First, I publish LC books on Amazon and it's not as easy as you're making it sound. It takes a lot of hard work and long hours if you want to bring something of quality to the KDP LC book marketplace instead of the generic garbage that people pump out with Book Bolt. This work includes learning about basic elements of graphic design, so you can create book covers that stand out in the marketplace. Second, the first task in deciding what kind of book you want to publish is to do research to find out if your idea is viable. This includes doing a lot of keyword research. I believe this is the kind of thing you refer to as validating an idea before going ahead with creating a product. You even have a course on how to do this, but you don't appear to think it's really that important to do. Third, the royalty Amazon pays is not 60% of the difference between your list price and the printing cost. It's 60% of the list price minus the printing cost. 60% of the $7.85 remainder in your example is $4.71, not $3.85. You obviously didn't do the math before you made this video. Fourth, the money does not start instantly rolling in to the tune of thousands of dollars a month as soon as you start publishing books. I had a lot of respect for you until now, because I always thought you were the real deal. No more. You're just another UA-cam charlatan leading people down the garden path with promises of making easy money for doing little work, so you can make commission as an affiliate for a lousy product. Unsubbing from your channel and your mailing list. Maureen
I agree to with everything you said especially what and how she is representing everything. She is distorting everything to just get people to follow her strategy and she makes out every single time they do. She suffers nothing at all. And has no obligation to anyone what so ever and not held accountable either. This reminds me so much of multi level marketing scheme AMWAY. I know everybody has heard of them. I have followed her a long time too like years. I did feel at some points she was full of shit but other times I was intrigued because of her income she makes. But now I even question that! I am done with you Gillian if that is your name! I am unsubscribing and jettisoning all I ever bought from you and ready about you!!! You can't do this to people it will not bode well for you. Catch on people ok. Thanks montagnu for putting your opinion on here I really appreciate it.
I completely agree. I publish LC and focus on mainly medium content books with lots of research before I even start writing. BookBolt is helpful in my opinion for making covers, research, and making puzzles. Helium 10 is too expensive for me and BookBolt’s research tools are much more affordable. I’m surprised that Gillian sounds so ignorant about using KDP since isn’t that how she published her organization book?
I feel like these comments are much closer to the truth. So are there resources that you ladies DO recommend, to learn the truth about what it takes to publish low/medium content books? I am still interested, but know that it takes more work than this presented. Where is a good place to start?
@@ruthnelson4513 Check our Paul Marles on UA-cam. He walks through the entire process from research to book creation, covers, listing descriptions, and even advertising on Amazon. He sells on KDP full time and has a wealth of free information.
it's a great idea which I started doing myself a year and a half ago. You have to enjoy creating books as I do. There is so much competition for these now though, I only manage to sell a few books per month with just over 100 books listed and running Amazon ads to them so I'm not making profit yet. It's certainly not easy money. Higher content books can make more money.
I started doing this at the beginning of the pandemic because of these types of videos and i did it for almost a year before i realized the real money is in the video views. KDP is soooo over saturated as a result of these videos too. Just things to consider. Good luck to all. I hope it works out better for you than it did for me.
Thank you for exposing the process so throughly! As a teacher on a limited income I am going to try this and also encourage my students to give it a go! ❤
I just wanted to say how much I appreciate you taking the time to go through and explain and show how do do this so we can research it ourselves and not just offering an expensive class or ongoing training. So great thank you 😊
Hi Gillian. I've been on disability most of my life. Income has always been a struggle. Including how to feel financially of worth, and explore my creativity in any way really. This low-content approach seems custom-made for someone like myself. I appreciate you sharing it.
Love this idea! As I was watching (during work) I started coming up with different ideas, now I have to sit down calmly write them down, do research and get started. Thank you for taking the time to explain all of this and show us this so thoroughly
This was a great side hustle a few years ago. Amazon is actually blocking new low content books... their catalog is stuffed to the gills so they won't accept new projects in certain categories.
I've heard that, but also follow several other channels who do this and they are doing quite well in sales. Quarter 4 seems to be a great time to get those holiday shoppers.
@@JennyHansenLane That's not what I'm hearing from my contact at Amazon (I work for them) and my book coaching clients who are having their low content books rejected by KDP for not being unique enough.
@@JennyHansenLane Probably because they are nearly identical to dozens of other books. How are your sales? Getting the books past Amazon filters is one step then you have to focus on sales.
I am SO happy I found your channel Gillian. I am going to follow through with this and I can totally see my 2 daughters doing this as well. I was surprised how easily you taught us how to do this. True to say you have a wonderful gift of teaching. Thanks so much.
THANK YOU! Just published my first book today! I designed the cover myself, and you walked me through the whole process of getting it uploaded. Awesome!
@@inferidii it’s not. I made a bunch of books. And one of them got hit for copywrite. No idea why. And my KDP account was cancelled and there was no way to fight it or get an idea of what caused it. Yeeted.
Thanks, Gillian - this is great. I use blank, lined, or graph paper journals for three or four distinct uses, and find myself customizing them for each. If only for my own use, this will come in extremely handy, but putting them up for sale for some passive income is even better!
Thank you for explaining this process in a easily understandable way. It is the first one of these "side hustles" that actually seems attainable. Definitely going to give this one a go! I've been looking for a something like this for a while. Thanks Gillian!
Wow you EXPLAINED THE WHOLE THING! AMAZING! Most people will tease and then ask for 50 bucks to explain this all in detail. You truly rock..... thank YOU!
Absolutely love this! I'd been trying to find very niche notebooks for a long time, but until I watched this I hadn't considered simply making and selling them. There wasn't a template for them, so setting up the first one took some time and design. But then I could use that as my own template and make variations quickly and easily. Three sheet-and-TAB music journals added in a few hours! Thank you thank you for this. I feel more empowered than I have in years.
Aside from the side-hustle aspect, this would be a great way to create unique gifts for family. Years ago I created a "book" of my mom's cookie recipes and just did it on card stock with a spiral comb binding. She loved it and she still uses it but it's getting rather worn now. But this would be even better. You could also do photo books yourself from trips or for birthdays/anniverseries. I'm a teacher (but now working in a position outside the classroom) but I would have loved to create class books or memory albums using this.
Thank you for describing the process so clearly. My wife sells used books on Amazon and I am looking for a niche to help expand that. The key I think is content that people are interested in, like the recipe book you created.
