- Would you like to
learn how to self publish a children's book on
Amazon in five minutes? Yeah, well make sure you
stay tuned to today's video. Self-published authors (till dings) get a chance to win a piece of $12,500. Get more details from our sponsors, North Street Book Prize competition, later in the video. Hey, I'm Dale L Roberts, bestselling author, as well as
the self publishing advocate who wants to show you how
to publish books that sell. And today marks the fourth
and final installment in the How to Self Publish
a Children's Book Series. If you missed any of the previous part, might I recommend you visit
any of the links down below where we talk about researching, writing, and producing
the children's books, that way we can publish it. To start out this video, it's important that
you prepare in advance. You're going to want to
make sure that your eBook and print book metadata is all in order. That means your title,
subtitle, book description. (bell dings) The next thing is, make sure
you have all of your covers set for your print and your eBook, and also your description
is HTML formatted. Don't know what that is? I think you know, down below we've got a link to showing you exactly how to do HTML formatting
and why it's important. And also you're going to want
to make sure that you have properly formatted interiors
for both eBook and print book. We showed that in the very last tutorial. So I think it goes without saying, you need to set up a KDP account. So if you haven't set it up yet, please do so. You're going to make sure
that you set up your tax info as well as your bank account info before you can even publish a single book. All right, so let's go ahead. Let's start the clock and see
if we can do this in about five minutes. Let's start out with eBook. You're going to sign into KDP, then click on Kindle eBook, fill in your title, subtitle, series name, and number, if applicable, and edition number, if applicable. (relaxing jazz music) Fill in the author name
and any contributors. Note: only put contributors if you have permission
from them ahead of time, otherwise leave them off. Fill in the description. Now, I highly recommend
formatting it in HTML, as I mentioned before. Verify you own the copyright. Fill in the seven keyword slots. Now, remember back in the
very first part of the series, when I had to do seven keywords? We're going to slip those
seven keywords in here. So just copy and paste
them straight on over. (relaxing jazz music) Now, set the categories. This is probably going to be
a bit more labor intensive, and I'm just going to just
skip kind of right through it. But you want to pick two
categories that are relevant to your publication. So that way Amazon can categorize
you properly inside their Kindle store or their bookstore. Select the age and grade range. Now, we've done all our
due diligence on this and we did our research
in the very first part of the series. So all you're going to have
to do is put in the age ranges and of course the grade range
for those specific ages. Next, select, I am ready
to release my book now, or you can select the pre-order option, should you need time to
promote your book launch. For demonstration purposes, I'll be releasing this immediately. Click save and continue. Now we're on to step two: the Kindle eBook content. Digital rights management is a way to protect your eBook against piracy. However, it hinders most readers from sharing from one device to the next. Be careful. Once you select this,
you cannot remove it. I'm just going to select no. Now upload your manuscript. Now, this is the MOBI file that we created in the previous video with
the Kindle kids book creator. Next, upload the Kindle eBook cover. I have one ready-made and I select the upload a cover you already have, and then upload your cover file. I have a JPEG file for my cover. Go ahead and launch previewer
to see how it looks on Kindle. (relaxing jazz music) Bear in mind, you should have already seen
it through the Kindle kids book creator in the previous video, but it always is a good idea
to double check to make sure the layout looks just right. Once you're set, click book
details in the top left corner, scroll down to the bottom of the page. If you have your own ISBN
and publishing imprint, you'd enter it here. Otherwise, leave it blank. It's not essential to eBooks. Click save and continue. Next, decide whether you
want to enroll your eBook in KDP select or not. If you select this, your eBook cannot be published elsewhere while enrolled in KDP select. I'm going to select it. For territories, keep it on a worldwide if you own the rights, selecting individual
diminishes your reach. Now, let's choose pricing. To make it easier for newbies, select view service, where KDP will give you a good
idea on the normal pricing for your niche. Now, select other marketplaces
and adjust the pricing below the dollar. It's how most pricing is done and customers find it more appealing. Now, click publish your Kindle eBook. Once it's done processing, you'll be prompted to
start your paperback. Let's do it right away. The nice part about doing
print right after eBook is the metadata for the book is already going to carry right over. So you'll see the title, the subtitle, the author name, the series name and number and carries on over. I highly recommend you
tweak your book description for your print book. There are features you
don't have electronically, but have on print. Another suggestion: use keywords
relevant to print books. Admittedly, I'm being lazy
and I'm not changing it, but I'll change them later. I'll leave the category selection as is and then select save and continue. In the next step, we'll need an ISBN. I'm going to select
assign me a free KDP ISBN. Feel free to use the second option should you have your own ISBN. For publication date, you can select the date if
it's been previously published. If you're releasing it right now, just leave it blank. KDP will timestamp it after publishing. Now, select your print options. You can choose the type
of paper, the trim size. I'm choosing five by eight for my book. The bleed setting should stay as no bleed if it's a normal print book
without graphics spilling over the edge of the page, and choose whether you want your cover to be a soft matte or glossy finish. Next, upload your manuscript. I'd recommend a PDF as the best format. Upload your cover file. PDF is the only file type accepted. Scroll down and select launch previewer. This part takes a while, so be patient. Before we get to the very next step, I want to share with you
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won't create an issue. In the event they do, contact KDP support for assistance. Click approve. Scroll down and you'll see a
summary of the print costs. You do not have to cover this charge. Cost is included when a
customer orders your book. Now, click save and continue. Here's the distribution reach. Again, leave it to worldwide
to reach the most markets. Now, price your book. Stick close to a price
other books in your niche are selling. To reach even more markets, select expanded distribution. Your royalties will drop
in that category only. Some trim sizes of books will
not get expanded distribution. Now, select the seven marketplaces
and adjust the pricing so it's below the dollar, like we did the eBook. Once you're set, click publish
your paperback book button. Then you're done. And within about a day to three days, your eBook and your print
book should be available on the Amazon marketplace. You'll get an email
letting you know about it. And congratulations, you're officially a
children's book author. (triumphant music) Big kudos to you and a
banana sticker for sure. Did you miss the rest of the series? Did you miss the first few parts? Might I recommend that you backtrack? I'm actually going to leave a
link to the video right here. You just click on this very
next video so you can see exactly what you need to do
to start this full process. I'll see you there.
