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Would love to see a sample if possible! Thanks

Jesus Christ pinger haha, I thought you were only pulling in 10k, that's amazing. Is it all relatively new from your new books you've been working on? or is it from years of buildup. Impressive either way wow. Createspace is pretty average for me

Definitely not too late. It's definitely much much harder than the original op made it sound. The days of shitting out garbage 30 page pamphlets and marketing them for lots of money is over. You gotta invest more time and money in your products and work harder to beat your competition since...

Can you give us any tips on good ways to expand books to increase your page count? Ive tried a few things but amazon is pretty wise to a lot of tricks. I guess you could just be writing more but that's actual work that I'd probably just be better off making new books with.

Finding a good niche that's profitable is the hardest part in my opinion, and it takes a while. My best advice to you is to not give up and to keep publishing different things in different niches until you find one that works for you. It took me months to find a niche that actually worked for...

Amazon released the numbers for last month saying that there were approximately 1.9billion KENP KU page views and there will be about 11 mill in the pool for KU in July. So extrapolating that to this month, 11M/2bill =.0058 so a little more than half a cent per page read. there are some threads...

How is everyone doing with the new pay by page system? I think I'm going to take a decent hit from my KU sales, it seems like they're only paying half a cent/1cent per page. Gonna be a rough month!

Whoops I meant he said he published 1 every 3 days, still a lot though! and thanks for the post Alkemist

dsavior I just went back and re-read some of your posts from earlier and I saw that you were struggling a little bit and then a month later really broke out. I feel like I'm kind of where you were back then (getting sales but not really seeing the level of success you, pinger and others are)...

dsavior: Very impressive that you were able to build such a kindle empire while you still had a job (probably working 10 hours a day since you say its 6 figs). I'm doing my kindle stuff while working and it can be tough managing it all when you're writing them on your own plus working. Do you...

Haha I like that you hate Stefan Pylarinos. I wonder how much money he actually makes on kindle. I mean when he started his kindle it was MUCH easier, but I just cant imagine he can make 7k a month with low quality outsourced books . To Dennis: As much as admire people like Stefan who know...

This may not be true for everyone, but when I put out books they tend to do the best in the first/second month and then drop off a little bit and stay steady. This could just be the drop off point for you, but who knows, ive seen some weird patterns with my books so I wouldn't get too freaked...

->Dennis_797 I know some of these guys don't agree with me, but normally when I have a high quality book that isnt getting the sales that I think it deserves I do the kdp freebie promotion or the kindle countdown promotion in order to help it get that boost it needs to raise the rankings. It...

Gringo, do you have any advice on finding high quality writers for 300-1000$? I have enough capital to produce several books at that level, but not enough to experiment with like 10-20 different writers before I find one good one. Right now I'm paying writers 100 dollars which is easy, but my...

Are there any special marketing things you do to have your books sell from day 1? Or does it literally just take off once you post it? I generally post the book, gather reviewers, do a free promo or something, and then the money starts rolling in about 3 weeks after I post the book when the...

1) read the whole thread, it's been answered several times, but out of mercy I will respond Kindle like anything is a business, so just put yourself in your consumer's shoes. There is no technical miniumum or maxiumum, it's all about your product's value. You could sell a 1 page book with 5...

I'm not allowed to post links yet, but search "kindle rank calculator" in google and it's the first link, it's a decentish tool for determining sales per rank, though its pretty broad so its not 100% reliable. Your chart is pretty accurate, it's hard to give an exact figure to ranks since it's...

Yeah I'm another small time publisher and it definitely works, but I dunno if its as lucrative as some of these expert guys make it sound (or at least not for the average person). My first book made about 50 bucks a month, my second 200 a month, a few other also 50 bucks a month. The major...

That's so strange, I haven't noticed any increase in refunds for me. Something must be up, is it across all of your books? and suddenly?

Each comment has a little "did this review help you" blurp at the bottom with a yes or no vote. Comments with the highest "yes" are moved to the top vs the worst yes to no ratio are moved to the bottom. So all you have to do is get a friend or sign into a different account and vote no on the bad...