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Amazon KDP Has the Traffic, But What Are You Giving Up? (opens the original)
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Full disclosure: Some outbound links are part of affiliate programs where I’m compensated for any sales made through them. It never impacts what you pay and greatly helps support this Substack. Thanks for your understanding.You’re doing the work to attract the reader, build the interest, and convince them to buy, but then you send that person to Amazon where they still take their cut and keep the customer relationship. And a lot of authors do that almost automatically because Amazon feels like t
Amazon KDP Terminated His Account, Then This Worked (opens the original)
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Full disclosure: Some outbound links are part of affiliate programs where I’m compensated for any sales made through them. It never impacts what you pay and greatly helps support this Substack. Thanks for your understanding.It’s only been a week since our last news update, but there’s already plenty for authors to catch up on. Amazon KDP rolled out several updates while dramatically cutting how many new titles authors can create each week. One author got his terminated KDP account reinstated aft
Amazon KDP’s ID Verification Problem Is Getting Hard to Ignore (opens the original)
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On July 30, 2024, Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) rolled out a new identity verification process as a way to reduce fraud and abuse from bad actors. On the surface, I completely understand why they would want to do that. Amazon should know who is actually publishing books on its platform, especially when grifters and hucksters are actively trying to game the system.Yesterday, I was scrolling through Substack when <span class="m
Your KDP Keywords Might Be Hurting Your Book (opens the original)
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Full disclosure: BookLinker is a sponsor of Self-Publishing with Dale. That relationship doesn’t affect what I say, what I recommend, or the rest of the article. Thanks for supporting the brands that help support my work.Your book is live on Amazon, but when you search for the obvious terms, it’s buried so deep you’d swear it wasn’t there at all. Maybe you only started searching because the sales weren’t coming in, and now you’re wondering if the two problems are connected. And your first instin
Spotify Rolls Out FREE AI Audiobook Creation for Authors (opens the original)
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Full disclosure: Some outbound links are part of affiliate programs where I’m compensated for any sales made through them. It never impacts what you pay and greatly helps support this Substack. Thanks for your understanding.It’s only been a week since our last news update, but there’s already plenty for authors to unpack. The US Justice Department is backing OpenAI in its copyright fight with The New York Times, Canada just changed its ISBN rules around AI-generated books, Spotify is rollin
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