$47,055 From a 25-Page Coloring Book

That KDP Guy shares on Twitter…

My best selling book is a quote coloring book.

It is a gag gift.

It’s only got 25 coloring pages.

Cost me less than $5 for the interior.

Compiled in Canva in a few hours.

It made $47,055 in just over 2 years

He sells the book on Amazon but doesn’t reveal the exact listing 😭

I get the impression it’s a coloring book for adults, so it might be something like this “motivational swear words” coloring book that has 13,000+ reviews on Amazon.

KDP Guy says he spent less than $2000 on ads to promote the book, and also spent very little time researching the idea…

It took about 2 hours of research from memory. I took what was a popular notebook idea and turned it into coloring book. It’s now become its own niche with over 1000 books. I started with automatic ads in UK spending £2 per day with a £0.05 cost per click.

🤔 Asked if this could work in 2023, he replied…

Absolutely, but your best bet is to bring a fresh idea. All anyone seems to do lately is copy covers

I searched on Amazon to see if anyone has done coloring books for different professions, but couldn’t find anything for professions such as…

• Nurses
• Accountants
• Cashiers

So there might be an opportunity there. Hobbies could also work well, in keeping with the “gag gift” angle 🎁

That said, I think this kind of business is very much a numbers game. 

The company that produces the coloring book I linked to above has 270+ others listed on Amazon right now, and only two of them have more than 200 reviews, meaning probably only two of them generate significant income.

But if you can figure out a way to quickly pump out that kind of book – and an AI tool like Midjourney could surely help with that – it could well be worth it in the long run.

Related: a genius hack for getting rich selling books (not really) 🤣

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