Finally, ver. 2.1 of Royalty Guild Market Analyst is approved by Google, and now you can conduct niche research in one click. The review collection functionality of the extension remains intact. If you are on a book page, you can collect the reviews and paste them into an LLM with the readily available prompt. If you are on an Amazon search page, you will collect the books' titles, BSR, review count, and price to paste into an LLM with the research prompt. Also, if you need to, you can save reviews and/or niche data as .csv files. So, two major research processes are now fully automated. Please, share your experience with the extension. Would you like to tweak something? To add some functionality?

The last two weeks were unusually slow and silent in the Guild. I am not sure, but it feels like there was less activity in most of the communities I am involved in. Is it just my perception, or have you experienced the same? Anyway, the Guided Publishing System is now built and fully operational. I am in the process of creating the new book with the system, and it works exactly as it was supposed to - "blank page syndrome" gone. Every time I come back to the book, I know exactly what the next step is. The same thing applies to the Review Catalyst tracker - it removed a lot of hustle and ambiguity from the process. I used the Paperback 3D Mockup for the A+ content for a few of my books, and it totally changed the experience of creating marketing materials. I am not sure if it's interesting to anybody except @Yannick Di Mondo, @Sven Georgiev and me. Anyway, it's OK for me to continue developing the tools, even if only three of us will use them. Slowly, without a rush, providing functionality that publishers are interested in. So, what is on your mind? What are you doing now? What are you aiming for? P. S. @Ana-Rita Piirainen It's so nice to see you back!

As usual, we had a great meeting. @Thomas Juuls, @Laura Diaz, @Yannick Di Mondo, thank you so much for the deep, insightful conversation. For Premium members, the recording is already 📺 uploaded to the Classroom. Here are the major takeaways from the meeting: - Developing the Guided Publishing System (GPS): To make the tool ecosystem easier to navigate, step-by-step guidance will be added to the interface. Future updates will probably include bullet-point hints or suggested next steps immediately after a tool generates an output, so users know exactly how to apply what they just created. - Adapting the "Book DNA" Tool: The Book DNA tool may ask too many questions if a book is still in the early idea phase, but works perfectly for completed books. To fix this, the plan is to split the Book DNA process into three distinct stages: a brief five-minute seed interview for new ideas, a complex explanation stage for communicating with freelancers, and a final stage focused on marketing and A+ content creation. - Amazon Algorithm and Metadata Shifts: We discussed how the A10 algorithm has evolved. Platforms are now pulling natural metadata directly from the manuscript, cover, and customer reviews, rather than relying on traditional stuffed keywords. Consequently, keywords are now viewed merely as "seeds" rather than the entire foundation of a book's visibility. Rollout of New Tools: Several new tools and updates were introduced to the community: - A lightweight niche research extension that collects market data and reviews directly into a CSV files without requiring users to register for an account. - A Seed Generator that uses a Publisher's Persona to generate over 100 relevant seed keywords. - A 3D Paperback Mockup tool that allows publishers to upload their cover and manuscript to create interactive, 3D video mockups. This includes transparent and green screen backgrounds to help generate custom marketing assets.

We all need a lot of different photos of our books for A+ content – different angles and different book positions. We all want to be able to create video ads for our books, using different angles or showing a page being flipped. We need green screens to fit them into custom backgrounds in our video editors. It requires a lot of shoots and a lot of work. But what do you do if the book is not published yet and you do not have a physical copy in your hand? There is likely a solution. See you today at 15:00 UTC at the meeting. It will be: 7:00 (PST) in Los Angeles 8:00 (MST) in Denver 10:00 (EST) in New York 16:00 (CET) in Berlin 23:00 in Singapore

To be honest, for a moment I felt uneasy. I opened my account with some tension... Fortunately, everything is fine; the account is okay. In regional markets, everything is OK, but in the U.S., it's dogs.