How To Create A Low Content Book - (Amazon KDP Log Books) - No Content Book Publishing

About this video

Martinez teaches how to create a low-content book for Kindle Direct Publishing, using a homeschooling hours log book as the worked example. He stresses research before creation: confirm demand, study top interiors on Amazon, and note that many successful interiors are simple, differentiated mainly by a unique cover or by being first in a niche. He shows an editable Pixel Pod Studio template opened in PowerPoint — with a ‘belongs to’ page and weekday logging pages — but explicitly does not recommend uploading the ready-made PDF as-is; sellers should make it their own in tools such as PowerPoint, Publisher or InDesign, or outsource if design is not their strength. His step-by-step covers trim size (8.5 x 11 inches in this niche), gauging page count from competitors (roughly 130–170 pages in the examples, not an arbitrary 600), downloading KDP’s paperback cover template for the exact page count so spine and bleed are right, and making the cover clearly relate to and stand out in the niche. He then covers keyword research with Helium 10, ranking for a long-tail keyword in the title, subtitle, seven backend keyword slots and description, and researching interiors via Amazon’s Look Inside feature and competitor reviews — negative reviews reveal improvements, such as serving more than one student, that can differentiate a second edition or a better interior.

Key takeaways

• Research demand first: search the long-tail keyword, check competitors’ BSR consistency and result counts, and confirm people are actually buying before building the interior.
• Do not upload a template service’s ready PDF unchanged — use editable templates in PowerPoint, Publisher or InDesign as a starting point and make the interior your own.
• Match trim size and page count to the niche’s norms, then download KDP’s cover template for that exact page count because spine and bleed change with page count.
• Differentiate on cover and interior: a unique, niche-relevant cover is what gets the click, and being different from competitors creates less competition for yourself.
• Mine competitor reviews — especially negative ones — for missing features to add, and put researched long-tail keywords in the title, subtitle, seven backend slots and description.

Episode details: published July 16, 2020 · 16:54 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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