Thanks for this, haven't started my coloring books yet but very soon, still watching more of your videos especially the one on making coloring books and hoping your next video will be soon
Prompts: Midjourney coloring page: Coloring page, dolphin jumping through waves, no shading, high details, thick lines Midjourney cover: Great white shark, swimming through the coral reef, high details, vivid colors, cartoon style chatGPT: I am creating a coloring book about Ocean animals using AI, here is my prompt format that I will use to generate those images: "Coloring page, **animal**, **scene**, no shading, high details, thick lines" Generate 50 unique prompts using this format. Replace **animal** with an ocean animal, replace **scene** with a relevant scene for the coloring book.
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Thank you for this video - it is packed with useful info every beginner in this sphere needs. I have one question here - when someone purchases their coloring book, are margin lines visible? I presume that they are not and that only the frame for housing coloring image is visible but just wish to be sure.
@@DigitalxPat Thank you, Pat, on your prompt reply and for answering my question Really looking forward to more videos. If I am to come up with a suggestion for next video - it would be to analyse Coco Wyo - her brand, her drawing style etc... Best wishes, Di
Thank you mate! If you're book got blocked Amazon would have sent you an email explaining the reasons why. Make sure to check that, if you think you didn't break the rules, respond to them and appeal it, sometimes they make mistakes, happened to me before and they unblocked it in the end. I can't help further without knowing more details. Good luck!
Thank you! Copyright page is optional, some authors choose to include it, some don't. It doesn't really change much in the eyes of the law from my understanding, you own the copyright to your stuff either way. It's more of a deterrent really or if it comes down to you having to prove your ownership in case of a dispute. If it makes you feel better, feel free to include it somewhere in the book. I don't worry too much about it in printed versions of the book as it would be hard to copy and distribute them. I make sure to include info about copyright with all my digital download versions though as that's when they have the files :)
Super...I subscribed to your channel. Question? Is it okay on AMS to put several cards at once or do AMS for each one? E.g. I have a Halloween coloring book but I have other titles in other areas (e.g. a children's activity book). For the Halloween book, I'll want a temporary campaign as it is a seasonal book, and for the other, I want an undetermined period. If I put them both is it ok? Can I stop when I want the campaign? If I put 1 dollar, like you did, having 2 cards means 2 dollars a day, right? I'm just getting started, and I need a little bit of clarification. Thanks a lot and I really appreciate your work and effort! Good luck to you all.!
You can put multiple books in the same campaign and turn off the seasonal ones later while leaving the rest running. Or create a totally separate campaign for each book. Both are fine. I run a lottery campaign which has all my coloring books in it and it performs very well. However I normally also create a campaign for each book on its own when I'm trying to launch/scale, sometimes group them together if they target same keywords. If you set the budget at $1, it caps the spend at $1/day, even if there are 10 books in there. Budget is per campaign, not per book. Start with a low budget and if the campaigns start running out of money you can increase gradually. Hope this helps. Good luck! :)
These images are all garbage. You clearly lack basic prompt engineering skills to make anything of quality. Also your "upscaling" as you call it doesn't make them 300DPI so they are worthless as well.
I might do one in the future as I was thinking of trying out the built in AI inside of Canva and comparing to MJ. Meanwhile please search RU-vid, I'm sure there are plenty of tutorials :)
Sure, it would be, however it could also mean that the search volume for this exact phrase is lower and the search results we see are a little vague and include other keywords or combinations of keywords. That metric looks for an exact match, even making 1 word in the search phrase plural will give us a different result. My strategy is to look for a high number of exact matches to guarantee it's a popular keyword/search phrase, despite competition and try to create a superior product, not necessarily to look for the lowest competition. Hope that makes sense.
I tried, it works but is not as clean as the illustrations that Coco Wyo does. If you want to make coloring pages like those I suggest you learn Adobe Illustrator, you can use AI to generate the base image and then trace the lines to create a vector illustration, that way you don't run into copyright issues but still get the same effect. I tried that before for this style of coloring book but it's very time consuming to make the images and illustrator is another thing to learn. The results are really good if you want to put in the work/time, AI is definitely much easier and quicker.
