Welcome to the jungle that is Amazon selling/KDP! Hubby has been independently publishing his fantasy novels since January 2020 and - it is such a struggle to get seen, to get up in the ranking, to get reviews... very, very frustrating. Sometimes depressing.
Speaking of reviews, I am not sure it is a good idea to review an item that you haven't purchased. You get a 'verified purchaser' badge when you did and review and I could imagine that the omnipresent Amazon-algorithms might flag other reviews as being potentially 'bought'. You know, paying for reviews and stuff which apparently is a big thing. Found this
Maybe double-check the product categories and make sure you use the right keywords (check similar products selling well) on your product. Also, why only ages 7 - 18?
Maybe also add another couple of photos of the 'real book' and the inside as well.
And lastly, pricing - this is always difficult and very arbitrary but if I'm searching for a mushroom notebook all of them are quite a bit cheaper than yours. That is not necessarily bad but you'd need to convince me the potential buyer why I should spend more on your book than one of the others.
Having said all this - I'd love to support a fellow indie author and buy the notebook and then review it as a verified purchaser 😍. Do you have any idea when you are going to update the cover? Do you have the cover ready to go? Will it also be created with AI? If not then this might be a point of differentiation to other books as I am sure that quite a few of the ones in above screenshot are also made with AI yet I'm not sure if people care (I do as you know).
Thankyou, that's amazing!
I wish I was an illustrator so I didn't have to use AI for the cover.
You've given me a few ideas, thanks ever so much!
It's more an exercise than anything. I might just print some author copies and sell them locally.
I'll add some photos and a video of it as well!
Cover I'll do sooner or later, I'll prob post about it.
The above are all composition notebooks... Covers and lined paper, and none offer what I do, but I guess I'll figure out how to advertise that fact.
Thankyou!!
It's frustrating that you can't edit the title either.
I love the video you put up as a review. Something like that would certainly help it stand apart. However, you are right, the title, categories and keywords do the heavy lifting or not. Sucks if you can't update that.
As for not being an illustrator - are the interior illustrations also AI? Otherwise I'd say just make a collage out of those. Or - ask one of your artist friends here on Hive if they'd be able to work with you e.g. for a few Hive. There are a lot of good artists on Hive.
Anyways, I've ordered the book and once I have it a certain Kuwabara shall review it.
Awww you are an absolute darling, you didn't have to do that!!!!!💕💕💕💕💕 A true Hive friend!!!!