I put a novel on Kindle about a year ago. The process was simple enough, as I recall, and the instructions provided are excellent.
Regarding Kindle in general, it is unlikely anyone will find your work via normal searching and browsing (unless it is really specialized). I understand there are well over two million books self published there! Amazon might direct some traffic to your book in the first few days, just to get you excited and encourage you to take out a paid marketing plan. I did not do that. I found that, once things settled down, I was only making about ten bucks per month (with zero marketing). So, I removed the book from Kindle and gave it away free in various places, achieving tens of thousands of downloads in the last nine months. The warm glow, along with reader engagement, feedback, encouragement and praise, is worth more than a few bucks a month. I'll probably stick with this for my next novel and then make a return to Kindle with an established readership. Kindle is actually a decent platform for hosting a paid work, as long as you understand what it is and what it isn't. Brandon Sanderson covers self publishing in one of his lectures (see Youtube) and makes the point that the $2 typically made from each download is not far off what an author gets from a traditional book sale.
