My Goal To Make 6k Per Month On Kindle :)

This is a enormously large misconception, which you will figure out quickly, and painfully.

Listen to her ^^^ she's a very successful Kindle author.

I'm certainly not saying don't try. I'm saying - make sure that your writing is top notch, study other people in your genre who are successful and emulate what they do, and be prepared to put a lot of time in it if you want to succeed.

Well, the children will grow up...and then there will be new children. Parents are generally the one who buy children's books, aren't they? There are children's authors who have been popular forever.

In my personal opinion, from my own experience, Kindle is not passive income. I write a book a month. If I take time off - I become less visible and my sales drop off.

I write because I genuinely love to write fiction. I'm constantly working on perfecting my craft.

Writing fiction isn't like other areas of internet marketing. Think about how you choose the fiction that you want to read - it has to be excellent, compelling, professionally written. It's not easy to be successful in the fiction market.

Here's a trick for you.

When it comes to kindle publishing the topics you write about are very important. Research your topics you would as if you were going forward with a seo niche marketing campaign.

Wrong selection of market can have drastic effects on results. I know this from experience. You want the markets that have proven they are BUYERS and are willing spend money. In some markets people just don't buy as much.

Andrew

99% of authors have no clue what they are talking about and are making NO money. Most authors are happy to get a $4.27 check from Amazon every month.

Don't listen to, or follow the authors who don't know how to sell themselves and their books.

Bottom line, you need to write a great book and then build a BRAND around your book and yourself as an author. You have to do what 99% of other authors don't do and won't do.

No excuses, go kick some butt, and focus on building your brand for long term success.

I don't get the whole big splash thing but I have heard other people say it and recently read that same advice in a book by a group of indie authors that are very successful (almost all of them NYT best sellers now). So I'm sure its good advice.

I didn't do it that way and built up a good following making more and more sales with each book and now make a full time living at it, but I could see how releasing several books at once could get you going faster. And think it could help psychologically too because with 5 or 6 books you'll be making more sales which will help give you incentive to write more books.

But can you create a passive income?

I doubt it. At least not "passive" in the way that you can just stop working and the money keeps rolling in.

Like Dana said, when you stop releasing books, the income falls. This is due to Amazons algorithms and customers "forgetting" about you and moving on to someone else.

So, I think once you get going and are up to a certain level of sales, you will probably enjoy some level of income for many months (maybe even years) even if you stop publishing new books.

But that income is going to slowly dwindle over time. New books will come out that people will buy instead of yours. Your customers will go follow an author that is producing new books for them to consume etc..

For example, I used to write nonfiction books. I have probably 15 or so books published in various niches. They used to make me about $5000 a month when I was actively publishing new books.

Now I focus solely on fiction. Sure, I still have the nonfiction books up there because some of them still sell, but since I haven't published any new nonfiction books in a year, the sales from those books are more like $1000 a month. Will this eventually peter out to $0? Probably.

Self publishing is for people who love to write books.

If you don't love writing them, then I think that will come through in the book and readers will be turned off and you won't get good reviews or make many sales. If you do love writing them, then why would you ever stop?

And if you never stop, there's no reason to worry about passive income.

Corey, I'm sure you can make $6k per month with twenty books. The trick is, which twenty? And will it always be the same twenty? Doubtful.

Once you start framing things in years, the math changes. Yes, some people will stay with you forever, if only because they can't be bothered to "unfollow" you. Others, as you realize, will drop off.

The good news is people keep having kids. The people that drop off can be replaced by the new ones coming up.

Again, you might do well with 10k followers, but which 10k?

Just goes to prove that people are still people, whether they call themselves "Internet markters" or "authors/publishers."

Scan through the threads here to find how many "is [something] dead" threads, and the rumors of falling sky every time someone in the Googleplex breaks wind.

I had a sneak peek at some of the TV ratings, and TV viewing typically goes down in the summer, too. People are busy being outside, taking vacations, tending gardens, going fishing, anything but buying loads of books and sitting down to read.

Ask the people who write/publish "beach reading" if everything is doom and gloom.

Another factor could be all the GRQ types who jumped into trying to put out the next Twilight or Fifty Shades of Grey.

There's a saying in the stock market that might apply here - "never confuse brains with a bull market."

As Slate Marketing stated :
"Bottom line, you need to write a great book and then build a BRAND around your book and yourself as an author. You have to do what 99% of other authors don't do and won't do."

The key is BRANDING without it your a plankton lost in sea of sharks and you got to be BOLD and different.

Good luck and happy hunting! Go coreytucker!
Thank you to cashcow for your insider´s comments.
Thank you for this forum... I love it.