1. Introduction to Automated Books on Amazon

Auto-books are a leash-free, chained passive-income product. They take about an afternoon to create and then can make money on autopilot for years. While infinitely amazing in concept, most people will never do this or exploit it because few are aware, and there’s a swirl of complexity that makes it less automatic than realized automation is. The purpose of this resource is to break down with clarity and brevity all that is involved in order to enhance comprehension, avoid fumbling, and facilitate implementation.

First, let’s throw out the bait. Amazon, as a major Fortune 100 company in part responsible for e-commerce, has two amazing platforms that cater to self-publisher authoring. CreateSpace is for physical hard copies, and Kindle Direct Publishing, the branch considered here, is for digital versions of books. To bypass the endless loop of cruel deservitude to which many are unfortunately shackled, authors can automate the production of content and get frequent downloads which translate into money. Software developers will undoubtedly be most interested in this, but with automation of content creation, authors can essentially decide and not care much about how their finished books result because there is no more work to be done.

2. Understanding the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing Platform

Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) has a user-friendly environment within which you can publish and modify your book material. While it is not rocket science, like any new system, it requires some training time. It is a good idea to be familiar with the various tabs and functions. Amazon also provides a comprehensive book ‘Building Your Book for Kindle’, which is written using the Amazon KDP system to show you how to apply formatting, create a Table of Contents, and use KDP functions to manipulate your content. It can be downloaded in two different formats. Option 1: Download the ‘Building Your Book for Kindle’ directly from within the KDP system. Once signed in and on your bookshelf, click on the ‘Help’ tab, follow with ‘Book Building Guided’ and then ‘Follow the outlining process to complete the process.’ The three options are Print, PDF, or Kindle.

A very helpful feature is the Preview that lets you view the book and it allows you to assess the formatting of both the interior and the cover of both eBooks and printed versions. The Previewer shows how the book will look on selected Kindle devices and applications, like the Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite, iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, etc. Keep in mind that the number of devices includes those whose screens are in black and white. You should use the Previewer before submitting your book and address any concerns you may have. It will save you time and heartache. The system also checks that the content file meets Kindle’s quality standards. It comes with a spell check and will identify most formatting errors that would result in rejecting your book upon submission.

3. Choosing Profitable Niches for Automated Books

You can’t get away from the idea that you need to target a popular niche when you want to earn with automated books. Your books won’t sell by chance because Amazon has millions of books that await readers. Even if you have the best possible title that describes your books perfectly and appeals to your target audience perfectly, you still need to have a topic that many people will search for. Most authors say that you should be interested in the topic of your book to sell it. But this is not a real problem in the world of automated books, particularly if the only thing you want is to earn money without much effort.

There are different ideas on how hot a niche needs to be to guarantee success. Some authors suggest you target topics that sell tens of thousands of books every month. This is great if you can come up with 50 to 100 such topics that still do have some competition. Most niches that are proven to be this profitable do have so many players already that it becomes almost impossible for you to get any exposure on the first result page of popular search terms. And if a topic does have this many people interested, you can be sure that a lot of big publishing houses will also earn big money with it. Try instead to find real gemstones – smaller niches that people still look for on Amazon, but they have less competition. With our automated book creation system you can publish those books in a breeze, which is why you can afford to focus on several niches with fewer sales but less competition all at once.

4. Creating High-Quality Content for Automated Books

Before your book can be automated and marketed, it needs to be created. There are services which will produce books for you, but that is not a route that will lead you to a stable long-term income. Instead, create books that offer value to the reader, whether through entertainment, information, or other purposes that help make their lives better. This is the best strategy in the long run for several reasons. First, it will help you make a more sustainable income from your books. Second, books that provide more value withstand sales fluctuations more efficiently. They earn more consistently and for a longer amount of time. Finally, high-quality books lead to better be a natural response from consumers through sales and reviews if good books are marketed. The automatic marketing benefit from Amazon promoting books for you is the best ongoing powerful marketing tool that you can utilize. This benefit will be consistent, even through Amazon’s mysterious daily algorithms which no longer benefit books that have been artificially boosted by paying for fake reviews.

Instead, you should aim to create high-quality books that can be trusted by the readers, and that actually help build your brand. Creating good books is a double-edged sword. Good books allow increased visibility and often are more attractive than trademarked variants because of the higher price mark, even if those books that offer similar value compete at fair pricing. Good books often have longer-term sales than those that writers cut corners to produce, even though the books themselves are fairly simple. Therefore, producing good books is essential to your long-term strategy. While it is difficult to realize this when you are trying to create a new trend in your income, good books really are the key to self-publishing on Amazon on a long-term scale.

