[First Journey] $125 per month with KDP

[blogchat]

Can anyone please link me a great video tutorial on how to make these types of books preferably at scale and fast method

 

[clamans]

Although you are unmotivated rn, this is a very interesting journey! Keep up the cool work, you can reach your goal

 

[TruliPekmez]

Haven't published any books since June 12, and I don't think I will publish any in the near future.
also, I haven't claimed the credit card I ordered 3 months ago from the bank yet, I'm too lazy and super unmotivated.
once I do get the card, I will either invest in ads or some other projects.

Earnings Update:
For June:

For July:

For August 1-7:

Some stats for anyone interested:
total earned during this journey: 719$
total books published: 305

What do you think brought your sales down to ~50$? Does it maybe have to do with you not publishing anymore or smth else?

Keep up the work

 

[M4DM4X]

Try to automate the process, book creation can be automated, uploading too. Don't give up, if you can make $50 you can surely make more, it's a numbers game.

 

[Russian Dissident]

Try to automate the process, book creation can be automated, uploading too

Tell me how to do it! Or at least give me some advice...

 

[Instantsmmpanel]

Following. Good luck on your journey

 

[vewaezz]

Good luck with your journey

 

[M4DM4X]

Tell me how to do it! Or at least give me some advice...

You can use a commanline tool called ImageMagick to work with images, along with a macro tool like jitbit, or use python if you know how I code. You'll be able to automate image creation.
Then you can build pdf with all your images, and upload on kdp.
I use this process to create coloring books, planning books, all kind of books that only require minor or repetitive changes.
Good luck mate

 

[googlebis]

so you make coloring png pages and convert them into a PDF and upload it?
can you do only one page?
what's the minimum page count for coloring book?
and when someone buys they print it and send it to them?
and in "print options" do you chose "black and white interior with white paper"? what trim size option do u chose?

HOLY FUCK TOO MANY QUESTIONS LOL ( no need to explain just yes/no) thanks.

 

[ncsean]

You can use a commanline tool called ImageMagick to work with images, along with a macro tool like jitbit, or use python if you know how I code. You'll be able to automate image creation.
Then you can build pdf with all your images, and upload on kdp.
I use this process to create coloring books, planning books, all kind of books that only require minor or repetitive changes.
Good luck mate

This sounds so cool.I only use automation for uploading.I would love more info on how you actually make this work,if you don't mind

 

[M4DM4X]

This sounds so cool.I only use automation for uploading.I would love more info on how you actually make this work,if you don't mind

Here is a workflow I've automated to create coloring books:

.Scrape drawings on Google in the chosen niche
.Convert them to black n white, add a nice border
.Vectorize them to make them clean and remove all the filled parts
.Merge all images into a PDF document. I use 40-50 images per book.
.Create covers manually or automatically (your bot scrapes colorful pics and add texts in a fancy manner to get nice covers)
.Create a macro to upload in bulk.

All of this requires very little human interaction.
Of course it's quite a bit of work to code everything at the beginning but then it's almost 100% autopilot, you only choose the niche and then your bot takes care of the rest.
I did it mostly with mangas. Many niches are available in the manga world to create cool coloring books. But very competitive too.
Good luck

 

[Zakch93]

Here is a workflow I've automated to create coloring books:

.Scrape drawings on Google in the chosen niche
.Convert them to black n white, add a nice border
.Vectorize them to make them clean and remove all the filled parts
.Merge all images into a PDF document. I use 40-50 images per book.
.Create covers manually or automatically (your bot scrapes colorful pics and add texts in a fancy manner to get nice covers)
.Create a macro to upload in bulk.

All of this requires very little human interaction.
Of course it's quite a bit of work to code everything at the beginning but then it's almost 100% autopilot, you only choose the niche and then your bot takes care of the rest.
I did it mostly with mangas. Many niches are available in the manga world to create cool coloring books. But very competitive too.
Good luck

Nice. Do you use Google creative commons images (copyright free)?

