Glad you found it helpful!

Yes, good call! The place at the top (where the author name is) I would probably use for the subtitle.

Thank you!

Thanks for watching!

Yes, it works for fiction as well as non-fiction!

Excellent 👍 I’ll be using your method for both fiction and non! Thanks ☺️ Keep up the good work!

Thank you for your thoughtful question. There are a couple reasons for doing this. First: social proof: when people see a book is a number 1 new release, they are much more likely to purchase that book whether they are viewing it on the subcategory page or not. More purchases, in turn, trigger a boost in Amazon's algorithm. Second: marketing fuel: you can use the accomplishment in future marketing materials promoting the book. You could even put it on your book cover if you wanted to (i.e. - "An Amazon Number One New Release"). Most readers/customers would find that to be impressive. Third: bragging rights. This seems trivial, but it becomes important when you are marketing yourself as an author (in, for example, a query letter to agents). Your point is well taken, and, ideally, you should be in more than one category. I recommend placing your book in at least one easy to rank category and some other more competitive/visible categories as well. I hope that helps.

Thank you so much. Your kind words mean a lot! I appreciate it.

Anyone can become and advanced copy reviewer. You just need to be invited by a prospective author. I hope that helps clarify.

My pleasure 😊

There are websites aimed to solve this issue like pubby. I may do another video on that topic in the future. Stay tuned.

Amazon does not allow pre-orders for paperbacks at this time. I hope that helps.

Good question. The answer is no, they don't. Reviewers would need to purchase the book in order for the review to be counted as a "Verified Purchaser" review, but the reviews still get counted regardless of whether they purchased or not. I hope that helps.

Great point. I just looked this up, and according to Amazon's policy, to leave a KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) review, it looks like reviewers must have spent at least $50 on Amazon within the past 12 months. Most people shop on Amazon, so not a huge hurdle to overcome, but definitely worth mentioning. Thanks for pointing this out!

Over the past 5 weeks or so I have created and have about 57 journals and coloring books on KDP. No sales as yet but I didn't think it would happen so soon. I think as a newbie I haven't used all the best keywords to get them noticed and don't have money or a credit card to pay for Amazon ads. Wonder how long it will take to make a few sales. If anyone has had some success with effective selling keywords for journals and kids and adults coloring books too, please be kind enough to share. Thanks. 😊

Hi, great question. According to the KDP community, you are not allowed to publish a coloring book as an eBook, so I would not recommend this strategy for coloring books. I hope that helps.

@@bookauthorbusiness Great, thanks for your answer.

@@bookauthorbusiness But it works for journals, planners and activity books? My sales are not in the level I want, sorry if I make so many questions 😬

Thank you! Good question! I will be putting out a video very soon (hopefully this week) on how to get reviews. Keep an eye out and subscribe so you get notified when I publish it.

Great question. As a children's book author, you need to write for two audiences: kids and parents. I think I may do a whole separate video on this topic in the future. Stay tuned.

@bookauthorbusiness Good answer. I look forward to seeing the selling to parents video when it comes out.

I find your videos very nice I wish you success If you optimize your videos a little then your video search results will show first

The website discussed in the video was custom built. I happen to have experience building websites so I'm able to do it quickly, but if you don't experience doing that, I recommend wordpress. It's very easy to use once you get the hang of it.

Welcome aboard!

Thank you so much!!

I have done both (sold on website and on kdp). In order to sell on your own website and on KDP, you do need to use your own ISBN. Their are services that will sell them fairly cheaply online (around $20 or less). Only use the FREE ISN if you don't plan on selling on any other channel besides Amazon. I hope that helps.

Yes, it helps greatly! Do you need an LLC? I am a little nervous about dumping my Social Security number into a massive site, but other people do it?

@@bookauthorbusiness we can also sell our kdp books on our website as digital downloads without any ISBN right?

You don't need an LLC to sell your own books. And you shouldn't need to provide your social security in order to get an ISBN number. If they ask you for that info look for another service. I hope that helps.

No. The free ISBN from KDP can only be used on KDP for distribution to Amazon and its distributors. You cannot use it with another publisher or self-publishing service according to Amazon's terms. If you want to be able to sell your kdp books on your website you need to purchase an ISBN number instead of using KDP's free ISBN. I hope that helps.

Coming soon!

Most welcome

Thank you!