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Maria Nieves Campistrus's avatar

Very interesting article.

I'll try to auto publish my first e-book about travelling in Amazon KDP. My daugther is licensed in communication and design and helps me. Thank you, Nikki and Kristina, for your valuable suggestions.

Joseph (Dr. Joe) Zingone's avatar

Nikki, i love the cover. I co wrote a book with someone who became a friend. We would always battle when writing. He would say, "you write like you speak". I would say, "so what" until it sunk in that people have to read it! Best of luck. Sorry i forget you don't need luck when you have talent!

Nikki M Finlay, PhD's avatar

The cover is actually different now, but maintain’s the sense of optimism.

Jane Xu, PhD, MPH's avatar

Great post! Learned quite a bit and saved for future reference. Thanks Nikki and Kristina for sharing!

Nikki M Finlay, PhD's avatar

It was our pleasure, Jane!

Nikki M Finlay, PhD's avatar

Thank you for taking my little post under your wing Kristina! I appreciate this opportunity.

Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman's avatar

That was fascinating, thank you!

I wasn't aware that hybrid marketing is a thing, but in retrospect that's exactly what I did with my book, Land of Health: Israel's War for Wellness.

It was with a smaller, Jewish book publisher, but exactly the model you described.

Nikki M Finlay, PhD's avatar

That’s so cool! Congratulations.

Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman's avatar

Thank you!

Ibrahim Khan's avatar

Thank you 💕📚💕

Gunnar Habitz's avatar

Very important article to show the difference of publishing routes. I had the pleasure of working with boutique publishers (from Freiburg, beautiful city in your home country 🇩🇪, Kristina) up to the main travel publishers in Germany and now self-publishing.

The unexpected experience was working on one of the most sold travel books ever, „1000 Places to See Before You Die“).

Nikki M Finlay, PhD's avatar

We’re glad you like this!

Charisse Tyson's avatar

I self-published my memoir, and it was a ton of work. I had a great platform because of my historic biker bar, or I have no idea how anyone would have found it. I certainly wouldn't have sold hundreds of copies and given away thousands through KDP Select. When I write my next one, I'd like to try the Hybrid version. Thanks for this valuable information.

Nikki M Finlay, PhD's avatar

It was our pleasure to share this with you.