 

[ncsean]

Here is a workflow I've automated to create coloring books:

.Scrape drawings on Google in the chosen niche
.Convert them to black n white, add a nice border
.Vectorize them to make them clean and remove all the filled parts
.Merge all images into a PDF document. I use 40-50 images per book.
.Create covers manually or automatically (your bot scrapes colorful pics and add texts in a fancy manner to get nice covers)
.Create a macro to upload in bulk.

All of this requires very little human interaction.
Of course it's quite a bit of work to code everything at the beginning but then it's almost 100% autopilot, you only choose the niche and then your bot takes care of the rest.
I did it mostly with mangas. Many niches are available in the manga world to create cool coloring books. But very competitive too.
Good luck

Tha knyou

Here is a workflow I've automated to create coloring books:

.Scrape drawings on Google in the chosen niche
.Convert them to black n white, add a nice border
.Vectorize them to make them clean and remove all the filled parts
.Merge all images into a PDF document. I use 40-50 images per book.
.Create covers manually or automatically (your bot scrapes colorful pics and add texts in a fancy manner to get nice covers)
.Create a macro to upload in bulk.

All of this requires very little human interaction.
Of course it's quite a bit of work to code everything at the beginning but then it's almost 100% autopilot, you only choose the niche and then your bot takes care of the rest.
I did it mostly with mangas. Many niches are available in the manga world to create cool coloring books. But very competitive too.
Good luck

Thank you so much for this thorough response.Will definitely implement this

 

[Dorothy Cobb]

Here is a workflow I've automated to create coloring books:

.Scrape drawings on Google in the chosen niche
.Convert them to black n white, add a nice border
.Vectorize them to make them clean and remove all the filled parts
.Merge all images into a PDF document. I use 40-50 images per book.
.Create covers manually or automatically (your bot scrapes colorful pics and add texts in a fancy manner to get nice covers)
.Create a macro to upload in bulk.

All of this requires very little human interaction.
Of course it's quite a bit of work to code everything at the beginning but then it's almost 100% autopilot, you only choose the niche and then your bot takes care of the rest.
I did it mostly with mangas. Many niches are available in the manga world to create cool coloring books. But very competitive too.
Good luck

Don’t follow this advice. This a fast way to get ban from the platform

 

[M4DM4X]

Nice. Do you use Google creative commons images (copyright free)?

No prob with copyrights since the bot converts images to B&W and adds fancy stuff so nobody will recognize them in the coloring book. Of course I don't use dragonball Z pics
You can also use sites like DeviantArt and give credits to artists too, or pay them a fee.

 

[M4DM4X]

Don’t follow this advice. This a fast way to get ban from the platform

If you don't use famous characters you will be fine.
If you're banned open a new acc.

 

[TheSecond]

I finally uploaded 3 books after a 6 month break, so why not update this thread to share this amazing progress xD.

Earnings Update:

August:

September:

total earned during this journey: $872.50
total books published: 308

I still didn't go get the credit card from my bank and withdraw my earnings which means I still can't run ads, that's the reason for the lack of updates and progress.

I already have few books with decent ratings that's I'm planning to run ads for.

 

[Shana Walters]

I finally uploaded 3 books after a 6 month break, so why not update this thread to share this amazing progress xD.

Earnings Update:

August:

September:

total earned during this journey: $872.50
total books published: 308

I still didn't go get the credit card from my bank and withdraw my earnings which means I still can't run ads, that's the reason for the lack of updates and progress.

I already have few books with decent ratings that's I'm planning to run ads for.

Why not get a Payoneer account and card? It's free.

 

[TheSecond]

Why not get a Payoneer account and card? It's free.

was originally planning to but Payoneer requires a local bank account.

after I open a local bank account I will use it to open a Payoneer account then link it with amazon.

 

[simovada]

how you can sell without putting your bank account?!