Most people think ebooks are where the real money is in self-publishing. They are wrong. Paperbacks are quietly the most consistent earner for beginner authors, and here is the simple reason why. When you publish a paperback on Amazon KDP, you earn 60% of your list price minus printing costs. On a book priced at $15.99, you can put roughly $5 to $6 in your pocket per sale. That does not sound like much until you do the math. 100 paperbacks sold in a month is close to $600. From one book. In one format. Now imagine five books doing that. That is how self-publishing income actually builds. Not one viral book. Not overnight. Just multiple well-positioned books solving real problems for real readers, stacking royalties month after month. There are four formats you can earn from on KDP. Ebook, paperback, hardcover, and audiobook. Each one plays a different role in your income strategy and each one pays differently. I break down exactly how each format pays, what your actual royalty looks like after printing costs, and why paperback should be your primary focus inside my Self-Publishing Playbook. And right now, for a limited time, you can grab all four of my Publishing Playbooks for just $15. This is my complete brain dump on how I have earned over $100k self-publishing part-time. Four playbooks covering everything from choosing your topic to launching and selling your book. 👉 GET THE PUBLISHING PLAYBOOKS FOR $15 NOW

So If you didn't catch the memo in yesterday's community announcement post I am kicking off a referral content for the month of July. 💥🌟💥 Big thanks to @Nick Nebelsky of AI STORYTELLERS who is also the group moderator for sending over some amazing new future authors and authors into the community today. Let's give them a warm welcome! @Mario Mills - turning imagination into cinema....with AI. @Julianne Anderson - Storyteller at heart. Vintage enthusiast. Master of Thrift. Try Everything. Stay young at heart. Connect with others. Be kind always. @Mary Nunaley - I’ve spent years turning everyday life into a playground. Let’s bring play & connection back home. @Jonathan Wilson - Creator | Studio of Worlds Founder | AI Cinematic Filmmaker Guild - AICFG @Rainer Egert - Ich bin der Autor von „Der synthetische Samariter“ und schreibe über KI, Mitgefühl und die Frage, was uns im digitalen Zeitalter menschlich hält.🔥 @Alli Gatlin - I’ll Get you trusting your own Damn Voice again Stop the Self Doubt + Start choosing Your Life over Fear +Turn Imposter Syndrome into Self Trust REFERRAL LEADERBOARD UPDATE FOR JULY! ⛳ @Gina Trigo - 13 New Members This Month @Nick Nebelsky - 6 New Members This Month @Kisha Sims - 6 New Members This Month @Michelle Spark - 5 New Members This Month @Frankie M - 2 New Members This Month @Teresa Burns - 1 New Member This Month ------------------

I'm just going to RIP the band-aid off... I will be converting the community to a PAID community with a low ticket of $9 starting on September 1st. (yeah it's a little ways away...) This is going to help gain more members who are focused, cut the SPAMMERs out and help with growth boost 🚀 which is the way skool is helping communities grow. Anyone who is in the community right now will remain in here for FREE so you're not getting kicked out. I actually want to give you dedicated members more for LESS. With this announcement, I am also dropping the price of the PUBLISHING PLAYBOOKS that I usually sell for $27 all the way down to $15. This is my self-publishing brain dump of how I have earned over six figures in royalties, publishing part-time. 👉 SELF PUBLISHING PLAYBOOKS ON SALE NOW $15 📚 With this announcement, I wanted to give a BIG SHOUTOUT to @Gina Trigo from GENX Creator Lab where she is a TOP community builder and teaches GENX women how to build with AI and earn MONEY! 💰 She also gave me an AMAZING IDEA to run a ⭐REFERRAL CONTEST⭐ this month, and the WINNER will earn a 🚀 PINNED POST IN THE COMMUNITY FOR 1 WEEK!! Let's take a moment to meet some of the new ladies coming into the community that Gina sent over @Kelly V - Meet KoKo - my AI Twin. Live life unfazed. @unfazedsidehustle @Brandi Mangus - Mom/ wife/ grandma / working my a$$ off to become the best creator and income earner I can be!!! @Jeannie Nowarita - Working mom of 4 @FrancE Desrosiers - retired & searching MY HAPPY, elusive as it is🤣‼️ @Carrie Crews - Looking to make extra income to replace my 9-5

If you don’t yet have a book listed in our Community Book Directory, the good news is that this is a completely free opportunity available to community members! I also want to apologize if you previously reached out to have your book added and I didn’t get a chance to update the directory. As the community has grown, keeping up with submissions manually became a little challenging—but I recently made a big improvement to the process! I built an AI agent using Claude that can now help automatically process submissions and update the book directory. 🤖 This should make it much easier and faster to keep the directory current while giving more of our authors an opportunity to showcase their work. To help ensure that all authors in the community have an opportunity to gain visibility, please limit your submission to one book per author. Choose the book you would most like the community to discover! Ready to get your book featured? Fill out the submission form below, and your book will be added to the directory. 👇 🔗 Submit Your Book Here 📚💜

I'm excited, I got some more book deliveries today. 1. Solomon The Littlest Bear by @Robert Redden 2. Are You That Rainbow Lady by @Janine Magnusson 3. Personal Finance for Teens and Young Adults by @Teresa Lam I will be working on the video reviews for these over the weekend, so stay tuned as I will be dropping them in the community. If anyone else in the community or someone you know has a book published on Amazon. For a limited time, I am offering to do shoppable video reviews for only $50, which includes me ordering your book. Getting another book sale will help the algorithm. 🚀 👉 Order Your Shoppable Book Video Review Here