It is unofficially Kindle week here on Frivolous Motion, and I’ve got more related news today. When I checked out the Amazon homepage this morning hoping to see some Black Friday must-haves, I stumbled upon a link to a new program called the Digital Text Platform.
Digital Text Platform is a fast and easy self-publishing tool that lets you upload and format your books for sale in the Kindle Store.If you’ve written a book, or think you could write a book (anyone participating in NaNoWriMo this year?), here’s your chance to sell it to your Long Tail audience with absolutely no publishing costs. You get a third of the retail price for each copy sold (even if Amazon decides to sell it for less, you still receive the same royalties), and adding your book to the marketplace seems like a breeze. Just upload it in any of the several supported document types (HTML works best, and there are some formatting guides on the site, along with plenty of support in the forums), set a price, and you’re good to go.
The hard part, of course, is marketing the thing, but getting your title published at no cost whatsoever leaves you with a ton of cash (right?) to devote to your viral video campaign and outfitting your Street Team. One of the hardest things for new writers is finding an audience, and while the success of the Kindle Marketplace hasn’t yet been determined, the absolutely gigantic size of Amazon’s customer base works in your favor.
If anyone decides to publish using DTP, I’d be interested in hearing how things work out.
1 comments:
I think it has huge potential (as does one of our bloggers at TechConsumer who is also a published author and recently wrote a post about it).
I may end up experimenting with it down the road. And if I do, I'll let you know.
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