How to publish a book

Hey Kevin! I've published two books on Amazon so far. It's super easy to do and there are detailed guides on how to the cover etc on Amazon itself. Good thing about Amazon is that you can do both digital and print copy across ALL Amazon platforms. While it's free to publish the book on Amazon, you'll need to choose which charging model you'd want to go for:35% royalty - the Amazon sales commission is 65% for books priced below £2.99 and above £9.99.70% royalty - the Amazon sales commission is 30% for books priced between £2.99 and £9.99.If you want to have a further chat please drop me a line!Good luck and well done on finishing your book!

The following are the steps that you will need in order to self publish your book: 

1. Proofreading and copy-editing: I emphatically suggest either proofreading or copy-editing a fundamental piece of the independent publishing process. A proofreader will address spelling, grammar, punctuation, typos and spacings and so forth while a copy editor will give a new and proficient glance at the manuscript, and as well as proofreading will likewise remark on broad text issues like coherence mistakes, real errors, pointless reiteration, or simply style, tone and comprehensibility.

2. Page design and typesetting: this step guarantees that the substance of your book is expertly and properly spread out. You can browse some example page spreads on the web. You ought to make a PDF adaptation of your book utilizing the picked content design, as this will provide you with a thought of how the book looks organized and in the event that chapters are obliging one another or not (this step will save you the expense of printing out an entire book and afterwards editing it)

3. Cover design: getting the right cover is critical! and even though people say never judge a book by its cover- everyone does! and this is what sells the book! You can hire freelancers to help you design the book cover and it will not cost you a lot either!!!

4. ISBNs, Trade postings and Legal Cataloging: assuming a book was independently published or generally published each printed book needs an ISBN and getting this number is a major advance in your distributing tries. As an independent publisher, the strategy to acquire an ISBN is equivalent to some other distributor and additionally creator. There are different ways to purchases your ISBN. One way you can obtain it for free is through Amazon’s KDP. If you upload to Draft2Digital or SmashWords, they will provide you with one for free.

5. Print administration: the advances in computerized printing presently make it simpler than at any other time to create great quality books in a suitable and affordable manner. Working intimately with the UK's driving printers, books can be requested in little, reasonable amounts, while the completed duplicates are as expert in appearance as those delivered by more conventional litho print runs. It's additionally conceivable to set up Print on Demand (POD) notwithstanding, it can have a critical bearing on the vital selling cost, so the choice on the best way to print will fluctuate from one title to another. It might in any case demonstrate best to create a book by a traditional litho print run, which can commonly become an integral factor from a couple of hundred duplicates. Alongside this general deals of digital books currently represent a sensible extent of all books sold. So except if there is a specific motivation to avoid it, we see ebook organizing as a standard piece of the distributing system.

6. Distribution: in the last phase of the book publishing process, you will presently have to observe where you will distirbute your book to. Which can be Amazon, Waterstones WH smiths Foyles and so forth