My BEST Month Ever!? | Self Publishing Income Report December 2020

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Sean reports December as, by his account, his best publishing month ever. He claims KDP royalties of $18,919, calls ACX his second-highest platform — estimating about $16,000 from his LLC account with 73 titles, noting his estimate can be about $1,000 off, plus about $1,415 from a personal ACX account with 51 titles he had not merged — and reports IngramSpark, Draft2Digital ($584), Google Play ($530), Findaway Voices ($865) and about $66 in affiliate income. He gives a grand total of $40,231.93, expenses of $11,062 including about $6,000 in ads, and net profit of $29,169. He credits evergreen high-content nonfiction for consistent sales beyond a Christmas dip and boost from two Christmas books, warns nothing is 100% passive because the untouched personal account declined from a claimed former 10k a month, and says ACX removed two bestsellers over alleged fraudulent free-trial activity he denies, costing an estimated $2,000-$3,000 a month. His three steps are: find a searched-for keyword, create a high-quality aligned book with a strong title and cover, then drive traffic with simple ads.

Key takeaways

• All figures are Sean’s claims: $18,919 KDP, $40,231.93 total income and $29,169 net profit for December after $11,062 in expenses.
• He credits evergreen high-content nonfiction topics for consistent sales, rather than relying only on seasonal Q4 books.
• Nothing is fully passive in his view: books on an account he had not published on for two to three years slowly declined.
• He advises starting in KDP Select for Amazon’s push, and only moving books earning very little on Amazon to Draft2Digital and Google Play.
• His three-step formula is a good searched-for keyword, a high-quality book aligned to that audience with a standout cover, then simple traffic/ads.

Episode details: published January 7, 2021 · 26:54 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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