Multi-Five Figures Per Month Self-Publishing Books on Amazon KDP - How I Did It

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Sean gives his June 2021 income report for a business he claims averages about $35,000 a month, citing $37,000 in January, $28,000 in February, $29,000 in March, $27,000 in April and $37,000 in May. For June he reports $16,670.61 from KDP, $11,261.34 from his company ACX account and $949 from his personal ACX account, $2,692 US / $284 UK / $167 Australia / $138 Global Connect from IngramSpark, $713.48 from Draft2Digital, $535 from Google Play, $1,460 from Findaway Voices, $28 from Ezoic, $15 from ClickBank and $1.03 from Amazon Associates. Expenses were $4,967 AMS US, $592 Canada and about $951-952 UK, plus $2,048.03 production, for $8,822 total, leaving a claimed profit of $26,103.65. He does high-content non-fiction — about 30,000 words, about 150 pages — not low-content. Takeaways: run ads because Amazon rewards it, focus on quality without overpaying (he says he never pays more than $20 for formatting), and treat low-content hype as a starter path that is harder to scale past roughly $5,000 a month.

Key takeaways

• Income is diversified across KDP, ACX audiobooks, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, Google Play and Findaway Voices
• He claims June profit of $26,103.65 after $8,822 in ad and production expenses
• Run Amazon ads — he says organic ranking and sales rise when you advertise
• Focus on quality but protect ROI: do not overpay for outlines or formatting
• Prefer KDP Select first and high-content books for long-term scaling over low-content

Episode details: published August 9, 2021 · 20:04 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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