Is This Going To Be The Next Big Low Content Book Niche To Publish On Amazon KDP - Blank Comic Books
Summary
TLDRIn this video, Caroline discusses the resurgence of a niche market for low-content books, specifically blank comic books and graphic novels, which are experiencing a comeback. She shares her observations from spending time in the children's book section due to her daughter's growing interest in reading. Caroline highlights the popularity of graphic novels among both children and adults, citing examples like 'Bat Cat' and popular series like 'Dogman' and 'The Bad Guys.' She points out the trend of these books being released in series and the increasing demand for adult graphic novels. The video also explores the potential for individuals to create their own graphic novels using templates, with options ranging from using graphic design software to utilizing free tools like Canva or purchasing pre-made templates. Caroline provides a step-by-step guide on how to create a blank comic book page using Canva, emphasizing the importance of uniqueness in design to stand out in the market. She concludes by encouraging viewers to explore the niche and consider creating their own graphic novels, as there is a strong and growing demand for such books.
Takeaways
- 📚 The resurgence of graphic novels and comic books is gaining popularity among broader audiences, including both kids and adults.
- 👧 Caroline's personal experience with her daughter's interest in reading led her to notice the growing trend of graphic novels in bookstores.
- 🔍 Successful graphic novels often have a strong presence on Amazon, with many titles achieving high bestseller ranks.
- 🎨 The layout of graphic novels varies widely, offering opportunities for creators with different styles, from detailed illustrations to more text-heavy narratives.
- 🐱 A common theme in popular graphic novels is the inclusion of cats, indicating a strong market preference for this subject matter.
- 📈 The niche of blank comic books is currently not saturated, with only around 2,000 results on Amazon, suggesting room for new entrants.
- 💰 Blank comic books have a strong sales history, with some titles selling over 1,100 copies per month and generating significant monthly income.
- 🎁 Blank comic books are particularly popular as gifts, especially during the holiday season, leading to increased sales around Christmas.
- 🛠️ Creators can produce their own graphic novel templates using tools like graphic design software, Canva, or by purchasing pre-made templates.
- ✂️ Canva offers a user-friendly platform for designing comic book pages, even for those without extensive graphic design experience.
- 🌟 To stand out in the market, it's recommended to create unique and merged templates rather than using a single, easily accessible template that others might also use.
Q & A
What is the main topic of the video?
-The main topic of the video is the resurgence of a low content niche in the self-publishing industry, specifically focusing on graphic novels and comic books for kids.
Why does Caroline believe this niche is going to make a big comeback?
-Caroline believes this niche is going to make a big comeback because she has noticed an increase in the popularity of graphic novels and comic books in bookstores and among her daughter's school book club.
What type of books are popular in this niche?
-The popular books in this niche are graphic novels or comic books, which often come in series and are not just for kids but also have a strong market among adults.
How does the video demonstrate the popularity of these books?
-The video demonstrates the popularity of these books by showing their bestseller ranks on Amazon and discussing the sales history of the books using the Helium 10 extension.
What is the significance of the book 'Bat Cat' in the video?
-The book 'Bat Cat' is significant because it is the book that Caroline's daughter chose, which led her to notice the resurgence of graphic novels and comic books in the children's section of bookstores.
How does the video suggest one can get started in creating their own graphic novel?
-The video suggests using blank comic book templates, which can be created using graphic design programs, Canva, or by purchasing pre-made templates from websites like Creative Fabrica.
What is the role of Canva in creating a blank comic book?
-Canva can be used to create custom designs for comic books by selecting shapes, arranging them on the page, and adding speech bubbles. It is a free tool that allows for the creation of commercial books.
What is the potential monthly income from selling a blank comic book with a bestseller rank of 2557?
-With a royalty of $135 per book and an estimated 1,100 copies sold per month, the potential monthly income could be just under $1,500. However, considering historical sales data, the income could be higher, possibly in the $2,500 per month range.
Why do these blank comic books sell particularly well around Christmas?
-The video suggests that blank comic books sell well around Christmas because they are often purchased as gifts, leading to a drop in the bestseller rank as demand increases.
What is the importance of creating a unique layout for a blank comic book?
-Creating a unique layout is important to stand out from other books in the niche and to avoid having a book that looks exactly like many others, which could be created using the same pre-made templates.
How does the video use the Amazon bestseller rank to estimate book sales?
