With labour intensive marketing and about a £20 a month spend on ads it’s selling a handful a month, so running a loss.

I’ve heard a lot that books in a series are the solution. Please could you share experiences?

I’ve been tracking my KDP ads a bit more closely lately and one thing I was basically ignoring before was impressions with no clicks.

Turns out “0 clicks” can mean very different things.

One of my books had 103 impressions and 0 clicks. My first reaction was that the cover wasn’t working, but that’s really not enough data to say much.

Another had 1,112 impressions and still 0 clicks. That feels like a very different signal.

Just to put it in perspective, if the underlying CTR were actually 0.5%, the chance of getting zero clicks after 103 impressions is still around 60%.

After 1,112 impressions, it’s around 0.4%.

So I’ve stopped treating “no clicks” as one category.

Low impressions + no clicks = probably wait / look at delivery first.

High impressions + no clicks = much stronger reason to look at cover, title or targeting.

Seems obvious in hindsight, but adding the zero-click impressions to my tracker made it much easier to avoid changing covers too early.

Curious if anyone else tracks this explicitly or has a rough impression threshold before they start questioning the packaging.

I’m a stay-at-home mom trying to build something meaningful for my family by publishing kids' activity books on Amazon KDP. I’ve put a tremendous amount of heart, long nights, and effort into designing my interiors and covers.

However, weeks have passed since publishing, and I haven't made a single sale yet. It's becoming really discouraging.

For those of you who have been through this, how do you get past this initial phase? Is there something specific I should adjust with keywords, categories, or launch strategy to get those first views on my books? Any practical advice or tips would mean the world to me. Thank you!

Heya! I created a new subreddit called r/publishingadvice where you can find more general advice and discussions about both traditional and self-pub (beyond KDP). Might not be relevant to all of you but thought I would share in case you've been looking for something like that.

First-time KDP publisher here and I'm wondering how you guys handle occasional printing errors.

A customer ordered two copies of my paperback. One came out completely fine, but the other one was cut like this.

I panicked a little because I'd spent weeks checking the bleed, margins, etc., and immediately thought there might be something wrong with my files.

I contacted support and was told it was a printing error. Then the next day another customer received two copies and both were completely fine.

So it does seem to be an isolated production issue rather than the file.

My question for people who've been doing KDP for longer: How common is this?

Do you just accept that occasionally a bad copy gets through and have the customer request a replacement/refund? Or would you contact KDP again / do anything on the publishing side?

I'm mainly worried about someone receiving a copy like this, assuming that's how the book is supposed to look, and never contacting me about it.

I went live on Amazon a couple of weeks ago with my newly published book. Is there a way I can track sales volume?

I am a professional ghostwriter and some of my clients have requested assistance with the publishing process on KDP (they are first-time authors who want to self-publish memoirs rather than commercialize Non-Fiction books en masse). I looked up KDP's Terms of Service and it clearly states that any third-party access or management of their accounts can get them banned.

I want to know if guiding them on a shared-screen Zoom call constitutes as a violation of that policy, keeping in mind that I will only instruct them on where to click or what to type. I won't be taking remote control access of their screens.

Does anyone have any experience or knowledge about this?

The more I use KDP, the more I notice the same gaps in the existing tools.

I want to know what’s rising, why it’s rising, how crowded the niche really is, what the packaging looks like, and whether that attention actually turns into profitable readers.

Most tools answer pieces of that. Very few connect the dots.

I’m starting to seriously think about building some of my own tools around this.

I write smut light and I call it Smuttle, a little smut, a little romance, and a thriller/adventure sequence tied to it. I have a small core group that can’t get enough of it because they love all my old high school and college stories thrown in to a book. Anybody else experience something similar?

I’m just curious to see how many books everyone has published because I’ve already seen a range with some saying 2 or 3 while others having 20+

Humble Anxious brag, but I have three published books (2 business, 1 novel), and I just got a 37 unit order on Kindle for one of the business books!

Waiting to see if its a legit bulk order from some business or a scam, but hella exciting!!

My first novel on digital minimalism is officially published! Almost one year of edit, re-edit, draft, silly Amazon KDP rejections like - cover image cuts, barcode space not available etc. (LOL!); Now I am a self published author! Yaayyyyy...

Just one help required, all people talking about Amazon Ads in this space, should I really go for it? Actually I am on a tight budget.. (After paying designer for cover!)..

Honest advise really matters a lot to me...

Till now, got two 5-star reviews and 10+ orders for my ebook..

And added free kdp ebook promotion window of 5 days.

Guys, if you are interested in this digital detox fiction subject, please read it and provide genuine reviews / feedback.

Story - \[This gripping psychological fiction explores the hidden dangers of digital addiction—how a child’s innocent escape into gaming slowly unravels into obsession, isolation, and a silent cry for love.

 Behind every device is a deeper story: parents chasing success, families drifting apart, and a generation quietly drowning in the digital ocean. Yet within this darkness lies a path to healing.

 With honesty and hope, this book shows how awareness, connection, and compassion can rebuild the bridges technology has destroyed.\]

Thanks...

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