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submitted 10 months ago by Greg_Lim@alien.top to c/sideproject@indiehackers.space

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I don’t have a sexy AI saas with MRR.

But here’s my boring side hustle publishing books on Amazon (royalties for October)

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[–] matt95110@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You’ve written 95 books?

[–] Greg_Lim@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

its a fun side hustle. I used to be an IT teacher, so it comes naturally i guess.

the screenshot shows 95 books but about only 20 are active, the rest have been unpublished (can't remove them from the dashboard).

[–] matt95110@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

For every one thing I like about KDP there are like 10 things I hate about KDP. The inability to remove old content is annoying.

[–] AdityaSaroj@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How do you promote these books? How do you find buyers?

[–] Greg_Lim@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

most of my sales are organically from amazon user searches.
DM me for more details

[–] AdityaSaroj@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Sent a DM

[–] rockntalk@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you directly publish them to Amazon or do you use any tool that helps with the review and publishing?

I feel this is much more stress free side hustle compared to SaaS, so you are at a good place than most of us ;)

[–] Greg_Lim@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

i publish directly through kdp.amazon.com

compared to a SAAS, its definitely much more passive :)

i would like to try SAAS, but the amount of work looks crazy scary

[–] alexanderisora@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

What is your opinion on the ChatGPT and it's role in the book market? Soon you will have to compete with thousands of generated books.