Kindle Publishing Income Report 2019 - Biggest January Success!

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Sean reports, as his own claimed figures, January 2019 self-publishing income of $14,280.90. He breaks this down as $6,774.58 from KDP ebooks and paperbacks, which he attributes partly to bundles and single books added in October and November taking weeks to months to pay off. For ACX he says he has two unmerged accounts - an LLC account and a personal account - reporting about $1,088 from the LLC account and $5,835 from the personal account, with bounties a major part of the personal account: he reports 52 bounties at $50 per bounty and notes the bounty system was expected to change. Outside Amazon, he says about 20 books uploaded to Draft2Digital over a year earlier were still making about $500 a month consistently, while PublishDrive made $81 in January and was slowly declining, averaging around $75. He advises moving books wide only if they are effectively dead on Amazon, earning under $10-$20 a month, otherwise keeping them in KDP Select. His current focus, he says, is quality, AMS promotion and building an email list rather than publishing volume.

Key takeaways

• He claims January 2019 total income of $14,280.90 across KDP, ACX, Draft2Digital and PublishDrive - his reported figures, not independently verified
• KDP was his largest single source in the report at a claimed $6,774.58, helped by bundles launched months earlier
• ACX bounties at $50 each were a significant income component, which he expected to fall under a changed bounty system
• He recommends wide distribution via Draft2Digital/PublishDrive only for books earning under $10-$20 a month on Amazon
• His stated strategy shift is from volume to quality books, AMS promotion and email-list marketing for repeat buyers

Episode details: published February 16, 2019 · 9:36 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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