Good video, thanks for breaking down some of the metrics to look for to evaluate competition. You mention how a lot of the A+ content is bad.. could you do a video on what would be considered good A+ content with several examples? Any advice on good/bad covers? A good do/don't list for that would be helpful too. Thanks!
Thank you, good idea! I'll try to film something in the future talking about some good vs bad designs/listings. I mainly pay attention to the quality of the overall graphic design and aesthetics. Looking for listings that looks professional, thought out and consistent. Some things that I look out for: -elements on the cover or A+ don't follow the same style or look out of place (looks like they were just pasted in (example: 27:16) -text is not easily readable at first glance, or font that doesn't match the style of the cover / inconsistent use of fonts (example: 27:16) -descriptions that are poorly formatted (blocks of text with no bullet points or bold headings) or simply a ChatGPT copy / paste -lack of A+
I've got some questions, hope you can answer. I'm a new publisher so it'll help me a ton and I'll really appreciate it if you can answer them. Q1: As far as you said to me or other people that you only publish medium content colouring books. So, when you first published your book and it got sales, did it come from Amazon ads or you promoted it on social media or it came completely organically, I mean customers searched it and found the book by Seo. Q2: what's your record for the royalties per month, is it 2k of 5k and how many books have you published so far in total?
1. I used ads, it's very difficult to get organic sales at the beginning, not impossible but it might take some time until you see any sales organically. Every book I publish I advertise for the first month or so to get a few initial sales and get it ranked. Organic sales then start coming in as the book gets more visibility. I then lower the ad spend, optimise the campaigns and sometimes completely turn them off if I can't make them run profitably or at break even. After that period some books stick around and continue selling organically, some fall off and get very little sales or none at all, that's fine, just move onto the next. Not all books are successful. As for social media marketing, I recently started with some short form content and will continue trying to grow it. It's definitely helping as it brought sales to my website, hard to say how it impacts Amazon sales as I have no data on that sadly but it's definitely a good thing to do, just takes a lot of work and time to grow and see results. 2. Currently sitting at around 2.5k. Around 20 books published in total but I took about half of them down as they didn't sell and admittedly aren't up to my current standards. They were my old books that I published when I was still learning. Hope this helps :)
@@DigitalxPat Wow, you've worked really hard with your books and are still doing! That's quite a good decent income if you ask me if you can secure 2k or a bit much. Thank you so much for taking the time to write a reply. It will surely help me on my Amazon journey. Although I'm not planning to put ads at the beginning right now but waiting for the sales to come completely organically, let's see what happens. Thanks again bro and best of luck on your KDP journey and increasing your sales. May Almighty fulfill our wishes that we have. Take care of your health and stay hydrated since it's summer, you'll need the water. tata bye❤️
I really like your channel. I have two questions. 1. Do you have any video where you show how to create a coloring book? 2. When you publish a book like that, how do you get started? I ask this because I’ve seen some people teaching launch strategies where you need to run multiple campaigns and invest a lot. Do you just launch a $1 automatic campaign?
Thank you! I'm glad you find my videos useful :) 1. I don't yet, I am planning to make videos showing how to get started with KDP, showing the process start to finish for beginners. Just been struggling to find the time recently to put into this channel. I'll try to put something together next week. 2. I tend to run an auto strategy with a higher budget to begin with and a quite a high CPC to get going and hit all keywords possible. It will burn through some money usually but will get us the initial clicks and required data. I then start optimising and dropping the cost from there to try and achieve a profitable ACOS. The launch period for me is usually around 3-4 weeks where I'm prepared to lose some money before trying to make ads profitable. This is the faster approach if you have some money to burn. You can start slow with a $1 budget and low CPC if you don't, it just takes longer to build momentum and verify if the book is well received by the market or not. Supposedly new books also get a boost from the algorithm but I can't confirm that. I'll make a video in the future going over ads in detail, for now I hope this summary helps!
@@DigitalxPat Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. One last question: what budget do you assign when you talk about high budget? A few months ago, I tried to do a launch, but around day 7, I started getting frustrated seeing that I was losing money, and I didn’t know if I should continue or stop it. In the future, it would be amazing if you could show us a case study of a book (without revealing the book, of course) to understand how a launch works from the beginning. I think many of us get stuck at that point. Thanks again, and I look forward to your upcoming videos!
