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194 contributions to Royalty Guild. Amazon KDP
6d •
What is on your mind?
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!
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@Zivile N I feel you. Really. But... You need not overcomplicate. You need not pay for human freelancers. All you need is the right system. As for reviews, at the moment, it seems BookVillage has solved the issue. At least, I have never seen any signs of problems with the platform. Also (now I am stepping on dangerous territory), in my opinion, reviews at the start are hugely overestimated. Yes, of course, a few dozen or a hundred reviews will improve sales dramatically, but for testing purposes, you can start with a handful. At least twenty of my books reached less than 100k BSR with 1-2 reviews or without reviews at all. Yes, 100k is not serious in general, but it is a really nice spot to make a decision: should you invest in the reviews in the first place? As for freelancers, this week I am writing my first book with the Guided Publishing System, and my experience is like using Excel instead of calculating complex sheets by hand. I almost cannot see a place for human freelancers for most tasks. And for an external traffic... This is a really big deal, no questions. But I believe there is a pretty simple answer for it. I hope I will find time to work on it further.
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@Laura Diaz "do I need to be an expert on the topic for succeeding in this niche?" Or would I need to open NotebookLM, probably? 😀
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BookVillage is banning its customers... and it's actually great.
In the last 30 days alone, BookVillage has permanently banned around 70 users who were relying on low-quality external services. In most cases, this means virtual assistants using already flagged Amazon accounts. It was users who would have continued paying their subscriptions and generating revenue for the service. But those users were actively lowering the quality of reviews. It's the first case I know in the "author-helps-authors" review sector where a company actively prioritizes service quality over short-term profits. What do you think: should every paid customer be allowed to take a risk, or should a service limit the ability to use its services for users who endanger others?
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@Maria L. 💯
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Guided Publishing System meeting on Friday, March 20th
As usual, it was an amazing meeting. Instead of one hour, we had to stop after two hours. I decided to cut the most interesting parts of the discussion into separate clips. So, enjoy.
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Suspicious scammy message - please beware
Just wanted to warn you about scams going on in the publishing community. For instance, yesterday I received a dm from someone wanting to kindly gift me with his book bounty points because he was leaving KDP - of course, this smells scam all around, so I didn't even bother replying. However, I just wanted to make you aware of things like this. As always, there will be someone out there trying to get advantage, so use good judgement. And if you are aware of other kinds of scams going, please share, so we are all well aware.
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@Laura Diaz Thank you for caring! Actually, the guy (I saw his post), who tried to sell BB coins is, could not a scammer. He published posts and comments about his books a months ago. But... To sell BB coins, what?! Next will be "I collect some melting snow, is anybody want to purchase it until it gone?" So, even if he is not scammer, the idea of sell useless (potentially unsafe) thing is not a good idea.
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Niche Research in One Click
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?
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@Matt Radkiewicz Thanks!
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@Thomas Lee Thank you!
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