Selecting a Genre

If you just want to make money from Amazon publishing, you have a wonderful sense of freedom.

You are no longer restricted to something you are knowledgeable about, or even interested in. You're not going to write it. Someone else is.

The first thing you are going to do is find a profitable genre and I've got measurement tools to enable you to do exactly that.

What Makes a Profitable Genre?

A profitable genre is one that has profitable books in it. That's pretty logical, right? But how do you determine that a book is profitable? To be honest, you can't, because you don't know how much money a successful author is spending on advertising. But it's reasonable to assume that no successful author is spending on advertising to make a loss, so we can ignore that factor and focus instead on who's selling lots of books.

And Amazon gives us a clear measure of that. It's where a particular book appears in Amazon's best seller lists.

So that's where we'll start.

And we're going to do it in one of the most popular categories on Amazon - Romance.

Yep, romance. Back in the pre-Amazon days, romance was the province of companies like Mills and Boon and Harlequin. They had an army of writers all over the world who churned out formulaic romance short stories and novellas to a fan base who couldn't get enough of them.

And guess what? They are still out there. Looking for their weekly fix. And once they've found an author they like, they'll continue to buy every story published by that author.

How would you like to be that author?