Thank you for this tutorial! Because of you I was able to create my very 1st journal yesterday. I am so excited. Im my mothers caregiver, she has cancer and I have moved her in with me and my family to take care of her. I needed extra income, leaving her to go to a regular job is not an option. I came ascross your video a few days ago and got excited. I prayed for a challenge and saw this video. Watched it a few times and went for it. Thought Id never be able to do something like this. The way you explained everything and showed step by step just how simple this process is convinced me that I should give it a try. Thank you for making this process easy to understand. I can stay home now and make a passive income to help make things better for us financially.
This is wonderful I definitely want to give this a try I have always wanted to create planners and journals and this process seems so easy. Thank you for this!
With everything that is happening, most of us are a paycheck away from being homeless, hope we are all prepared, get yourself an alternate source of income
The most important thing that should be on everyone mind currently should be to invest in different sources of income that doesn't depend on the government. Especially with the current economic crisis around the word. This is still a good time to invest in various stocks gold, silver and digital currencies.
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I started already 10 months ago and uploaded about 50 notebooks. I use Bookbolt which is great. But Amazon Kdp low content market has been saturated already for many years. I don't have any sales. Maybe ads can help. I still make them because I enjoy doing it and I use them myself. Maybe 10 years ago this video could have been relevant but now you need to really focus on very particular niches or on medium content books like puzzle books. I love your channel but I don't get you only recently came up with this video. It's totally outdated. Sorry
@@helloworld441 Medium content are books that are more than plain lined, dot grid, graphing paper, sketch paper or otherwise blank notebooks and journals. It includes guided journals, log books, planners, workbooks, and pretty much any book with minimal text where the user fills out the bulk of the content themselves. It’s a term used by KDP authors, but not officially by Amazon. Think of it as authors say low content to refer to books where the customer is buying it mainly because of the cover image and medium content to refer to books where the customer might click because of the cover and title but buys mainly for the content. Like if you had a meeting notes journal with the same repeating template on each page, then a customer might click on your book because of the cover image and title keywords but they won’t buy if they don’t like what you describe about the book. For example, I have seen reviews saying that the book was supposed to have a template but was just plain lined paper with no template. Low content is very competitive and it can be hard to stand out in search results. Amazon defines low content as any book that has repetitive pages like notebooks and guided journals or where the user fills out the bulk of content. Puzzle books, coloring books, and activity books are not considered low content. For example a number tracing book is not considered low content because it’s more activity book. Low content books are not eligible for a free ISBN through Amazon or expanded distribution (ordering in bulk by bookstores, libraries, etc.). Low content also doesn’t include the look inside feature because there is no ISBN. You can use A Plus content to add images to your listing though.
Thank you for your honesty. Wondering if many you tubers just want to put out content to provide value but not give away the real info b/c they want to charge for the current info.
I've been wanting to do this self publishing for a while, but didn't have a clear understanding of how the process worked. Thank you for helping make it clear to me. I've got a great jumping off point now and plan to run with this information!
This was such an informative video. Your style is very easy to follow and understand. You made the topic of building your own low-content book less overwhelming. I'm definitely checking out more of your channel.
Great video! I’m watching it for the second time and taking notes while going through the steps. Thank you sooo much! Usually the passive income thing doesn’t excite me, but this is something that will actually tie in with my art! Very excited so thank you!
Awesome content. Thank you for being so thorough. I am writing my own book now and wanted to get into journals/devotional books . This was so much help!
Super video on this topic, I've seen a couple a while ago and it put me off, now reconsidering. I am very interested in the part 2 ranking on Amazon video as I know from previous experience in the POD apparel & homewares Etsy space that ranking is everything! Thanks again 🌸
Thank You for creating this tutorial. I lost my job awhile ago and have been looking for a way to make income. I've been watching a lot of youtube videos on the subject of kdp and low content books, but the others didn't really explain how it really worked they all wanted money to explain it all which I don't have a lot of right now. I did however discover that once you create an account to sell on amazon you must give them something called a "tax id" number they also wanted my business license and business name which I currently don't have set up yet, so while I did learn more from your video then the others I still need a little more info before I take on trying to publish a book. Again Thanks for Sharing.
Thank you for the detailed walkthrough. I have been looking for a side hustle that fits my life, and while I'm not expecting or even looking for "Quit my job money" I am looking to pay off some debt and set myself up better for the future while keeping my primary career. I appreciate you showcasing this opportunity and would be interested in learning more.
Thanks for sharing this video. I have been struggling with getting started on KDP. I have watched many videos on youtube about how to do this and yours seemed to be the easiest to follow. Today after watching your video, I finally took the plunge and published my first book, a journal. Hoping that it gets accepted.
Thank You, Gillian! Love it!! I was previously a bit nervous about how this process worked, but I am so thankful for all the info here! I do have several ideas for niche notebooks and will be starting this week!
uhhh, she very clearly told us what you get 60% of the profit after the printing cost is deducted, and she also told us where to look on the amazon site to see it, and she prefaced the entire video by saying that most people make multiple books?
I really appreciate you taking the time to outlined about low content book , I always thought that it was hard but infact it's pretty easy. I am interesting in creating my low content book, and by watching you going thru the steps ,I know I can do this.
Great video! I've watched several tutorials and yours is by far the best explanation I have seen! I was looking for something like myself. Yes, I'd like to see more content like this for sure.
I’m going to publish my first book today, just from watching this video. I love your clarity and detailed description of each part of this process! I would definitely like to see more videos about this niche!!!
I have been watching your videos for a week now and I am getting ready to retire from the work for wages grind. This is going to be an exciting adventure in my next chapter of life. I have already signed up with book bolt and am excited about the possibilities of creating multiple streams of passive income. Its true that in order to learn anything new you need to surround yourself with people who are on the same journey. So I intend to study, ask a lot of questions of my peers, have patience and put in the work to create a quality product. That being said I am going to follow your road map for success and obviously you are one of the people who know how to make this work. Thank you for all the great videos so far and I look forward to learning a great deal in the coming months. 👍✍🙏
This was not only fantastically simple, but super inspiring! I'm definitely going to start doing this! Thank you for explaining this process so clearly.
