Overview

Many years ago, aspiring authors had to spend weeks or months writing a book proposal and sample chapters. Then you might contact a bunch of literary agents to see if they would be interested in pitching your book to major publishers.

Most would grumble that your idea would not be likely to make a lot of money, or that it sounded “more like a magazine article than a book.”

At this point, you might abandon the project or if you were really persistent, send your proposal directly to publishers. If they didn’t ship the package back to you unopened, they would either send you a form rejection letter or make you a lowball offer that’d be barely enough to buy breakfast cereal.

However, in the last decade or so, various tools for self-publishing have taken down these barriers for authors who prefer to go it alone. One of the most dominant and major platforms is publishing on Amazon. Anyone can do it. Anyone can become an author. And it has now become an equal playing field.

Most independently published authors fall into one of two camps:

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I believe over 60% of forumites here know about Amazon Kindle self publishing platform & how Nigerians can collect pay via Payoneer. The problem is how to get people to buy the book (or audio, video, etc) among so many millions. Again, how do u handle copyright issues? Is the author covered by copyright laws?