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The Making of My First Kindle Book

February 21, 2013 by Shawn Collins

I’ve had physical books published in the past, and decided for a number of reasons that I’d like to go exclusive to Kindle with Extra Money Answer, my new book about affiliate marketing.

Extra Money AnswerBy publishing myself, I own the content, which is important to me.

Also, I get more share of the profits and I can update as needed. And there is practically zero time from the content being ready until it goes live on Amazon.com.

Plus, when I worked with a publisher in the past, I did all of my own marketing anyway.

So, I wrote the content to share how I go about creating new affiliate sites, driving traffic, and monetizing the sites.

But I still needed a cover, wanted to have another set of eyes go through it, and had to format it.

I was thinking about going to 99designs for the cover, but figured I’d try a few people on Fiverr to see how they looked.

The design I used was from one of the Fiverr people.

Then came the editing, and I posted a job up on oDesk. Within 24 hours, I had lots of interested folks, and settled with somebody who did a good job editing a sample for me.

That part came to $85 at $10/hour.

I went with the Kindle Direct Program on Amazon, and when I took a look at the formatting guide, I decided I would much rather have somebody else do the formatting.

I went back to Fiverr for this, too, and there were lots of people who offered Kindle formatting gigs.

Some were a flat $5, but I chose one that was based on the word length, because they had better ratings. This ran me $20 for over 18,000 words.

After all this, I submitted the final file and it was live on Amazon.com a day later.

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