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ResourceMarketing & Promoting Your Book in Little Free Libraries
(Summarized from the Arabic caption track.) Dale Roberts reports phase two of a case study begun in early July 2024 using Little …
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ResourcePrint Nation Book Unboxing: Is Digital Publishing Worth It?
Dale profiles Print Nation, a digital publishing/printing company, and unboxes books it printed. He stresses this is not a sponsored …
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ResourceAmazon Ads for Books: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide 2024
Dale walks through setting up and managing Amazon Ads for books step by step, starting with access via the KDP dashboard's Marketing …
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ResourceHow to Format a Book for KDP in 20 Minutes
In part three of a six-part series about producing a book with AI, Dale formats his AI-written book on fiction writing using Dibbly …
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ResourceEditing a Book Written by AI
Dale Roberts explains how he edited a book originally generated with Dibbly Create's Content Writer, arguing AI text tends to be …
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ResourceSelf Publishing a Book on Amazon | The Complete Beginners Guide
Dale L. Roberts gives a complete beginner's walkthrough of self-publishing on Amazon via Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). He defines …
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ResourceKDP Terms & Conditions: What They ACTUALLY Mean
Dale Roberts feeds the Amazon KDP terms and conditions (version dated November 8, 2023) section by section into Dibble Create's AI …
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Resource10 Avoidable Mistakes on Amazon KDP
Drawing on a decade in self-publishing, Dale walks through ten avoidable mistakes that can get a KDP account suspended or …
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ResourceSelf-Publishing Your Book Everywhere (2024)
Dale walks through publishing his first full-length book in nearly four years wide, not just on Amazon. He drafted it during …
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ResourceHow to Increase Book Sales on Amazon KDP
Dale lays out five critical elements for increasing book sales on Amazon KDP. First, cover design, which he calls the biggest …
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ResourceGetting Book Reviews: What They Don’t Tell You
Dale lays out how to get book reviews at launch and beyond. He cites Amazon's figures that 91% of customers check reviews before …
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ResourceFree Book Marketing & Promotion for Authors | Little Free Libraries
Dale documents a free book marketing experiment: he promoted over 31 indie author books through 29 different Little Free Library …
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ResourceWriting Books With AI | Content Writer by Dibbly Create 2024
In this sponsored first part of a six-video series, Dale walks through writing a book with Dibbly Create's Content Writer, stressing …
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ResourceISBN Not Working on Amazon? Do THIS!
Dale Roberts explains why an ISBN gets rejected. An ISBN is a book's unique identifier, but free ISBNs from platforms like Amazon …
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ResourceAdvice for Aspiring Authors & Self-Publishers
Dale Roberts compiles advice for aspiring authors and self-publishers from guests he says he has interviewed over the past eight …
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ResourceAre You Using These Banned KDP Keywords?
Dale L. Roberts examines Amazon KDP's updated backend keyword rules, prompted by Kindlepreneur's Dave Chesson sharing the changes, …
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ResourceAmazon KDP Scams & Frauds
Dale warns that many Trustpilot complaints about KDP actually describe third-party scammers, because KDP itself is free, takes only …
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ResourceBest Grammar Checkers for Authors
Dale ranks five spelling and grammar checkers for authors in 2024 from cheapest to most expensive, urging viewers to test before …
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ResourceBuy Your Own ISBN or Not?
Dale explains what an ISBN — an international standard book number, like a book's fingerprint — does, where it appears (the …
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ResourceMORE NEW Features for Publishing Books on Amazon Kindle (June 1, 2024)
Dale Roberts covers three new Amazon features for authors. First, Book Trends data, a test Amazon is running on product pages: below …
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ResourceHow Many KDP Books to Make Money
Dale argues the question of how many KDP books it takes to make money depends on how you define making money; he sets the benchmark …
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ResourceIs Amazon KDP Still Profitable in 2024?
Roberts answers whether Amazon KDP is still profitable in 2024 with a yes, but says it is not as easy as it once was. He recounts …
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Resource10 Best Self Publishing Companies for Print Books
Dale Roberts ranks ten print-book publishing companies primarily by royalty per sale, warning to check base print costs and …
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ResourceThe Cost of Self-Publishing (2024)
Dale Roberts breaks down what self-publishing one book costs using a good/better/best model, opening with his own community poll in …
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