Is It Too Late to Start Amazon KDP in 2022??

About this video

Sean argues it is not too late to start Amazon KDP in 2022, saying people have claimed the platform was saturated every year since around 2012-2013 yet publishers still make money. He says new niches and keywords appear constantly as new topics emerge, giving examples of fidget spinners and Bitcoin/cryptocurrency books that did not exist as keywords before those trends. He explains what he calls the new release boost: Amazon gives new books extra impressions for roughly the first 30 days to test whether they convert better than existing page-one books, which is why recently published books with few reviews can appear on page one. To prove new books can succeed, he shows examples he describes as independently published with strong BSRs, including audiobooks in the relationship niche and a dream interpretation book published September 29th, and walks through finding more proof himself via Amazon’s Hot New Releases category, checking the publisher line for ‘independently published’ and using a quick-view plugin. He closes by saying KDP remains profitable if you find low-competition profitable keywords and launch properly, and promotes his course.

Key takeaways

• Saturation claims have recurred every year since KDP began, yet new publishers still make money
• New trends continually create new keywords and untapped niches to publish into
• Amazon tests new books with extra exposure for about the first 30 days after publication
• Use Hot New Releases plus the ‘independently published’ publisher line to find recent self-published successes as proof
• Success depends on finding profitable low-competition keywords and launching the book properly

Episode details: published October 11, 2021 · 9:40 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Sean Dollwet’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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