This is a short, quick post about how to get your book published independently on Amazon.com. Amazon does a poor job of explaining this and in my research there did not seem to be a consensus answer for this one simple question:
How do I get my book published on Amazon.com?
There are three ways.
Here are their key differences:
Createspace is the “atoms and bits” solution to getting your creative works for sale on Amazon.com. Caters to books, music and film.
Digital Text Platform is the Kindle channel only. If you want your book on the Kindle and that’s all you care about, use DTP.
Amazon Advantage is the place where a publisher would go to selling and distributing their physical books on Amazon.com – you can ship from your own warehouse and ship them a palette of books to ship for you.
In all solutions, you as the publisher set the price, but Amazon takes 45% of the retail price.