Kindle Publishing Income Report - How I'm Making $4000 a month from 4 Books

About this video

Sean gives an income update on recently launched books, presenting the figures as his own results. He says the first book — launched with a free promotion, an email-list launch and $0.99 sales — made about $700 in 30 days from ebook and paperback, roughly $750 including Kindle Unlimited page reads (KENP), excluding audiobook, already returning his production cost. A second book in the same niche made a similar amount, about $700, around $750 with page reads, against a production cost he puts at roughly $600 per book. A third book in a different niche, helped by AMS ads, made about $800, or $870 to close to $900 with page reads. The fourth and best performer is a three-book bundle assembled from existing single-book files for about $50 in production cost; he says it made over $1,000 in 30 days including page reads, though no audiobook version is possible because the singles were already used on ACX. Combined, he claims the four books come close to $4,000 a month, and expects $4,000 a month once ACX audiobooks are live. A fifth, newest book made $170 in its first 10 days. His launch approach, beyond a paid course’s strategy he declines to share in detail, is to drive as many sales as fast as possible after going live — $0.99 promotions, multiple AMS campaigns, email marketing where he has a list, and a VA posting in Facebook book-promotion groups — followed by a free promotion, though he says free promotions are getting fewer downloads and he may skip them. He credits differentiation (not copying competitors’ covers and titles), writing subtitles that answer pain points found in competitors’ reviews, and quality control: detailed outlines and proofreading every book himself before publishing.

Key takeaways

• Creator-claimed results: four recent books each made roughly $750-$1,000+ in 30 days, totaling close to $4,000 a month, with a $50-cost bundle earning over $1,000
• Launch for velocity: stack $0.99 sales, multiple AMS campaigns, email-list pushes and Facebook group promotion to signal demand to Amazon quickly
• Differentiate covers and titles instead of copying competitors, whose sameness he says customers and Amazon dislike
• Mine competitors’ reviews for buyer pain points and make the subtitle (and description) promise the solution to that pain point
• Protect quality: detailed outlines and personally proofreading every book; he also notes free promotions are yielding fewer downloads than before

Episode details: published March 22, 2019 · 13:46 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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