Love you and love your videos. This is one of the best videos for my situation, and I've already come up with a couple dozen book titles / themes to do this with in certain niches. I'm having to pause the video to write my ideas down so I don't forget them (getting old and CRS syndrome-lol). Love love love this video and will be starting to work on it later today. THANK YOU
Also, Amazon has started actively suppressing new publications. It understandably wants to push older books that have a significant amount of reviews. Even if you run ads it doesn't always help. Just a way for Amazon to siphon money from you. You're a bit late to the game
Thank you so much, I was actually trying to put a specific journal together and got to a point and got stuck. I wanted it like the size you showed but allowing people to to refill. Can refillable journals be created with like a small 3 ring. I would love more info. Great step by step. Can't wait to try.
Thank you so much Gillian this is an amazing walk through I completed my first book while with your help. Thank you for being a natural teacher and helping people learn a way out. This is very useful information if you use it properly hope to learn more from you along my journey in life thank you again so much ❤️
After seeing your video on creating passive income on Amazon it seems straight forward, and worth giving it a try. I am a disabled individual with limited mobility, and this seems like a perfect opportunity for me. I am also very interested in increasing the ranking of a low content book as well. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Thank you so much Gillian for your kindness and your lovely teaching effort. I am most probably going to give this a try, and will definitely keep you updated if I go ahead. 🙏❤️☺️
This vid was added 2 h ago but I think that content of it is already outdated and inaccurate for last weeks. Amazon makes a lot of cleaning on the platformand they try to discourage people to create more and more trashy low content. They are now into medium and high content. They block also a lot of accounts where they suppose customers can be perplexed or unhappy with the products.
You are inspiring! I used to work in advertising many years ago, so this is right up my alley. Thank you so much for being so generous with your information. This will be a perfect side hustle for me as a stay-at-home mom who wants to contribute to our household income. I'll watch more of your videos and make this work! Thank you : ) ~ Lisa
Hi Lisa, How is it going for you? Have your tried it? :) Is it worth it? I guess you need to be a self-employed or have a business ITR number or something?! Thanks Vivi
Thank you, yes I am going to give it a try! I also love her make up! It does not hide her natural beauty, and so nice to see normal eyebrows and lashes.
I have been making books for almost a year on KDP and have spent about a grand on it and sold $250 worth of books, and that added up to about $10 profit, so I'm down about $990. The market is completely saturated, I'm not giving up yet, however these tutorials make it sound much easier than it actually is to make money, and you have to pay for ads or you will sell nothing
This approach could also apply to holiday ideas (gift information for family and friends for instance). Journals for the holiday for the recipient - the birthday record, thoughts on Mother's Day, observations on the Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc. The objective being to see how the events produce new insights. The possibilities are endless.
Hey Gillian, I've started selling journals through Amazon KDP last year. I appreciate the video and believe the videos on ranking and marketing would also be of value.
I would like to publish a book. I really appreciate you being candid and breaking it all down for people like me who are not very savvy technically. Also giving the real amount to be made and profit instead of using people and their checks of how much money they make. I'm a DIY person trying and failing then again and succeeding, so I'm interested.Thank you for your helpful, honest information!!
Hello Gillian, I followed the steps and published a journal/lyric notebook today! Thank you so much for your insight and for making it understandable and less daunting... Can't wait to see what happens now!
How to make money online: teach people some way to make money online that doesn't really work and promote a product or service to refer them to. Collect affiliate commissions from said product or service. Repeat.
Exactly this. I started doing this on Amazon earlier this year and even though I proofed the items created and put a lot of thought into them, they did not come out well and they certainly didn't sell much. The facts are that while it seems like you possibly could make good money doing this, the reality is that it's oversaturated and very few are actually making anything, let alone $1000+ a month on this venture.
Don’t be so negative. This is a blueprint to start a business for next to nothing. What you do with it is your decision! Besides, if you have nothing nice to say, you can just keep quiet. It’s free to be nice.
I just discovered your channel and videos today, and have now spent the past two hours watching and absorbing all the information. Thank you for the detailed explanations in each of your videos. As a SAHM I have been searching for an online opportunity that was not a scam, held my interest, is scalable, and did not require a specific time or financial commitment. Your channel has me excited to get back to work! Creating low-content books is right up my alley and I am jazzed to get started!
I have a couple of questions about BookBolt. First, are section dividers available? Like if I want the first 50 pages to be a calorie tracker and the next 50 an exercise tracker. Are there tabs or bookmarks or anything to keep the sections apart, for convenience? Second, is bound softcover the only option? Can you have hardcover? Can you have pages you can insert or remove? For instance, if you run out of pages in the exercise section but still have plenty of room in the calorie tracker. If that happens, you're either wasting paper or carrying two journals.
I've had an idea for a low comment journal. I had no idea where to start. This video was an eye opener. Thank you so much! I'd love a video about the ranking prices.
Greetings Gillian - All I can say is wow! I loved this video. Yes, I'm going to do it and I'll keep you in the loop about success. I'm retired, so this is a perfect part time opportunity. I believe that the more you put into it, the more you will get out of it. It's not a guarantee and thanks for saying that. You are honest and tell the facts. Who could ask for more? I gave it a thumbs up and I also subscribe to your channel.
There is a 5-Year Journal format with a page for each day of the year, including Leap Year February 29th. Each year is listed on it's day's page. Entries are limited to one sentence for each year. The pages are two-sided so there would be 183 pages. The first page or two could be a list of cues of what kind of observations could be made and famous quotes about the march of time. Whether KDP can print that many pages I do not know.
Hi Gillian! I just made my first low content book, I was signing up for the KDP amazon account and after putting in all my info, it allowed me to choose Canada but when I got down to the specifics it's looking like it won't let me enter in my postal code! can you recommend another option here in canada? I found an 'amazon become a seller' but it's charging $29/m, wondering if this is the canadian version? any help is appreciated :)
I want something where I can make money being creative, but not have to deal with and ship inventory myself. So If I can have someone else print and ship that is GOLD for me! I want to put my own art on the journals.
Watched the video and immediately created my book. Had to watch the video twice to make sure I got all the steps, but your explanations were very thorough. I would definitely like to see the ranking part. I didn't know I would have to do something to rank my book. Look forward to that video. Maybe it's already out there, as when I watched this video it was already two months old. I'll have to look. Thanks again.
Great video! Thorough and to the point at each stage. I hope to get started with this, but just have a few quick questions: 1 - Would you recommend making 10-20 low content books and pricing them all very low until they gain traction? Or just a few and once traction is gained create more with higher price points? 2- Is Amazon the recommended marketplace to do this or could I also publish low content to other large marketplaces? Thanks again for the great tutorial! Cheers!
