiction writing.

The Art of writing fiction requires the following skills;
1. Sharp and Organized imagination.
2. The ability to outline your storylines
3. The ability to create compelling and expressive characters.
4. The ability to create dialogues that flows.

The Art of writing nonfiction requires the following skills;
1. The ability to outline your book idea.
2. Be a good researcher.
3. The ability to organize your research in writing the story.

Never access your Amazon KDP account through a public computer like in a cyber cafe.

It is better you use your personal devices like a smart phone or computer. This is because if Amazon system traced more than one KDP accounts to a particular device, it will be assumed that an individual is operating more than one publishing account which is against Amazon KDP's terms of service and such accounts will all be terminated.

As a Nigerian writer/author who wants to publish books through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, you must write books that appeals to global audience and not local or Nigerian audience! This is because the target markets out there on Amazon are predominantly the Americans, Europeans, and Asians.

Also make sure you publish your books in the three available formats i.e Kindle ebook, paperback book and Hardcover book.

There are some important things you have to do before hitting the publish button to ensure a successful launch of your new book. Here are some of these things:

1. Research the best fit categories for the book.

2. Research and gather good and appropriate keywords for the book.

3. Launch the book by using promo sites that do not require review and book them to promote the book on the first few days after hitting the publish button.

4. You can also do the book launching by posting its links into as many Facebook book groups as possible.

As a writer and/or author, ennsure you write everyday. This is because this consistent, determined, and concentrated effort will help enhance your creative writing skills and productivity!

Never make the mistake of thinking that if you published only one book through Amazon, you are going to make a lot of dollars with it. This is because if you have such mentality, you will easily see a reason to chicken out!

Rather, have it in mind that it is a game of numbers and time! Once you are able to discover the genre that gives you the best results, and you focus on it, in no time and with five or more books, you will be surprised at the outcome you will be getting.

At STC, we offer book formatting and cover design services for digital book publishing on Amazon KDP, Smashword, D2D, etc.

These are our standard rates!

1. eBook formatting only (for Amazon I.e MS Word formatted document) at #2200
2. Paperback (print) Book formatting at #2500 only.
3. Both eBook and paperback formatting at #5000 only.
4. epub formatting at #2300 only.
5. Converting to epub format at #1000 only.
6. eBook cover design at #2500 only
7. Paperback (print) Book cover design at #2800 only.
8. Both eBook and paperback cover design at #5000 only.
9. Both eBook cover design and eBook formatting at #4000 only.
10. Both paperback cover design and paperback formatting at #5000 only.

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As an independent or self published author, social media platforms such as Facebook, Nairaland and Twitter are great tools that you need to use creatively to promote your author brand and books.

So, take good advantage of them!

Have faith in your books! This implies that you need to write books you can buy if it were written by another author. This is because readers only buy books they want or need.

Hence, your books should meet the (Relaxation, Entertainment, Information, and Technical) needs of your target audience.

Writers finds inspiration in different ways. So,
what inspired the concept behind your latest book?