What is Kindle Direct Publishing?
When you publish your books via Amazon, you will be asked whether you would like to enrol your books to the KDP select program. This means that the ebook format of your book will be exclusive to Amazon.
While digital copies of the book must only be sold through Amazon:
- A 10% sample of the book can be made available outside of the Kindle Store;
- Print (or any other non-digital) versions can be distributed elsewhere; and
- Copies of the book can be emailed to reviewers.
One of the main advantages of the KDP select program (otherwise known as Kindle Unlimited) is that all readers enrolled in the program will be able to download your book for free. You will then be paid by Amazon when your book is read. Amazon pays on average: $0.0045 per every page read.
Amazon has worked very hard over the past decade to make themselves the dominant force in ebooks and self-published work. They have made Kindle accessible to not only Kindle owners but anyone that owns a smart device. The Kindle app is free to download on all devices, therefore encouraging customers to use Amazon systems over iBooks or Google Play, for example.
What is the wide strategy?
The wide strategy means opting out of KDP select, to allow yourself to sell your eBooks through a wider range of distributors/book store. Large stores include:
- Barns & Noble
- Kobo
- Google Play
- Apple iBooks
You can also use distributors which have the ability to reach the far corners of the globe to allow more people to access your books.
Do you think that going wide would suit you and your books?
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