is anybody making money with Amazon Kindle books in 2013? Or is it too competitive for a novice??

There is boatloads of information on this forum about all aspects of Kindle publishing. Use the search function and ask about specific topics or questions you have. It's all answered right here and you're as close as your fingertips.

Steve

Kindle is just the first step. If you can write, you can make money with Kindle, Nook, Apple iStore, print, etc.

There's is plenty of opportunity. And the Warrior Forum is packed with useful information, both free and paid.

KateD

Instead of thinking like that, what if you thought, "Hmm...this field is competitive. There must be a lot of money in it."

There is no competition in teaching fish to ride bicycles. Do you know why? Because there's no money in it. Little competition usually equates to little money. You could be the biggest fish in that little pond and you won't make any money at it.

Might be something you want to think over carefully.

If you're just starting out grab Geoff Shaw's Kindling course and join Bryan Kumar's Kindle Club. You won't need anything else to get you started except your brain and then start writing and most importantly, publish.

Even if you plan on outsourcing I strongly recommend writing and publishing your own works at first so you can get a feel for the whole thing.

Join the Kindle Boards forum at http://www.kboards.com/ and spend a few days in there.

RoD

I'm still making money on Kindle books. I have some fiction on there which does well but I also offer a couple self help books and some recipe books that are all doing fine in high competition areas. It does help if you have a good social media base in my opinion though.

I think you still have time to run through the challenge before it closes for the year. This year was specifically about kindle books from start to finish. Really worth the look if you're new to self publishing. (Completely 100% free training course)

Training | The Challenge

Im still making money with Kindle and other ebook stores that I'm published on via Smashwords.

Its totally available for you to profit with as long as you just do it. Oh and if one book doesnt work out, just move on!

Yes it is an awesome platform!
And it is very inexpensive to get started.

@opb12,

Kindle appears to be a good platform for publishing. I just recently published my first book on kindle about two weeks ago and already had about 4 sales and 1 in an area called kindle direct publishing. Even though the amounts received are small at this time, I know that if I scale up a little I can achieve more.

Andrew

Yes people still make money with kindle publishing, but as you said the competition is tough, so you have to come up with a better plan and strategies to succeed in 2013.
goodluck.

Yes, lots of people make money from kindle. Just go to Amazon=>Kindle, and type in the book rank number at Kindle Sales Rank Calculator - Ranking Your Kindle Book Sales and you can see how many books roughly that author is selling.

If you mean uploading worthless garbage like PLR content and scraped recipes like most WF courses teach, then no. That doesn't work anymore. You will have to actually write a real book, or hire an excellent outsourcer to see results now.

Yes, I'm currently making money with Kindle books.

By saying it is too competitive you are psyching yourself out before you even stick a toe in the water. Guess what? Selling books is extremely competitive. Just like everything else. I mean selling pizza is competitive.

If you really are interested in the Kindle opportunity then change your mentality.

Research everything there is to know about it first. Then tell yourself that you are going to do everything in your power to be successful at it.

It really doesn't matter how much money others are making with Kindle. All that matters is how much do YOU intend to make?

Go all in or don't leave the starting gate.

That's my 2 cents.

I used a method which claimed to tell you about a niche which would sell well as Kindle, but it doesn't work in practice. That niche was recipes. The advantage was that no-one can copyright a recipe, so you can basically just copy someone else's. However, writing a Kindle book is the easy part, actually having any sales is not so easy.

I have been making money for years from various IM methods, so I am someone who succeeds given a genuine method

Hope this info helps you, at least knowing what NOT to do

Chris

Yes indeed. Although the course said I could, I didn't copy the recipes, I combined 2 or more versions of each recipe, adding some historical and interesting info as well. So my 3 Ebooks were unique and interesting, and on much-searched-for topics, etc etc. and still sales didn't happen

Chris

Yes, I have only one book on kindle which is related to IM and everyday it brings in not less than 10 sales for $3 hands free for the past 4 months.

Martin Kerrigan has a good book on how to make a killing from kindle and it's worth getting a copy.

There are tons of niches you can write on but as far as book writing is concern, writing a novel or fascinating story is one biggest way to go without looking back.

It doesn't really matter if the niche is competitive or saturated. Once you publish a good book it sells itself.

You are right. There is fierce competition in Kindle. There are excellent authors there.

Most people are making money with fiction, but...

You have to be a good writer; or better saying excellent.

Take a look at what one writer told me - besides many other writers in a long thread, I didn't post the entire thread:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...on-kindle.html

You can also make money with nonfiction, which is easier for beginners who have no literary talent and ignore a lot about writing.

I believe you will find all the information you need about this matter here:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...wants-one.html

Love kindle. As a ghost writer -- my money comes from my clients who want to get into the kindle field and those that have been doing it for awhile. Worth the time if you can commit to it.

I am making some income on Kindle, but not the kind of income I am with other things. But I haven't put near as much into it as I thought I was going to at the time. It's fairly steady, but it's small unless you plan to release a lot of little books.

Don't forget about Barnes and Noble and Smashwords distribution. I don't know if anyone has mentioned that or not, but it definitely helps. Smashwords is probably about 25% or so of my publishing income.

I'm presently learning about Kindle so I'm not the person to ask about that field but I can speak a little to book publishing even in competitive spaces. First, a good book doesn't sell itself...until someone reads it, the challenge is getting them to read it so they are sold on it then getting it out there in the way that the readers will sell it. Writing a good book helps sell it because it helps get people who read it to sell it for you with reviews and recommendations, but alone it is not enough.

I know someone whose company has sold over 25 million cookbooks (not Kindle but actual hard cover), it's a large successful business for them. Can you create success in the cookbook space? Of course, because there are lots of buyers and yes there is a lot of noise as well, but yet cookbooks keep selling. They arguably didn't break through the crowds because their recipes or even the cookbooks themselves are so much better than others, they are ok obviously to be that successful, but they aren't that much better than the other cookbooks out there. Instead, they found a way to market and build a brand that people trusted and they could snowball with time so now they are one of the go to sources for cookbooks.

Write great books, the best in their field, then market hard to get people to read them, then write others just as good or ideally better as sequels and prequels. Harry Potter wouldn't have been that successful if it was just one book, it was the release of one after another that allowed it to snowball.

With Kindle ebooks, it really is a numbers game. Not every book will be a success. I can tell you from my own experience that what seems to sell very well fall into 2 areas:

1) 20-30 page "how to"/ informational books. These are not hard to come up with as you just need to do some basic "how to" keyword research as well as look at informational marketplaces like Clickbank.

AND

2) 20-30 page overview on personalities and news events that have trended extremely well recently on Google or Twitter. You have to be able to move quickly on a hot trend but you can often produce an ebook that people will eat up.