Hey! I'm Craig, a writer and publisher who uploads books to Amazon KDP in an aim to making passive income online.
Join me on my journey as I move from a part-time side hustle to creating a full-time self publishing empire!
My goal includes producing quality medium content books, researching new and innovative tools like text-to-image AI, discovering new ways to make money, and gradually creating a way to create passive income online (or at least partially passive with the help of things like Amazon ads).
This channel focuses mostly on book publishing through Amazon KDP, but will stretch across other publishing platforms such as Etsy and Fiverr, to experiment with additional ways to expanding on my passive income goals.
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Thank you for a clear instruction. It's my first time and I spent the whole day on the process. Finally everything went through, but after going through all the bank info, it got disconnected itself. What should I do besides doing it all over again? Please give me advice. Thanks in advance. Ida
Thank you so much for painting a realistic picture!!!!!!
You're very welcome!
Very nice ,Thank you🎉
Great video!
Fascinating video! You've done an excellent job exploring the dot-to-dot niche and showcasing how to create these engaging activity books. Your use of BookBolt and Photoshop to illustrate a dinosaur dot-to-dot was impressive and clearly demonstrated the versatility of these tools. I particularly appreciated your honesty about the tedious nature of creating dot-to-dots from scratch and your suggestion to use BookBolt to save time. Your video has been incredibly informative and inspiring for those interested in the activity book niche. Well done!
Guy I always appreciate getting a supportive comment from you, thanks for being such a brilliant supporter of the channel :)
Can I download free coloring pages from visbator.com and upload them to KDP?
I'm not aware of that site, but I'd imagine it's similar to other premade... Which I'd say ideally no, you can utilize them, but add extra to them or mix and match and add details. That'll help you to avoid duplicate content
There is a better way to use Photoshop for making dot to dot book. It is basically like the feature of BookBolt, but better in some ways.....Not sure why you haven't shown it.....Maybe, you wanted to emphasis on BookBolt feature.
New to publishing. Have my 1st book listed on Amazon, working on a second. Thanks for the candid review.😊
You're welcome and good luck with the book!
Thank you for sharing! You always bring out good advice and tips!
Thank you :)
What is your comment about making story books with constant character using AI photos + txt about story ? Both for priting and ebook landscape pdf .😊
Go for it!! Sounds like a great idea as long as the quality is good and you're being honest about using ai when uploading :)
one of the best and more transparent channels talking about KDP.
RE: Copyright.gov. I'm sorry to say, this gov site is the worst ever developed. BUT, aside from that, I've copyrighted my songs, films etc since the 70's. Is there a way to find a LIST of all of my copyrights on this website? Meaning I don't have to search each one out. I've put in my legal name which appears on all copyrights, and it seems to just randomly pick ONE of my copyrights. Hoping there is a way just like (BMI) for example which will display all of my published works. Thank you, Joel Justin
Amazing video like always could you create a video on launching a book economically and efficiently from ads to keywords
Uploaded my first niche coloring book to KDP today... wish me luck!
Good luck! 🥳
Thanks bro can you do video about niche cut and paste workbook for kids
I'll have a look into it, it's not a type of books I've made before!
If you're interested in making dot-to-dots, or pretty much any other activity book, I'd recommend giving BookBolt a try. It mainly helps to save soooo much time. I've got a little affiliate link here that you can click to get 20% off, which also helps out the channel! Use code 'selfpublishingempire' at checkout: bookbolt.io/4598.html Thanks for checking out the video and I hope it was helpful. I'll 100% be publishing some dot to dot books in time for Q4.
Congrats on hitting your goals, your approach is solid and working for you, roll on Q4!!!
Thank you Danny! 🙏
What portion of these are journals
A very small percentage.
Hello Craig. The part where I am supposed to write my description is inactive. What could be the problem?
Hmm I've not seen that before..so you've selected to create a new book, paperback/ebook correct? It should be open to fill in your title, author name, description etc on that first page. Did you select amazon.com as your primary marketplace?
Brother what I have been struggling with this 2 weeks is the blocked books.. I use canva illustrations mixed with creative fabrica content. .. when I contact amazon they don t disclose any information about why m getting blocked.. I changed the covers, descriptions , titles , I didn t put any keywords and still getting blocked .. any solutions brother ?
I think it might be the use of canva images to be honest! :/ annoying but that's probably what's getting the book blocked
@@selfpublishingempire so using just creative fabrica content won t get me in problems right ??
If you're just using downloads as is from creative fabrica then yeah that's a risk too. I use creative fabrica mainly for fonts, but also use images - when I use images it's normally as part of my book, or I edit the images to make them unique. Amazon doesn't want you publishing books with premade content.
Thanks for the useful info! Just about to get started with KDP.What would say is a good book niche to get started in? Thanks.
Something you're passionate about / have experience in that maybe others don't! Use that as a base and see what type of books you can publish within those areas/hobbies.
I like how you go through and critic these books, and show how the awful ai stuff is getting bad reviews left for them, hopefully people will buy the quality books and avoid the ai slush that has swamped amazon!
