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6 Reasons why KDP is Better than Payhip for Authors

Are you struggling in deciding between KDP and Payhip for your book selling? The short answer for you is KDP. This article will tell you why KDP is more appropriate for a writer, ebook writers, than Payhip. Well, another reader may be asking "what is your position to say so?" No problem. I have experiences in using both for a long period so I have a good position to inform you about this. Defining KDP and Payhip KDP KDP, as you may have known, stands for Kindle Direct Publishing. It is the Amazon e-book self-publishing platform that was launched in November 2007. It helps independent publishers to publish and sell their e-books and paperbacks to the world. KDP does not publish and selll all submitted books, by the way. The submissions will be reviewed for at least 24-72 hours before they are decided whether to publish or not. All books published and sold with KDP are charged from $0.09 to $200.00, depends on the length, size, and type of the book. To put it ano...

What is an Outline and Why it is Important for Writing?

Outline is a framework that becomes a reference in building an article. Outline helps a writer in organizing his ideas. Without an outline, a piece of writing flows without a good focus and has the potential to fail to achieve its writing goals. This article discusses what an outline is, why an outline is important for writing, and the concrete steps for creating and developing an outline. What is an Outline? If you are a student, you may have been assigned to write an essay or article. At first, you might start by choosing a topic, or looking for topic ideas on the internet. After you find a topic in your head, suddenly your mind feels empty, full of confusion, and has no direction to go. Your eyes stare at a blank paper (or laptop screen) and ask yourself, "Where should I start my essay?" This condition is experienced not only by a student or a novice writer. Many professional writers also experience this kind of confusion, clumsiness, and lack of direction. The main reas...

Create Daily Random Quote in Blogger using JavaScript

These days, many Bloggers want to display random quotes on their blogs. That you came across this article proves that you are one of them. If you really want to display random daily quotes on your blog, then with a few lines of JavaScript, you can display random daily quotes on your blog. First of all, let's first understand the logic of daily random quotes with JavaScript. After that, then we start coding it. The JavaScript Logic for Random Daily Quotes Daily random quotes are a number of quotes that will appear each day. Every day, people will read a different quote. For example, today they read a quote from Noam Chomsky, tomorrow they might read a quote from Jeremy Harmer. For that, we must of course save a number of quotes and will display one quote per day. So that the quote that appears is a different quote every day, we need a reference and the best reference, in my opinion, is the date. In a month, no date is the same. Assuming that a month consists of a maximum of 31 d...

Google Scholar Meta Tags: How to get your Blog Indexed in Google Scholar

If you are looking for a way to get your blog indexed in Google Scholar, then you are on the right page. Indeed, it is not usually a blog (especially those with the Blogger or BlogSpot platform) indexed by Google Scholar. Usually, Google Scholar only indexes scientific journal articles. But, what if your blog contains scientific articles? Wouldn't it be great if your blog was also indexed in Google Scholar? This short article will give you a guide on indexing Blogs on Google Scholar. I uncovered this method when I developed a scientific journal indexing site. I also realized that Google Scholar also has special meta tags that make a web page indexable by it. Well, on this occasion, I will not only share what meta tags are used by Google Scholar, but also how to add Google Scholar meta tags to Blogger. What is Google Scholar? According to Wikipedia, "Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across ...