Just Uploaded to KDP

I don't know about you, however after the nightmare of all the things I have endured with Ingram Sparks, I am so pleased that KDP is so clean and straightforward and seems to be pretty much glitch free!

Of course, the beta version of the hardcover upload is still glitchy such as the launch previewer is incomplete but that is no big deal! I am sure they will figure it out.

I am also pleased that from articles I have been reading, they are always trying to improve and add more features such as the author page connection and soon, I shall even be able to link to this blog and website. Just need the time more than anything!  Everything takes time to learn so be easy on yourself. Cannot do it all in a day!

I have been looking as some Youtubers and I must say, some are really on the ball and devoted. This I do appreciate! I love the fact there are folks out there so willing to share! I know they have content and make money off hits on their sites and commercial content embedded but still, it is refreshing to see so much positive support for poor struggling Indie authors like us!

All in all KDP so far has proven to be far more on the ball and working properly. I expect things will come up, such as using the Canadian spelling for words like Colour and how they may or may not be recognized by their search engines in .com or the fact you can only attach the author page with .com and so on however I hope in time, they will add this feature for their very close neighbour! I am not going to write US style simply because I have been trained as a TESOL teacher and it is a habit too hard to break and I don't want to be wishy washy! In UK and Australia, CAD English is more accepted. So I will keep an eye on this.

I will also let you know how it works on KDP with support and so on. I made the mistake of uploading a book and putting the wrong ISBN on the blank online form and it doesn't match the barcode. I wrote immediately and told them to cancel the posting and why. I asked them to either fix it or just reject it. Me bad! I was tired. This is what happens when you are tired! Read the wrong line on my ISBNs when picking it out to copy!  Life goes on, not the end of the world but does hold me up. Would have taken 72 hours anyhow.

Working and doing this is not easy and we can discuss the pros and cons of this in another blog. For now, I am content to do what I can, when I can, since that is just where my life is at. Things change all the times and I am sure this will also.

So keep on slugging away with the Indie Publishing. Why not? What else would you be doing? lol!