-The video uses the Amazon bestseller rank in conjunction with an Amazon sales calculator to estimate how many copies of a book might be selling per month, which helps to determine the potential income from book sales.
Outlines
📚 Exploring the Resurgence of Graphic Novels for Kids
Caroline introduces a promising niche in self-publishing—graphic novels for children—highlighting a recent shift towards broader audience appeal. She uses the example of her daughter's interest in a graphic novel called 'Bat Cat' to illustrate this trend. Caroline observes an increasing presence of graphic novels in mainstream stores and online platforms, specifically Amazon, where popular culture is increasingly represented in this format. She discusses the potential for creators to capitalize on this resurgence by designing graphic novels that cater to both children and adults, using various popular examples to underline the trend's momentum.
📈 Analyzing the Market for Children's Graphic Novels
This paragraph focuses on the market dynamics of children's graphic novels, using the 'Dogman' series as a case study. Caroline describes how different styles and layouts in graphic novels cater to diverse reader preferences and how themes like cats are recurrently popular. She emphasizes the importance of visual storytelling over textual narratives in graphic novels. The discussion extends to blank comic books, a sub-niche with low competition according to Amazon’s bestseller ranks, highlighting the ease of entry for new authors interested in tapping into the growing interest in creating personal graphic novels.
💡 Estimating Sales and Revenue from Blank Comic Books
Caroline delves into the financial aspects of publishing blank comic books, focusing on a best-selling item in the niche. She explains how bestseller ranks on Amazon can indicate potential monthly sales, using a specific book with a rank of 2557 as an example, which potentially sells around 1,100 copies per month. The discussion includes the use of tools like Helium 10 to track sales history and project future earnings, illustrating seasonal sales spikes around Christmas. Caroline estimates that consistent sales could yield approximately $2,500 per month, presenting a lucrative opportunity for publishers.
🖌️ Creating Your Own Graphic Novels Using Digital Tools
In this final section, Caroline provides practical advice on creating graphic novels. She outlines different methods, including using graphic design programs, Canva, or purchasing templates from platforms like Creative Fabrica. She provides a step-by-step demonstration of setting up pages in Canva, emphasizing the customization of layouts and speech bubbles to suit various storytelling needs. Caroline concludes by encouraging potential creators to explore graphic novels firsthand by visiting bookstores, stressing the niche’s potential growth and appeal across broader audiences.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Low Content Niche
💡Graphic Novel
💡Bestseller Rank (BSR)
💡Blank Comic Books
💡Amazon Sales Calculator
💡Canva
💡Royalty
💡Minecraft
💡Dogman
💡Creative Market
💡Christmas Sales
Highlights
The video discusses a niche that is experiencing a resurgence in popularity: low content graphic novels and comic books.
The presenter, Caroline, shares her personal experience of noticing the trend while spending time in the children's book section due to her daughter's interest in reading.
Books like 'Bat Cat' are part of a resurgence in graphic novels, appealing to both children and adults.
Popular franchises like Minecraft and TV shows are releasing graphic novels, indicating a broader market interest.
The presenter demonstrates how to search for and analyze the popularity of kids' graphic novels on Amazon.
The video highlights the success of series like 'Dogman' and 'The Bad Guys', which have high sales and bestseller ranks.
Different graphic novel styles are showcased, from image-heavy with minimal text to those with more text and simpler illustrations.
The presenter suggests that the growing interest in graphic novels will lead to more people wanting to create their own.
Blank comic books are introduced as a low-content niche with strong demand and relatively few publishers.
The best-selling blank comic book on Amazon is shown, with a simple template layout that allows users to create their own content.
Using tools like Canva, even those without graphic design experience can create their own comic book layouts.
The video provides a step-by-step guide on how to use Canva to design a comic book page.
Alternative options like purchasing pre-made templates from Creative Fabrica are suggested for those who do not wish to design from scratch.
The presenter discusses the financial potential of the niche, with estimates of monthly income from successful blank comic books.
Seasonal sales spikes, especially around Christmas, are noted as an additional income opportunity for publishers in this niche.
The video concludes by encouraging viewers to explore the niche further and consider creating their own graphic novels or comic books.
