A lot of authors in Nigeria who have
been writing good and quality books have been finding it very difficult to make
a reasonable income from their book writing. To make a reasonable income as an author your books need to reach out to a lot of readers. One of the ways your
books can reach out to a lot of readers is to start publishing the books online.
One of the best online marketplaces you can publish your books for free is
Amazon. This book will be published on kindle which is softcopy and paperback
which is hardcopy. Amazon has millions of customers who read and purchase books
on a daily basis. With Amazon your books will reach out to a lot of people
around world. There are a lot of authors that are making a reasonable
income publishing their books on Amazon. Like I said, publishing books on
Amazon is absolutely free, you don’t need to pay a dime. Let us look at the steps
on how to publish books on Amazon.
1. Create an account with Amazon: The
first thing to do is to create an account with Amazon, then use that account
details to login to kdp.amazon.com
2. Create an account with payoneer:
Payoneer is an online payment service that provides online money transfer and
digital payment services. Payoneer will give you a US bank details which you
are going to use to complete your payment information on Amazon. Payoneer will
also send you a MasterCard which you are going to be using to withdraw your earning
here in Nigeria from any ATM terminal. This MasterCard will be shipped free of charge
to your address which you used in registering for the payoneer account.
Payoneer only charge $29.99 yearly as service charge. Any sales that are made
from any of your books on Amazon will be send to your payoneer account every
month.
3. Formatting of your books: Before you
publish your books on Amazon the books need to be formatted properly. This book
needs to be formatted in kindle (softcopy) and paperback (hardcopy). The book
will be published in kindle and paperback. If you want to learn more about how
to format books on Amazon you can watch the videos on YouTube. There are a lot of
videos on YouTube on how to format books on Amazon.
Furthermore, publishing
books online has changed the stories of a lot of authors in Nigeria. This is
one of the legitimate online businesses in Nigeria you can start with almost a
zero capital.
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