Stop flooding Amazon with crappy AI coloring books, please. Stick to Temu, I can't even trust unknown artists anymore because of the terrible AI coloring books. And yes, they're terrible. Most publishers whip them out without bothering to check the pages, so there's a lot of unfinished lines and mutations like extra arms, legs, or just not making sense at all. All the pictures are the same positioning.
Some AI books are crap and put together with little effort, I agree with you on that. This is due to the low barrier of entry to create and publish them on Amazon. But those don't sell, negative reviews quickly verify poor products. That's if they even manage to achieve any sales with their poor listing. It's very easy to verify which those are, there is a reason why books have photos that showcase the interior before you even purchase it. My books are high quality and despite being AI generated are extensively edited and modified to make sure everything is perfect. This is reflected in positive reviews and the fact I rank on the front page for many months without falling off. Not everyone who uses AI publishes low effort content. Don't put us all in one basket.
THIS! It doesn't matter either if these guys edit and "correct" the AI images either it's frustrating and AI still uses scraped works from other artists.
Funny how you're not even showing examples of your so called 'coloring books'. This is a scam and AI art coloring books ruin the quality of actual coloring books of real artists.
I don't show my coloring books because some viewers are bound to copy my publications and create competition in the same niche. As publishers it's hard to find niche/keywords which allow us to achieve a good volume of sales profitably, therefore we don't generally share those on a public forum. This would affect my sales if everyone copied me and flooded the marketplace under the same niche/keywords. As per my response to your other comment, despite me using AI, I create high quality books and the sales/positive reviews reflect that. Sadly Amazon does get flooded with a lot of poor quality AI coloring books, I agree. Mine definitely don't fall into this category as I modify/edit them extensively, not just copy, paste, publish like some authors.
Get publishing! Focus on creating good quality books in a niche with good search volume and low competition. Don't get discouraged, your first book might not succeed, just keep going and improve with each book. Check out my other vids for tips on keyword research/ad strategies to get started. Good luck!
I never used it before, was thinking about it the other day actually... What's Amazon's attitude towards these kind of services? I see a lot of publishers farming reviews.
I am a beginner in kdp i have 50 dollars budget for the month to the ads is that will be enough or i cant start with that and its good to pick a niche with 10000 results and have high demand or not and thank you for your informations ❤
$50 is more than enough to start, check out my video where I show a "secret" ad strategy, it should get you going under $1/day and it's super simple to setup. I still use it today, it's by far the most effective strategy I've tried. As far as the niche is concerned, I wouldn't worry about the number of results as long as it's got demand (books achieve low BSR). Ask yourself if you can create a better or unique product to what you see on the first page. Also, analyse the books on the front page and see how recently they have been published, if they're fairly recent (last few months) there is space for your new book too as long as it's good. That's how I determine whether it's worth publishing in the niche or not. Hope this helps, good luck!
Hi buddy, just come across your channel! You seem to be killing KDP. Are you focusing on medium content books such as colouring books? If so, are you using AI for these? I used to upload low content on KDP back in like 2019 but recently wanting to get back into it with medium content and build up a decent income each month. Would be cool to get some tips from you :)
Thanks mate! :) I only publish coloring books and yeah most of the content is AI generated. I do take time editing it though to fix any mistakes / adjusting the images to eliminate shading, etc. How did your low content publishing go? I've never done low content personally as it just seems too accessible, therefore it's much more competitive due to volume. I prefer to publish less but put weight on quality.
Idk about unpublishing a book and republishing is safe. I know that Amazon system may detect that and then may cause trouble later with all those suspending and terminating things. And you republished the book twice you said. But if it's ok, it's ok.
Amazon suggested this themselves in their email, the advisor then suggested I unpublish the new book (copy of the original) after they unblocked the original so that there are no duplicates. So far it has been fine, hopefully it stays that way lol
@@DigitalxPat I know you can't share the book niche and that's justified. But I think you can give an idea about the book type, low, medium or high content. That won't create any competition.
@@DigitalxPat Colouring book niche, is that the book that you talked about in this video? I saw a comment here and a person wanted to know about your book niche in this video and you didn't wanna share cause of unnecessary competitions. Journals/Planners and Colouring book niches are often talked about in other videos, so these are quite popular and widely known niches.
