easter colouring books are making up to
150
a day on amazon as they approach easter
sunday
or up to 250 dollars if you throw in
some puzzles with that
now in this video i'm going to show you
how you can take any image or vector
image
and in just three steps create an
interior
for one of these coloring books to
publish on amazon just using your
computer
or laptop and you can even do this with
free software
but you have to be quick if you're going
to get your books published
so what are we waiting for let's go now
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like this now in my most recent video
which i'll link to below
i looked at the easter niche in some
detail and explored the keywords and
resources
for the covers and interiors but if we
take a quick
look at the market for easter coloring
books on amazon
it's quite strong and if we look here as
i do a search for easter coloring book
we can see that the the market is quite
strong
and competitive there are 3 000 results
here
but if you do watch that previous video
you'll see that on my gumroad shop i do
have easter coloring book keywords
listed there
for free and there are some less
competitive keywords
but if we have a quick look down here at
the the coloring books that are listed
what i did was
take around about the top four books
based on their best sellers ranks
and i put the details into a spreadsheet
and looked at the bestsellers rank sales
per month
using the tck book publishing calculator
you just put the best sellers rank in
here and it'll tell you how many sales
per month or
or how many sales per day then i used
tangent templates
entering the page account and list price
to get the profit per book
and then work out the income for each
book
and also i wrote down the the number of
pages per book there so we just get an
idea of what the the average number of
pages per book is in the market
we can see here it's somewhere between
50 and 107. but you can see the incoming
is not
huge at the moment we're looking at
anywhere between 57 to 290 dollars per
month now i know the book calculator
does underestimate quite a bit when i
compare my sales
um with the the best sellers ranks of
some of my books so this
is probably an underestimate but
anywhere here between 50 70 290
a month however that's at the moment
but what i'm about to show you in a
second will change that completely
because if we don't find some books that
have got a a sales history over the last
two years
we can see that it looks quite different
here we've got a book selling for 7.95
and we can see using a free plugin i've
got called
helium10 it's absolutely free it's a
chrome plug-in you can see here that the
the best sellers rank rises and then
drops as it's coming up to easter
and then reaches a low and for this
particular book here it's around about
i think it's around about the fourth out
4167 i think then i went and had to look
at this
other book again selling 7.97 which is
good because it means there's profit
there
of around about 2.60 and again we can
see that the
the best sellers rank has dropped twice
um coming up to
to easter and again i think the low was
around about the 8
000 mark and then we have this one here
which is actually a colouring book but
it's got some
puzzles in there as well to make it an
activity book
not selling as uh as such a high price
but the best sellers rank
really dropped on this one particularly
last year if we look here i think it
went down to
i think it's about seven eight nine
which is selling a real lot so i put
that into the the spreadsheet as you can
see here
and we can see that for the first two
first two coloring books
they're making around about the 150
mark uh per day remember this is an
underestimate
uh the actual activity book is making a
lot more
almost 250 a month again probably an
underestimate
so you can see although the sales are
not brilliant at the moment
those best sellers ranks will drop as
sales start to increase so it really is
important to get your books in now
to take advantage of that and get those
keywords for your book
indexed on amazon well before
actual easter sunday approaches which i
think this year
is around about april the 4th so let's
look at creating
the interior for any book this is
usually the most difficult part but
especially for things like colouring
books puzzle books
and handwriting books they do take quite
a bit of time
to create the interiors but what i'm
going to show you is quite
a quick and effective method now if
you're an artist
you can create these yourself or trace
images on an ipad
using something like procreate if not
like me you can outsource on
fiverr or upwork or buy ready-made
graphics to customize yourself
and this is important to make them
unique and avoid
any issues with duplicate content
penalties you could
just go straight to creative fabrica and
download
a coloring book interior here we've got
an interior
um that's listed i just did a search on
creative fabrica for
easter interior and we've got this one
here the advantage of this particular
listing
is that it does come as adobe
illustrator file
which means each page is fully editable
if we do go back we can see that there
are some other offerings here
