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24d •
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
2 questions.... 1 - When you're uploading an ebook, on the "Kindle ebook Content" page under "Manuscript" it asks if you want to enable Digital Rights Management (see screenshot). I should select YES, correct? I asked KDP and they said that saying yes means that you are protecting your book from being downloaded illegally. 2 - It gives you two options: yes or no. Saying yes seems to make the most sense. It makes me wonder why anyone would choose "no." Is there a reason why someone would choose "no?" Just curious.
1 like • 24d
@Brent Gaerlan Okay. Very good to know. Thanks for sharing that Brent. I appreciate it.
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@Julie Broad Great video! So informative. That makes a lot of sense. Thank you so much for clarifying this. I appreciate it!
27d •
Question about account termination
@Julie Broad Just wanted to clarify something. I've been wondering about this for a while so wanted to ask. Julie - in another one of your videos that I was just watching about account termination resolution for authors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjodUibUmjs ...at 3:35 you said "If your account is terminated you cannot open a second account with the same information. That information is your name, email address, address, and banking information" If someones account was ever terminated....is it possible for them to open another account if they use a different name, email address, address and banking information? I'm not asking this question to be sneaky in any way if anything ever happened to my account, it's just to give me an option if I felt that it was unfairly terminated. Is this an option for authors? It just seems sad to think that if an unfair termination ever happened to an author that all the years they spent learning how to publish and market their book via Amazon and using that as a platform to publicize their book would be completely gone forever - like that they could never ever have an Amazon account ever again.
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@Yna Davis Okay. Thank you. But the part that confuses me is that a while back I actually requested to speak to a manager (or someone higher than the phone reps) at KDP support to ask them if it's okay that someone have a personal account and a completely separate LLC at the same time. The higher KDP support rep confirmed that each business in that case is a separate entity, so that is okay. I also know someone who had 4 (KDP) LLC's (each a separate entity) at once and she kept each for years with no problems and eventually sold each of them. So, it just seems that if one entity was unfairly terminated that another entity could be created. Cuz when they say in their TOS "you," aren't they just referring to that entity? Even Julie in her video said "If your account is terminated you cannot open a second account with the same information. That information is your name, email address, address, and banking information." It's vague....is she saying then that you can open another account with different information (LLC - different name, email address, address, and banking info)? - a different entity? Anyway, the termination thing stresses me because I never totally know if I'm doing things correctly. I know I'm trying my very best to do them correctly, but I never know if their bots are going to misinterpret something.
2 likes • 25d
@Yna Davis Thank you
27d •
Question about quotation marks in subtitle
I was just watching one of Julie's video's where she references her "Self-Promote & Succeed" book. She was talking about the title and subtitle and how they have to match, exactly. I noticed that on Julie's book cover, the words 'No Boring Books' in the subtitle is in single quotation marks but those same words on the Amazon sales page don't include the single quotation marks. If the title and subtitle have to be exactly the same why weren't the single quotation marks included on the Amazon sales page? Is there a reason why they were left out of the subtitle on the sales page? Asking because I have a book that has quotation marks in the subtitle. They are on the book cover and I included the quotation marks in the subtitle on the Amazon sales page. Should I have not included them on the Amazon sales page? @Julie Broad
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@Yna Davis Okay. Thank you. Good to know.
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Interesting. Thanks for letting me know.
Nov 1 •
Bundles
Quick question....is it a good idea to do bundles (2 or more manuscripts in 1 book)? Or is it best just to put books that complement each other into a series? OR is it best to do both? Asking because I had phoned KDP to ask why I couldn't find any information in their help pages about bundles re: what the covers and titles should look like etc., and they said there is no information because they don't support bundles, they only support a series. One negative experience I've had with bundles is that amazon bots can mistake a bundle for duplicate content and send an email asking you to verify your publishing rights. Anyway, just wanted to get some thoughts on bundles. - Thanks
1 like • Nov 6
@Elissa Graeser Okay. Thank you. That's very good to know. 👍
1 like • Nov 6
@Gary Anderson Sounds good. Thank you. 👍
Oct 22 •
Free promo, categories, KDP7
@Elissa Graeser @Kate Duncan 1 - Is it still beneficial to run free promos? I know that a long time ago it used to help your books rank but now I don't think it does. I wonder if it's just better to drop the price of your book to .99 cents to promote? Running a free promo also makes me leery of people stealing the content. The only reason I would run a free promo is to get reviews. 2 - How many categories are we allowed to choose? 3 - Can you share how you fill in the seven keyword boxes (KDP7)? Do you use all 50 characters per box? I think this is the latest guide to fill out these boxes but I'm not totally sure - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vinXgGNxEzk Is this the method you use? If not, is there a guide somewhere in this group on how to fill out KDP7? Thanks
1 like • Oct 23
@Julie Broad Thanks, but do you have a video that is more specific on how to fill in the seven keywords? And I still just need to know how many categories we can choose - is it 3 categories that we're allowed to choose? Also, in the video you talk about "ebook sales" but are you a fan of free promos? Or do you think it's better to just discount your book to .99 cents?
0 likes • Oct 24
@Julie Broad Okay. Thank you 👍
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