Ken of Wyatt Technical Services LLC

Have you ever wanted to publish a book? Maybe science fiction, or a technical reference?  Kenneth Wyatt will provide an entertaining walk through his recent success in publishing using Amazon’s electronic tools.  He will contrast this with experience of working with “traditional” publishers.  Perhaps that set of short stories you always wanted to publish is now within reach!  

Using Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) tools, Ken will describe how he self-published three technical soft cover books in 12 months. The “EMC Troubleshooting Trilogy” has been popular in helping electronics designers overcome electromagnetic compatibility requirements worldwide.

He'll briefly describe how he coauthored his first book and two pocket guides through a conventional book publisher, The IEC (UK’s IEEE equivalent) and then compare the process with that of Amazon.

Assuming you have a manuscript, publishing through KDP is a simple step-by-step process, fully documented with links to supporting documents and training videos. Key elements are learning the proper formatting for a non-fiction book and assembling the content using publishing software, such as Adobe InDesign or Affinity Publisher.

Best of all, you get to retain all rights, get to set the price and reap most of the profits, while Amazon provides the printing on demand and sales process through their worldwide sales network.

1. Publishing through a classic book publisher (pros and cons) 

2. Publishing through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) (pros and cons) 

3. Using the KDP tools, step-by-step
4. Learning book formatting basics and using publishing software
5. Q&A

Biography:

Kenneth Wyatt is principal consultant of Wyatt Technical Services LLC and served three years as the senior technical editor for Interference Technology Magazine from 2016 through 2018. He has worked in the field of EMC engineering for over 30 years with a specialty in EMI troubleshooting and pre-compliance testing. 

He is a co-author of the popular EMC Pocket Guide and RFI Radio Frequency Interference Pocket Guide. He also co-authored the book with Patrick André, EMI Troubleshooting Cookbook for Product Designers, with forward by Henry Ott. He recently completed and released a three-volume “EMC Troubleshooting Trilogy”, which is now available through Amazon. 

He is widely published and authors a monthly column, for the Signal Integrity Journal, has written a monthly column, The EMC Blog, for EDN.com for many years and continues to write for Interference Technology Magazine. Ken is a senior life member of the IEEE and a longtime member of the EMC Society. To contact Ken or for more information on technical articles, training schedules and links, check out his web site: http://www.emc-seminars.com.