but they're not as easily editable so
you can imagine if more people are
buying these and they're not modifying
them
then there can be issues of lots of
people creating
coloring books with the same interior so
it's quite important to to modify them
to make them
original now you could combine a
coloring book interior
with puzzles to create an activity book
so you could use
in a way these ready-made coloring book
interiors
and add some puzzles in there again that
would make your interior
more original so i'm going to show you
how to do this in just three steps
you could use this method to make the
covers too now the first step
is finding suitable images the second
step is
editing them and making them original
and the third step is putting them all
together
in an interior ready to upload to the
kdp
platform on amazon so we'll first find
our main images we want vector images
for these vectors are great because you
can enlarge them without reducing the
quality
and they're easily manipulated in
software the file formats for these are
dot
ai dot svg and dot eps
a popular site for vector images is
vectezi and here i did a search for
easter
now you'll know there's lots of graphics
here with this little
free badge on now you can use these
you normally have to put a an
attribution in your book you can do that
you know on the first page but you're
only allowed to sell 50 copies
but what you could do is use the money
to invest in a pro license which is
currently
108 so you could use your profits you
make
to invest and then upgrade to the pro
license and use as many of these as you
like
and to create even more books but if we
have a look here just a quick scroll
down i'll see if there's anything that i
like that
jumps out at me and i'm going to have a
closer look at this one
so i'll go ahead and download this
particular one because i can see good
potential now there are other sites
where you can get
images from the ones i've used are
design bundles
and creative fabrica now as mentioned in
many
videos creative fabric is one of my
favorites at the moment because they
sell lots of interiors great graphics
images and also fonts i'll leave the
link
down below to that it is an affiliate
link so i do get a small commission for
that which helps us
keep this channel um going but if you
click on it
it's entirely up to you so let's have a
look what they've got on offer at
creative fabrica now again i did a
search for easter
and i went down a few pages and came up
with these which look
pretty interesting i can see a use for
these
so i'm actually going to go ahead and
click on this one and
click on download so we can download it
to the computer now
to make these original one we're also
going to need
particularly for the the second graphic
i think we're going to be all right with
the first graphic
but the second one we're going to make
it original by downloading
some backgrounds that can be colored in
or patterns so went over to creative
fabrica again
and did a search for patterns and there
are lots to choose from and i came
across
this one 25 geometric pattern coloring
pages
these are all jpeg files so i went ahead
and downloaded them if you're really
feeling enthusiastic you could create
these patterns yourself
in your software of choice but we're
going to download them make life a bit
easier so
by the time you've combined your main
image with a pattern you will have
something in me uh
something original because it's unlikely
anyone else is going to have that same
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and it's much appreciated so now we've
got our
images we're on to step two and that's
editing them
in software now today i'm going to use
affinity designer i'm actually new to
this software
but i really like its functionality and
is a cross between
adobe illustrator and photoshop i also
bought affinity photo for photo editing
which is
similar to adobe lightroom actually
they're currently offering the software
at half price
which i think's around about the 28 mark
they actually reduced it to about half
price
approximately three days after i paid
full price but but that's how it goes
so that's actually a bargain so if you
are interested check them out
affinity designer you can also do what
i'm going to show you in adobe
illustrator
or there's free software such as
inkscape or graphic design and now
graphic designer is a web-based
software and what i'm going to show you
is pretty basic so can easily be
performed
on any other software so let's go over
to our software of choice which is
affinity
designer now what i've done is i've set
up my blank
page first of all now this is going to
be a coloring book and the images are
going to go to the edges of the pages so
we need bleed so this is going to be 8.5
by 11 but because it's bleed
because the images go to the edges we're
going to need to add on an extra amount
so we're going to add on
0.25 to the height and 0.125
to the width so it's going to be 8.625
by 11.25 so we've got our blank
documents here for our first page so
we're going to take our
image now first of all i want to get rid
of this
background here so i'm just going to
delete that and that leaves us with this
main
