How I Made $9,370.56 in December 2022 By Self Publishing Books On Amazon - Amazon KDP Income Report

About this video

Martinez explains his Amazon KDP paperback strategy, saying he focuses on paperbacks rather than ebooks and does not handle inventory or customer service because KDP prints and ships on purchase. He stresses research before choosing a niche — using the Amazon search bar and tools he names such as Book Bolt and his own Pixel Pod Studio, and checking what people buy in stores and libraries — to understand who will buy the book. Book types he mentions include colouring books, journals, planners, log books, recipe/cookbooks, lined notebooks and how-to and maths workbooks, created himself or outsourced via Upwork or Fiverr, using tools such as Canva, PowerPoint, Affinity Publisher or InDesign. He advises studying your own reviews and beating your own top sellers, e.g. adding pages if buyers ask for more. As his claim, he reports a total of $9,370.56 for December 1-31, 2022, with 1,300 books live, a highest day over $600, and his top book making close to $6,000 that month after dropping below 1,000 BSR, followed by books at $694, $465 and $318. He says he paused ads for December, normally spending roughly $200-$500 a month on KDP ads by his account, and was publishing three to six books per month focused on evergreen niches that surge at the holidays.

Key takeaways

• Focus, in his approach, on paperback low/medium-content books via KDP so Amazon handles printing, shipping and inventory.
• Research the niche and buyer first — Amazon search, Book Bolt/Pixel Pod Studio, and in-store observation — before creating anything.
• Compete with yourself: mine reviews of your top sellers for complaints (e.g. too few pages) and make the next book in the niche better.
• Earnings stated are the creator’s claims: $9,370.56 in December 2022 across 1,300 live books, driven mainly by one evergreen top seller.
• Build evergreen books that also peak at holidays, publish steadily (he claims three to six books a month), and keep ad spend controlled and optimised.

Episode details: published January 27, 2023 · 7:54 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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