5. Optimizing Book Covers and Descriptions for Sales

Of course, you’ll want the books you upload to sell. To maximize your sales potential, you will need to produce books that people want to read and let potential readers know what your books are about by having a cover and descriptions that are interesting and informative. There are many resources available to help you decide what types of books to create. A common strategy involves searching “buzz words” in Amazon books to see which books are best sellers.

Once you have decided what you want to produce, you will want to put some effort into your cover designs. A simple but easy option is to hire someone on to produce one for you. Another choice would be to refine skills in using photo editing software. Your choice of background, colors, and font can have a major impact on the popularity of your books. There are many articles and ebooks out there that will guide you toward a design that works. A second element that will aid your success on Amazon and other book selling websites is your book’s title. The name of famous landmarks, events, or people, when used in the title, significantly increases sales. The rest of this module outlines a strategy to try to launch the book into bestseller status to get Amazon to provide search engine traffic for you.

6. Pricing Strategies for Automated Books

Exploring different pricing strategies in order to generate the most profit

When it comes to pricing your book, there are a lot of factors that you have to consider in order to generate the most profit. As a self-publisher, you need to take the time to develop prices that make you money long-term, but are also irresistible to your potential customers. You need to consider your strategy through the short term and long term. When you first launch your book, you may remember seeing an Amazon promotion where newly-launched books priced below a certain level were more visible to customers in promotions – even if it was discounted from a previous price.

Whether to offer a discount to launch the book or try to build momentum at the higher price the book will sell at for the next 12 months is one of the most important decisions a self-publisher makes. In this article, we are going to go over some tips and strategies on pricing and launching your book to make sure that you attract as many potential customers as possible, and make as many sales as possible.

7. Promoting and Marketing Automated Books on Amazon

Promoting your automated books after publication is naturally a little more challenging due to the dependency on Amazon’s internal system. However, there are several recommendations that can help, though more research into best ways is recommended.

Build attractive cover designs. It should be bright and attention-grabbing from listing pages.

Keywords, categories, and high-quality descriptions are still important during book publication. Good keywords make a big difference to the visibility of your book on Amazon. Title, subtitle, and description do not only attract the readers but also drive the book’s ranking on Amazon.

Author page and a clean Amazon profile. The information listed should have content that presents a professional image. Your genre, readership, participation in major events or awards, unexpected on your own or family website, good to show. Did you and other authors publish an anthology? Your kind connection is worth talking about. Make your book have a story behind!

Book purchase links. Drive your audience to a well-constructed landing page for your book with more details, reviews, and book trailers/purchasing links.

Book trailers or promotional videos. If you have good content, a visual explanation of the story will let interested readers further understand the book.

Promotions and new releases. Regardless of the method, it is necessary to use various channels to attract the first wave of readers and improve the book ranking in Amazon lists.

Audience building. Publishing an automated book is always one kind of starting line where authors need to pay more attention to maintaining audience channels and enthusiasm for book promotion and other book series. Open the space for readers’ participation, trigger communication, and encourage advancement in social media.

Building a mailing list. This way also maintains good communication and allows continuing readers to receive reliable and valuable information quickly.

To sum up, every author must emphasize image construction and show the reader’s wonderful association and indulge in the world that you have carefully built as much as they do on writing. Things that are hard to understand, the high-quality detailed description is a selling point!

8. Utilizing Keywords and SEO for Book Discoverability

In order to optimize web contents for search engine traffic, the practice of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is employed. It is a methodology focused on using indexing algorithms of search engines to achieve web visibility. Popular search engines are used as driving engines of traffic to the sites to be optimized. Companies earn substantial amounts of advertising revenues through displaying associated ads in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) and increase the likelihood of web-visitor visits through appearing early in the search results. SEO is leveraged for library cataloging too, through the application of tools, manual indexing, and controlled keyword vocabulary among others.

Amazon is the largest eBook distributor worldwide. It is also an e-commerce hub and has embedded its own super-specific keyword optimization engines. It is a site that has gained worldwide popularity through Internet marketing and Amazon search engine visibility through keyword optimization. For eBook authors to be able to communicate with and sell their ideas to the Amazon customer base/interested parties, they have to be visible in the search engine search results. Commercial eBooks have to convince interested parties by assuring them of the capability of providing the information sought through great marketing ambushes which are keyword-supported. To execute the ambush, multifaceted knowledge is required and includes finding out what people are searching for on the Internet.