I made 3 books yesterday and plan to make more today. I can't wait to see how they do. There is a learning curve but I got the hang of it pretty quick. I plan to make medium content books and add writing prompts, quotes, and poems. So I can add an ISBN. So much room for growth and no cost up front. It is a great opportunity!! Thank you!!
I've tried doing exactly what she is saying. Haven't sold a single book on Amazon. I tried soduko, coloring books, journals....not one sale. Oh and I lost money because you have to pay a monthly fee to bookbolt AND set up a seller account on Amazon which costs money too.
Thank you for this tutorial, I appreciate it. Please include the process of including an account for receiving the payment from customers or Amazon. I watched till the end but I need to rewatch and actually try it out and get it up and running. Anything else we need to know as far as getting this started, please include the videos that accompany it.
my thoughts exactly! This is the first time (out of many many videos watched) that I actually finished watching and thought to myself: YOU can do this! I am so ready to get started! Gillian you are amazing! maybe one day you'll be buying one of MY books!! lol
And unlike before, no content and low content books no longer have the "look inside" feature since they aren't given free ISPNs anymore. So, that's yet another strike against new publications
I am working on writing a book on small scale gardening for apartment dwellers, and love the idea of publishing an accompanying journal to go with it in which to record all kinds of details, such as seeds and soil used, planting times, and many other details of the individual's gardening experience to go with that book..thank you for showing how I can do that!
Hi Gillian, excellent video - one question though, are there any legal implications of using the stock photos for sale? I know they are free but do you know of any restrictions to using them?
Hey. I have been looking for something that I can do to earn a little cash. I am 74 and could really do with something to supplement my not very expansive pension. This is the first side hustle I have encountered that makes me believe I might actually be able to succeed with. Thanks for your in to me possibly being able to earn a much needed income. Derek, an Englishman living in France
Wow....what a clear way of a presentation!! I hv followed many KDP instructions, so far this is the best, Thanks Angel! Would definitely give it a try...All the very best..❤️
How refreshing to view information about a way to make income without having to pay to learn exactly how to do it! Loved the info you shared here, and have already written down several ideas. I would be very interested in learning more about to get the low content books ranked higher on Amazon - I'll be watching for that video 😄
I've tried this it doesn't work! I created several of these on Amazon and they just get lost in the thousands of other people's content. I've shared, created ads, etc and not one single sale. Amazon literally puts them so far down the list no one can find them. Unless you have a different strategy to get sales, I'd love to hear about it!
There's a reason advertising agencies exist, and you just ran into it. Creating a product can be very easy, as you've already found. Selling that product can be very, very hard. Think about how much Ford or Starbucks or any other large company spends on advertising each year. It's in the billions! They spend that money because nobody will buy a product if they don't even know it exists. I suspect what you need to do is find a very specific niche. Something narrow enough to not have a ton of competition. Instead of doing a "Recipe Journal", to use her example, do a "Vegan Recipe Journal." Or a "Diabetic Recipe Journal." Or, maybe, a "Diabetic Vegan Recipe Journal." You cut the number of people who might buy it, but you also cut down on the competition. Standing out is a lot easier in a small group. The idea is, instead of swimming in an ocean of low content books, try to become a big fish in a much smaller pond.
Yes please make a video on book ranking and launching - I have written 4 real books but have never done much re the promotion and would love your teachings - I just subscribed to your channel ❤
First, I publish LC books on Amazon and it's not as easy as you're making it sound. It takes a lot of hard work and long hours if you want to bring something of quality to the KDP LC book marketplace instead of the generic garbage that people pump out with Book Bolt. This work includes learning about basic elements of graphic design, so you can create book covers that stand out in the marketplace.
Second, the first task in deciding what kind of book you want to publish is to do research to find out if your idea is viable. This includes doing a lot of keyword research. I believe this is the kind of thing you refer to as validating an idea before going ahead with creating a product. You even have a course on how to do this, but you don't appear to think it's really that important to do.
Third, the royalty Amazon pays is not 60% of the difference between your list price and the printing cost. It's 60% of the list price minus the printing cost. 60% of the $7.85 remainder in your example is $4.71, not $3.85. You obviously didn't do the math before you made this video.
Fourth, the money does not start instantly rolling in to the tune of thousands of dollars a month as soon as you start publishing books.
I had a lot of respect for you until now, because I always thought you were the real deal. No more. You're just another UA-cam charlatan leading people down the garden path with promises of making easy money for doing little work, so you can make commission as an affiliate for a lousy product. Unsubbing from your channel and your mailing list.
Maureen
I agree to with everything you said especially what and how she is representing everything. She is distorting everything to just get people to follow her strategy and she makes out every single time they do. She suffers nothing at all. And has no obligation to anyone what so ever and not held accountable either. This reminds me so much of multi level marketing scheme AMWAY. I know everybody has heard of them. I have followed her a long time too like years. I did feel at some points she was full of shit but other times I was intrigued because of her income she makes. But now I even question that! I am done with you Gillian if that is your name! I am unsubscribing and jettisoning all I ever bought from you and ready about you!!! You can't do this to people it will not bode well for you. Catch on people ok. Thanks montagnu for putting your opinion on here I really appreciate it.
I completely agree. I publish LC and focus on mainly medium content books with lots of research before I even start writing. BookBolt is helpful in my opinion for making covers, research, and making puzzles. Helium 10 is too expensive for me and BookBolt’s research tools are much more affordable. I’m surprised that Gillian sounds so ignorant about using KDP since isn’t that how she published her organization book?
I feel like these comments are much closer to the truth. So are there resources that you ladies DO recommend, to learn the truth about what it takes to publish low/medium content books? I am still interested, but know that it takes more work than this presented. Where is a good place to start?
@@ruthnelson4513 Check our Paul Marles on UA-cam. He walks through the entire process from research to book creation, covers, listing descriptions, and even advertising on Amazon. He sells on KDP full time and has a wealth of free information.
it's a great idea which I started doing myself a year and a half ago. You have to enjoy creating books as I do. There is so much competition for these now though, I only manage to sell a few books per month with just over 100 books listed and running Amazon ads to them so I'm not making profit yet. It's certainly not easy money. Higher content books can make more money.