image now we need to drag a bounding box
around the whole
image and what we need to do is click on
our color tab and
we're going to put an outline around all
the components of this image so we click
on this which is the stroke
and we're going to click on black so
that will put you can see there it
outlines our image
and we're going to do the fill as white
now those lines are a bit fine so
we're going to increase the size of the
stroke we're just going to move it
up a bit i think to about three so there
we've actually got our first
image which i think would be a great
first page in our coloring book
now we come on to our second image now
we don't want these background
components so we're just going to delete
those and again we're going to put a
bounding box so we're just going to draw
a box which is going to
select all the components of this image
now as we did before
we want our stroke as black and we want
our fill
as white now we've got lines of
different thickness here so we want to
make them all equal so again we click on
stroke and we're just going to
see what that looks like at back four so
this one will be eight
like so so now we're going to go on to
our blank page for this
now what i want is our pattern that we
downloaded
so we're just going to drag across our
pattern
like so and put it onto our page holding
down
shift i'm just going to drag that so it
covers the the whole page
then we're going to go back to our image
of the rabbit and
again abounding box around it all
command or control c
to copy command or control v to paste
that's quite large so let's just shrink
it all down holding down shift i'll just
reduce the size of the image
drag it up to our page enlarge that
again now our image the
the stroke seems to be a bit gone a bit
wild so let's just adjust that again
just to make it match our background and
there we have
our page and that's something that uh a
child or even
an adult if they're into easter current
books could quite easily color in
so you know you might want to spend more
time in picking
a background or again as i said creating
a background yourself so now we've got
our
two pages two images sorted out we're
now on to step
three which is to create the interior
and today i'm going to use
keynote because i'm on a mac you can use
powerpoint or
you can do this in something like canva
which again is free
so i've set up my page size in keynote
you do have to convert the
inch size to points but you can just
google that and it comes up with a
calculator
using keynote and powerpoint is how i've
created
all my interiors i haven't used anything
fancy like
in design or affinity publisher but you
can use those
and do the same process i'm going to go
through here to create the same sort of
interior so we open up
keynote and we've got our blank page
here this is going to be a 60 page
coloring book
so all you do is just highlight your
page command c control c
to copy and then just command v or
control v
to paste until you get down to the
number of pages you want to do in this
case as i said
60 and we've got our 60 pages here so we
can go to the top
and just highlight our first page so we
go back to affinity designer
take our first image and just draw
another bounding box around it
command c or control v to copy go back
to keynote
paste in place and then just adjust the
size
now a lot of people will use the the
page behind
as a blank page or keep it blank so that
colors don't bleed
through so we're going to leave that
page blank and go on to page
number three go back to affinity
designer go to our second image
or second page command c or control c to
copy
back to keynote and command v or control
v
to paste and there we have our next page
so now you could repeat this process and
go through what this book would require
what is it
30 images or 29 probably 30 and you can
do the same thing
and you can see how quick this process
is
and you can make it as simple or as
complex as you want
but by creating those or combining those
two images the main image
and the background we do arrive at
something that is
original and so you avoid those
duplicate content penalties
which i know has been quite a big issue
with people producing particularly
coloring books that have just downloaded
an interior not made any changes
and just uploaded it to kdp so there's a
way just to make things
a bit uh easier for you and as you can
see on something like creative fabric
you've got loads of graphics you can
choose
from so really once you start combining
the two there's really unlimited
combinations
that you can do but part of this is also
just to spark your imagination
to think about what i've done here and
how could you apply it to to
other images and do a similar thing then
the last thing you need to do is just
click on file
export to click on pdf leave the image
quality as best
click on next call it whatever you like
save it to your documents folder
and there you're going to have your pdf
file
all ready to upload to the kdp
platform and you're good to go now if
you want to learn more about this niche
especially the market the keywords which
are crucial
to get your book ranked then click this
video here
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