9. Leveraging Amazon Ads for Book Promotion

Strategy #9: Leverage Amazon’s Ads for Book Promotion

We can divide Amazon advertising into two types: the first type is when the ad is accompanied by a book. If you click on the cover image or the “look inside” button, the ad fee comes with it. For instance, my book “1/7 km: How We Made 1685 Books with no Money and no Time” has been shown on my professional blog, so my expenses correspond to my royalties. Besides, this book may be of interest not only to book authors. That is why I sometimes save money on three-digit ad space on related genres and show my ads as text ads only, i.e., without attaching a paper book to them. The gist of this type of advertising is explained both on the amazon.com website at the address and in the KDP system. There as well you may estimate both the minimum and the maximum advertising expenses, establish how many ads you need, and learn about user ratings of your ads.

The above processes can be automated (e.g. through a scan of the last line). You can also play with the search words and the time of showing the announcement — there can be peak times for the demand for books in various genres. But the automation is the norm: after setting up, the system tracks the progress automatically, adjusts the per-click expense, and wraps up the ad campaign when the amount spent on the ad reaches the expense of the actual sales.

10. Building an Author Platform and Brand Presence

How great would it be for you if you could start your publishing day with healthy sales preloaded? If you’ve been dropping in and out of publisher mode over the past week or even the past month, in a way, you’re missing the opportunity to expand the rewards you’re receiving for your efforts. You’ve been here with me, sharing how easy it has been to throw up non-fiction books to meet the needs of niche markets, how there are hundreds more markets eager for great content, and how you can use simple how-to instructions to crowdsource knowledge and experience to meet the information needs of these audiences. I’d love for you to dedicate at least a small proportion of your energy to improving the rewards you’re reaping from your books, by developing an author platform and brand presence to reap pre-launch rewards for your automated books.

Really, these same categories exist for fiction, as well, and there’s no reason why, even if individual novels are not written for purely commercial purposes, they can’t be published through a more strategic process designed to capture and build on market momentum associated with related works. It’s worth exploring, because the payoff for those more interesting or complex books could be huge. Attracting an audience first and testing covers, titles, character names, and key plot elements could bring an established platform onto which you could already drop a book, or, during the writing process, you could offer readers already obsessed with the characters and situations the opportunity to steer various elements of the book, resulting in a deeper level of connection and support at pre-launch and launch.

11. Maximizing Reviews and Ratings for Book Credibility

Book credibility equals increased purchasing interest. After all, who doesn’t want to buy a good book? The majority of book owners with a Kindle reader are mature individuals who are probably fairly conservative and careful with their limited book budget because there are so many books of questionable quality in the Amazon bookstore. This especially holds for books in less popular categories. It is important to encourage satisfied readers to write and post reviews. The best time to coax an Amazon review is immediately after delivering a really good ending. Endings are when readers’ emotions are the most intense, and it is simple to provide an appendix for a quick click out while interested readers are still digesting the ending.

It is also important to lay a solid foundation by using the “Look Inside” feature and Enhanced Content Area (below in section 2) to give readers a firm sense of your writing style and the portion of your book that they will purchase. Having a well-written book description, since you are probably also a good cover artist, will add further credibility to your title. Although a book may have typos or editing mistakes, your published material should still be very readable, as unique as a fingerprint, and possess your own voice. All authors have a unique voice, and readers are fans of *your* voice as well as your concepts. Always use the honest, unbiased feedback from genuine readers to help understand what is and is not important to your readers. Use a constructive tone when replying to critical feedback in order to encourage the reader to become a fan of your writing.

12. Understanding Amazon Algorithm and Ranking Factors

First of all, it is important to understand how Amazon’s algorithm functions. Amazon utilizes a specific set of parameters to rank its products, which also applies to books. Although there are a lot of ranking factors, there are three primary elements that you should focus on when it comes to publishing an eBook. They are: sales (download numbers and consistency), customer satisfaction (book reviews and customer engagement), and product worthiness and book’s quality. When you boost all of these factors, you will also boost your book page ranking, allowing you to improve sales further.

However, it’s important to note here that no one, except Amazon, has complete insight into the algorithm. From the several posts, interviews, and statistics we’ve looked over, the details provided are more than enough to thoroughly dissect it and understand the primary principles. You may now make informed choices (or actions) to place your books in a better place to take full advantage of A9 Algorithm’s functioning.

13. Analyzing Sales Data and Metrics for Optimization

In this course, I aim to show you how to make passive income with Kindle books by teaching, lecturing, and showing hands-on. It is also my aim to document sales in as real a time as possible so that we can analyze them together and thus discover what really sells and works. Real data is more useful than collection agencies’ statistics. We can breakdown many different aspects of sales found in author portfolios. These include category placement, popularity, book length, content quality, visual/interior novelty and more. Together, we can embark on a new journey of demand analysis within Amazon’s sphere.

