After 4 years on KDP... no, it's not easy and it's always changing/getting harder. Still, one of the best online business opportunites out there I think.

@knorman717

Ай бұрын

That’s great to hear!

So oh my goodness. I can so relate. I tried KDP back in 2021 after falling in love with Paul Marles videos. He does really great instruction on how to get the measurements for the cover by the way. I had a slow computer and I published 19 journals. The covers were just ok (made in canva and I have no graphic design experience), but.....out of those 19, I sold 6 journals. No ads at all. I kinda let it go after those 19 because I got busy. But recently, I got another sale and I picked it back up. Now I'm trying to do medium content and get some actual consistent sales and I'm paying someone on Fiverr to do my covers so they look better. I published one book last week, but it took a month to do it. It's a real runaround and very frustrating at times, and youtube videos say things like Creative Fabrica is your answer, but then you find out that depending on what you're making, it can be a real hassle to change up the images like you should... but I'm telling myself to just publish. Whatever you do, publish. But yeah, youtube makes it seem easy. Yesterday I was thinking. It's not. It's definitely not.

@knorman717

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the tips and encouragement. Glad you’re persevering!

Take a deep breath Don’t give up Learn and get better Now get back in there!!!

@knorman717

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

I enjoyed your video, thank you for sharing your experience. I'm considering doing KDP for some medium content books and I hope that I will gather enough information to get me started. Your video was a good start.

@knorman717

Ай бұрын

That’s wonderful, Marilyn! I’m so glad it was helpful!

I appreciate your informational transparency. I look forward to scanning your channel and sharing. ❤

@knorman717

Ай бұрын

That’s great to hear!

I can relate… let’s all do this together 💪🏼

Thanks for the video. You really have great resilience and hope to see it soon

@knorman717

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Love your honesty!! I tried to use Smash Words and got stuck with formatting, that was in 2016. I've written a large body of work in the holisic health area (I went to school and have practical experience in a clinical setting for this topic) plus have more work written in other genres. At this point (especially after watching your wonderfully honest video) I'll look at hiring a tech guy for help. It seems that a lot of videos on YT are there for click bait to get views to make it sound easy. I wish you the best to figure it all out!

@knorman717

Ай бұрын

I wish you the best as well! Thank you for watching, and I’m so glad it was helpful!

Well said. Gurus telling you things are easy find it so because they've invested in learning the stuff to become gurus. But learning things the first time is rarely easy for their devotees. And learning stuff you're only going to use once, or so rarely that you have to learn it anew every time...is not always worth the time. (Incidentally I just had to learn where to write this comment using a web browser. Took a minute of my life. But easy. Really, really easy. So long as you've done it once and KZread doesn't move the comments box before you have to do it again. Which, at some point they will. Any you'll have to learn it again.) KDP Rocket is a wonderful example. Super cool if KDP keywords and categories are your full-time job. Saves a ton of labour I am sure. If you only get to reviewing that stuff once a year because you already have a full-time job? Then you invest labour in learning the labour-saving...and it'll be worthless the next time because Amazon will change the rules and/or you will have forgotten. That is the honest tale of labour-saving tech designed to help you tackle tech.

i wish you well - and yes there are so many promotions where it is made to look so easy.👏🏼👏🏼💯💯

@knorman717

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

IF someone finds it is the key word!! I published my book on heart health 4-5 years ago and it’s buried in the search engine by books by more “scientific” writers. Everyone who has bought my book was sent there by me or a friend. 🤷🏻‍♀️ PS: I updated it and created a 2nd edition of same books and lost ALL my reviews of a nearly identical book 🤦🏻‍♀️

@knorman717

Ай бұрын

Oh, wow! Okay, good to know-thank you!!

@annelivingstonart

Ай бұрын

Oh my WORD, what an ordeal!!! Thanks for the heads up about all this. People really do make KDP sound effortless! I wish you lots and lots of money in the very near future 😅

@knorman717

Ай бұрын

@@annelivingstonart Aww, thank you so much! Right back at you!

Amazon Kdp not easy at all. People out there make it sound super easy🙄

@knorman717

Ай бұрын

Totally! I was not prepared for how difficult it would be!

Beside the point of the video. LOVE the tree art in the background!

@knorman717

Ай бұрын

Aw, thank you so much! A life-long friend of mine painted it for me and my husband as a wedding gift!

I’m so glad you have been brutally honest about your experience. Which is the reason I subscribed. I have at least 15 guide books on various subjects that I have ready to be uploaded (still need to create the cover and internal images, may use designrr?) do you have any other suggestions as to other platforms to upload to? P.S. I hope it all works out.

@knorman717

Ай бұрын

Thank you for subscribing! I can’t currently recall the other platforms to upload to, but I did see them listed in another KZreadr’s video. So, they are definitely out there!

Thanks. You made me laugh. Png Pdf Jpg Kdp. A whole new language. I made five journals two years ago using Gimp and Scribus running on Linux. So being a techie helps. I loved the creativity of it. But nothing sold so I lost interest. Recently I watched a real life publisher who said, Amazon isn't a publisher. You are. Amazon checks your book, displays it, prints it when somebody wants to buy it, delivers it, and gives you a percentage. And that's a very small part of a publisher's life. The rest is huge, including things like editing, proofreading, cover design. But the biggest one of all is marketing. And perhaps the legal side like copyright. If you enjoy steep learning curves, become a self publisher. But beware. It gets in your blood. So I'm back in.

@knorman717

Ай бұрын

Oh, wow-back in! For me, I’m just going to do this one journal as an experiment. We’ll see how it goes!

Sounds like it’s Simple, not easy. Similar to the real estate industry and its investment strategies.😅

Your vid is quite informative but your laughing is awkward.

@knorman717

Ай бұрын

😆

@lorinash

Ай бұрын

And your comment is rude and senseless.

FIVERR did you try FIVERR! I'm like you but I'm about to jump in. I hope 2 years down the road I can buy a good used car! Seriously!!! I'm so desperate now I believe I'm developing an ulcer. So many bad things happened to me over the last year that I can't think clearly, it's hard to get it together. I hope to pull it together enough to make some positive progress. Right now if I were denied publishing because of some asinine font I'd lose it. Maybe there's a reason I can't get it together now. God works in mysterious ways! Good luck to you!

@knorman717

19 күн бұрын

Thank you-good luck to you too! I’ve tried Fiverr for other things and didn’t have too good of an experience, but I appreciate the suggestion!