Choosing Kindle Topics

Try google insight/trend also..

I have had the best success in being very specific in small niches. By this I mean a sub-niche within a niche.

Example : a few months ago, I wrote a short story about a wedding party of friends travelling together to Brazil. I was targeting the weddings niche obviously, but I targeted couples who were considering a wedding in Brazil.

I got more downloads than I could possibly have imagined. And I created a quick site with loads of info about travel arrangements, locations, honeymoon spots...it worked. i sold Yahoo travel tickets+hotel bookings, i sold amazon travel guides...it really worked.

By the way - Tomorrow is a big day!

If it's a fiction book, I use my own imagination. For non-fiction, I research the niche. Look at keywords that are searched for but don't have a book about them. Basically, you are filling a need. The searches tell you what people are looking for in that particular sub-niche. You can also search magazine articles on that subject and see what titles are used. Don't copy them but use a similar phrase to grab your reader's attention.

Some good insight! Weddings in Brazil huh? That's one heck of a sub niche.

For non-fiction book topics, use the Amazon Best Seller lists for whatever category your interested in. Find trends for the top 30 book to find hot topics.

Then, take note of the titles of these books and find the pattern for the titles. Also, be sure the title includes a benefit for the reader!

you can also use dummies.com/store.html

whatever dummies publishes is a GREAT proven niche topic that sells...because the big "how to" publishing companies like dummies do tons of research before they publish any book.

If you want to see what's selling, check out the best sellers list. You can check out the top 100 and see what genres seem to sell the most. Then you can go to those categories on the kindle marketplace and see the ranks of the top 100 in just those categories and get more in-depth into the trends. It's largely fiction that sells. Stuff like romance, fantasy, etc.

I did hours and hours of research on this for a product I created. I recorded several videos and created 3 PDFs but I can send you the first PDF with the main research if you like.

Stick to topics you know well and are really and truly interested in. Sooner or later people writing crap because they think it will sell is going to do the same to Amazon as it has done to a lot of other mediums. You will want a reputation for excellence by that time so you can float through re-structures.

Look and see what's selling well on Amazon. Find your category, then find the kind of products that are producing alot of sales.

My favorite idea is to use the checkout stand at the grocery store - look at those magazine racks.

That tells you what the average household is currently reading. Same with newspapers. You don't even have to BUY a magazine - just just look at the cover. Go online to news sites, too.

But let's take today's FoxNews.com and CNN.com sites. Scroll down past the headlines. Go to the special sections like business, health, etc.

These are some examples of topics I might investigate for a trendy Kindle creation:

- Where Boomers Should be Putting their Money Now
- Remote Workers, Rejoice: Companies to Increase Online Employees
- Hypnotism for Weight Loss
- Early therapy can change brains of kids with autism
- Know how to keep weight off before you lose it (loved this one - it was so right on)
- Easier to sweat while wet, study finds (hydro spinning - the new fitness trend)

Just one way to find something new and on the horizon. Not that all of these are, but they're close. And you can also find slants to some things that have been around awhile.

For instance, the one about online workers increasing. You could make that very relevant to today's economic news or target management instead of workers with the perks of hiring at home workers, etc.

Tiff