No Content Publishing: An Open Letter to @AmazonKDP

About this video

In an open letter to the Amazon KDP team, Dale argues that no-content books — blank-interior diaries, journals and planners the customer fills in — are a legitimate, different product from fiction and nonfiction, not a scam. He says, as his own claim, that he knows people earning from a few hundred dollars to five or even six figures a month from them, and that he buys and uses them himself. He lists three problems: miscategorization, where no-content books sit on fiction/nonfiction shelves and confuse readers; slow print approval times, which he puts at roughly three to four days and sometimes up to two weeks; and account terminations tied to repetitious interiors, rights disputes over similar titles, and unclear explanations of what was violated, which he says devastates families relying on the income. His five proposed solutions are: create a separate platform for no-content publishing, possibly categorized under office supplies or stationery; impose clear daily upload maximums, citing Merch by Amazon as a model and calling a rumoured 1,000-book weekly maximum ludicrous; purge non-performing content after a shelf life; apply consistent human vetting, including against keyword-stuffed titles and pixel-for-pixel copying; and issue a clear statement defining where KDP stands on no-content versus low-content books, as he says IngramSpark had just done.

Key takeaways

• No-content books are blank-interior journals, diaries and planners — a different product and audience from fiction/nonfiction, Dale argues
• Earnings figures cited are Dale’s claims about people he knows, not verified results
• Main complaints: miscategorization confusing readers, slow approvals, and opaque account terminations over repetitive interiors and rights issues
• Proposed fixes include a separate platform/stationery categories, daily upload limits and purging non-performing titles
• He asks KDP for consistent enforcement and a clear public statement defining no-content vs low-content publishing

Episode details: published February 27, 2020 · 15:54 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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