3 Tips: Grow Your Kindle Book Profits by Creating Sequels and Spin-Offs
To increase your profits from your Kindle book with minimal extra work, follow the lead of TV programs and movie franchises that create spin-off products.Â
In fact, there are two major ways in which you could create spin-off profits: one is to create sequels, for which your earlier book will help you create a pre-sold audience, and the other one is to write books on related subjects within the same market. The best thing is that they work very well together as you will see in a moment.
Let’s look at them in turn:
1) Create a series
Creating a series is an easy way to build an audience that will buy over and over again. This system lends itself especially to how-to type topics, which are a popular genre in the Kindle bookstore.
Examples for potential series are recipe books. You could start with a niche recipe book that caters to a specific niche, such as low-carb dieters, diabetics, people who need to avoid certain foods because of food allergies, and so on. As an alternative, you could focus on certain cuisines or ingredients.Â
Either way, once you have written and created the first book, you can simply add MORE recipes, and write a second, third, fourth, and fifth book. There are no limits.
The nice thing about Kindle books is that they do not have to be full-length, as long as the content is great and the price is right.Â
2) Create books on related themes
As an alternative to creating a series of books on the same theme, you can also add books on related themes. So if you’ve been writing books for people who need to avoid gluten, you can start a line of books for people who need to avoid sugar, salt, or dairy, or even a combination of these.
At the same time, if you’re writing books with recipes around certain foods, you can focus on different foods in turn. The same can be done with ethnic cuisines.
The advantage of the second approach is that you will be able to capture the attention of an ever growing market since you’ll be showing up in the search engines for different keywords.
3) The benefit of doing both
If you’re wondering which approach is better, why not combine them and do both! That way you can capture new audiences and sell more books to the people who’ve been buying from you before. It’s a win-win all around.
The best part is that this doesn’t just work with recipes. You can also use both of these strategies with a lot of other types of topics, for example with books on hobbies or pets.
You can write books on crocheting patterns, for example, or quilting, or scrapbooking, and add more books on the subject with ever more patterns and details. And then you can branch out and go to related topics.
The same would apply to books on pet care, where you can write about pets in ever greater detail, and you can also branch out to other pets.
Creating additional books with this system won’t take nearly as much time and effort as creating new books from scratch since you already have done most of your research, and you’re very familiar with the subject. Yet all those extra books will greatly help increase your sales, your profits, and your following.