How To Create A Kdp Account - Amazon KDP Paperback Publishing

About this video

Martinez walks through creating a Kindle Direct Publishing account at kdp.amazon.com, stressing the video is for US publishers only and that signing up is free. If you don’t have an account, click to create a KDP account and enter your first name, email and password. He repeatedly warns to use your real name here, not a pen name, because this information determines how you get paid; pen names are handled separately through Author Central. After sign-up he goes through two-step verification with a one-time password, then completes the ‘account information is incomplete’ section required before you can publish. That includes selecting your country, and entering your full name, address, city, state, postal code and phone number in the author/publisher section. Next is the ‘Getting Paid’ section: where your bank is, the account holder name, account number and routing number — he warns to enter these correctly the first time because royalties sent to a wrong account can be frozen, and says he does not know how to fix that. Then comes the tax interview: business or individual classification, whether you are a US person, your physical address, and your tax ID — Social Security number for a sole proprietor, with different handling for an LLC or S Corp — and he says to check classification questions with your own tax person because he cannot advise on them. Hit save, and you can return later to edit and verify everything. He notes royalties from sales in other countries such as the UK, Canada and Japan take time to process to your bank, visible in the prior-month royalties section. Throughout, he argues sellers must be unique and different and find niches with no competition rather than doing the same thing as everyone else, claiming that approach has gotten him sales the next day or within the first week.

Key takeaways

• Create the account at kdp.amazon.com with your real name, email and password — never a pen name, because the account name is tied to payment.
• Complete two-step verification and the full account-information section (country, address, phone) before attempting to publish.
• Enter bank account holder name, account number and routing number exactly right the first time; wrong details can freeze royalty payments.
• Finish the tax interview with the correct classification and tax ID for your situation (sole proprietor, LLC or S Corp) and consult your own tax professional on classification.
• Create pen names separately in Author Central, and expect royalties from international marketplaces to take extra time to process to your bank.

Episode details: published February 11, 2020 · 10:48 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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