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Generate coloring-book covers, interiors, and A+ content with AI, pick the niche with precision, publish to Amazon KDP — two books cleared $10,155 in a year.
Niche selection decides everything: stop using keyword tools and go straight to Amazon to see whether coloring books in that niche are actually selling. What matters isn't how many competitors there are — it's how strong they are.
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Sam has been self-publishing for six years. He walks through his live Amazon KDP dashboard (stressing it's the customizable live view, not a screenshot): two AI coloring books earned $13,745.78 in royalties between Jan 1 and Dec 31, 2025, split almost evenly ($6,893 + $6,852). Ad spend was £1,255 (27% ACoS) and £1,425 (22.67% ACoS), totaling £2,680 ≈ $3,589. Net profit = 13,745 − 3,589 = $10,155. Both dashboards are backed by screenshots.
There is no warm audience to activate here. The first buyers come from inside Amazon, and the work that decides whether they show up happens before the book exists.
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Data credibility: $13,745.78 in royalties minus roughly $3,589 in ad spend (£2,680) = $10,155 net profit (full-year 2025, two books). The author shows both the live KDP dashboard and the ads dashboard as evidence; the monthly figure is the annual net divided by 12. All revenue figures are founder-reported or estimated by the video's creator, unaudited.
The first dollar is one paperback, bought by a stranger who typed a theme into Amazon's search bar and most likely clicked an ad to get there. The price is decided before that sale, and it carries the whole business case.
Three things compound in this model. Paid sales buy rank: ads put the book in front of buyers, sales lift it in Amazon's organic results, and the reviews that follow make each later ad click convert more cheaply, which is how a book holds 22.67% ACoS across a full year instead of bleeding out.
The hard stretch here is the weeks after a book goes live with no reviews, no rank, and an ad budget already spending. There is no customer feedback to read yet, so judgment has to come from two dials.
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