Soft cover for my self published art book.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. It's Amazon's self-publishing arm

KDP stands for Kindle Direct Publishing, or something like that, but despite the name, they let you publish your book as a Kindle ebook, and/or a paperback, and/or a case-laminate hardcover.

I've been using them for years and am fairly happy with them. The books are sold on Amazon.com and other other Amazon sites worldwide. The physical quality of the print editions is very good.

KDP doesn't charge anything, but you have to prepare the book fully for publication or have someone do it for you. My wife and I prepare people's books for publication on KDP, but of course we charge for our services, so if you can't do it yourself, even though KDP doesn't charge you, you do end up paying if you use a service like ours.

There are other, somewhat similar options for self-publishing, such as Draft2Digital and IngramSpark.