Is Kindle Publishing A Good Choice?

the only thing i will say is that kindle publishing is saturated,you might not really gain as much money as you want to make,if you want to go into it, focus on a particlar niche and be known there,thats it.

There are certainly a lot of authors and a lot of books. If you get lucky you can make a lot from a few books, but most people churn out book after book. If you can keep up a steady pace and have great keywords, blurbs, and covers, you can do great. Find a niche and write, write, write. Set up a mailing list, website, etc and you'll make it sooner or later. Nothing is guaranteed, but there is a good possibility you can make a good income.

Kindle publishing, is the closest thing you'll get to passive income, I get a sale or two every day - not much, but it can easily be scaled up and I don't have to do anything at all.

I've gotten the same level of passivity with Udemy.

If you write well, write often, work with an editor, market decently and find a good niche then you will be successful. There are many indie authors out there making 6 figures or more a year. Now they have multiple books out there, which is key. You need to have a library of books. That way if someone buys your book and likes it then they will probably buy the rest of them. Writing a series is great.

If you want a higher chance of success then write in either the thriller, romance, or women's lit niche. These are the top niches.

Also realize that you need to be in it for the long term if you want to make a lot of money from it. Success very rarely happens over night and you will often need multiple books for a steady income that you can live off.

Everything is a good option if you stick to it and become good at it. Some people argue that building websites are a great long term strategy for community building and for ranking purposes, for others it's publishing videos for constant fresh leads.. Then there's PPC campaigns where people say that they can 'spend $1 to get $2', and of course the good old building your list which can be considered long term once you load up your auto responder...

Basically, yes if you stick to it.

If you're going to write a book, release it on Kindle as well as paperback. Even if you don't sell the paperback (or many of them), it will show customers that you've put in the time and they're more likely to get a good product. A lot of "Kindle-only" books are awful and customers know that.

There's still good money to be made on Kindle. It isn't as easy as it used to be, but I'm making what most would consider a full-time living from Kindle books.

appreciate all the feedback thanks

I've been writing for Kindle for almost a year and since I love to write, it's been a great experience for me. Though I think the Kindle platform is going to be around for a very long time, it's still good business sense to never put all your eggs in one basket.

Is Kindle publishing a good choice? For me it is. But is it a good choice for you? Only you can decide that.


The best advice I can give you is this:

• Invest in some Kindle Training. Knowing what I know now, I wish I would have done that a lot sooner. From a pure dollars and cents versus value, my two favorites are Geoff Shaw's Kindling and Bryan Kumar's Kindle Book Club. They are both at two very different price points, but they both rock!.
• Take a long view, business-minded approach to Kindle. Though there are plenty of people who have broke 4 to 5 figures per month after just a few months, it's not the norm. You'll probably need to publish several ebooks before you start seeing any traction.
• Connect and communicate with other Kindle authors outside of this forum. Find people who left testimonials on some of the Kindle WSOs and contact them to see where they're still at.

I hit my "sweet spot", so to speak, after publishing my 4th ebook, simply by following what I learned from the training. So I am super glad I stuck with it.

Don't listen to anyone who says who cannot make money on Kindle. I can't tell you how many people that I've talked to who have told me they published one or two ebooks and they weren't raking it in, so they quit. It was too much "work". And the majority of the time they didn't invest in a good, solid Kindle course.

If I didn't like to write, I would invest time and energy to find a GREAT ghost writer and hire them to do some of my writing for me, maybe even hire a couple (or more). There are so many ways to tackle this awesome opportunity.

No, it's not even close to being saturated.

How can I write that with absolute certainty? Because I know plenty of people who are making a living writing for Kindle, many of whom just started out earlier this year. And they are doing it across different genres.

Kindle e-book sales have already surpassed hard cover and soft cover books. They are also projected to grow well beyond past 2026.

With the right training, the right business mindset, and work ethic, I think you can create a great passive income money machine IF you're willing to put in the work in the beginning.

RoD

Well put Rod!

My older son wrote 6 full length books (ranging in size from 182 pages to 870 pages) and they've been up on Amazon for a while. He made $6.55 this month total. My younger son wrote 3 books and he's made $2.00 total in the last month. It can be hard to get someone to make a purchase with so many books to choose from.

I'm an avid Kindle reader and there are some really bad books on Kindle right now. I read one last night that was obviously churned out by someone with a terrible grasp of the English language. I think that Amazon needs to crack down on some of these horribly written books.

If you can write well and you enjoy writing as a hobby, I'd give it a try, but I don't think it's as easy to make money with Kindle books as some people say.

You should check out Hugh Howey's blog. His writing career took off after publishing a series of novellas on Kindle that eventually became the novel WOOL. He implemented a lot of marketing tactics to build up a following and now he's a New York Times Bestselling Author who just sold movie rights to Ridley Scott.

Now, obviously that's not typical. There's a certain amount of luck involved in becoming a bestselling author. But the right marketing plan can help out a lot.

Anyway, I recommend looking at his blog because he touches on self-publishing quite a bit. He foresees the indie writing community eventually becoming something similar to the current indie music scene. His posts are really interesting and he's very active. Definitely worth checking out. I'd also suggest reading WOOL if you're into reading fiction. It's excellent.

Kindle unlimited will change your game. All the book you want for only $9.95 per month is super max. Expect many more gazers or viewers. Reading is moving into the 21st century just now. Typically, I get hundreds of downloads every day and that will now increase.