People are definitely starting to turn away from AI coloring books..AI has its place for sure in terms of an additional tool and creative process, but low quality mass produced AI content will not sell well on Amazon
very useful video👍
Thanks Craig, great video and useful tips 👌🏽
Great video. Where can we add the extras you mention like ‘from the publisher’ with the extra photos of inside. Is this when uploading the book, or in the profile section? I’m just about to upload my very first handrawn colouring book and your tips were great, thank you 🇦🇺❤️
Thank you. This is Amazon a+ content that you create images for an upload after your book is published. I made a video on it if you have a little search, which walks you through it :)
Great thank you. I’ll look now 😀
Great video
Great tips! All practical and helpful!
Thanks Graig. I learned a lot. Next step is putting it in to action.
You got this!
Let's say there is a coloring book phrase and it's a keyword now, can I use it on a new book or should I use a new name?
Subscribed, Well Made tutorial and information
Thanks for the sub!
If you're looking to find beautiful fonts, illustrations, or even some pre-made images to utilize, check out Creative Fabrica. I've been using it for almost 2 years now and it's FANTASTIC value for rights cleared content for self publishing: www.creativefabrica.com/ref/2717942/
I personally wouldn’t recommend pricing lower than competitors. What this create is a price war and the only person that wins is the customer. Keep your pricing competitive but make sure you are making a decent profit per sale.
What do you mean by other's book title, do you mean a novel or any coloring book?
Awesome, congrats on your results and reaching your goals! Good Ad results as well - Aus aside. 👍. Aus was going well for me until this month - when I suddenly checked and one of my Ads had soared over 100 Acos lol. Usually, it's been fine though, so I'm not sure what happened there.
Thanks for popping over and congrats on your results too! 🤩
Shopify is another great platform to drive customers to your Amazon listing. 🙏❤️
In the interest of truth, honesty, and transparency - could you please list at least some of your best selling titles or pen names so we can take a look at the quality and the sales performance for ourselves - or if this information is already in some video or at some link, could you let us know what it is. Thank!
I don't share my books or pen names any more because when I did direct copycats would pop up within weeks.
Thank you, this is surprisingly encouraging and balanced. You've earned a subscriber 😂
How come this is marked as "for adults and teenagers" when it looks like a kids' colouring book? Have I missed a trend? 🤔🤔
Clean, minimal designs are very popular with adults as well
@@selfpublishingempire I see!! 🙂
An honest report about learning by doing. Without any shouting, but with facts on the table. Most critics here goes to all the online advertisers. What are they doing for your investment of more than 700 bucks into advertising. Its ridiculous the low conversion rate. And the increasing prices of online ads seems to have no end. Remembers like the gold rush times. The most money makers had been the traders of shuffles and gold washing pans, while most of the dreamres who started to dig for gold ended in poorness or even lost their lives. Its time that these giants like google, social medias learn that business owners have to make profit to pay the bills, and have a living from. And as freelancer the risk is to get a burn-out. To produce monthly 300 coloring books for a realistic gross and net sales revenue is just not possible. So for what is all this "e-commerce" good then ? - Tks for sharing and good luck for your next 20 coloring books. Hope the numbers progress positively.
40% tax? Get out of that country man!
May I know how much you make by having 100 books?
Thank you. Very helpful info. I am a published author of 2 books (Random House) which are sold on amazon. And I really want to get into self publishing on Amazon. Do you know if this will impact me in any way? or can I leverage off this? Susan
I think you'll be absolutely fine. If you were to publish under a new pen name then there's not really any conflict and/or benefit really. If you wanted to use the same author name, liklihood is that you wouldn't be able to link to the two trad published books, but people may find you by searching for your name - I'd just check any contracts to make sure you're allowed to do so!
@@selfpublishingempire Many thanks for your prompt reply. Much appreciated.
Great video; well narrated!
Awesome video! Thank you. I have a question about page layout. I’ve handrawn all my design for my new colouring book with a 1cm border around the image. (Every 2nd page I have added a pattern that goes to the edge of the paper, instead of a blank page ) Do I need to add extra to the left of each page for the margin? Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺❤️
So for edge-to-edge prining you'd want to set your manuscript up for bleed. Then your 2nd pages would fill the entire page and the bleed area. You coloring page would be placed within a border within the margin settings :)
@@selfpublishingempire thank you so much 😊
It's fascinating to see the potential earnings of a top-selling coloring book on Amazon KDP. I appreciate the detailed analysis and tips on what makes a bestseller. Thanks for the useful resources and your honesty about the challenges in the market! Do you have any recommended AI coloring book tools? Looking forward to your reply, we can discuss together.
I use midjourney to create coloring pages which I then edit in Photoshop, I've done a video on that which you can check out :)
@@selfpublishingempire Thanks for your reply sooomuch!I am exploring both Midjourney and Dzine, and I think a comparison between the two could be interesting. I would love to see a video about Dzine if possible.🥰🥰