Hello,
I was just wondering how everybody was getting on with KDP? It has been a long learning curve for me. I started about 18 months ago after reading this feed and getting some inspiration, thanks all! I started off with just notebooks to learn the ropes. I moved on to wordsearches but found that was a new learning curve as well in relation to the best way for them to look, material, keywords, A+ content etc. I have taken them down 3 times now to redo things and I (think!) I am finally happy. I have sold some in the past but the more I learn I believe the more should sell. I enjoy doing them anyway and see it as a hobby but a little bit of income would be nice!
Jo
Since I started in summer 2020, I have now made £44000 turnover. This isn't all profit as I also use ads and have other expenses.
The last time I uploaded a book was September 2022.
I estimate I now spend around 100 hours or less a year working on my kdp and I should achieve around £15000 a year profit from now onwards from my current books.
I have a couple ideas for new books based off of some of my bestsellers but haven't gotten round to making it yet as it's very labour intensive and 1 book will probably be around 75 hoursish but my plan is to then advertise the new related book in the back of my bestseller.
My 2 best selling books have made me £5800 and £4900, so just having a few popular books can be some regular passive income. One of the books is a regular £500 a month, the other is around £200 a month but does well at Christmas and made £700 in December.
They both have 4 and a half stars, One has 99 reviews and the other has 78.