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 For self publishing, there is no bigger name than Amazon. Its KDP (Kindle Desktop Publishing) platform allows authors to publish their books for free - and in paperback as well as kindle ebooks.  Amazon KDP is marvelous as far as its approach to book publishing goes. It is thoroughly professional in all that it does about a self published book. Thanks to its wide publicity, a great number of budding authors know how to publish free on Aamazon. In fact, many who do not see much luck in publishing through mainstream trade publishers dream of becoming an author through Amazon KDP. Step by step handholding: It has a simple workflow starting with submitting the book's metadata (e.g. title, edition number, author name, description, etc) and ending with pricing and publishing the book. And then marketing it.  Making a cover for you: If you cannot make a cover file yourself, use its intuitive tool. It is not too simple but you get a hang of it by trying it a few times. There is ...

New and struggling self published authors keep this or similar questions on Quora and other forums: How do I sell my books ?  I have given the short answer already: selling a self published book is difficult. Yet, everything is not lost, as I will discuss later. First let's face the facts. One. If you are an author, chances are that your passion is writing, not marketing and sales . The ones who produce books that are not half as good as yours end up making money while you do not make much sales if you solely depend on the strength of your book's content.  Two. Even if you put some money aside for book promotion, the money soon evaporates without much gains. Most promotions on media, social media and electronic bookstores such as Amazon and BookBub result in big figures (impressions, etc) but hardly any sales.  Three. While the indie author is there alone, there are big book marketing services , book promotion services, resellers and publications that are busy selling bo...