How to self-publish a book on Amazon (and keep most of the money)

Publishing a book on Amazon is free, and you can keep up to 70% of the price as royalty. The catch is not the publishing — it is writing the book, making it look professional, and getting it found. Here is the honest path, and how to do it without giving your profits away.

How the money actually works

• Amazon KDP is free to publish — no upfront cost for an e-book or paperback (print is print-on-demand, so you never hold inventory).
• Royalties: 70% on e-books priced $2.99–$9.99, otherwise 35%; paperbacks pay 60% minus the print cost. You keep it — it is your account.
• Avoid vanity presses that charge thousands and then take a cut of your sales forever. You do not need them to be on Amazon.

The real steps

• Write the manuscript — the biggest job, and where most people stall.
• Format it for Kindle and print (margins, chapters, table of contents).
• A cover that sells — a weak cover kills a good book.
• Title, description, keywords and categories — this is how readers find it. Most first-time authors get this wrong.
• Upload to KDP under your own account, set your price, publish. Live in 24–72 hours.

How Luxucleen helps — and you keep 88%

We build your book with AI — from your idea to a finished, formatted manuscript, a cover, and a ready-to-paste title, description and keywords. Then you publish it on Amazon under your own name and your own KDP account, so the royalties are yours: you keep 88%, we keep 12%. We do the hard part; Amazon pays you directly.