If you've got a book in your desk drawer - or even just in your head - take a look at Amazon's Digital Text Platform .The text platform allows you to publish your own book - and have it appear for sale on Amazon.com - as a Kindle book.
There are various things that you need to do on-line to produce a Kindle book - design a cover, type your manuscript in the prescribed form, check it for errors, set a price for the book, fill in the forms (and design your author page!) - but it's all free, and it's not difficult to do.
The book you produce will not be available as a 'paper book'. It will only be a downloadable e-book readable only on a Kindle machine. Don't let that put you off. Kindle machines were originally only available in the United States. Now you can buy them in Britain and Australia - and wherever Kindle goes, Kindle books go too. And whilst publishers don't, these days, take too many chances on new authors, they do keep an eye on what's going on around them - which means keeping an eye on Amazon.
Amazon offers opportunities to self-publish in other ways that would allow you to produce 'paper' books - but it costs money. The Digital Platform is a good FREE place to start - and it will begin to teach you how to produce e-books that you can sell on your own site.
I've produced a couple of Kindle books. I haven't earned a fortune out of them - but I learned a lot. And any money is better than a smack round the chops with a wet fish!
If you think you have a book in you - check it out. It takes time to Kindle a book - but I think it's time well spent.
Emily - http://therapypartnership.com/
The book you produce will not be available as a 'paper book'. It will only be a downloadable e-book readable only on a Kindle machine. Don't let that put you off. Kindle machines were originally only available in the United States. Now you can buy them in Britain and Australia - and wherever Kindle goes, Kindle books go too. And whilst publishers don't, these days, take too many chances on new authors, they do keep an eye on what's going on around them - which means keeping an eye on Amazon.
Amazon offers opportunities to self-publish in other ways that would allow you to produce 'paper' books - but it costs money. The Digital Platform is a good FREE place to start - and it will begin to teach you how to produce e-books that you can sell on your own site.
I've produced a couple of Kindle books. I haven't earned a fortune out of them - but I learned a lot. And any money is better than a smack round the chops with a wet fish!
If you think you have a book in you - check it out. It takes time to Kindle a book - but I think it's time well spent.
Emily - http://therapypartnership.com/
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