How to Self-Publish a Children’s Book on Amazon KDP

This is a video version of the presentation from the Library’s recent class (Tuesday, 5/3) on how to self-publish a children’s book on Amazon KDP. Press the “f” on your keyboard to watch it in full-screen.

If you have any questions and/or would like some help with self-publishing your children’s book, please contact me (Michael Gorzka) at mgorzka@bridgeportwv.com or 304.842.6248 x430.

The PDF (portable document format) version of the video can be downloaded here.

Resources used in the video:

• Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing
• Picking a Popular Trim Size for Your Book
• KDP trim sizes
• Bowker MyIdentifiers (for ISBNs)
• KDP cover template calculator
• Canva (for cover creation)

Steps to Self-Publishing

• write the book
• choose hard cover or soft cover or both?
• select an available trim size
• format your book manuscript
• export your book manuscript as PDF
• download cover template
• create your cover using the template
• get an ISBN number (optional, we’ll cover this in the workshop)
• research keywords & categories
• upload your book to Amazon KDP and/or IngramSpark®
• publish

Self-Publishing Workshop
Location: Library Conference Room
Tuesday, February 15
6:00pm – 7:00pm

Register: https://www.bplwv.org/event/5984147