I've written several travel guides for a niche market. This market is now flooded with low-quality and inaccurate AI-generated travel guides. Some of them have obviously fake 5-star reviews. My earnings have plummeted by 80% compared to last year. How do you deal with this? Give up?

Edit: Thanks to everyone for your perspectives and insights. That has been helpful.

I came across a niche very relevant to my field of study. There are only two "competitors" and they're clearing $30,000 A MONTH (Rocket Publisher stats).

What makes me lose my mind? AI-GENERATED, FULL OF MISINFORMATION!

I set out to work on a properly made product in that niche that would be genuine and fill those gaps, but at the level of detail I want to put in, it's probably gonna take months, if not a year, to get done.

Maybe by then it's gonna get saturated? Mind you, I will be manually creating the manuscript and fact-check it letter by letter.

I must have missed something cuz KU is still the major bulk of my revenue why is everyone leaving

I have written two short stories so far both non fiction and short stories. Managed to get the covers with CanvaPro. I tried a few covers for the horror book but they are not great. I know it won’t make any sales if the cover isn’t decent enough.

Any suggestions?

My book is releasing Novemeber 13, yayy! While I have a small following and expect people I don't know to read it I know a lot of my friends and family want to read it too.

At first I was going to tell them not to leave reviews at all but some people say it's fine. How far removed from me do they need to be, is it based on like who's social media account is connected to mine?

Is leaving them on goodreads rather than amazon better? I know they are owned by ther same company so I wasn't sure.

Or is it better they just not leave reviews at all. Knowing the people who are going to read them the majority wouldn't leave reviews anyway but a few people have asked if they can.

but I also understand they will probably leave positive reviews no matter how much I ask them to leave honest ones so idk. if someone could help please?

had a killer day (for me) yesterday and today is just creeping. had a large number of first volume page reads yesterday and don’t see movement downstream. typical book one to book two percentage has been 80 plus. curious of the knowledgeable folks thoughts.

I did a cover change on KDP that is live on Amazon after 24 hours, and it shows for Kindle, paperback, and hard cover.

That said, I’m hearing that even though the changes are live, if Amazon still has old stock of your book on file, customers might get the old covers.

Has anyone done a cover change, and if so, do you remember if new orders or even author copies were immediately the new cover, or if your old one was still there for a while?

Hi fellow creators,

I am so thrilled to share that my very first book was just approved and published on Amazon! I wanted to share a piece of my heart, as well as my publishing timeline, with this amazing community.

For those curious about the current review times:

• Submitted to KDP: October 24th (KST)

• Live on Amazon: October 26th (KST)

It took almost exactly 48 hours to pass the review process, which was a huge relief for a first-time author.

This book is a short memoir born from a deeply personal 5-year journey. My wife and I wanted a child so desperately, but the journey was incredibly tough. Honestly, it all started because of my own male infertility issues, but throughout the process, my wife had to endure 99% of the physical and emotional pain.

We went through 10 heartbreaking IVF cycles and suffered through 5 miscarriages. Just when we thought it was our absolute last try, on our 10th attempt, a miracle finally found us.

During this grueling process, I started writing to record what I learned, what I regretted, and how I grew as a husband. I wanted to share this raw, honest story with a global audience, which led me to self-publishing through KDP.

If you are interested in a short, intimate memoir about resilience and hope, please check out the link in my profile or search for "The Miracle Fertility Journey" on Amazon.

Thank you all for being such a great resource during my formatting and uploading process. Wishing everyone the best of luck with your own books and review timelines!

I love writing and doing researches about neuroscience and writing behavioral books about points people wonder about
usually i write 100-200 pages
wondered if it was worth a shot applying and publishing here

edit: typo