So the amount of DESIGNS I actually had live wasn’t so much. I would have a single design, on multiple products, across three countries. Now, there are so many more products on Merch, you can upload one single design on to multiple products. I stopped making an effort with Merch by Amazon because I had reached my tier limit of 500 and was still only making a small amount of sales each month.īut, to be honest, I’d been lazy with it. While people give up and move on to the next thing, there are STILL people continuing on and still making money. Too many people decide to not bother anymore because they think things are too saturated. Since I very first stepped into the world of online business in 2015, everyone constantly talks about things being saturated.Īffiliate marketing.… saturated. This is becoming a much slower process right now, with the review delay on low-content books. You need to keep creating good books, keep researching and come up with the next big seller. Ultimately, the whole thing does feel quit tenuous and that’s why you can’t just sit around and take a rest when things are going well. However, there are also tonnes of copycat books that have recently been published and at least one that was an identical copy of my own. Thankfully, that book is in an evergreen niche – so, it can potentially sell all year around. While this is brilliant and I’m very happy about it – over $1,100 come from just two books, in the same niche. Last month is my best month on KDP so far, with over $1700. Without a doubt, there has been a huge upsurge of low-content books flooding KDP – but most of them that I’ve seen, are bad quality books. I only started to dip into KDP in 2019 and not seriously until October 2019.
They haven’t said why, (yet) aside to say that there are some technical issues they’re working on.īehind the scenes though, people are wondering whether all these issues are due to people spamming the system with books and them putting somewhat of a halt on things, until they can figure out how to manage it. Amazon did take up to 72 hours to review and publish a book.īut recently this has increased to over a week or more for low-content books. Now there is a review delay for low content books. This has led to some people still missing out on sales & sales not being tracked. There was a while… still ongoing actually… where there was a reporting delay. However, Amazon has been having some issues recently. In the case of no content books – creating the entire book and publishing it could all take less than half an hour. Low & no content publishing involves publishing books such as – simple lined notebooks, journals, guided journals and planners, colouring books, activity books and so on! Work that you put in once, (such as creating one book) can pay you multiple times over.įor the sake of this post, I will be talking about low-content publishing in particular. The whole idea behind it is brilliant – because, like Merch By Amazon, it does give people the opportunity to create passive income over time. You will earn a commission after Amazon takes their cut. This is a print on demand platform when it comes to paperbacks – which means that Amazon will print and ship your created books to customers.
Say you are only looking for KDP categories related to nonfiction adventure.Kindle Direct Publishing – or KDP – is a platform on Amazon where you can upload your own paperback and ebooks on to the Amazon platform to sell. The best feature of KDP Category browser, is that you can use special syntax to refine your results. I will not dwell too much on it, but it’s incredibly fast and gives very good results! Do not hesitate to shoot me an email to talk about the math behind it ? The similarity algorithm is based on a well-known method named the cosine similarity algorithm.
So, the tool KDP category browser will instead return results like “ juvenile > fiction > general” and “ juvenile > fiction > biographical > general“, with respectively 57% and 50% similarity match. There is no KDP category named “ Books -> Teens -> Historical Fiction -> Biographical” for instance. You also get a similarity score next to each KDP browsing category.Īs you probably already know, Kindle categories and Book categories do not perfectly match KDP browse categories.