Your Word page count is not your book’s page count. Why A4 misleads, and the six things that decide what printing your book will cost in India.
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The strongest predictor of what an author earns is not talent, and it is not who published them. Written Word Media’s 2025 Indie Author Survey collected 1,346 responses from authors. Authors with an email list reported median earnings of about 300 dollars a month. Authors without one reported about 15 dollars a month. Twenty times,
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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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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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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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