Self publishing on Amazon,
especially no content and low content books on the KDP platform is a great way
to make money online.
You create your book and then it sits there on Amazon waiting to be bought.
So from that one-off time spent creating a book you can be making sales
now 10 years in the future.
And even whilst you're asleep and that's what we call a passive income.
But it needn't stop there because there are ways to make even more money from
the books you create. And in this video,
I'm going to show you five ways you can leverage that initial work in creating a
book to make sales on other online platforms.
So if you're looking to make money online,
build an online business or become a self-publisher, then follow along.
Now if you've have not been here before then welcome to my channel.
My name's Paul Marles and I do videos and how to make it, keep it and grow it.
And that's your money I'm talking about. And if you do like videos like that,
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if you're new here and don't know what low content books are,
they are books like planners, diaries, journals, log books,
coloring books, puzzle books. In fact,
there are more of these types of books than you could possibly imagine,
many making a lot of money selling on Amazon.
And the reason I like creating and selling these types of books is that you can
create your digital files. That's the book cover and book interior,
which I show you how to do in a lot of my videos,
upload them to Amazon and let them just sit there, waiting to be bought.
There is no cost to store them. The traffic is free. And when you make a sale,
Amazon prints out the book and deals with the fulfillment to the customer and
any customer support.
And as your books get found and you slowly create more books,
this income can grow and grow.
And if you want an example of how powerful this is,
one of my best selling books took me one to two hours to create.
And over the last 12 months has sold over 8,000 copies making just over
$15,000. That's just one book alone. But
there are ways to make more money from those digital files you've created
already have stored on your computer.
So leveraging that initial time you spent on creating the books in the first
place, even more. Now when I first started doing research for this video,
I was going to do it on how to make extra money with the designs on your book
covers and your interiors.
But I discovered there were more ways to do this with your interiors than I
initially thought. So I decided to devote this whole video to it.
So let's look at these five ways. Number one, first of all,
Creative Fabrica.
Now many of you and I include myself in this have purchased interior files from
Creative Fabrica. And if I do a general search for KDP interiors,
you can see, we have pages and pages of different types of interiors,
and they vary considerably.
And they can be for single types of interiors to bundles of interiors.
But instead of buying them, what about selling them now?
I don't know how well they're selling on Creative Fabrica,
but I've bought quite a few myself.
And from some of the emails I've received from sellers,
they are making pretty good sales.
You can earn up to 75% on each sale.
It's free to open an account and you can request a payout anytime you like.
So, if you create your own interiors or outsource their creation,
you can upload them as a PDF file,
but customers directly upload to the KDP platform and as vector files
in.ai, .eps and .svg formats,
and as raster files in .png or .jpg
format. So if you're creating these files anyway,
why not give it a go? You could also do similar on Gumroad,
where can also find sellers selling KDP interior
files. You would however, have to create traffic to your own Gumroad shop,
which I will discuss later in the video.
Whereas Creative Fabrica already has a good customer
base and plenty of potential traffic. But again, it's free to do so.
Why not? Number two on my list is Etsy. Again,
you can sell KDP interiors here, but what's more popular are printables.
Now you may be asking what are printables? Well,
these are files like this plannerhere that customers can download as a
PDF file and then print out. And from these printouts,
they can make their own books,
notepads and activity sheets, which are very popular.
These are things like calendars, handwriting sheets, coloring pages,
and puzzle books. Planners,
such as the one I've shown you and things like budget planners,
holiday planners and student planners are also very popular.
You can even offer them in a customized version too. Again,
Etsy has the advantage of already having a large customer base that
you can leverage. I always used to think of Etsy as selling physical products,
but again,
you can sell digital products that don't cost anything to store or
send out. Now, number three on my list is an interesting one.
There's some of you may not have come across and thought about,
and that's Amazon Ignite. Now, unfortunately,
this is only for sellers that reside in the US but don't worry,
I'll show you a similar site next that's available to sellers all over the
world. It's also invitation only.
So you have to apply similar to Merch by Amazon.
So what is Amazon Ignite? Well,
it's a marketplace on Amazon for sellers to sell digital
educational resources. Here are some examples,
a handwriting practice book,
identical to those handwriting books that KDP publishers create,
reading guides like this and puzzle books like this.
They are educational material aimed at different age groups
and, as they are not printed by Amazon,
it doesn't cost you more to create color versions. Either.
Another big plus to this platform is that they pay out 70% royalties
or slightly less if your book is $2.99 or
less, which is more than KDP.
And looking at the number of reviews these products have,
they are making decent sales.
I expect Amazon Ignite will probably roll out to different countries in the
future. Number four on my list is similar to Amazon Ignite,
but available for sellers all over the world.
And that's teacherspayteachers.com.
It's also free to open an account and they pay out via PayPal.
It's a platform where teachers and publishers, like yourself,
can publish educational content like these handwriting practice books
and puzzle books. Great.
If you've already created the interiors for these types of books on KDP.
Many of the products here have thousands of reviews again
indicating good potential sales. Looking at this,
it looks like you can even create interactive digital versions of your files as
well,.but I'll leave you to look into into that one and how to do it. Now,
the last and fifth platform,
and one of my favorites is Fiverr. It's easy to get started.
And one of the easiest ways to make money online,
especially if you're just starting out and have a skill that is monetizable.
And these can be simple skills.
It's a platform where you can sell interiors that you've already created,
like these sellers are doing here. Or you can offer a service,
or gig as it's called,
of creating customized or original bespoke interiors like
this one here.
Great if you're an artist illustrator or graphic
designer and you don't have to sell at $5 either. You can sell for more,
depending on the level of your gig. Now,
in order to make sales on these platforms, you are going to need traffic.
Some of these platforms already have traffic like Amazon and Creative Fabrica.
So you'll need your products to get found using keywords and optimizing your
listings. Very similar to KDP books.
If you want to learn more about that,
I'll leave some links to videos up here on that very subject.
If you really want to go for it,
you can create social media platforms around your products on sites like
Instagram, Facebook, and like I do here on YouTube.
You could even run ad campaigns on these platforms if you were doing well and
really wanted to take it to the next level.
Now remember you may not make a fortune from these different platforms unless
you decide to specialize and really make it your business and success will
depend on how much time and work you put into them.
But they are additional sources of income,
which is important in any online business. First of all,
these sources can all add up to a pretty decent income.
And also the more income streams you have,
the more you're protected if one of these streams goes down for whatever
reason. Now, with these platforms,
success depends on how much time and work you put into them.
And like books, quality is always going to be key.
So don't expect to throw up a few poor quality products and be
expecting to make sales. Now,
I understand that some of these platforms you may not be able to operate from
depending on where you are in the world, but some of them you can.
But even if it's one extra platform, it's better than nothing. Now,
if you have questions about these platforms, such as payout methods,
countries they operate in and tax queries,
then they all have great frequently asked question sections,
and customer support. So start there.
If you want to get started on creating these KDP interiors and selling them on
other platforms,
then watch this video on how to create coloring book interiors or
this one here on logbook interiors.
Don't forget to hit the subscribe button. Thank you for your time.
It's much appreciated. And until next time, goodbye.