Setting Up For 2024: A Fourth Quarter KDP Crash-Course
2024 WILL BE HERE BEFORE YOU KNOW IT – DON’T PROCRASTINATE! Whether you’ve got a hundred low/no-content books or it took you all year to create that one, perfect medium-content activity book, congratulations, you are now a KDP publisher! As we’ve already discussed in previous blogs, the KDP landscape has changed in just the short […]
2024 Prep Crash Course – “Products” Module #4: Planning Your Next Products
Kindle Direct Publishing has empowered creators to develop and sell a wide array of low-, no- and medium-content books. In this ever-evolving landscape, the ability to capitalize on missed opportunities and unexplored product ideas is a key strategy for planning new products for the upcoming year. In the last two modules, we gathered data from […]
2024 Prep Crash Course – “Products” Module #3: Selecting New Products: Predicting 2024 Trends
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) has revolutionized the world of self-publishing, empowering authors and publishers to reach global audiences with their creative works. As KDP offers a vast array of categories, it’s essential for publishers to not only create compelling content but also to predict what will sell in the coming year. In our third entry […]
2024 Prep Crash Course – “Products” Module #2: Analyzing Your Unsuccessful Products
We started off our look at “Projects” (one of the modules in this crash course) with a happy exercise: an analytical look at what contributed to the success of your most successful products. That’s to take the sting out of this week’s second of four entries on a 2023 look back on “Products”. This time, […]
2024 Prep Crash Course – “Products” Module #1: Analyzing Your Successful Products
If your goal is growth, the first thing to ask is “What am I doing right?” Sometimes the answer is hard work. Sometimes it’s luck. Sometimes it’s the price. Whatever the reason for the success of one of your titles, it’s in the data. That’s why the very first step of this entire journey is […]
Publisher Collaboration To Increase Reach and Visibility
By now, you are aware of the potential of Amazon KDP as an opportunity to share your stories and ideas with the rest of the world. Not only is it possible to publish books with KDP, but there is also the opportunity to work together on projects with other creators and expand your respective reach. […]
Staying Updated with KDP’s Policies And Guidelines: How Often Do You Need to Check To Stay Compliant?
We all go through it. An endless parade of updates, changes to TOS, you know the drill. It’s in everything we do online today, the boilerplate we all ignore and click that we’ve read. But then there’s the part of the online world in which we make a living, and that does get some more […]
Did “The Matrix” Teach Us Nothing? How To Use, and Not BE Used By, AI
You knew this topic was coming eventually, didn’t you. The advent of AI in the creative world happened fast and is impacting everything to the point where we can’t ignore it as a topic any longer. Simply put, you can’t trust AI. No, not because it’s going to transform your web-connected refrigerator into a death-machine, […]
Preventing Amazon from Saying “Hasta La Vista, Baby” to your KDP Account
“Why Was My Account Terminated??” …words we hope you never have to say. However, it is being said by many KDP publishers, and for what seem to be pretty arbitrary reasons. That said, the reasons are seldom arbitrary. Mistakes can be made, and so can appeals, but it is hard to get your account back […]
Solving the No- to Low-Content Glut with a Puzzle
There’s no doubt that the low-bar to entry for Amazon KDP, especially in the no- to low- content book space, has created a flood of product. With economic headwinds coming and increasing competition, it may seem harder to get your product to stand out. Two ways to improve your chances are a) leveling up to […]
