Publisher Rocket NEW Update! - Review and Tutorial (2024)

About this video

The creator walks through a new Publisher Rocket update that adds historical category insights, accessed via an Insights button inside category search for books, Kindle, and Audible categories. He explains each metric: sales needed to reach number one and number ten in a category, Kindle Unlimited percentage, large-publisher percentage, average indie versus traditionally published prices, average book age, average rating, and average page count. A high Kindle Unlimited share suggests mostly self-publishers and easier competition, while a high large-publisher share signals tougher rivals with bigger budgets and built-in authority. A low average rating in a profitable category is presented as an opportunity to stand out with a better book. The headline feature is a chart of monthly sales for a category’s top 30 bestsellers over time, which he uses to judge whether a market is growing or shrinking. He illustrates with a rising football category, an overall-rising guided journals category, and a declining bonds/investing category where high large-publisher presence also discourages entry, while noting a declining category can still reward the top book.

Key takeaways

• Publisher Rocket’s new Insights view shows historical category data, including sales needed to rank number one or number ten
• High Kindle Unlimited percentage usually means mostly self-published competitors; high large-publisher percentage means harder competition
• Compare indie prices rather than traditional-publisher prices when pricing against your actual competitors
• A profitable category with a low average rating is an opening: a higher-quality book can become the obvious choice
• Use the top-30 monthly sales trend to favour growing markets over shrinking ones before committing to a niche

Episode details: published April 24, 2023 · 9:51 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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