Are you an independent author just starting out, a publisher with limited facilities or with a new, unknown author, or are you a book collector selling off your collection? We have answers for you, even if you have a great start on a book, but haven’t finished writing it yet.

Learn how to publish your book

• Kindle Direct Publishing for publishing eBooks (also known as digital books)
• ACX, the Audiobook Creation Exchange, for producing your books in audio format
  

Learn how to sell books on or through Amazon

• Amazon Advantage
• Selling on Amazon + Fulfillment by Amazon

  What’s the difference?

  Which program is best for me?

If you’re an author, an Author Central Account can help market your books no matter which program you choose. After you’ve started selling your book, make sure you create an Author Central Account   and add your profile, including blog feeds and upcoming events, plus editorial reviews of your books and other details. The information you add to your Author Central Account appears on Amazon.com. You can spend your energy writing the next book, rather than spending it on self-promotion.

Which program is best for you?

Whether you are just starting out as an author, or you're an author or publisher who wants to bring your content Amazon.com, we recommend Kindle Direct Publishing. Kindle Direct Publishing helps you self-publish your book as an eBook for sale in the Kindle store. And it’s free. Read more about Kindle Direct Publishing.

For established authors with a publisher, looking to make your book available as an eBook, we also recommend Kindle Direct Publishing. Kindle Direct Publishing is a free program that helps you self-publish your book as an eBook. It also offers royalty programs for purchase of your book on Kindle devices and Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, PC, Mac, Blackberry, and Android-based devices Read more about Kindle Direct Publishing.

Do you want your book to become an audiobook?

Are you an author and small publisher interested in selling your books on Amazon.com?

We recommend either Selling on Amazon + Fulfillment by Amazon or Amazon Advantage. The choice depends on how involved you want to be with the sale of your books.

• If you want to manage buyer orders and feedback, Selling on Amazon is for you. If you want to handle the packing and shipping yourself, you don’t have to include Fulfillment by Amazon.
• If you want Amazon to take care of the whole thing, Amazon Advantage is the answer. Advantage also offers lots of helpful advice for marketing your books and driving customers to purchase your items online. Advantage includes 24-hour online access to your sales and inventory information and automatic monthly payments.

Are you an author no longer affiliated with a publisher and have remainders of your book that you want to sell?

We recommend Selling on Amazon. Even if you don’t have many remainders, Selling on Amazon can get the ones you have in front of millions of prospective buyers and you pay no monthly subscription or membership fee.

Are you a publisher with a new author?

We suggest Amazon Advantage. Advantage provides an opportunity to market your author’s books to millions of customers. It also offers a proven means of distribution and order fulfillment for the author’s books. We keep the books in stock, so they’re always available, provide 24-hour access to sales and inventory information, and have automatic monthly payments. There’s also helpful advice for marketing your titles and driving customers to purchase your items online.

Comparing Amazon Advantage and Selling on Amazon

Amazon Advantage and Selling on Amazon + Fulfillment by Amazon

Amazon Advantage

Amazon Advantage works like a consignment store. Your books appear on Amazon.com as a product sold by Amazon. You don’t need to fill your garage with copies of your books waiting to be sold, and when you make a sale, you don’t have to wrap and ship the book. Amazon Advantage does it. Books you sell on Amazon.com through Amazon Advantage are eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping and two-day shipping through Amazon Prime™.

How does it work? We’ll place orders with you for copies of your books based on customer demand and you send us the copies. We store them in our fulfillment centers, and when a book is sold, we handle the payments, wrap and ship the books, and take care of customer service and returns for you. We pay you monthly for the books we sell. Naturally, there are requirements. Learn all about Amazon Advantage.

Amazon Advantage is not intended for resellers or sellers of used books. If this is your situation, instead of Advantage, you should consider Selling on Amazon + Fulfillment by Amazon.

See how Amazon Advantage compares with Selling on Amazon.

Selling on Amazon + Fulfillment by Amazon

Like Amazon Advantage, when you use Selling on Amazon, you can promote and sell your books direct on Amazon.com and use the Amazon fulfillment network to store, package, ship, and service your orders. Unlike Amazon Advantage, Selling on Amazon is like having your own small store on Amazon.com. Your products are listed and appear on the Amazon.com website as sold by you. In other words, you are listed as the “seller of record” and receive payment and feedback for your orders, but without needing a merchant account.

You pay a commission on the sale price of the item and other selling fees (the commission for selling a book is a flat $1.20 plus 15% of the item cost). If you include Fulfillment by Amazon, there are also storage, packing, and shipping fees. Fees vary by the size, weight, and price of the item. For example, a 2 lb book that was priced over $25 would cost $1.80 for fulfillment and about $0.05 per month to store (storage fees vary by size).

You can choose to be a Pro Merchant for a $39.95 per month subscription fee or you can be an Individual Seller and pay $0.99 per item sold (with no monthly commitment). Learn more about Selling on Amazon.

See how Selling on Amazon compares with Amazon Advantage.

Kindle Direct Publishing

Kindle Direct Publishing is a free program that helps authors self-publish their book as eBooks. It also offers royalty programs for purchase of the books on Kindle devices and Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, PC, Mac, Blackberry, and Android-based devices. To use Kindle Direct Publishing, you must have the electronic rights to the book.

If you have questions about publishing with Kindle Direct Publishing, please visit their Help pages. The also have a Community of authors ready and willing to help you.

Books self-published through KDP can participate in the 70% royalty program. Authors can self-publish books in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, and specify pricing in US Dollars or Pounds Sterling.