The Alex Kaplo Podcast

You might be wondering how to price your self published book especially on Amazon KDP. One of the best aspects of self publishing your own books means you have full control over most aspects of your book. However, it also comes with its own challenges such as determining the most optimal price to generate as much sales. Now maybe you're self-publishing your book on Amazon through Kindle Direct Publishing and you're asking yourself if it would be best for you to price your book as a premium, in other words charging a lot more than what your competitors are pricing their books. Inversely, you might also be thinking to yourself if it would maybe be best to actually price your self published book less expensively than everyone else out there and be the cheaper option amongst your competitors. This way, you'd attract a lot more sales but at a smaller profit margin. With that being said, what is the most optimal strategy to price your self published book that will lead to the most book sales generated for you and make you the most money? What I'm going to attempt to do in this video is share my personal best strategy I've successfully used and shared with many of my students to price your self published books that's been responsible for generating literally tens of thousands of book sales.

Is KDP Worth It In 2022? For anyone looking to self-publish their own books or (do what I do) start their own publishing business and hire ghostwriters to write books for them to publish on KDP, it's been a very lucrative way to make passive income online! However, if you are reading this article in the year 2022, I'm guessing you want to know the answer to... Is KDP worth it in 2022? Is Amazon Book Publishing Dead? Is Kindle Direct Publishing even worth it anymore? Is KDP still profitable? How much money can you make off KDP? What is the truth? Well, I'm going to finally tell you the truth! The short answer is YES, KDP is worth it in 2022 and no, it's definitely not dead in 2022. It's actually bigger now than it's ever been before thanks to changes in global buying behaviour. But, like all great things, over the years, more people discovered the KDP platform and started to publish and as a result this has created an influx of competition which has saturated the market... In this video, I'll be answering some of the most common questions about Amazon's KDP platform and determining with you if this is a viable online business model for you in 2022.

It's true, hardcover books for amazon KDP is a thing now and in this video, I'll tackle what you need to know! Finally, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is giving self-publishers the option to begin selling print-on-demand hardcover books on Amazon. You can now create case laminate hardcover books along with paperbacks and eBooks. This means your hardcover book will not have a dust jacket and the art is printed directly on the cover. Now with hardcover books for Amazon KDP, you can publish a hardcover book and turn an existing paperback or eBook into a hardcover book. You can format a hardcover file the same way you would with a KDP paperback book. I'll also be talking about the costs of Kindle Direct Publishing hardcover printing and advertising pricing strategies for your Hardcover Amazon KDP book.

If you're struggling to learn how to grow your kindle self publishing business to make $1000s per month, then you're going to want to stick around to watch this video! Scaling and growing your self publishing KDP business is one of the hardest things to do, so in this video I'll be pulling back the curtains of my personal Amazon self-publishing book business and showing you step-by-step how I went from not having too much money and having only 1 book (not to mention not too much confidence in me) to building my kindle business to over 300+ books in my kindle publishing business portfolio and making over $100,000+ for the last few consecutive years. I'll also be sharing with you some of my biggest amazon self publishing mistakes I've made and what I would do differently in my kindle direct publishing business to shortcut my way to where I am today.

If you're an Amazon Book Publisher (aka own a self-publishing business) or even an Amazon FBA seller, this video is going to be valuable for you... In this video, I discuss how I (almost) sold my online Amazon Kindle Direct Self-Publishing business, how I managed to get a $35,000 offer for it and why I backed out of the deal at the very last minute... If you're looking to learn how to sell your Amazon self-publishing book business or any Amazon business for that matter, from someone that has gone through the trenches first-hand, so that you can cash out the money and move on to the next thing you want to do... Then you're going to love some of the strategies, tips and pieces of advice I share with you in this video. More importantly, you'll learn some of the costly mistakes that I made and how you can avoid them, so that you can sell your Amazon business to a buyer for the highest dollar amount.