How Do You Research On Amazon For What Info Product Will Sell For Kindle Readers

Look through the Amazon book best sellers list:

Amazon Best Sellers: Best Books

Also type your keyword ideas into the search bar and see what other word come up to get an idea of what people are searching for.

Click on a book and scroll down the page to find Product Details and look for the rank.

By doing this you should get an idea of what is selling on Kindle.

Don't know about eBay.

Sandy

Pretty simple search on Google.

Amazon Best Sellers: best Kindle Store

Look at Amazon Bestsellers and see what is selling well. Look for what you can add that's not already there - a different slant.

Thanks guys will check that out ...:>)

You should combine all this advice and try to figure out a pattern of some sort. I would start with a keyword research in the niche I'm interested and then go to Amazon and see what searches it suggests, check out the best sellers but also the bestsellers in the categories related to my niche.

Sometimes the bestsellers in a certain category might not sell that much so you should chose a category that has big sellers (meaning it's an interesting categ.) and small ones (so that you can compete with them and, in time, over rank them).

First check out the demographics of Kindle users.

Just because a hardcopy book sells well, does not mean that it will also sell well on Kindle.

but after researching, what are you gonna do about it? is your goal just try to research it then its done? i think you have to make a move once you know which sells best.

If you have a Kindle, you can search the best sellers there, too as I think their rankings are different than Amazon.com

In addition to best sellers seek out niches that have a ton of searches on Google. That can work out well.

Here's another tip/trick that you can use...If there is a magazine that covers a topic, you can believe that people are buying it because it costs a TON of money to publish a physical magazine.

You can browse through the different magazines that are for sale on Amazon and see if a topic interests you and if so, write a book on it.

I'm all over the place when it comes to niche research. Sometimes I think about what type of books my wife, my kids and I would be interested in and go from there. I keep an eye out for popular new TV shows on channels like the History Channel and National Geographic and research the topics from them that appeal to me. I also keep a constant eye out for any problems I see people around me having that could be solved via an e-book. I watch Facebook, Google+ and the Warrior Forum for ideas. I also watch popular blogs and forums for emerging trends that people may want to read a book about. The nice thing about Kindle is you don't have to limit yourself to the evergreen markets that work in IM. I have a list of probably 50 different topics in the Notes App on my iPhone that I've jotted down that I think may be good topics for books.

When it's time to choose a topic, I check the bestseller lists and the Amazon sales rankings for books in that niche and take them into consideration, but they aren't the final determining factor as to whether or not I write about that topic. I like to see a high sales ranking for at least the top few competitors. Finding a first page where the sales ranking for most of the books on the page is above 10K is like finding a gold mine. It can take a while to get onto the front page, but you can make a killing once you're there.

Another factor to take into consideration is how many other books come up when you type your keyword into the search results. I like to target markets that have at least a couple hundred books and sometimes as many as a couple thousand books listed in the search results. Instead of avoiding heavily saturated topics, I look for them and try to find a way to carve out my piece of the pie. If it's working for other people, I know I can make it work for me.

I know this isn't going to help much, but a lot of the time I go on gut feeling. If I think a book is going to sell well, I'll write it regardless of whether the other items I look at tell me it's going to be a winner. All it takes is a book or two that are real winners to create a decent income. The rest of the books that aren't all start to add up after a while, too.