KDP is Amazon’s free publishing platform where you can publish your books, notebooks, short journals etc and earn in dollars through royalties.
These are the steps you need to do to publish your first book on KDP:
1. Create your account at KDP.
2. Set up your payment details and activate your account
3. Choose an author name. You can choose your name or a pseudo name to start with.
4. Use canva to design your first book. You can simply create a simple notebook in Canva.
5. You need to create inside book materials and a coverpage separately. You can use Canva for this.
6.You can go to bookow.com and use “KDP cover template generator” for getting the size of your cover.
7. The most important thing that one needs to keep in mind is to keep right size and take care of bleed.
8. I mostly prefer 8.5” x 11” size and depending on the number of pages bookow gives me a cover template.
9. I suggest to watch this video. This will help in understanding the basic minimum of technical aspects while creating a book.
10. I hope with this basic knowledge you will be able to set up your KDP account and publish your first book.
11. In subsequent blog post on KDP, we will explore themes like Niche research, SEO optimisation and A+ marketing to increase sell of your books. P
12. lease note KDP is going to take time. So, be patient.
This is link of my KDP authorpage for you to have an idea:
https://www.amazon.com/Ariana-Studio/e/B09YBBXHK1/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
Happy writing and all the vey best.