Publishing a Book on Amazon: Format Your Manuscript

Before you can publish your book on Amazon, it must meet certain formatting requirements. Most importantly, make sure that the text in the manuscript is cleanly formatted with no extra line breaks or odd indentations. If possible, use a style guide like The Chicago Manual of Style or MLA format when formatting the text. Additionally, include a table of contents at the beginning of your manuscript if it has multiple chapters or sections. Finally, save the file as either a .docx or .pdf file before uploading it to Amazon.

Publishing a Book on Amazon: Upload Your Manuscript

Now that you have created an account and prepared your manuscript, you can begin the process of uploading it and finally publishing a book on Amazon. To do this, log into your Author Central account and click “Add New Title” under books on the left side menu bar. Then follow the instructions provided by Amazon until you are able to upload the file containing your manuscript—you may be asked to provide additional information such as title, author name(s), category (which is like a book genre but unique to Amazon), and keywords during this process. Once everything looks good, hit “Publish” and wait for confirmation! Congratulations—your book is now live on Amazon.

Publishing a book on Amazon is an exciting milestone for any author! It opens up a huge market for readers around the world who may not have otherwise been able to find out about or purchase your work in traditional brick-and-mortar stores or online outlets like Barnes & Noble Press or Apple Books (formerly iBooks).

With some preparation beforehand and careful attention during each step of the process outlined above, publishing a book on Amazon can be simple and straightforward—and before long, you could be seeing reviews from happy readers across the world. Once you learn this strategy once, you can execute it and build upon it so that book marketing your self-published work becomes a breeze!