Amazon adds serialized-story option called Kindle Vella

Posted on 04/13/2021 at 10:06 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

David Gaughran alerted us to Amazon’s new feature for US-based authors: Kindle Vella. Vella is for stories told one episode...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Amazon, David Gaughran, Kindle Direct Publishing

Kindle Create can now generate print-on-demand files

Posted on 09/30/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Your Kindle Create files just became more versatile. Nate Hoffelder of The Digital Reader noted in the KDP newsletter that...

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Tagged As: Kindle Direct Publishing, The Digital Reader

A reminder from a fellow author on KDP price rules

Posted on 09/25/2020 at 09:30 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

An author recently emailed us about an upcoming promotion, in a bit of a panic. He had planned to reduce...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Kindle Direct Publishing

Dave Chesson's guide to Amazon international book markets

Posted on 09/24/2020 at 10:50 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Dave Chesson recently explained how to choose the right categories for your book in international Amazon stores. That might’ve prompted...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Amazon, Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur), Kindle Direct Publishing, Literature in translation

Have you tried the KDP royalties estimator yet?

Posted on 05/31/2019 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Digital Reader shared news right before the holiday weekend that Kindle Direct Publishing’s reports dashboard has added a royalties...

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Tagged As: Amazon, Kindle Direct Publishing, The Digital Reader

Have you tried KDP's ebook quality dashboard yet?

Posted on 03/13/2019 at 09:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Nate Hoffelder may have yawned over one Amazon update, but he’s intrigued by another more recent one. He received an...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Kindle Direct Publishing, The Digital Reader

Amazon is testing sales-tracking tool called KDP Reports

Posted on 11/15/2018 at 11:02 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Amazon is testing a new sales-data tracking tool, according to The Digital Reader (citing reports on KBoards and Facebook). Per...

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Tagged As: Amazon, Kindle Direct Publishing, The Digital Reader

Amazon's statement on disappearing ebooks

Posted on 11/13/2018 at 01:16 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Amazon has posted an acknowledgment of the disappearing Kindle Direct Publishing books issue: We're experiencing an issue that has made...

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Tagged As: Amazon, Kindle Direct Publishing, Technology

Troubleshooting for your migration from CreateSpace to KDP

Posted on 11/09/2018 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If you haven’t moved yet from CreateSpace to Kindle Direct Publishing, you should consider checking out Melinda Clayton’s post to...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Kindle Direct Publishing

A reminder about those free ISBNs

Posted on 10/12/2018 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If your eyes begin crossing the second you stumble upon acronyms like ISBN and KDP, then Author Imprints is here...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Kindle Direct Publishing, Licenses, copyrights, and other legalese, The business of writing