I started doing this at the beginning of the pandemic because of these types of videos and i did it for almost a year before i realized the real money is in the video views. KDP is soooo over saturated as a result of these videos too. Just things to consider. Good luck to all. I hope it works out better for you than it did for me.
Same!
Meaning there's not much money to be made in this idea, but there is for teaching this idea?
@@harijotkhalsa9496 Yes, exactly.
Finally the try from someone who tried this
Thank you for exposing the process so throughly! As a teacher on a limited income I am going to try this and also encourage my students to give it a go! ❤
I just wanted to say how much I appreciate you taking the time to go through and explain and show how do do this so we can research it ourselves and not just offering an expensive class or ongoing training. So great thank you 😊
That part
Hi Gillian. I've been on disability most of my life. Income has always been a struggle. Including how to feel financially of worth, and explore my creativity in any way really. This low-content approach seems custom-made for someone like myself. I appreciate you sharing it.
Love this idea! As I was watching (during work) I started coming up with different ideas, now I have to sit down calmly write them down, do research and get started. Thank you for taking the time to explain all of this and show us this so thoroughly
This was a great side hustle a few years ago. Amazon is actually blocking new low content books... their catalog is stuffed to the gills so they won't accept new projects in certain categories.
I've heard that, but also follow several other channels who do this and they are doing quite well in sales. Quarter 4 seems to be a great time to get those holiday shoppers.
This is not true. They just released a tab for low-content books only.
@@JennyHansenLane That's not what I'm hearing from my contact at Amazon (I work for them) and my book coaching clients who are having their low content books rejected by KDP for not being unique enough.
@@tltfaas that’s too bad. I’ve uploaded 408 books this year with no problem. I wonder what they are submitting that’s getting rejected.
@@JennyHansenLane Probably because they are nearly identical to dozens of other books. How are your sales? Getting the books past Amazon filters is one step then you have to focus on sales.
I am SO happy I found your channel Gillian. I am going to follow through with this and I can totally see my 2 daughters doing this as well. I was surprised how easily you taught us how to do this. True to say you have a wonderful gift of teaching. Thanks so much.
THANK YOU! Just published my first book today! I designed the cover myself, and you walked me through the whole process of getting it uploaded. Awesome!
Hello, have you sold any of your books!! Just curious 🤔.. I want to try it ..!!
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@@inferidii it’s not. I made a bunch of books. And one of them got hit for copywrite. No idea why. And my KDP account was cancelled and there was no way to fight it or get an idea of what caused it. Yeeted.
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So is this whole thing a scam.? Everyone says audible or an equivalent is the way to go.
Thanks, Gillian - this is great. I use blank, lined, or graph paper journals for three or four distinct uses, and find myself customizing them for each. If only for my own use, this will come in extremely handy, but putting them up for sale for some passive income is even better!
Thank you for explaining this process in a easily understandable way. It is the first one of these "side hustles" that actually seems attainable. Definitely going to give this one a go! I've been looking for a something like this for a while. Thanks Gillian!
Wow you EXPLAINED THE WHOLE THING! AMAZING! Most people will tease and then ask for 50 bucks to explain this all in detail. You truly rock..... thank YOU!
I'm going to try this as I am creative anyway and make and sell crafts too.
Absolutely love this! I'd been trying to find very niche notebooks for a long time, but until I watched this I hadn't considered simply making and selling them.
There wasn't a template for them, so setting up the first one took some time and design. But then I could use that as my own template and make variations quickly and easily. Three sheet-and-TAB music journals added in a few hours!
Thank you thank you for this. I feel more empowered than I have in years.
Aside from the side-hustle aspect, this would be a great way to create unique gifts for family. Years ago I created a "book" of my mom's cookie recipes and just did it on card stock with a spiral comb binding. She loved it and she still uses it but it's getting rather worn now. But this would be even better. You could also do photo books yourself from trips or for birthdays/anniverseries. I'm a teacher (but now working in a position outside the classroom) but I would have loved to create class books or memory albums using this.
You should publish the cookie book...
Excellent ideas for different types of books.
Thank you very much❤
Thank you for describing the process so clearly. My wife sells used books on Amazon and I am looking for a niche to help expand that. The key I think is content that people are interested in, like the recipe book you created.
Thank you for this tutorial! Because of you I was able to create my very 1st journal yesterday. I am so excited. Im my mothers caregiver, she has cancer and I have moved her in with me and my family to take care of her. I needed extra income, leaving her to go to a regular job is not an option. I came ascross your video a few days ago and got excited. I prayed for a challenge and saw this video. Watched it a few times and went for it. Thought Id never be able to do something like this. The way you explained everything and showed step by step just how simple this process is convinced me that I should give it a try. Thank you for making this process easy to understand. I can stay home now and make a passive income to help make things better for us financially.
This is wonderful I definitely want to give this a try I have always wanted to create planners and journals and this process seems so easy. Thank you for this!
I've wanted to create a journal / notebook for a while. Now that I see how easy it is, this is at the top of my "to do list".
My 11yr old daughter and I made a recipe journal and published it. Didn't take long and the process is guided wisely and eloquently by Gillian.
That's amazing, thank you for sharing!
What is the name of your book?
With everything that is happening, most of us are a paycheck away from being homeless, hope we are all prepared, get yourself an alternate source of income
The most important thing that should be on everyone mind currently should be to invest in different sources of income that doesn't depend on the government. Especially with the current economic crisis around the word. This is still a good time to invest in various stocks gold, silver and digital currencies.
You're right! If you are not conversant with the markets, I'd advise you to get some kind of advice or assistance from a financial/investing coach. I diversified my $450K portfolio across various market with the aid of an investment advisor and I've been able to generate a little bit above $1.2m in net profit across high dividend yield stocks, Etf and bonds this red season. For me, its themost ideal way to jump into the market these days
@@BeatrizGomes196 Hi, could you be kind enough to share the info
of the investment advisor guiding you?
@@Anneeklund319 Sure, My Financial advisor is Lisa Paula martins. A middle aged lady from Arizona who really knows her stuff.
Wow😊I know her and I have also been trading with her, she's such an amazing woman with good skills, keeps me happy all week knowing I earn 15thousand extra income trading with her.
I started already 10 months ago and uploaded about 50 notebooks. I use Bookbolt which is great. But Amazon Kdp low content market has been saturated already for many years. I don't have any sales. Maybe ads can help. I still make them because I enjoy doing it and I use them myself. Maybe 10 years ago this video could have been relevant but now you need to really focus on very particular niches or on medium content books like puzzle books. I love your channel but I don't get you only recently came up with this video. It's totally outdated. Sorry
Medium content is the way to go. I switched to medium content from notebooks and I’m seeing profits now.