Transcripts
in this video I want to share with you a
low content Niche that I think is going
to make a big comeback if you don't want
to miss out on getting into this Niche
before everybody else make sure to watch
this video I'll be sharing how popular
these books are and how you can make and
publish them for yourself hi I'm
Caroline welcome to my channel I share
videos every single week all about
self-publishing books and you're
watching one of them right now so thank
you so much for taking the time out of
your day to join me here so what is this
big Niche that I'm talking about first
of all let me give you a little
backstory of why I think this is going
to be a good Niche to publish books in I
have a daughter she's nearly seven and
she is just starting getting into
reading books and so we are starting to
spend a lot more time in the kid section
of bookstores something or somewhere I
have never been before the kids section
that is not bookstore I love going to
bookstores but anyway I've started
noticing over the past few months and
this actually may have been going on a
bit longer I myself have really just
started noticing these types of books
now these kinds of books have always
been a popular Niche they aren't a new
style of book but I feel like they have
had a very specific very smaller much
targeted audience in the past but they
are starting to see a Resurgence and are
trickling over into the more broader
bigger Target audiences so a recent book
that my daughter chose was this one here
called Bat cat she is obsessed with cats
and this book is a graphic novel or what
you might call a comic book and as you
can see it is just the Classic comic
book style of book so after she got this
book and she actually chose it through
her school's book club I started
noticing these books in bookstores and
in just general department stores that
have a book section in them and I was
surprised to see that most of the
currently trending stuff like books
computer games TV shows had all released
a graphic novel let's take a quick look
on Amazon at what's going on with these
kinds of books I've gone on to Amazon
and just done a search for kids graphic
novel if you pop in kids comic book you
might get different results I did have a
look under comic book and they were very
similar we have all these series of
books Katie the cats sitter Max meow cat
Crusader we have Minecraft which is a
massively popular computer game and
there's just this whole range of comic
books or graphic novels that sell really
well on Amazon if you've been taking a
quick look at the bsrs the best seller
ranks which are these numbers underneath
each of the books that gives us an
indication of whether a book is selling
or not and there's some really great
bestseller ranks in here and some really
really popular books and the other thing
that I noticed with these is seem to be
quite common to be set up in a series so
you have whole series of graphic novels
for example like this one the cat kid
comic Club influences book five of five
so they've created a series of graphic
novels around this character or around
this story and quite a lot of the big
more popular authors and books seem to
be doing this and these types of books
aren't just for kids either they are
popular with adults too so although in
the search term on Amazon I used kids
graphic novel and I focused on kids
books and kids being the target market
in this video there is a strong Market
or a strong demand for adult comic books
adult graphic novels as well and one
other thing I did notice too is that a
lot of really popular really cult type
of books The Hobbit there's some really
popular movies like The Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles George Orwell's 1984 June
some really popular movies TV shows and
books all go on to create a graphic
novel to go with their existing products
whether that be books movies TV shows
games let's take a look at some of these
graphic novels these comic books a
little bit more closely so I've pulled
up the Minecraft one Minecraft as I say
is a massively popular computer game and
if we take a look inside at the layout
of these books they're basically just
these different shaped squares and
rectangles Etc on a page filled mostly
with images with a few few words a few
speech bubbles here or there and it's
more about telling the story through the
images as opposed to writing so if
somebody's more into drawing than they
are writing they may still be interested
in creating a book like this but they
don't want to write and this is
something that might be more suited to
somebody who likes to draw the next one
that I want to look at is Dogman the
Scarlet shedar Dogman is a massive
series as you can see here this book
specifically has a 30-day revenue of
over $300,000 and currently sitting with
a bestseller rank of number six and was
just published in March so fantastic
results for a book that's only been
published for a month and it is part of
a series so this is the 12th book in
this series of graphic novels for this
character Dogman this one you can see is
a little bit different to the Minecraft
one we looked at this one has a lot more
text a lot more words within it and the
drawings and the illustrations are a lot
more simple than the Minecraft one so
there's lots of different ways that
comic book are drawn out written out and
laid out and another really popular
series is the bad guys series and so the
creator of the bad guys has created Cat
on the run I'm seeing another theme
going on here if you guys haven't
noticed either is books with cats in
them people must just love cats kids
must love cats so this one is different
again this one has a lot of full page
images on it and then goes into some of
the smaller rectangle shapes and then
again into the bigger full page image
and so this one has has almost no text
