How do you actually make your book available for sale on Amazon.com? This is, perhaps, the part that intimidates most people. And the truth is it shouldn’t. All it takes is twelve simple steps:
Go to kdp.amazon.com and sign in (you’ll need an Amazon account).
Register your tax info for royalties.
Click “Bookshelf” and then “Add new title.”
Fill out the form, including book title, description, and keywords you want people to search to find your book.
Upload the cover file (JPEG format).
Upload the book file.
Test your book with Amazon’s online viewer to make sure it looks right.
Click “Save and continue” and advance to the “Rights and Pricing” page.
Choose “Worldwide Rights.”
Choose a 70% royalty rate and select your price, letting the international prices adjust based on the US price. Most e-books are priced $2.99-9.99 (this is what I recommend to maximize your royalty rate).
Click Save and Publish.
Amazon will email you when the book is ready, which may take 24–48 hours but often happens much more quickly.
The biggest question for me is how do we get a book that will stay up in the "General Broadcasting" category without Anthony threatening some bullshit lawsuit because we're defaming him?
Like we can't just write erotic fiction about Sue feeding Nana, it needs to be a "General Broadcasting" book. I don't think you can even write about Anfernee Cumio fucking Sue Thunder, it's not "General Broadcasting".
We could potentially write like a glowing "unauthorized autobiography" of Opie and sell that for $0.01. I doubt Gregg would care enough to contest that, maybe we can agree to donate the pocket change in profits to a charity of his choosing.
How about some sort of printed compendium of Anthony’s own words? Between his numerous twitter accounts and past activity on this subreddit there are tens of thousands of his own, public words to choose from, none of which would be legally actionable.
Or even a r/OandA “worst of” book featuring some of the most classic and pertinent threads from the last few years.
I still think there are ways for him to get the book removed by bitching to Amazon if it's just a straight anti-Anthony book. We can give it a try but that could end up being a headache for whoever makes money off it.
What if we did $0.01 unauthorized biographies of like a dozen other radio personalities and bumped Anthony all the way down? Opie, Scorch, Terry Clifford, Jim Chandler, E-Rock, Intern David, Scott Shannon, Maxwell, Danny Ross? I'm willing to spend 75 cents on this if we can pop out 75 one-page biographies.
That’s a good angle, and good point on the headache aspect. I actually think an Anthony book could be legally bulletproof (that first amendment works great for the printed word), but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be a potential series of hassles.
Can we just get the documentary series transcribed and put up. It’s using evidence and Ants own words. Anything else just put allegedly. Make it an unauthorized biography
When you create the book on kdp you define it's category. I'm not aware of them actually policing the content, though they might. People publish blatant homo porn novels every day.
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1 OkaySeriouslyBro 2018-09-04
How do you actually make your book available for sale on Amazon.com? This is, perhaps, the part that intimidates most people. And the truth is it shouldn’t. All it takes is twelve simple steps:
Go to kdp.amazon.com and sign in (you’ll need an Amazon account).
Register your tax info for royalties.
Click “Bookshelf” and then “Add new title.”
Fill out the form, including book title, description, and keywords you want people to search to find your book.
Upload the cover file (JPEG format).
Upload the book file.
Test your book with Amazon’s online viewer to make sure it looks right.
Click “Save and continue” and advance to the “Rights and Pricing” page.
Choose “Worldwide Rights.”
Choose a 70% royalty rate and select your price, letting the international prices adjust based on the US price. Most e-books are priced $2.99-9.99 (this is what I recommend to maximize your royalty rate).
Click Save and Publish.
Amazon will email you when the book is ready, which may take 24–48 hours but often happens much more quickly.
1 PhilipMarma 2018-09-04
You can self publish a printed book through Createspace that automatically gets listed on Amazon as well. This is a new golden age of self publishing.
1 OkaySeriouslyBro 2018-09-04
The biggest question for me is how do we get a book that will stay up in the "General Broadcasting" category without Anthony threatening some bullshit lawsuit because we're defaming him?
Like we can't just write erotic fiction about Sue feeding Nana, it needs to be a "General Broadcasting" book. I don't think you can even write about Anfernee Cumio fucking Sue Thunder, it's not "General Broadcasting".
We could potentially write like a glowing "unauthorized autobiography" of Opie and sell that for $0.01. I doubt Gregg would care enough to contest that, maybe we can agree to donate the pocket change in profits to a charity of his choosing.
1 PhilipMarma 2018-09-04
How about some sort of printed compendium of Anthony’s own words? Between his numerous twitter accounts and past activity on this subreddit there are tens of thousands of his own, public words to choose from, none of which would be legally actionable.
Or even a r/OandA “worst of” book featuring some of the most classic and pertinent threads from the last few years.
1 OkaySeriouslyBro 2018-09-04
I still think there are ways for him to get the book removed by bitching to Amazon if it's just a straight anti-Anthony book. We can give it a try but that could end up being a headache for whoever makes money off it.
What if we did $0.01 unauthorized biographies of like a dozen other radio personalities and bumped Anthony all the way down? Opie, Scorch, Terry Clifford, Jim Chandler, E-Rock, Intern David, Scott Shannon, Maxwell, Danny Ross? I'm willing to spend 75 cents on this if we can pop out 75 one-page biographies.
1 PhilipMarma 2018-09-04
That’s a good angle, and good point on the headache aspect. I actually think an Anthony book could be legally bulletproof (that first amendment works great for the printed word), but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be a potential series of hassles.
1 VigoTheCarpethian 2018-09-04
Can we just get the documentary series transcribed and put up. It’s using evidence and Ants own words. Anything else just put allegedly. Make it an unauthorized biography
1 holodog 2018-09-04
When you create the book on kdp you define it's category. I'm not aware of them actually policing the content, though they might. People publish blatant homo porn novels every day.
1 PFCBloodFart 2018-09-04
Can't charge under 99 cents either