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Online book publishing is an avenue for writers to monetize their works on a low budget compare to traditional publishing that requires more financial commitment.

This industry has huge potential in Nigeria because 90% of authors or writers are between the age of 40 and above who have little knowledge about digital publishing.

And also, most of the locally published books are mainly centre on novel and higher institutions that do not blend with the global trends.

However, the younger ones who are the potential buyers of those digital books are great users of the internet and who are looking for the most effective way to access information at ease.

Severally, I went for publishing platforms searching for local books I could promote on my blog posts but I couldn’t get enough. This is how empty and unsatisfied this niche is.

Online book publishing is a kind of business where, if you could dedicate your time, write edit and publish quality books as well as ensuring effective distribution., even when you are sleeping or not feel like working, your money keeps coming.

Interestingly, to write and publish books online, you must not be a professor, lecturer or novelist. Anything you have good knowledge of for instance, cooking, travel, body or hair treatment, plumbing, and so on. You can write about it, publish and get paid

Essential steps to publish your book

To publish ebook successfully, one has to take some critical steps which include;

1. Write down your goals

Writing down your goals is the first step to publish your book online. It’s serves as a guideline for you to actually know where you are heading.

To write and publish book is very doubting and time taking so putting down your goals serves as a motivator and and clear insights of your journey.

State clearly what you want your intended audience to achieve when reading your book, then structure your for ease of readability, use simple and undersable words.

I hate when reading a book and still have to pause in order to check a particular in dictionary.

Choose the number of chapters, list the topics, sub topics and begin to break them down. Thereafter, ensure to atleast write 2 pages a day if you can do that every day, in 2 months, you will have sixty pages on ground

2. Write and edit you book

After you might have stated your concise goals, then begin to put your ideas down on a paper. Revise what you have written down repeatedly to reshape in order to draw more attention.

Of course, you wouldn’t like to write a book where people will spend few seconds and close it.

After you are satisfied with your ideas written down, edit it to correct all the typing errors and wrong spelling as well as wrong grammar.

3. Select a publishing platform

They are many international and local platforms that can serve your needs. Choose the one that is best for you.

If your audience are located internationally, chose international platform but if your audience are located locally, go for local platform.

However there are some international platform like Amazon kdp, Kobo life etc that caters for local need. You can even publish your book in local language.

4. Format your book

Format your book appropriately to meet digital publishing standard. Before formatting your book, conduct thorough research about the platform and thier publishing guidelines

5. Choose the name and design a cover

Choose a name that best describes your book. A good name can attract many readers. Also nnsure to design an eye catchy cover. These are the first point of contact and the features some people look out for before proceeding to buy a book.

There is a saying that a book is not judge by its cover lol. It’s right but don’t follow them, let your book cover grab an attention, first impression matters a lot.

Contact graphic designer to get you one, or sign up for canva, they are hundred of templates you can use for your book. Also some platform like Amazon kdp help people to design cover.

7. Obtain an ISBN

Get an international standard book number (ISBN) for your book. This will help to prevent plagiarism and give you full legal authority over your book. Platform like Publiseer offer such a service.

8. Upload and publish

Upload your book manuscript to the chosen platform, preview and publish it. Under platforms like Amazon kdp and Okadabooks, within 12 to 24hrs, your book is live on their bookstores.

9. Marketing and promotion

Each platform has numerous ways for authors to promote their books. Make sure you leverage on the marketing gateways of your chosen publishing platform.

Best platforms for Nigerian authors to publish their ebooks

They are many good platforms to publish books in Nigeria, however, platforms like Amazon kdp, selar, Publiseer, kobo and so on has been beneficial for Nigerian writers.

1. Amazon kdp

This is the most well-known international publishing platform with massive number of Nigeria users.

Nigerian authors can set up account and publish without stress and within 12 to 48 hours, your book is live on international book market.

Amazon KDP allows publishers to adjust prices over time in order to determine the best price for their book base on readership and market demand. Pre-order is also allow before release.

In terms of pricing and royalty, publishers can price books from 0.99 to 200 dollar and above, while royalty is from 70 percent on books price from 2.99 to 9.99 dollars, then, 35 percent for books priced from 10 dollar and above.

Their payment is also on monthly basis via wire transfer with the minimum of 10 dollar.
For marketing, you can run promotion using kdp select, Amazon sponsor ads, affiliate links and so on.

2. Kobo writing life

Kobo writing life is an international self-publishing platform that is owned by Rakuten. It’s one of the largest ebooks store that serves about 190 countries with over 63 million users worldwide

Kobo takes 30 percent commission from books sold from 2.99 to 99.9 dollar while, they take 45 percent commission from books sold from 10 dollar and above. They pay every last day of the month via PayPal or wire

In terms of marketing, kobo allows users to use social media direct links, kobo sponsor ads, affiliate links, email campaigns blog posts, podcast and so on to promote their books.

3. Naira book store

Naira book store is another suitable platform for online book publishing in Nigeria. It is among the largest seller of ebook in Nigeria with over 3,000 per referal or sales of their product.

Authors or publishers and freelancers can showcase their materials free of charge for their best selling books. Handouts, textbook, past question and answer, research project materials and many more.

4. Publiseer

Publiseer is also a free publishing platform that serves African authors with largest customer base in Nigeria.

They allow authors to distribute to their domestic publishing platforms like selar, Okadabooks and so on with global presence.

And also, allows authors to submit their books for review on publication journals and blogs, they issue ISBN to Nigeria authors in order to protect their works from plagiarism.

Their payment method is the most favorable, authors are allowed to take 80 percent royalty.

Also authors can set any price for their book. They offered payment on daily basis via PayPal , no benchmark for their payment.

For marketing, they allow social media direct link promotion, authors website, authors collobaration, book reviews and so on.

5. Selar

This is an e-commerce platform that entrepreneurs and authors use to sell thier digital and physical products like online courses, subscription, ebooks, tickets and so on

Selar has global reach and support multiple payment methods, it also has effective marketing system like affiliate marketing, customer relationship management, CRM tool, customize sales page

Also free tutorials to help creators succeed.

6. Google play book

Google play book has presence in about 75 countries, it allows authors to access global audience and earn revenue worldwide in their prefer platform.

It's quite easy to sign up to Google play book, afterwards, you can upload your content, set your prices, and select your target country.

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Final words

Online book publishing can be rewarding if you write and publish quality ebook as well as implementing effective marketing strategies.

To wwrite, edit and publish books is time consuming. However, taking a little step everyday could definitely actualize your dream.

There is huge gap for online book publishing industry in Nigeria as majority of writers and authors are older people who focus mainly on traditional publishing.

These categories of authors focus mainly on textbooks and novels. Books relating to cooking, online business, ICT, travel, fashion etc can be very rewarding.

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