Amazon KDP Low Content Niches on Fire

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(Summarized from the Arabic caption track.) Dale lists his top 10 low-content book niches on Amazon KDP, first defining low-content books as books the customer fills in — journals, diaries, notebooks and planners in Amazon’s terms — while excluding puzzle, activity and coloring books from this video to avoid confusion. He stresses this is not a get-rich-quick scheme: the niches are extremely competitive, so invest only in what genuinely interests you, and he notes he uses Publisher Rocket to check keywords (disclosing his affiliate link). The list: (1) sheet music books for piano, guitar, bass and lyric writers; (2) writing prompt books, where a branded series stands out and prompts must be original, not copied from Google; (3) self-help workbooks as companions to a main nonfiction book; (4) sketchbooks with blank or lightly printed pages, including comic panel books — he recalls one he published around 2016 or 2017 doing very well; (5) journals, diaries and notebooks, which remain viable only with a creative concept or marketing angle; (6) monthly budget planners, with the caveat that dated planners expire — a 2023 planner released in November 2022 loses appeal after the first half of the year; (7) fitness trackers, including weight-loss logs aimed at women and daily food and fitness logs; (8) adult humor blank books, with a warning that profanity will block Amazon and Facebook advertising; (9) children’s education books covering handwriting, math and similar skills, checking with KDP support and ticking the low-content checkbox when applicable; and (10) graph paper books, avoiding trademarked terms such as ‘bullet journals’ in titles and metadata.

Key takeaways

• Low-content niches are highly competitive, not a get-rich-quick play — pick niches you personally care about and differentiate with a creative concept, series or brand.
• Strong companion-product play: pair a self-help or nonfiction book with a workbook so readers have somewhere to take notes and apply the material.
• Dated products like monthly budget planners have a built-in expiry problem — demand drops once part of the dated period has passed, unlike undated or evergreen formats.
• Adult humor books using profanity cannot be promoted through Amazon or Facebook ads, so traffic must come from elsewhere.
• Never use trademarked terms such as ‘bullet journals’ in your title, subtitle or metadata, and when unsure whether a book counts as low-content, ask KDP support and tick the low-content checkbox so it is classified correctly.

Episode details: published June 29, 2022 · 8:13 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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