no words on it just relying on the
images to tell the story and so it's
really nice to see with comic books and
graphic novels there's no specific set
way to do it it's basically just a story
being told through images More Than
Words and regardless of whether there's
one image per page or it's broken up
into those little boxes it doesn't
really matter there's no rules on how
this should be formatted and one last
one I just pulled up again Katie the
cats sitter another cat book people who
love cats and let's see how this one has
been laid out so this one's got triangle
shapes instead of rectangles and squares
and all sorts of different shapes that's
being used to tell the story so just a
little bit more visually appealing a
little bit different and this one has a
lot more text in terms of telling the
story through speech comic books aren't
something where there's a lot of
descriptive text like you would get in a
fiction book the comics rely basically
on the speech between the characters and
the thoughts that come out of the
character so really really interesting
I'm not saying that you need to go and
write create illustrate a graphic novel
or comic book unless you want to of
course but the actual graphic novels
that we've just looked at are not the
point of this video and it's not the
niche that I'm talking about but I just
wanted to show you those books and show
you the fact that they are getting
popular again or they are trickling over
into some of the more broader audiences
and Target markets and they are making a
bit of a comeback and so what that's
going to do is that it's going to get so
many more people interested in comic
books interested in graphic novels and
it's going to make people want to create
their own graphic novels and comic books
and that's where we come in how can we
help people make these kinds of books or
start to take those first steps in
creating a comic book for themselves
whether they want to just do it as a
hobby or as something else we can help
them by giving them a template to be
able to just get out and start creating
their own graphic novel and their own
com book you may have heard of these
books before and they are low content
books they're very simple they're very
easy to make and they are blank comic
books Let's Take a look at some so I've
just done a search for blank comic book
on Amazon and the first thing we want to
do is just scroll down and have a look
how many people have books in this Niche
and we can see here only 2,000 results
or a little bit over 2,000 results so
not a huge amount of people publishing
books in this space and then the next
thing we want to just take a look at are
the best seller ranks because this is
how we determine or it's a good way to
help us determine whether this Niche
whether these books are in demand with
Amazon's customers so a BSR is a
bestseller Rank and that's this number
down here A number is given to every
book in the Amazon Marketplace and this
number helps determine the popularity of
a book with Amazon's customers so the
lower this number the better you want
this number to be as close to one as you
can possibly get it and the closer it is
to one the more it is selling so
straight away we can see that there are
some really great selling blank comic
books in this Niche the first few have
very low bestseller ranks and then we
have some more quite low range of
bestseller ranks and as we scroll down
we're still getting books that have
bestseller ranks that are going to be
selling books regularly and consistently
so ideally when you're looking in a
niche you want to find on that first
page of search results a bunch of books
that have low bestseller ranks that show
that these books are selling and this
Niche has definitely got a lot of books
in it that are selling with Amazon's
customer let's just take a look at the
bestselling blank comic book there's a
couple here with the Amazon besteller
badge and this one is one of the ones
with the bestseller badge published in
2019 and if we have a look at the inside
of it let's see if we can see how it's
laid out so it's just got plain simple
boxes with speech bubbles in different
arrangements and that's as simple as
these books get and it's basically just
a template for people who want to start
creating their own comic books now
another one that I've pulled up is
actually the book in this Niche that has
the lowest best seller rank at the
moment and so this is another one with a
bestseller badge by Amazon and also
currently sitting with the lowest best
seller rank in this Niche this best
selling book currently has a bestseller
rank of
2557 now with this bestseller rank we
can estimate how many books could be
selling so all we need to do is pop on
over to an Amazon sales calculator later
and we can estimate that this bestseller
rank of
2557 could be selling around 1,100
copies per month one other thing that's
interesting to look at is if we just
scroll down to this plugin this is a
helium 10 extension it is free to
install but I like looking at this it
gives us the history of the sales and a
history of the best seller Rank and even
though the best seller ranks around
2,500 we can see historically right back
to 20 17
2018 that the best seller rank is
usually lower it's usually maybe an
average or it's maybe more consistently
around the 2,000 Mark now based on the
current bestseller rank of
25557 we can use that to work out what
royalty this book is getting which then
we can use to work out how much monthly
income the book could be making so if we
hop on over to KD P's royalty calculator
and we pop in the details of the book we
know that this book has a royalty of
$135 for every book sold so with 1,100
books being sold per month with a $135
royalty that is just under
$1,500 per month from that one blank
comic book so looking at the history
