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people who have no idea who you are will find you
while shopping on Amazon. And if you’ve written a
great book and linked back to your site from the
book, you should start to see a steady flow of new
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1. Write your ebook using Google Docs, Word or

Pages (MAC).
2. Convert the word doc into an ePub
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1.  Write the ebook

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Admittedly, this was the hardest part of the entire

process. Sitting down to write a book can be
daunting. I followed a few steps that actually made
the process a whole lot easier.  Start with the
outline, then do a brain dump of everything in your
head. Once you’ve done the brain dump, start
arranging the content according to your outline and
build your book from there.

2. Convert the book to ePub file

I read a million tutorials on how to convert a Pages

(MAC) file into an ePub file and no matter what I
did, I just couldn’t get it to look right. So I threw in
the towel, headed over to Fiverr and paid someone
a whopping $5.00 to covert it for me. It was the best
$5.00 I’ve ever spent Here’s the gal that I used,
she was awesome!

3. Set up your Kindle Direct Publishing account

Head over here and sign up with your contact

information to create an account on the Kindle
Direct Publishing platform. This is the account, you
will use to upload your ebook to the Kindle
platform.

4. Upload your book to the Kindle Platform

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Once you’ve filled out your contact information,

author bio, and payment information you are ready
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to upload your book. Upload the ePub version of
your book and select which category your book will
appear in. Fill out the description and select
keywords to describe your book.

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submit the book it can take up to 48 hours to be
approved and live in the store. Once it is live
Amazon will send you an email with the link to the
book, and you are free to promote the heck out of
your book!

If you’ve written an ebook, I would love you to

leave a link in the comments or feel free to share
tips that worked for you!

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Lindsay at Lindsay's Sweet World

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May 23, 2016

It’s like you’re inside my head. This has

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been on my to do list for months now,
and you’ve provided everything I need
in one concise post… it doesn’t even
seem that hard (aside from actually
writing the book). In addition to an e-
book, I have also been itching to write a
children’s book, but I have NO idea how
to go about doing that… I know nothing
about illustrating and printing and
publishing and such. I have a lot of
research to do!

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Christina Rambo
May 23, 2016

Do ebooks need an ISSN/bar code

number? Or is that just if you actually
publish a hard copy book?

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Chrystie
May 23, 2016

I don’t think you need one…but

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ebook. Amazon issues an ASIN to

ebooks in the Kindle store.
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This is fab, thanks so much. I definitely
would be interested in doing this in the
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future, and that’s a really good point
about it bringing in traffic from where
you’re selling it, I hadn’t thought of
that!

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Jacqueline Fisch
September 15, 2016

YES! Writing a book was both a

challenge, but once you get momentum
your inner drive kicks in and NEEDS to
finish! The BEST way I’ve found early
momentum was to block at least 4 solid
hours alone (mine happened to be on a
flight) to dive in and just write, no
editing. Another fun way to get started
is booking a night in a local hotel to just
write. I’ve gotten SO much done this
way. No distractions, no laundry, and
most importantly, no whining.

I wrote my first book in two months –

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I have two others in the oven now.

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Sarah Jayne
September 29, 2016

Quick question – I wrote an e-book and

it is about 15pages in length. It’s a how-
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Chrystie
September 29, 2016

If you’ve got all the info you need

in there…no need to lengthen it. I
wrote an ebook that was only 6
pages! The nice thing about short
books is that they are filed under
Amazon’s “Quick Read” category
along with the regular categories.

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Karina
October 25, 2016

This is so cool. I’ve been considering in

writing an e-book, but I haven’t really
spent the time to look into it. I always
thought it was a bit far-fetched, but
after reading this article, I realized it
really isn’t that hard. Thanks for this!

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with out an ounce of an idea on
marketing it. This part is the hardest for
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Alexis
August 12, 2017

I wanted to know have people written

long ebooks? Like how long should an
ebook be and what topics should I steer
clear from? I dont have a blog or a
website yet but I wanted to know if I
signed up could I still work with the
affiliate program with my ebooks?

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