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Can You Publish a Kannada Book on Amazon KDP? What KDP Actually Supports in India

If you write in Kannada, you cannot publish a Kindle ebook in your own script. Amazon KDP supports five Indian languages for ebooks: Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi and Gujarati. That list is on KDP’s own supported languages page. Kannada is not on it. Neither is Telugu, Bengali, Punjabi, Odia or Urdu. For a Kannada author […]

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How to Get a Free ISBN in India, and What You Are Actually Paying For

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An ISBN in India is free. Not discounted. Not subsidised. Free. It is issued by the Raja Rammohun Roy National Agency for ISBN, which sits under the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India. The portal is isbn.gov.in. There is no fee at any stage of the application. That one fact should

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Amazon KDP Royalties in India: Why 70 Percent Is Not 70 Percent

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The 70 percent royalty on Amazon is not 70 percent. This is not a complaint about Amazon. It is what Amazon’s own pages say, and it is worth reading them before you price your book. Here is what actually applies on Amazon.in. The 70 percent option requires exclusivity To take the 70 percent royalty on

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