Who Owns Page One? Series, Author Dominance and the Real Barrier to Entry
Result counts don't tell you whether a niche is winnable. Counting how much of page one belongs to one author, one series or one publisher does — and it takes five minutes.
27 July 2026
Kindle Unlimited and KDP Select: The Exclusivity Decision, With the Actual Numbers
What you give up when you enrol in KDP Select, how Kindle Unlimited actually pays authors, and how KU changes the sales data you use to research a niche.
27 July 2026
Your Book Description Has 4,000 Characters and About Two Seconds
The rules Amazon actually enforces on book descriptions, what gets cut off above the fold, and a structure that works — for the one piece of metadata that decides whether a browser becomes a buyer.
27 July 2026
How to Price a Kindle Book: The 70% Royalty Band, and the Cliff at the Top of It
Amazon raised the 70% royalty ceiling to $12.99 in July 2026 — the first change since 2007. Here's how Kindle royalties are actually calculated, where the cliff edges are, and how to pick a price.
27 July 2026
How Amazon Decides Which Books to Show: Documented, Observable, and Folklore
Amazon publishes no ranking algorithm for books. Here's what it does say officially, what you can verify on a live results page, and which widely repeated "A9" rules are simply invented.
27 July 2026
Why Isn't My Book Selling? A 10-Point Diagnostic Checklist
A systematic way to find out why a published book is stuck — niche, visibility, listing and price — with a fix for each failure point.
14 July 2026
Amazon Autocomplete — The Free Keyword Data Most Authors Ignore
Amazon's search suggestions are real reader demand, free and current. How to harvest autocomplete for KDP keyword research, and what it can't tell you.
12 July 2026
How to Fill Your 7 KDP Backend Keyword Slots (With Examples)
What Amazon's 7 backend keyword fields do, the official rules on what's prohibited, and how to choose phrases that help readers find your book.
10 July 2026
How Many Daily Sales to Reach #1 in an Amazon Category?
The realistic math behind Amazon bestseller badges — how many daily sales it takes to hold #1 in a Kindle sub-category, and how to find one you can win.
8 July 2026
How to Choose Your 3 KDP Categories (Without Guessing)
An evidence-based way to pick your three KDP categories, how the picker works, what Amazon enforces, and the mistakes that waste slots.
6 July 2026
Is Your Book Niche Too Saturated? 6 Signs to Check
How to tell a healthy competitive niche from a genuinely saturated one, using signals you can read off any Amazon search page in minutes.
3 July 2026
How Many Reviews Does a Book Need to Be Visible on Amazon?
What reviews actually do for visibility, how many your niche's books hold, and how to earn early reviews without breaking Amazon's rules.
30 June 2026
What Is a Good BSR? Amazon Best Sellers Rank Explained for Authors
What Amazon Best Sellers Rank actually measures, how often it updates, what counts as a good BSR for a book, and how to turn a rank into rough daily sales.
27 June 2026
How to Find a Profitable KDP Niche in 2026 (Step-by-Step)
A practical method for finding Amazon book niches you can actually win, using signals visible on any Amazon search page. No paid database required.
23 June 2026