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 In order to demonstrate the benefits of the Amazon Kindle Submission service, you must first know what the Amazon Kindle is.
The Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary wireless reading device that allows its owner to instantly download books and newspapers. Only books that have been submitted to the Amazon Kindle via the required process and in the required format are available for Kindle readers to purchase and enjoy. Kindle editions of books appear on Amazon and in Amazon search listings just like any other format (such as a hardback edition).
There are several benefits to having your book available on Amazon Kindle.
 1. The Amazon Kindle edition will appear in the search results, along with any other formats of your book (such as your paperback and/or hardback editions). This results in an increase of exposure for your book's cover, which increases the chances of browsers clicking on your cover image, and coming that much closer to becoming a buyer.
2. Sales through the Amazon Kindle are not split with Outskirts Press. Just like with our hardcopy paperback and hardback books, we pay 100% author profits, and sales through the Kindle are ALL profit.
Of course, Amazon will still take their share, as they always do, but your profit will be directly deposited into your checking account by Amazon, without any involvement by (or portion for) Outskirts Press. In other words, your Kindle sales are YOUR Kindle sales.
3. Amazon customers and readers are growing every day. While the Kindle is a unique and revolutionary device designed to make reading more convenient, the majority of Amazon customers love actual BOOKS. A Kindle sale is an inexpensive way to offer your book to a potential reader; if they like it, they are more likely to purchase the paperback or hardback edition, too.
4. While all books are ideal for the Kindle, Kindle readers LOVE fiction. If you are a fiction author looking for a way to "level the marketing playing field" with non-fiction, the Kindle is the answer! There have been weeks and months in a row when the bestselling Outskirts Press books on Amazon have been Kindle editions of fiction books!
Here's how the process works:
- Order the Amazon Kindle edition now by adding it to your shopping cart.
- Our Marketing Department will contact you via email and send you the necessary submission form. Since your Kindle sales are directly deposited to your bank by Amazon, providing Amazon with the means to make that deposit is a requirement of submission.
- Once you have completed that form, send it back to us.
- That's it! We'll take care of the rest. Typically within 4 weeks, your Kindle edition will be online through Amazon.
How does pricing and commission work?
Option 1: Amazon pays 35% and the Kindle price can be whatever you want
Option 2: Amazon pays 70% but the Kindle price must be set between $2.99 and $9.99; and you must live in the United States
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 "I chose the low price to get some readers willing to try out a new author. It’s not easy for someone to read a book by someone they’ve never heard of before – lots of people probably like to stick with the writers they love. But for a buck, some people will take a chance.
When it gets right down to it, it’s all about word of mouth, which I’m very thankful for. I don’t like marketing much, or promoting, or plugging my stuff…it takes away time I could be writing. But you have to do it from time to time in order to start to get the word out there to spread."
- Keith Knapp, author of Moonlight, a top 10 Outskirts Press bestseller on Amazon in its Kindle edition.
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 "Thank you so much for making this painless and so easy! I love Outskirts and always tell everyone what a wonderful experience working with Outskirts Press is. Thank you!!
- Vivian Marie Aubin du Paris, author of The Quest of Dai.
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- Author understands the Kindle Edition option is a service Outskirts Press will provide to assist the author with formatting a Kindle Edition and submitting it to Amazon’s Digital Text Platform (DTP) for the Kindle Store.
- Author understands that in order to submit the Kindle Edition to Amazon’s DTP, Outskirts Press will set up an Amazon DTP account for the author. If the author has an existing DTP account with Amazon, Outskirts Press will need to submit the Kindle Edition within that existing account as Amazon only allows one DTP account per author.
- Outskirts Press will contact the author upon purchase of the Kindle Edition with a form to complete with the information necessary to publish the Kindle Edition on Amazon’s DTP. Author understands that the Kindle Edition cannot be completed until the form is returned to Outskirts Press. The form requires banking information, which will be submitted to Amazon for the purposes of Amazon direct depositing Kindle royalties to the author's bank account directly.
- Author understands that the title description submitted to Amazon’s DTP uses the information/materials supplied by the author verbatim, including any typographical, grammatical, or punctuation errors. Author understands it is the author's responsibility to review all supplied information closely before submitting.
- Author understands that some reformatting of the interior file is necessary for the Kindle Edition. Outskirts Press makes every effort to correct any noticeable formatting issues with the Kindle Edition, but because part of the conversion process is administered by Amazon, there will be some formatting issues that are simply out of our control.
- Author understands that once the Kindle Edition is submitted to Amazon’s DTP, Outskirts Press will provide the author with the login information for the account. It is the author’s responsibility to change the password upon receipt of this information.
- Author understands it is the author's responsibility to read and accept the Terms and Conditions of Amazon’s DTP, found here: http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/entry.jspa?externalID=2&categoryID=12 and that purchase of the Outskirts Press Kindle Edition Service implies full understanding and acceptance of Amazon's DTP terms according to the link herein. Author further understands that Amazon may modify those terms at any time and notification of such changes are the responsibility of Amazon, not Outskirts Press.
- Author understands that once the Kindle Edition is completed, future maintenance of the title information and the Amazon account, including revisions and termination of the Agreement with Amazon’s DTP is the author’s responsibility.
- Author understands that the way in which Amazon chooses to list or distribute Kindle titles (or the price at which they choose to sell them at) is outside the control of Outskirts Press. Author understands that Amazon and the Kindle are a 3rd Party service, that the Kindle content is currently only available in black/white, and Outskirts Press has no control over whether or not the service continues as it currently exists. Author further understands that it is Amazon's responsibility to report and pay Kindle royalties directly to the author, as outlined in their Terms and Conditions, and any concerns with Kindle royalties or sales are to be addressed solely to Amazon. Outskirts Press does not take any percentage of Kindle sales, nor hold a stake in this arrangement between the author and Amazon in any way.
- The Kindle Edition option fee becomes non-refundable once ordered.
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