Thank you, this is refreshing as I am useless at SEO and its been putting me off, 4 more chapters to go then I'm ready for editing and formatting. I want to do my own book first to really understand the process then hopefully start making enough to afford a ghost writer
I have to admit I don't mind the Air BNB cover. It's actually quite simplistic in its color pallet and title. Really stands out to me. The rest of the old covers look bad to me though. The business one is atrocious.
I created a very original, creative and interesting low-content book that has a pretty niche audience and is very topical for 2025. I have 2 sales and both were bought by family members. It's so discouraging. I want to re-look at every aspect of my book to try and figure out why no one wants to buy it. Is it not appealing or is it just not getting seen? I'm wondering if the new KDP will work in my favour or not? It's hard to not just give up.
Some great info in this video, thanks for this Ken. For someone who is just starting in KDP, my only question is, isn't the success of high quality books depend on the credibility and track-record of the author? I find it hard to understand how we can outsource ghostwriters and it still be a good book?
Glad you enjoyed it! Actually no, the opposite. People who shop on amazon don’t care. They have no idea who anybody is (of course with some exception). They are looking for a topic, and pick the book that gives them the best offer to solve their problem (paired with nice design). As far as the customers concerned, they have no idea what’s inside the book. The people who sell their books the best always win. (Cover, title, product page, reviews) In terms of the content, the quality of the book is in the outline. Create a detailed outline, overview what the entire books needs to be. Then, find a high quality writer on Upwork/the urban writers to write it. Ghostwriter doesent mean low quality. They are great writers. Most celebrities don’t write their memoirs, they use ghostwriters. They have the story, the writer has the skillset to put it into writing. In many cases self-publishers outsell “experts” because we actually study how to sell books properly. Experts just fill a book with content. Of course if they have influence and audience it’s a different story, but if they don’t have these things it’s easy to sell better than them. Fiction is different of course, people like social proof. (Known authors/lots of reviews) but with non fiction people just want to solve their problem. They pick the book that looks/sounds the best. (As long as it has some reviews for social proof).
Nothing new. You have to create good book and spend money to sale and get reviews. Approx. 100 sales = 1-2 rev. It means, You have to spend a lot of money to get many good rev. (min. 20-30) and then slowly Your book will start to sale also organically. Its hard business.
Great Video Ken! Question, is Free Promo and Discounted Price 99 cent ebook and $9.99 paperback two different steps and done at different stages of the first 30-60 days? Please keep up the good work and I'm downloading your ebook now. Thanks!
Basically, I publish my book at .99 cents + 9,99 paperback. Then within the first 7 days I do my free promo. (Free promotions can be done from the marketing tab on your KDP dashboard) This drives traffic but more importantly it’s an ideal time to get reviews. The first 7 days are just getting your book “desirable” (enough reviews) then I will keep the low price for around the first 2-4 weeks, or until my book is ranking well. Then I raise it to normal price. Hope this answers your question!
I personally haven’t tried it but I have heard good things! I think it’s a great way to save some money as it will be the highest quality way to use AI for getting a book written! They key is make sure you select a good writer (if you have the option too)
I hired a designer on fiverr to design book cover. He did, and it's amazing, but now KDP didn’t accept that. Why? I need your help, dears. What should i do? 😢
@KenSelfPublishing Thank you so much, sir. I did this because of you and your beautiful advice. Thank you again. Much love and respect from Istanbul 🫡🫡 I publish my first novel, and now I am waiting for their response.
Thank you Ken! 🥰 This video is fantastic💫 really informative and well done! I truly appreciate the insights you’ve shared. Could you please guide me on how to get 20 free /promo book reviews after my launch? Your advice would mean a lot!
Really glad you enjoyed it! I would suggest checking out my most recent review video :) Will give you a lot more information than I can give in this comment!
I wouldn’t worry about this. If your book is already on Amazon you own the copyright and no one can publish after without Amazon detecting it or you getting it taken down. This would only even be a possibility if you give away your PDF, not if someone is buying your book to review. If you’re worried you can watermark your book PDF!
Hi Ken! I just stumbled over your Channel and I have to say that your content is great! I saw that you offer a 1on1 call in your description, but unfortunately there are no slots available. Can you maybe reply me? I really want to book you and talk with a pro about my book and my idea for kdp! I would be more than happy to hear from you! Thanks man :)
I have made the calls exclusive to my program because I can’t keep up with the demand. However, join the free course and give me a DM and I can make an exception :)
@ thank you for the info Ken! First of all I want to watch a few more of your videos and then I write you for the fall. I will write down a few questions :)
Can someone tell me what should I do with my first 'low content' notebook which Amazon published yesterday but now I've received an email from Amazon that my books are not published due to the 'low quality' issue after I changed only the price. I don't get it what did I wrong with that. Does anyone have similar experience what I have and know how to deal with it?
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Thank you, this is refreshing as I am useless at SEO and its been putting me off, 4 more chapters to go then I'm ready for editing and formatting. I want to do my own book first to really understand the process then hopefully start making enough to afford a ghost writer
That’s a great plan :) get the feel for the process and the topic and then you spend the money when you have already learned a lot!
100% agree. High quality video!
Really glad you enjoyed it :)
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Thanks for great advice.
Thank you, very valuable tips!
Great video - super helpful, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it :)
This is fantastic news. Keyword stuffing is ridiculous!
As a reader I would not choose the new cover about overthinking - I would choose the one I could actually read at a glance
Fair!
I have to admit I don't mind the Air BNB cover. It's actually quite simplistic in its color pallet and title. Really stands out to me. The rest of the old covers look bad to me though. The business one is atrocious.
