“Good KDP niches are all saturated!”
I found a category nearly any Side Hustler could profit from.
James here.
Coloring books, mazes, and word searches can all be huge sellers, however…
If we’re honest?
Because mazes are so easy to create - standing out is difficult.
There are over 60,000 choices just for “Word search books”.
Mazes, coloring, and dot-to-dot books all have just as many competitors.
But the category I discovered this morning?
… A low to medium content niche…
… Where ‘short reads’ would be embraced…
Has a fraction of the competition because it requires slightly more work than formatting an Etsy journal template.
…Not a lot more - but enough to keep most people out…
Here’s what I found:
25 of the top 100 books are in the public domain so we don’t have to write anything new…
And the Top 100 has multiple versions of books like:
The Prince
The Art of War
Tao Te Ching
Plato’s “Republic”
Nietzsche's “Beyond Good and Evil”
And Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
Encouraging fact: Of the 10 books about Stoicism - only 2 were by Ryan Holiday. The other 8 were authors I’d never heard of. (There’s room for new publishers in this market.)
If you haven’t guessed?
The KDP category is Philosophy.
Since the original books about philosophy are in the public domain?
How easy would it be to feed entire books into AI…
… And with a few prompts…
Create niched down versions?
In an afternoon you could create…
“The Art of War for Women in Management”
“Nietzsche in 40 Minutes: A summary”
“100 Meditations for Day Traders”
“How a CEO can Think like a Roman Emperor”
Or “Machiavelli for Marketers”
…Add in workbooks?...
And nearly endless combinations could be created.
Will creating books like these take a little more effort than coloring books?
Yes.
Will AI still do most of that work?
Yes.
Will we have a better chance of standing out than we do with no/super low content books?
Also yes.
One last thing you should know…
Philosophy wasn’t the only category I found side hustlers could profit in.
I used specific criteria to find niches with low competition but also decent sales volume.
In your corner,
James Foster
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