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I Published a Low-Content Book That Nobody Bought
Then Did This Instead To Make Money Online
I am deeply ashamed of my attempt at selling a low-content book a few years ago. By “low-content,” I mean one of those books with little or no interior content.
The Low-Content Book That Flopped
After binge-watching video after video on how “easy” it would be to break into the low-content “trade”, I went full speed ahead to the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform and got started. Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t long before I learned that the Youtubers I’d watched neglected to inform me that the market was completely saturated. There were thousands of other like-minded “publishers” eager to realize the same promise, flooding KDP with journals, planners, and notebooks that were very difficult to differentiate.
The chances of making even a single sale were slim to none. In fact, for me, that chance was none. All these years later, I still haven’t received a single sale. That’s why I searched feverishly, though unsuccessfully, for the link to share here, in the hopes that you would be the first to buy, Realistic Plans Only, a journal published in 2022.
Lessons Learned From Chasing a Shortcut
