₦airaland Forum

DeepSight:
You have written 80 books? That already sounds like you were spamming Amazon.

Kalatium:
Stop thinking too much. 80books don't mean i everything is a long content like me writing 8 long books or novels. Most are series, some are low content such as journals, jotters etc.

I spread out to many niches.

hoygift:
Nothing pass being in control for this online. Even 1m followers page for IG de collect ban.

Mariangeles:
What did you write about?
What is your niche?

You started even before sapa era.

franchasng:
you cannot get sales with those type of books or topics.


If you want to make sales on kdp, think like the readers.


The readers are mostly from US, Europe, UK, Asia, etc, so ask yourself what topic readers from these aforementioned countries would love to read about?


It must be something relevant and unique to those audience, if not you will struggle to make a sale.


Also blogging will help you if you start blogging about your topics and adding links of your kdp books in your blog posts to refer people back to your books. It worked for me back then.



There are many other methods to increase your sales

sonofthunder:
Do you teach / guide someone to start blogging?

franchasng:
You can still earn from your ebooks if you are sure you own them completely and not copied from copyrighted materials.


If you want to still earn from those books you wrote, and you are sure they are 80% your original work, I can guide you on how and where to publish them again and even make more sales than you made on Amazon.


But before you proceed, reflect back and check if you did anything wrong or used any shady method during your writing process.

I speak because I started publishing on Amazon kdp as far back as in 2012/2013 and I have been earning constant passive income from there, and three of my books made bestseller at some period and my account have never been banned or had issue but instead kdp have invited me several times to turn my Kindle books to paperback.



So there is something you did, think deeply

alabiman:
Kdp Amazon is no longer what it used to be. The frequency of account termination has been alarming in recent time. I have been on kdp platform as a publisher since 2017, my account was terminated early this year,but later got reinstated.

The reason given for my account termination revolves around my book title which Amazon says might be mistaking for a physical product.
I appealed the termination stating that the title of my book clearly stated it's "A GUIDE" which shows that it's a manual and not a physical product. My account was reinstated.



Most likely reason the account in question was terminated might be the frequency in publishing activities. The bot might see it as spamming the system.

franchasng:
I wished I could but honestly I can't because of time, etc.


I can only give tips and short guides here on Nairaland.


I have become too lazy to do a lot of things I enjoyed doing in the past. All that is in my head nowadays is politics, how to send the man at Aso Rock packing. I pray God deliver me from the spirit of politics trying to overcome every other thing in me

RollinTNDA:
I just got declined to apply for a grant
Just because I'm from Nigeria

This country name and passport dey kill dreams faster

DeepSight:
Over how long?

CodeTemplarr:
26 books a year is too high. Probably low quality output related . Thats one book every two weeks. Sounds like every chapter being presented as a book.

franchasng:
you cannot get sales with those type of books or topics.


If you want to make sales on kdp, think like the readers.


The readers are mostly from US, Europe, UK, Asia, etc, so ask yourself what topic readers from these aforementioned countries would love to read about?


It must be something relevant and unique to those audience, if not you will struggle to make a sale.


Also blogging will help you if you start blogging about your topics and adding links of your kdp books in your blog posts to refer people back to your books. It worked for me back then.



There are many other methods to increase your sales

dotmoth4life:
80 books in 3 years?

Haaba.

It obviously the whole books or writing is AI generated and low quality.
(My thoughts) Not an accusation please.

I also read a comment that says, this is an attack on Nigerians .

Haba, where is your conscience?

How do you write 80 books in 3years?

Ask people in academic or creative writing, what it means to write quality paper or journal.

So sad we always act as a victim when it's obvious that we have done the wrong thing

80 books, series, or journals in 3 years?

Habaa now.. You are the one spamming Amazon

Kalatium:
Nope. I have written most of this books earlier especially in 2020 during covid 19 because i got a lot of inspiration so most are just draft.

So when i registered with Amazon kdp in 2022 all i needed to do was refine, edit and proofread the book. Some are divided into part 1 to 5 in order not to be too long.


After the ban i replied to Amazon for a review. Showing all evidence that i didn't break any terms but it went on deaf ears. I asked them ti show me the particular thing i did that caused thw ban but they refused.

HelenaWills:
This is a coordinated attack against Nigerians, I lost $1,800 royalties years back.
To hell with them, stay strong brother.

Wsx2:
Where you resides matters a lot. I live in canada and authors in america and North America are prioritized.I have published 230 books this year alone. You must follow all guidelines,

The op must have copied other authors material or infringement of image copyright or publishing low contents.

Their was a time i had too many low contents materials. If I was in Africa they would have terminated my account . But what they did was to remove all the low contents and didn’t approve my new publications for 6months. After that they started approving it again. Also I don’t focus much on kdp here , my focus is audiobooks. That’s a lifetime listener’s royalty right there. Nigerian residents are not being accepted for Audiobook publishing as we speak maybe that will change.

Also authors should list their books on google play. It’s easy and free . We also use kobo here in canada and some other platforms.

Also authors should make sure they have their own personal website. I built my personal website as shown in pic and have my books listed on it . It was free for me because I am a developer. I use Wordpress and WooCommerce and integrate stripe payment. You can do the same in Africa using paystack.

Like I said earlier location matters when it comes to some policies in US . When I was in nigeria I applied for Adsense they kept rejecting me.

Immediately I built my bookstore website I applied for Adsense here in canada despite all book descriptions on other website and images everywhere, they approved Adsense within 6 hours.

May God change Africa since the leaders has failed.

franchasng:
Yes I have been given options on kdp to turn some of my kdp books to paperback, is there anything funny there?
Do you want me to show you a proof with a screen shot of my kdp account?
For your information, I started writing from when I was in Primary school and started monetizing my writing around 2009 via blogging on some foreign platforms where we earned via affiliate links inserted on our articles.
You won't understand lol