@@peach_cobbler whats medium content?
@@helloworld441 Medium content are books that are more than plain lined, dot grid, graphing paper, sketch paper or otherwise blank notebooks and journals. It includes guided journals, log books, planners, workbooks, and pretty much any book with minimal text where the user fills out the bulk of the content themselves. It’s a term used by KDP authors, but not officially by Amazon. Think of it as authors say low content to refer to books where the customer is buying it mainly because of the cover image and medium content to refer to books where the customer might click because of the cover and title but buys mainly for the content. Like if you had a meeting notes journal with the same repeating template on each page, then a customer might click on your book because of the cover image and title keywords but they won’t buy if they don’t like what you describe about the book. For example, I have seen reviews saying that the book was supposed to have a template but was just plain lined paper with no template. Low content is very competitive and it can be hard to stand out in search results.
Amazon defines low content as any book that has repetitive pages like notebooks and guided journals or where the user fills out the bulk of content. Puzzle books, coloring books, and activity books are not considered low content. For example a number tracing book is not considered low content because it’s more activity book.
Low content books are not eligible for a free ISBN through Amazon or expanded distribution (ordering in bulk by bookstores, libraries, etc.). Low content also doesn’t include the look inside feature because there is no ISBN. You can use A Plus content to add images to your listing though.
Thank you for your honesty. Wondering if many you tubers just want to put out content to provide value but not give away the real info b/c they want to charge for the current info.
@@peach_cobbler can you do medium content process this same way as shown in this video? Thank you
I've been wanting to do this self publishing for a while, but didn't have a clear understanding of how the process worked. Thank you for helping make it clear to me. I've got a great jumping off point now and plan to run with this information!
This was such an informative video. Your style is very easy to follow and understand. You made the topic of building your own low-content book less overwhelming. I'm definitely checking out more of your channel.
Great video! I’m watching it for the second time and taking notes while going through the steps. Thank you sooo much! Usually the passive income thing doesn’t excite me, but this is something that will actually tie in with my art! Very excited so thank you!
Awesome content. Thank you for being so thorough. I am writing my own book now and wanted to get into journals/devotional books . This was so much help!
Super video on this topic, I've seen a couple a while ago and it put me off, now reconsidering. I am very interested in the part 2 ranking on Amazon video as I know from previous experience in the POD apparel & homewares Etsy space that ranking is everything! Thanks again 🌸
Thank You for creating this tutorial. I lost my job awhile ago and have been looking for a way to make income. I've been watching a lot of youtube videos on the subject of kdp and low content books, but the others didn't really explain how it really worked they all wanted money to explain it all which I don't have a lot of right now. I did however discover that once you create an account to sell on amazon you must give them something called a "tax id" number they also wanted my business license and business name which I currently don't have set up yet, so while I did learn more from your video then the others I still need a little more info before I take on trying to publish a book. Again Thanks for Sharing.
You are always so thorough with your explanations. Thank you for taking the time to show the process step by step and being genuine! Happy New Year!!!
Thanks Gillian, I liked the clarity and pace of your video. I've had an idea for a long time that I'd like to try. Really appreciate your tutorial.
Thank you for the detailed walkthrough. I have been looking for a side hustle that fits my life, and while I'm not expecting or even looking for "Quit my job money" I am looking to pay off some debt and set myself up better for the future while keeping my primary career. I appreciate you showcasing this opportunity and would be interested in learning more.
I am doing the same @Kallun Sheppard so thank you Gillian for the information. Im going to give this a go as well.
Thanks for sharing this video. I have been struggling with getting started on KDP. I have watched many videos on youtube about how to do this and yours seemed to be the easiest to follow. Today after watching your video, I finally took the plunge and published my first book, a journal. Hoping that it gets accepted.
Congrats! KDP has been so fun for me as well!
Just finished my project! Thank you so much for taking the time to show us how to do this.
Thank You, Gillian! Love it!! I was previously a bit nervous about how this process worked, but I am so thankful for all the info here! I do have several ideas for niche notebooks and will be starting this week!
This is an old, super competitive field. It is easy to make the books, but to sell them is another story.
She isn't telling you that for a book that is priced around 6.99 you only get 1.90
I think she spelled it out clearly 😎
uhhh, she very clearly told us what you get 60% of the profit after the printing cost is deducted, and she also told us where to look on the amazon site to see it, and she prefaced the entire video by saying that most people make multiple books?
She did say sell cheap to begin with. She showed example making about 29 cents a sale?
I really appreciate you taking the time to outlined about low content book , I always thought that it was hard but infact it's pretty easy. I am interesting in creating my low content book, and by watching you going thru the steps ,I know I can do this.
Great video! I've watched several tutorials and yours is by far the best explanation I have seen! I was looking for something like myself. Yes, I'd like to see more content like this for sure.
I’m going to publish my first book today, just from watching this video. I love your clarity and detailed description of each part of this process! I would definitely like to see more videos about this niche!!!
How did it go??
@@makaylamoody4066 hello makayla, how would you like to joining my free amazon kdp classes?
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I have been watching your videos for a week now and I am getting ready to retire from the work for wages grind. This is going to be an exciting adventure in my next chapter of life. I have already signed up with book bolt and am excited about the possibilities of creating multiple streams of passive income. Its true that in order to learn anything new you need to surround yourself with people who are on the same journey. So I intend to study, ask a lot of questions of my peers, have patience and put in the work to create a quality product. That being said I am going to follow your road map for success and obviously you are one of the people who know how to make this work. Thank you for all the great videos so far and I look forward to learning a great deal in the coming months. 👍✍🙏
This was not only fantastically simple, but super inspiring! I'm definitely going to start doing this! Thank you for explaining this process so clearly.
Love you and love your videos. This is one of the best videos for my situation, and I've already come up with a couple dozen book titles / themes to do this with in certain niches. I'm having to pause the video to write my ideas down so I don't forget them (getting old and CRS syndrome-lol). Love love love this video and will be starting to work on it later today. THANK YOU
Also, Amazon has started actively suppressing new publications. It understandably wants to push older books that have a significant amount of reviews. Even if you run ads it doesn't always help. Just a way for Amazon to siphon money from you. You're a bit late to the game
Thank you for the tutorial! I'm having chronic health issues and may need to retire from my physically demanding job. Maybe there's hope.