with the helium 10 extension we can see
that the bestseller rank is usually more
consistently around 2,000 or lower and
if that is the case then they're
probably selling a lot more books than
1,000 100 copies per month and if that's
the case then the monthly income from
this book is probably going to be more
in the
$2,500 per month range but also on this
history graph the book always sells
really well at Christmas time you can
see here just in the month before
Christmas and in November the bestseller
rank drops right down into sort of 200s
300s in the leadup to Christmas again
here the next year around Christmas it
drops right down again under 300 under
200 there and year after year it does
the same thing around Christmas because
this book is obviously something that
gets picked up as a Christmas gift
because that bestseller rank drops right
down into the low hundreds right before
Christmas so the publisher is also going
to be getting a really nice little boost
of income right at the end of the year
in that Christmas period so how do you
actually make these books for yourself
well if you have a graphic design design
program that you are good at using well
you could just create the pages yourself
within that program and this would be
especially good if you have an idea in
your mind of a really specific way of
how you want these Pages laid out and
exactly what sizes and shapes that you
want to include on each page if you
can't do this then your second option
would be to use canva canva is free to
use and you can use canva for creating
books that you are going to be selling
for Comm commercial purposes using canva
you can use their elements and their
shapes to arrange all the different
sections on your pages and they also
have speech bubbles that you can use
I'll give you a really quick example of
how you can create these pages in canva
so all we want to do is head into canva
create a custom design add in the size
of the page and the book that you want
to create and we can go from here so
what you want to do is head on over to
elements and then we have shapes and
basically just select the square shape
if that's what you're doing you can also
do those triangle shapes if want we want
to put maybe
three sort of boxes here control and
copy pop the next one next to it control
and copy pop the next one next to it and
then Center them on the page we want to
add a border and change the color to
white and obviously you can play around
with how thick your border is
and that sort of
thing okay so first we have the first
line of shapes now the next one I'm just
going to put two larger
boxes we want to copy that paste that
pop it over
here again pop our border change it to
White and then the
last box is going to
be just a long
rectangle and that was done in just a
couple of minutes the next thing you
might want to add in is some speech
bubbles we just do a quick search for
speech bubbles keep in mind if you are
only using the free version of canva you
cannot use anything with a crown
anything with a crown is for pro version
and I personally think the pro version
is worth it if you want to use some of
the pro elements then you might have to
upgrade but if you're happy just using
the free elements you can do that too
and so we can just add in some speech
bubbles here if you want to have a box
with a speech bubble there's all
different shapes and sizes that you can
add
in and so you just go in and add
whatever elements you want in terms of
people being able to add text and that
sort of thing and so if we wanted to add
another page we just add the next page
in there I'm just going to
copy this box and bring it down here and
this one's going to be sort of a larger
box and then a smaller box and then it's
going to be the same but on the opposite
side might do it like this
and then I might them way too big
and again then we would just go through
add in where you want the different
speech bubbles and so that's that was
just a very quick example not something
I put a lot of thought into you ideally
would want to sit down and sort of get
an idea of what you want on each page
and then just go through and add the
different shap
and different speech bubbles and
elements that you want to have on each
page and so if canva is not an option
for you either a third option would be
to purchase a pre-made template from
somewhere like creative Fabrica the
downside to doing this is that you don't
have any control over the layout of the
sections of each page and you won't be
able to change much about them but if
you just go to creative Fabrica and
search for blank comic book you will see
that there are are lots of results for
blank comic book pages pretty cheap and
some are even free so you could even
take a few of them and merge them
together to get the pages and the book
exactly as you want them and that's
probably going to be the best way to get
a more Unique Interior as opposed to
just using one of them downloading it
and popping that in your book where lots
of other people could also be doing the
same thing and creating books that look
exactly like yours so try to make it
unique by perhaps merging a couple
together to create create something as
different as you can possibly create so
what do you think about this Niche maybe
the next time you pass a book store go
in and take a look at the kids section
and see how many graphic novels are
available in your area I think this is a
really great Niche with great strong
demand that has always been popular but
is on a bit of a more upward Trend with
some of the more broader audience
audiences the more broader markets and
so I think we're going to see more
people wanting to start drawing out
their own comic books and their own
graphic novels thank you so much for
watching I'll see you in the next video
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