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Gängige Buchformate und welche davon Amazon wirklich druckt
Vergleiche gängige Buchformate in Zoll und cm: welche Beschnittformate Amazon KDP für Taschenbuch und Hardcover anbietet, plus Seitenzahl und Druckkosten.
9 min
Lohnt sich eine Podcast-Booking-Agentur für Autoren und Experten?
Was Podcast-Booking-Agenturen im Oktober 2026 kosten, was du für jeden Preis bekommst, die Warnzeichen und wann du Podcasts besser selbst anschreibst.
10 min
Wir haben vier KI-Buchlektoren auf dasselbe Kapitel losgelassen
Wir haben vier Arten von Lektoratssoftware an einem Sachbuchkapitel getestet: was jede markiert hat, wo sie danebenlag und was sie kostet.
13 min
Was auf die Buchrückseite gehört, Element für Element
Was gehört auf die Buchrückseite? Lerne die acht üblichen Elemente kennen, schreib einen überzeugenden Klappentext und vermeide Barcode-Fehler bei Amazon KDP.
12 min
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Barnes & Noble Press Next to Amazon KDP, Royalty by Royalty
We priced the same 200-page business book on Barnes & Noble Press and Amazon KDP, format by format, using each platform's own calculator and help pages.
15 minEnglish
Hardcover or Paperback for Your First Self-Published Book?
For most first-time self-publishers, paperback is the better place to start. It costs less to print, gives you more room on royalties.
10 minEnglish
How to Check Your Book in Kindle Previewer Before You Hit Publish
Kindle Previewer tells you whether your ebook file works on Kindle. It does not tell you whether your book is built right.
10 minEnglish
About the Author Pages That Get Experts Hired, With Examples
Six real About the Author examples, author bio templates, word counts, and practical advice for writing a nonfiction bio that earns trust and invites contact.
15 minEnglish
What Book Formatting Services Cost, and When You Can Skip Them
What a book formatter delivers, what it costs, how long it takes, and when software does the same job for a nonfiction book. Prices checked September 27, 2026.
8 minEnglish
Hybrid Publishing Costs Real Money. What Do You Get for It?
The models, the real prices, and the step every route starts with. Prices checked on each company's own site on September 30, 2026.
9 minEnglish
Claude or ChatGPT for Writing a Book? We Gave Both the Same Notes
We gave Claude and ChatGPT the same 390 words of notes and the same brief on September 27, 2026. Each wrote two chapters.
12 minEnglish
Does Your Nonfiction Book Need an Index, or Will the Contents Do?
Does your nonfiction book need an index? Learn when a table of contents is enough, how book indexes work, what indexing costs, and Kindle rules.
8 minEnglish
Can You Make a KDP Cover in Canva? Yes, With the Right Export Settings
We built a 6 x 9 paperback cover in a free Canva account, exported it two ways, measured both files, and ran both through our free KDP cover validator.
15 minEnglish
Should Your Ebook Go Wide With Draft2Digital or Stay on KDP?
We uploaded a finished business book to Draft2Digital and wrote down what every store, library, and print option would pay.
11 minEnglish
How Many Pages Is 50,000 Words? It Depends on Three Settings
50,000 words does not equal one fixed number of book pages. The final page count depends mainly on three settings: trim size, font size, and line spacing.
9 minEnglish
Reedsy Studio Is Free. The Question Is What You Give Up
We imported a nonfiction chapter into Reedsy Studio on September 28, 2026, exported it to print PDF and EPUB, and counted what survived.
11 minEnglish
Which Self-Publishing Platform Should Your Book Go On First?
Seven storefronts, one table, one verdict by goal. Royalties, fees, and ISBN rules checked on each platform's own site on September 28, 2026.
11 minEnglish
ProWritingAid or Grammarly for a Whole Book Manuscript?
We ran one 459-word business-book passage through both free checkers, then checked each company's limits and prices for a 60,000-word nonfiction manuscript.
11 minEnglish
Which Book Promotion Services Are Worth Paying For?
What book promotion services cost, which ones work for nonfiction and business books, how to get reviews, and where a business author should spend instead.
8 minEnglish
Amazon Author Central: Set Up Your Author Page Right
Amazon Author Central doesn't exist until you claim it, and your author name locks once a book goes live. Claiming, editorial reviews, and marketplaces.
8 minEnglish
Is Publisher Rocket Worth It for a Nonfiction Book?
What Publisher Rocket does and costs, how to find KDP keywords and categories for free, and what a real test on a nonfiction title showed.
13 minEnglish
Can Kindle Read EPUB? What Actually Happens When You Send One
Can Kindle read EPUB? It depends on what you're doing with it: reading a file on the device, sending one through Send to Kindle, or uploading to KDP.
7 minEnglish
What Ghostwriting Services Charge, and What You Get for It
What Scribe Media, Gotham Ghostwriters, Kevin Anderson & Associates, Reedsy, and Upwork charge as of September 2026, and when an AI book tool fits better.
12 minEnglish
The Copyright Page, Line by Line, With a Template You Can Copy
How to write a copyright page for a book: use this copyable template, see what each line means, and learn what Amazon KDP actually requires in 2026.
9 minEnglish
I Ran a Finished Business Book Through Hemingway Editor
What Hemingway Editor is, what it did to a real 5,364-word business book chapter, and where it fits in the process of creating a nonfiction book for KDP.
12 minEnglish
Does a Business Book Need a Prologue or an Epilogue?
Prologue vs epilogue for nonfiction: what each one does, when an introduction and conclusion work better, and what three real business books chose.
8 minEnglish
We Ran One Nonfiction Chapter Through 10 Book Writing Programs
Ten programs, one real chapter of notes, one question: which software gets a nonfiction book from raw material to a file Amazon accepts?
10 minEnglish
Book Editing Services: Types, Real Rates, and When You Need Which
Developmental, line, copy, and proofreading: what each pass fixes, what it costs in 2026 per EFA and Reedsy rates, and the manuscript problem to solve first.
7 minEnglish
Page Breaks That Survive Publishing: Word, Google Docs, and What KDP Does With Them
Page break vs section break, how to insert each in Word and Google Docs, why chapters start on the right, and what Kindle Create does with your breaks on import.
6 minEnglish
Curly Quotes vs Straight Quotes: Why Your Book Looks Self-Published
Why manuscripts end up with straight quotes, how to fix them in Word, Google Docs, and Scrivener, and the apostrophe traps autocorrect gets wrong.
5 minEnglish