Absolutely love how detailed this video was, I am definitely giving this a try! About to watch the rest of your videos! lol
Thank you so much, I was actually trying to put a specific journal together and got to a point and got stuck. I wanted it like the size you showed but allowing people to to refill. Can refillable journals be created with like a small 3 ring. I would love more info. Great step by step. Can't wait to try.
Thank you so much Gillian this is an amazing walk through I completed my first book while with your help. Thank you for being a natural teacher and helping people learn a way out. This is very useful information if you use it properly hope to learn more from you along my journey in life thank you again so much ❤️
Y'all this is an affiliate marketing video for GP's profit. Something to keep in mind.
I'm intrigued by how easy the process is. Yes I would like to learn more. I just subscribed. Thank you BTW.
After seeing your video on creating passive income on Amazon it seems straight forward, and worth giving it a try. I am a disabled individual with limited mobility, and this seems like a perfect opportunity for me. I am also very interested in increasing the ranking of a low content book as well. Thank you for sharing this with us.
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It would be good to know how we are paidand do we need to have a website or landing page, etc.
Thank you so much Gillian for your kindness and your lovely teaching effort. I am most probably going to give this a try, and will definitely keep you updated if I go ahead.
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I have been interested in this for awhile. Thanks for the great info! I am going to give it a try this weekend.
This vid was added 2 h ago but I think that content of it is already outdated and inaccurate for last weeks. Amazon makes a lot of cleaning on the platformand they try to discourage people to create more and more trashy low content. They are now into medium and high content. They block also a lot of accounts where they suppose customers can be perplexed or unhappy with the products.
I had heard this as well. Also, I’m looking for advice on opening a Kip account. Does Amazon make this difficult?
You are inspiring! I used to work in advertising many years ago, so this is right up my alley. Thank you so much for being so generous with your information. This will be a perfect side hustle for me as a stay-at-home mom who wants to contribute to our household income. I'll watch more of your videos and make this work! Thank you : ) ~ Lisa
Hi Lisa, How is it going for you? Have your tried it? :) Is it worth it? I guess you need to be a self-employed or have a business ITR number or something?! Thanks Vivi
Thank you, yes I am going to give it a try! I also love her make up! It does not hide her natural beauty, and so nice to see normal eyebrows and lashes.
Yes would like to hear more! Great information!
I have been making books for almost a year on KDP and have spent about a grand on it and sold $250 worth of books, and that added up to about $10 profit, so I'm down about $990. The market is completely saturated, I'm not giving up yet, however these tutorials make it sound much easier than it actually is to make money, and you have to pay for ads or you will sell nothing
Same for me. The Market saturated. It is true.
This approach could also apply to holiday ideas (gift information for family and friends for instance). Journals for the holiday for the recipient - the birthday record, thoughts on Mother's Day, observations on the Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc. The objective being to see how the events produce new insights. The possibilities are endless.
That’s exactly what I was thinking
Hey Gillian, I've started selling journals through Amazon KDP last year. I appreciate the video and believe the videos on ranking and marketing would also be of value.
How is it going? How much have you been making a month if you don't mind sharing?
I’m curious to know too! Do tell :)
I would like to publish a book. I really appreciate you being candid and breaking it all down for people like me who are not very savvy technically. Also giving the real amount to be made and profit instead of using people and their checks of how much money they make. I'm a DIY person trying and failing then again and succeeding, so I'm interested.Thank you for your helpful, honest information!!
I'm def gonna give this a try. My wife is a super creative and she love journaling, but is always disappointed with journal selections.
Hello Gillian, I followed the steps and published a journal/lyric notebook today! Thank you so much for your insight and for making it understandable and less daunting... Can't wait to see what happens now!
Please let us know how its doing...
Interested in your update
Awesome! It would be great to know how your venture has progressed over time. Thanks for sharing!
Sales?
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How to make money online: teach people some way to make money online that doesn't really work and promote a product or service to refer them to. Collect affiliate commissions from said product or service. Repeat.
This. This all day.
Indeed
Exactly this!
Exactly this. I started doing this on Amazon earlier this year and even though I proofed the items created and put a lot of thought into them, they did not come out well and they certainly didn't sell much. The facts are that while it seems like you possibly could make good money doing this, the reality is that it's oversaturated and very few are actually making anything, let alone $1000+ a month on this venture.
Don’t be so negative. This is a blueprint to start a business for next to nothing. What you do with it is your decision! Besides, if you have nothing nice to say, you can just keep quiet. It’s free to be nice.
This was an awesome video and I am definitely going to give it a try! Thank you for being so thorough in explaining the process.
This video was very step by step and easy to understand. I definitely want to try publishing a no content book. Thank you!
I just discovered your channel and videos today, and have now spent the past two hours watching and absorbing all the information. Thank you for the detailed explanations in each of your videos. As a SAHM I have been searching for an online opportunity that was not a scam, held my interest, is scalable, and did not require a specific time or financial commitment. Your channel has me excited to get back to work! Creating low-content books is right up my alley and I am jazzed to get started!
hello michele, how would you like to joining my free amazon kdp classes?
I have a couple of questions about BookBolt. First, are section dividers available? Like if I want the first 50 pages to be a calorie tracker and the next 50 an exercise tracker. Are there tabs or bookmarks or anything to keep the sections apart, for convenience?
Second, is bound softcover the only option? Can you have hardcover? Can you have pages you can insert or remove? For instance, if you run out of pages in the exercise section but still have plenty of room in the calorie tracker. If that happens, you're either wasting paper or carrying two journals.
No, there aren't any from what I was seeing when I was using it.
Yes I would love to know how to rank my books on Amazon! Thank you for this video! It’s exactly what I needed to see! I’m so excited!
I've had an idea for a low comment journal. I had no idea where to start. This video was an eye opener. Thank you so much! I'd love a video about the ranking prices.
Sounds like a great way to start a passive income journey. This is excellent content and I'd welcome your instruction about ranking.
Noted!
Greetings Gillian - All I can say is wow! I loved this video. Yes, I'm going to do it and I'll keep you in the loop about success. I'm retired, so this is a perfect part time opportunity. I believe that the more you put into it, the more you will get out of it. It's not a guarantee and thanks for saying that. You are honest and tell the facts. Who could ask for more? I gave it a thumbs up and I also subscribe to your channel.