Thanks, Ken! 🎉Can you elaborate free/promo review collecting method?
I would suggest checking out my recent review video! Covers all of this!
I created a very original, creative and interesting low-content book that has a pretty niche audience and is very topical for 2025. I have 2 sales and both were bought by family members. It's so discouraging. I want to re-look at every aspect of my book to try and figure out why no one wants to buy it. Is it not appealing or is it just not getting seen? I'm wondering if the new KDP will work in my favour or not? It's hard to not just give up.
Some great info in this video, thanks for this Ken. For someone who is just starting in KDP, my only question is, isn't the success of high quality books depend on the credibility and track-record of the author? I find it hard to understand how we can outsource ghostwriters and it still be a good book?
Glad you enjoyed it! Actually no, the opposite. People who shop on amazon don’t care. They have no idea who anybody is (of course with some exception). They are looking for a topic, and pick the book that gives them the best offer to solve their problem (paired with nice design). As far as the customers concerned, they have no idea what’s inside the book. The people who sell their books the best always win. (Cover, title, product page, reviews) In terms of the content, the quality of the book is in the outline. Create a detailed outline, overview what the entire books needs to be. Then, find a high quality writer on Upwork/the urban writers to write it. Ghostwriter doesent mean low quality. They are great writers. Most celebrities don’t write their memoirs, they use ghostwriters. They have the story, the writer has the skillset to put it into writing. In many cases self-publishers outsell “experts” because we actually study how to sell books properly. Experts just fill a book with content. Of course if they have influence and audience it’s a different story, but if they don’t have these things it’s easy to sell better than them. Fiction is different of course, people like social proof. (Known authors/lots of reviews) but with non fiction people just want to solve their problem. They pick the book that looks/sounds the best. (As long as it has some reviews for social proof).
Nothing new. You have to create good book and spend money to sale and get reviews. Approx. 100 sales = 1-2 rev. It means, You have to spend a lot of money to get many good rev. (min. 20-30) and then slowly Your book will start to sale also organically. Its hard business.
All business is hard!
Depends. Because if you build a community in Instagram, reviews will just come.
I put 1000books per year and earn around 3k mounths with kdp
@bendropy what kind of books ? Low contnent ?
@bendropy what type and genre of books?
So is there a way for me to see where people stop reading on kindle u or ebook? It would be helpful
This is a good question! I am actually unsure but I am going to look into it.
@ thank you. If you find out anything I’d appreciate a video on it.
Great Video Ken! Question, is Free Promo and Discounted Price 99 cent ebook and $9.99 paperback two different steps and done at different stages of the first 30-60 days? Please keep up the good work and I'm downloading your ebook now. Thanks!
Basically, I publish my book at .99 cents + 9,99 paperback. Then within the first 7 days I do my free promo. (Free promotions can be done from the marketing tab on your KDP dashboard) This drives traffic but more importantly it’s an ideal time to get reviews. The first 7 days are just getting your book “desirable” (enough reviews) then I will keep the low price for around the first 2-4 weeks, or until my book is ranking well. Then I raise it to normal price. Hope this answers your question!
@KenSelfPublishing Thank you so much! I'm going to watch your video on reviews next. 🙏
Hi Ken, What do you think about using Urban Writers AI package for your book? Will it turn out good?
I personally haven’t tried it but I have heard good things! I think it’s a great way to save some money as it will be the highest quality way to use AI for getting a book written! They key is make sure you select a good writer (if you have the option too)
@@KenSelfPublishing Okay, Thank you
I hired a designer on fiverr to design book cover. He did, and it's amazing, but now KDP didn’t accept that. Why?
I need your help, dears. What should i do?
😢
Well they would have told you a reason. It might just be a simple formatting error!
Which book are you writing
@@bittukhan1507 fiction novel. I wrote it. Now I will publish it
@KenSelfPublishing Thank you so much, sir. I did this because of you and your beautiful advice. Thank you again. Much love and respect from Istanbul 🫡🫡
I publish my first novel, and now I am waiting for their response.
Thank you Ken! 🥰 This video is fantastic💫 really informative and well done! I truly appreciate the insights you’ve shared. Could you please guide me on how to get 20 free /promo book reviews after my launch? Your advice would mean a lot!
Really glad you enjoyed it! I would suggest checking out my most recent review video :) Will give you a lot more information than I can give in this comment!
@@KenSelfPublishing Okay, I'll do that. Thanks 🥰
I have a question about book review sites that is it save to give books for reviews because i think there is a chance of getting pirated ?
I wouldn’t worry about this. If your book is already on Amazon you own the copyright and no one can publish after without Amazon detecting it or you getting it taken down. This would only even be a possibility if you give away your PDF, not if someone is buying your book to review. If you’re worried you can watermark your book PDF!
@@KenSelfPublishing Got it thanks
Hi Ken!
I just stumbled over your Channel and I have to say that your content is great!
I saw that you offer a 1on1 call in your description, but unfortunately there are no slots available.
Can you maybe reply me? I really want to book you and talk with a pro about my book and my idea for kdp!
I would be more than happy to hear from you! Thanks man :)
I have made the calls exclusive to my program because I can’t keep up with the demand. However, join the free course and give me a DM and I can make an exception :)
@ thank you for the info Ken!
First of all I want to watch a few more of your videos and then I write you for the fall. I will write down a few questions :)
Can someone tell me what should I do with my first 'low content' notebook which Amazon published yesterday but now I've received an email from Amazon that my books are not published due to the 'low quality' issue after I changed only the price. I don't get it what did I wrong with that. Does anyone have similar experience what I have and know how to deal with it?
It should specify what the issue is! Might be something with the interior content. They only do this if something is wrong!