Hello! Today, I am going to show you how you can create and sell books on Amazon. This is a step-by-step guide on how to turn your writing into a profitable business.
Firstly, let’s take a look at how much money a book can generate. We will check its Amazon Best Seller Rank (BSR) number and use a special calculator to estimate the book’s daily sales based on its BSR. This book generates approximately $4 in clean profit from each sale, resulting in an estimated profit of around $768 per day.
Now, let’s move on to the main part, which is how we can create a book similar to this with the assistance of ChatGPT and Mid Journey. The tools we will require are ChatGPT, Mid Journey, and Canva. The website where we will sell this book is kdp.amazon.com.
To gain access to the Direct Publishing website, you must register on Amazon KDP. After registering, you are ready to go. Let’s choose the niche for which we will write the book. In this instance, we will choose short stories for kids aged 9 to 12 because there is not much competition, making it simple for us to create five short stories for the book with the assistance of ChatGPT.
Now, let’s start creating the book. Firstly, we will create five different story titles with the help of ChatGPT. Then, we will ask ChatGPT to expand each title into 500-word stories. While our stories are getting created, please subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch more guides about the AI revolution and how we can use them to generate passive income.
After that, we will request ChatGPT to create a title for the book and a description with bullet points. The primary part of book creation is already completed. Let’s open Canva and start creating a book. Click on ‘Create Design’ and select custom size. Choose inches and type in 6x9, as this is the regular book size commonly used on Amazon.
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the first page, we will use it for the book's title. Make sure everything is inside the red lines which Canva shows while we hover text to the edge. Don't forget to number each page. Additionally, we will need to write an introduction for our book. You can write it on your own, but since we have ChatGPT with us, we will use it to generate the introduction.
Then, we will create a page for our content, which includes our five stories. After that, we will write all five stories in the book. Then, we will ask ChatGPT to create an ending for the book, and that's it. Of course, you can add more stories and pictures to make the book more engaging, but for the sake of expediency, we won't do that right now. You can write the conclusions for this book at the end and even add some coloring pages or notebook pages.
Once we're done, we can download the book in PDF format. The only thing left is the cover of the book. Let's create a cover for this book. First, we need to determine the size of our cover. To do this, we can use a cover size calculator. Follow the same steps and input the number of pages in your book. This book is just an example to show you how it works, which is why it only has 28 pages. However, if you plan on writing more, it is recommended to aim for a page count of 50 or more.
Once we know the size, we can create a new design with the same dimensions on Canva. To make the cover eye-catching, we will use the Mid Journey AI picture creator. We should include the title, description, and author's name on the cover. For this example, we will use a random writer's name. After designing the cover, download it in PDF format, and we are good to go. Our cover is now ready to be uploaded.
Now, the only thing left is to upload our book and cover to the Amazon KDP Marketplace. The only thing required from you is to upload your book on the KDP website, and if someone purchases your book, Amazon prints and ships it for you. Meaning, you have nothing to worry about regarding prints and shipping. It's a fully automated system.
Now, go to the KDP main page and click 'Create.' Choose the paperback option and write the book title that ChatGPT gave us. You can also include a subtitle. Skip the other options and do the ones I'm doing. For the author, I'll include a random person, but you can use your own name. Write the description that ChatGPT gave us before. Using keywords, do some research, but the easiest way is to look at competitors and take keywords from their titles. Choose categories.
Then, choose the options that I chose: black and white interior because it's the cheapest to print in the size we already mentioned (6x9 inches). Upload the book that we downloaded from Canva and also upload the cover that we downloaded from Canva. Click 'Assign me a free KDP ISBN' on top to give you an ISBN code for your book, which is free.
Launch the previewer and take a look inside your book to check if there are any mistakes in page sizes. As we can see, it's perfect, and the only thing left now is to set pricing. For us, it costs around $2 to print this book, and we can sell it for $8.99, receiving over $3 royalty from each sale.
You can also request proof and ship your book to your house to check the quality in real life. Now, you can click 'Publish' and wait for one to two days until Amazon approves it. There is nothing to worry about since Amazon approves all books that are made this way.
We have completed our work, and now it's up to you to make this business profitable. You can easily write two books per day, and with about 100 books, you can earn a substantial passive income. Moreover, if one of your books becomes a bestseller, it could change your life. I won't even mention how much money you can make if several of them become bestsellers.
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