Any update?
I really appreciate your effort in this video. Please make another one about the rankings. Thank you and have a great and sunny day.
This video is so informative. Keeping it real and not "far fetched" like some others. Straight forward and so easy to follow. Thank you!
There is a 5-Year Journal format with a page for each day of the year, including Leap Year February 29th. Each year is listed on it's day's page. Entries are limited to one sentence for each year. The pages are two-sided so there would be 183 pages. The first page or two could be a list of cues of what kind of observations could be made and famous quotes about the march of time. Whether KDP can print that many pages I do not know.
Hi Gillian! I just made my first low content book, I was signing up for the KDP amazon account and after putting in all my info, it allowed me to choose Canada but when I got down to the specifics it's looking like it won't let me enter in my postal code! can you recommend another option here in canada? I found an 'amazon become a seller' but it's charging $29/m, wondering if this is the canadian version? any help is appreciated :)
I want something where I can make money being creative, but not have to deal with and ship inventory myself. So If I can have someone else print and ship that is GOLD for me! I want to put my own art on the journals.
Watched the video and immediately created my book. Had to watch the video twice to make sure I got all the steps, but your explanations were very thorough. I would definitely like to see the ranking part. I didn't know I would have to do something to rank my book. Look forward to that video. Maybe it's already out there, as when I watched this video it was already two months old. I'll have to look. Thanks again.
Great video! Thorough and to the point at each stage. I hope to get started with this, but just have a few quick questions: 1 - Would you recommend making 10-20 low content books and pricing them all very low until they gain traction? Or just a few and once traction is gained create more with higher price points? 2- Is Amazon the recommended marketplace to do this or could I also publish low content to other large marketplaces? Thanks again for the great tutorial! Cheers!
Great questions! Would also very much like to know, especially the first question.
I made 3 books yesterday and plan to make more today. I can't wait to see how they do. There is a learning curve but I got the hang of it pretty quick. I plan to make medium content books and add writing prompts, quotes, and poems. So I can add an ISBN. So much room for growth and no cost up front. It is a great opportunity!! Thank you!!
Such a great idea, thank you for sharing!
I’m soooo excited!!!! I literally created a low content book as your video was playing. Now I can say I actually did it!!! Thank you sooooo much.
I've tried doing exactly what she is saying. Haven't sold a single book on Amazon. I tried soduko, coloring books, journals....not one sale.
Oh and I lost money because you have to pay a monthly fee to bookbolt AND set up a seller account on Amazon which costs money too.
How are you marketing your books?
Thank you for this tutorial, I appreciate it. Please include the process of including an account for receiving the payment from customers or Amazon. I watched till the end but I need to rewatch and actually try it out and get it up and running. Anything else we need to know as far as getting this started, please include the videos that accompany it.
I love how you walked us through and I’m going to dive in with this video side by side to do it today!!! Thank you
I followed through the whole process and it seems awesome! I have some really interesting ideas, thank you so much for so much great info!!!
You are an amazingly smart and savvy woman! Thank you for taking time out to teach us all these income strategies!! You’re a Godsend!!!!😊❤🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
my thoughts exactly! This is the first time (out of many many videos watched) that I actually finished watching and thought to myself: YOU can do this! I am so ready to get started! Gillian you are amazing! maybe one day you'll be buying one of MY books!! lol
@@bitKitty Yes 🙌🏾 I love watching her videos! Continue pursuing your dreams and all things are possible!!!!😊🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
And unlike before, no content and low content books no longer have the "look inside" feature since they aren't given free ISPNs anymore. So, that's yet another strike against new publications
@How I Win the Lottery prove it
Love this! Thank you. 28:56 Yes please for the ranking info! Definitely giving this a try. ❤
I am working on writing a book on small scale gardening for apartment dwellers, and love the idea of publishing an accompanying journal to go with it in which to record all kinds of details, such as seeds and soil used, planting times, and many other details of the individual's gardening experience to go with that book..thank you for showing how I can do that!
Sounds like a great idea! ❤️
This was a fantastic presentation. Thank you for stepping me through the process so well. I’m totally going to try this!
Hi Gillian, excellent video - one question though, are there any legal implications of using the stock photos for sale? I know they are free but do you know of any restrictions to using them?
I was wondering the same thing.
Thank you Gillian, this was an excellent video explaining it all really well and in so much detail, it will be worth a go as I love notebooks 😊🎉
This was fabulous!! Thank you...I am going to give it a try!
Hey. I have been looking for something that I can do to earn a little cash. I am 74 and could really do with something to supplement my not very expansive pension. This is the first side hustle I have encountered that makes me believe I might actually be able to succeed with. Thanks for your in to me possibly being able to earn a much needed income. Derek, an Englishman living in France
Wow....what a clear way of a presentation!! I hv followed many KDP instructions, so far this is the best, Thanks Angel! Would definitely give it a try...All the very best..❤️
Omg I’m going to do this thank you for the tutorial
How refreshing to view information about a way to make income without having to pay to learn exactly how to do it! Loved the info you shared here, and have already written down several ideas. I would be very interested in learning more about to get the low content books ranked higher on Amazon - I'll be watching for that video 😄
I've tried this it doesn't work! I created several of these on Amazon and they just get lost in the thousands of other people's content. I've shared, created ads, etc and not one single sale. Amazon literally puts them so far down the list no one can find them. Unless you have a different strategy to get sales, I'd love to hear about it!
There's a reason advertising agencies exist, and you just ran into it.
Creating a product can be very easy, as you've already found. Selling that product can be very, very hard. Think about how much Ford or Starbucks or any other large company spends on advertising each year. It's in the billions! They spend that money because nobody will buy a product if they don't even know it exists.
I suspect what you need to do is find a very specific niche. Something narrow enough to not have a ton of competition. Instead of doing a "Recipe Journal", to use her example, do a "Vegan Recipe Journal." Or a "Diabetic Recipe Journal." Or, maybe, a "Diabetic Vegan Recipe Journal." You cut the number of people who might buy it, but you also cut down on the competition. Standing out is a lot easier in a small group.
The idea is, instead of swimming in an ocean of low content books, try to become a big fish in a much smaller pond.
Yes please make a video on book ranking and launching - I have written 4 real books but have never done much re the promotion and would love your teachings - I just subscribed to your channel ❤
I'm in! Great video!! Thanks!