How to analyze sales data and metrics for optimization. Use the KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) and CreateSpace sales and royalties reports to identify where changeable or hidden factors can have an effect on sales. Sales anomaly (first year, month, week, and day) data drills, group performance data on demographics including: ethnic, geographic, language, age, gender, and more. Optimize metadata, including: author profiles, book titles, book descriptions, book cost and promotions. Understand how Wister, Book Stats, and Agent Tracker can be used to benefit our lucrative endeavor.

14. Scaling Up Your Automated Book Business

Scaling up in book writing through automation typically involves increasing the number of written books or paying for a really good book. Scaling up can involve recruiting weaker writers (who need more of their work edited), or it can involve recruiting fewer writers who produce really high-quality work on their own. In my case, I went after scaling up effort and recruited a multitude of really good writers who could create books that required minimal time editing for popular Kindle categories. You can also scale up your Amazon account business very quickly once you find some success.

For instance, you can begin having many accounts actively create Kindles. Note that Amazon may or may not let you have multiple accounts, and they have rules about tax details and reporting you need to be aware of. Also be aware that Amazon has to verify your email using your phone, which makes it very difficult to use multiple accounts unless they are all registered with unique phone numbers. Another scaling strategy can be adding more clients and starting another keyword business for another source of searches. You might have some bulk search clients and some pay-per-search clients. Do not be surprised if the number of books you have to write falls off dramatically in the future, though!

15. Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Mistakes in Automated Book Publishing

As easy and popular as becoming a self-published author on Amazon has become – with companies that provide Public Domain and PLR content, as well as excellent options for fully automated book creation – there are some activities that you should avoid and certain mistakes that you should be careful not to make if you are going to increase the chances of selling a substantial number of books. Don’t intentionally create bad products. It will make you look bad. It hurts the readers that count on the quality to help them identify a good fit for their reading habits and needs, and it sends the wrong message to Amazon. The quality books and authors (your competition), as well as their readers, are what brings buyers back.

Avoid providing low-value content as well. It is true that you don’t have to be a one-thousand-year-old vampire in order to write about vampires, but you may need to put in a little work in order to prepare content that will reflect a good level of knowledge. Assuring that each book is prepared with a good level of quality is a much better strategy than gambling that it won’t be noticed amongst all of those books written by established professionals.

16. Legal and Copyright Considerations for Automated Books

In the excitement of creating an automated nonfiction book, authors and publishers may overlook some of the important legal and copyright considerations. Even with an automated process for creating value-added books, no one can legally copy or incorporate a copyrighted work, such as a news article, a magazine article, a blog post, a Wikipedia article, a video transcript, or a collection of jokes, into a published book without the copyright owner’s permission. To be safe, use only personal knowledge, either your own or that of others, and other information that is in the public domain or published with no copyright notice or other restriction that would prevent you from adapting the content of an article for a value-added book. Although quotations are generally not considered copyrighted original works and can be freely used in books, be sure to properly attribute any quotations that you include in your book by providing the name of the author of the quoted work.

In the United States and in many other countries, authors of original works are awarded copyrights in their works as soon as the works are fixed in a tangible format, such as written down, recorded, filmed, or printed. When making decisions regarding non-U.S. books, be aware that copyright laws vary from country to country. Copyright law protects both published and unpublished original works. Formal registration is not required to establish a copyright. By requesting that a copyright notice specifically be displayed on an original work, an author may forfeit copyright protection. With the exception of publications by the U.S. government, all published works should contain a copyright notice that includes the word “Copyright,” the first year of publication, the name of the copyright owner, and the word “All Rights Reserved” or the copyright symbol followed by a claim of copyright. Although copyright notices are not required on works published before 1989, displaying them provides notice to potential users of the existence of the copyrights in these pre-1989 published works.

17. Future Trends and Innovations in Automated Book Publishing

Based on my seven plus years of experience in researching, developing, and marketing eBooks, specifically automated books, as well as freely shared interactions (including this study), this section will sketch a few researchable future trends in, and innovations that are likely to further shape the modern research and practice of automated book production and/or marketing on the Amazon Kindle platform.

Limiting Factors in Automated Book Production: Based on the very marked practical algorithmic limitations of text- and/or image-based automated book creators we have discussed above, a research paper at the SIGCSE 2016 ACM Technical Symposium, which was the workshop on computer science realization, that proposes either an automated tool authoring system for computer-generated explanation booklets for programming projects or a technique for such automated booklet generation will be a significant step in overcoming the prevalent text annotation limitations in automated systems for creating books for wider audiences.