KDP Amazon | 2 Hours or More Kindle Short Reads Niches 2020

About this video

Note: this summary is based on the Arabic-language caption track, summarized faithfully in English. Dale Roberts ranks Kindle Short Reads categories in the two-hours-or-more length, which he describes as roughly 65 to 100 pages. He explains that Short Reads placement depends on the BISAC category, keywords and page count, and that he judges a category healthy when its top titles rank roughly between 10,000 and 100,000 in the paid Kindle store — lower is more competitive, higher suggests too few sales. Working from most to least competitive, he walks through categories including crafts, hobbies and home; arts and photography; parenting and relationships; biographies and memoirs; comics and graphic novels; humor and entertainment; science and math; sports and outdoors; and travel, giving the first- and tenth-place sales ranks he observed in each and estimating the daily sales needed to break into its top 10, often in the single digits to low tens per day. He closes by directing viewers back to the earlier parts of his Short Reads series for the other lengths.

Key takeaways

• Two-hours-or-more Short Reads are roughly 65 to 100 pages, placed via BISAC, keywords and page count
• Dale’s healthy-category window is a best-seller rank roughly between 10,000 and 100,000
• Many listed categories need only single-digit to low-tens daily sales to reach their top 10
• Travel is presented as a particularly open category, with a very low tenth-place rank
• Invest in a good cover — Dale criticizes weak covers even on selling titles in these categories

Episode details: published April 3, 2020 · 11:19 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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