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Apples books sells some copies, as do nook, kobo, and other ebook retailers. Mark lefebvre is director of self publishing and author. How to make your book free on amazon kdp kindle direct. The stepbystep guide to taking your manuscript through the publishing process and into the bookshops. Sep, 2019 deciding where to publish your e book is a lot more complicated than you may realize. Sell your work on or buy the books you need immediately. Every book published through kobo writing life undergoes our qa process and because no book is perfect, some will be rejected.
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How to publish your ebook on amazon, apple ibooks, nook. Just go to your dashboard, uncheck the box to delist the book from kobo and simply re publish again. For example, my book beautiful demons is the first book in the peachville high demons series. When a title does not meet our standards for publication we will decline the title and inform the author the reason for rejection. If at any point you need to remove your book from kobo, update your book price, or make any changes to your text or information, you can do all of this under the ebooks portion of the website. How to publish an ebook on kobo sarra cannon author. A brief description of your book as it should appear on your book s item page in the kobo store.
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