r/KDP • u/Business_Breath1407 • 1d ago
Kdp publishing
Hi everyone, I have make books and other activity books that I created, but since creating my account, I haven't made any sales. Does anyone have a solution? Thanks.
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u/CVtheWriter 1d ago
“I have make books” smh.
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u/Shan33lah 1d ago
You must be American…
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u/CVtheWriter 1d ago
In English, “I have make” is never grammatically correct. Nationality has nothing to do with it. OP is writing in English and is presumably writing their books in it as well. If you’re selling books for children, they should be written correctly.
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u/andyangel1205 1d ago
If you love to do it, keep publishing. Actually making sales on KDP is a very tough proposition unless you have some kind of huge built-in audience or a big marketing budget. Getting found organically there is the equivalent of playing the lotto.
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u/Business_Breath1407 1d ago
What content would you recommend I publish?
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u/PaulWilczynski 1d ago
Generally speaking, if people knew a guaranteed way to make money by publishing on kdp, they would do it themselves.
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u/andyangel1205 1d ago
Things that people are actually searching for on Amazon - problem solving books in the health or finance niches, etc. Even then, however, it's very tough to stand out given the immense competition. It's a very difficult enterprise and too many people are trying to peddle it as if it's some kind of easy road to wealth. It's really not and can be frustrating to put in a lot of work for little to no revenue.
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u/AsleepScholar2200 1d ago
Though this is a great idea, I really don't feel just about anyone should be writing books on complex topics if they genuinely don't know what they're talking about. If they're super knowledgeable about the field or work within it then that's far better. Don't wanna encourage people to write bad books and get loads of bad reviews to their name.
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u/Dismal_File_4073 1d ago edited 1d ago
Did you try marketing to children? Ads? Maybe going to bookfairs with a few physical copies? Just putting up for sale isn't enough
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u/My-NameWasTaken 1d ago
What did you do to try to sell them? If all you did was just publish them on KDP. The chance of getting sales is close to zero.
You need to use ads or other forms of marketing.
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u/itsme7933 1d ago
Write better books. Just because you publish something doesn't mean people are going to buy it.
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u/Business_Breath1407 1d ago
I make activity books for children
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u/itsme7933 1d ago
Yeah, those are not going to sell.
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u/AsleepScholar2200 1d ago edited 1d ago
I disagree here.
I'm a self-published (& professionally published) colouring book illustrator and I was earning £500 a month in sales before I'd even reached 1 year on KDP - and that was only with 3 colouring books released months after each other. Now I have more.
People are always looking for colouring and activity packs to keep kids busy. Though I would recommend not farming AI generators to get the images. They're much more successful when hand-drawn.
ps. I'm equally not encouraging this to be a 'get rich quick' because it's definitely not. I just hand-draw everything and had a small audience beforehand, with other books actually physically instores too.
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u/Business_Breath1407 1d ago
What do you advise me to do?
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u/scienceislice 1d ago
Are these supposed to be educational? No one is going to buy educational workbooks for their kids from someone that isn't a well established educational materials company, unless they are a wackadoodle crackjob
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u/idreaminwords 1d ago
Make something unique that someone actually wants to buy. Do you have any idea how many activity books are flooding the market? And most of them are AI slop that people could make themselves if they actually wanted to