5 Highly Profitable & Competitive Kindle Publishing Niches

About this video

Dale looks at the opposite end of the spectrum from untapped niches: five highly profitable but highly competitive Kindle publishing niches, which he says took him about 15 minutes to find by digging into hyper-niched-down categories rather than the overall Kindle bestseller list. To qualify, he wanted books ranked under the top 500 in the paid Kindle store, in niches whose top 10 books are all under rank 10,000. The five are: (5) women’s fiction under African American literature and fiction, with the top book in the mid-200s; (4) private investigators, a very specific niche under Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, with the top book around 200, a category where he says he knows self-publishers who have succeeded; (3) contemporary, specifically Christian romance under Religious and Spiritual Inspiration, with the top book in the 70s — he warns entrants to be prepared for a fight; (2) adoption, under Teen and Young Adult literature and fiction, with five category splits and the top book in the low 60s; and (1) meditation, the one nonfiction entry, broadly under Health, Fitness and Dieting, where the top book dominates numerous charts. He closes by noting a book can be added to 10 categories/browse paths, and that the meditation book’s publisher was wise to use all 10.

Key takeaways

• Dale’s screen for a profitable, competitive niche: a top book under rank 500 in the paid Kindle store and a top 10 all under rank 10,000
• The five niches named are women’s fiction (African American literature), private investigators, Christian contemporary romance, adoption (teen/YA), and meditation
• Most of the profitable competitive niches he found are fiction; meditation under Health, Fitness and Dieting was the nonfiction exception
• Romance splinters into thousands of subcategories, so the specific sub-niche matters more than the broad category
• A book can be placed in up to 10 categories/browse paths, and Dale credits the top meditation book’s dominance partly to using all 10

Episode details: published July 29, 2017 · 4:13 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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