Quote:
Originally Posted by odamizu
Do all publishers upload to Kindle Direct Publishing platform to distribute books to Amazon? or is it primarily independent self-published individual authors?
And if KDP isn't used by everyone, what is the alternative method/platform that is used instead?
|
Everybody uses KDP besides some larger publishers. If they have a deal with Amazon, they're able to access FTP uploads (directly uploading the files to Amazon's servers).
FTP allows them to upload ebooks with audio/video + do more complicated things (magazine subscriptions, Kindle in Motion, ONIX, etc.).
Hitch has also mentioned this many times over the years. For example:
2014:
"embed video in Kindle/mobi?"
2019:
"(sigh), Kindle/KPF format Blues..." (even see
my Post #82).