You will be given the opportunity to make the other type later on. Don’t worry about which one you choose first. Note you can create either a Kindle eBook or a paperback. The first section is where you can create a new title. That page will open up to show all of your current paperbacks and eBooks. Once you have an author account, you create your book by clicking on BOOKSHELF. It will ask you to sign in with your Amazon account, and I would recommend you create a new, author account and keep it separate from your personal amazon account. To get started with KDP, I went to their website. Hardbacks will run $13.00+ and board books even more. My paperback picture books cost about $3.65 per book to produce. That’s mostly because of the high cost per book to produce. The downside to publishing through KDP is that you can only create paperback books. KDP offers what CreateSpace did–there was no up-front cost and my royalties were 60% of sales and 40% for international sales.

This post is meant to walk you through how I was able to do it.įirst of all, there are many self-publishing sites out there, but I wanted to stick with something similar to CreateSpace, for one simple reason: For novels and short stories, the transition has been fairly painless, but if you want to publish a children’s picture book, you’ll find the process a bit more difficult. About a year ago, Amazon acquired CreateSpace and absorbed it into their publishing arm, Kindle-Direct-Publishing, also known as KDP.ĬreateSpace was geared to traditional paperback publishing, whereas KDP is more geared to the eBook. Unfortunately, CreateSpace no longer exists. I self-published my first children’s book, WYOMING FROM A TO Z, on CreateSpace.

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