in this video i'll show you how you can
make money selling digital downloads on
amazon welcome to my channel my name is
caroline and i make videos to help you
master your mindset and make money
online so that you can build a life you
love so yes believe it or not there is a
way that you can sell digital downloads
as pdfs on amazon but before i do get
started on this video i do just want to
preface the video by saying that there
are only certain types of printables
that you can sell on amazon and there
are only certain people who are eligible
to be able to do this now personally i
am not one of the lucky ones who is able
to sell printables on amazon at this
point in time but hopefully there are
some of you out there who are eligible
so i just want to bring this business
model or this part of amazon to your
attention because there has to be some
of you out there who can take advantage
of this and i just wanted to let you
know all about it for those of you who
are able to do it so first i'll go
through what this program is and then i
will go over who it is that is actually
eligible to be able to sell printables
on amazon so let's get started first of
all what type of printables or what type
of documents am i talking about i'm
talking specifically about digital
educational resources and that is the
specific type of document or printable
product that you can sell on amazon so
basically educational resources in a
digital format if you are already
involved in publishing low content books
on amazon perhaps in the educational
niche or if you have seen some of my
previous videos where i do talk about
making money in the kids educational
resource niche things like kids
educational workbooks well this is
basically the same thing just in a
digital format educational books in a
physical format in a paperback format is
huge and extremely popular on amazon for
both buyers and sellers a lot of people
want to get into this niche because in a
very similar way to colouring books they
sell a lot and if you can get a book or
a series of books to take off in this
niche there is the potential to make a
massive amount of money and since the
program to sell digital downloads is a
lot more exclusive than being able to
sell books on kdp there is a chance that
it could be easier to make money selling
digital educational resources than it is
to sell paperbacks through kdp but let's
go over to amazon and take a look at
what some of these digital educational
resources actually look like so i
actually came across these types of
products when i was doing some niche
research a couple of weeks ago just um
normal niche research for a paperback
book and i was in the kids educational
workbook niches looking around and i saw
this product that wasn't a paperback it
was a digital pdf download and i was
wondering what is that how is it there
how has this person done this so these
products seem to be showing up in search
results along with paperback books by
the looks of it i haven't really noticed
it before but i also haven't really been
looking for that but i mean if you're
just searching for educational resources
for your child or
uh if you're a teacher or for whatever
reason that you're looking for it for
these seem to be popping up in the
search results so this is the main page
for the digital educational resources
niche on amazon so as it says here
printable k12 lesson plans classroom
activities games templates and more for
teachers parents and home schoolers so
there's quite a few different types of
digital products that you can make to be
eligible to go into this niche
and then down here and in the menu we
can drill down even more into english
math science history and social studies
classroom management specialities art
music religion and computer so there's
lots of sub niches under here as well
depending on what it is you specialize
in or what it is that you would want to
create educational resources for if you
were in this program now just looking on
this first main page price wise pricing
seems to vary quite widely you've got
some right down at 299 and then some up
at 11.24 in terms of pricing it doesn't
differ a whole lot from selling a
paperback book but there are going to be
some really great advantages to be able
to create printables for amazon which
i'll go over a little bit later but
let's just take a look at some of these
so it looks like we've got things like
spelling
maths
black history month we've got sight word
worksheets times tables
pre pre handwriting practice
so that would just be like tracing
shapes lines and letters and things like
that we will take a look at this one it
looks like it's one of the very popular
ones over not over exactly 3 000
customer reviews so this one's targeted
to the kindergarten to second grade and
just from the sales page it pretty much
looks like all the it looks like a book
it looks like all the other books and
then over here you can see that it says
instant digital delivery in the form of
a pdf we've got 132 pages
descriptions would be very similar to
what you would put in a paperback book
description
it's 128 page downloadable resources for
ages 3 plus providing engaging activity
activities to help your child develop
fine motor skills and so this particular
brand or person looks like they
focus on printables they have a
collection which gives educators of all
kinds the satisfaction of store-bought
supplies with the convenience of at-home
printing and then down here we've got
4.8 out of 5 stars from 3 000 reviews
lots of photos being uploaded by
customers which is good it's really good
to be able to see
the product it does have a look inside
feature just like all other books and
just straight away as a side note in
terms of marketing on the cover page
here i like this for 1 000 plus free
educational activities visit
and they have their website address
i love seeing little marketing tactics
like that that we can all use regardless
of what type of books we're making or
what niches we're in and things like
that and so a very simple book and one
of the advantages of being able to
create printables like this is that
because there are no printing costs for
amazon the printing is all up to the
customer you can create products with
color which is really nice and i think
kids books kids educational books really
benefit from having color
kids love bright colorful things and
that's just one of the disadvantages of
kdp and the fact that printing in color
just becomes so expensive it doesn't
it's not worth printing in color because
you can't price your book competitive
competitively enough so this is a really
nice advantage of being able to do the
printables if you can so i'm just going
to take a quick look at this person's
author page just to see what else they
have in here so
it says they did have a collection they
haven't taken advantage of their author
central page there's no
images or any description about the
author there but if we look at digital
downloads here
so we've got trace with me pre
handwriting practice activity book trace
with me colors and shapes trace with me
precursive and a singapore math
challenge workbook so for the most part
it seems like they're focusing on
handwriting practice or tracing letter
tracing books and unfortunately it isn't
showing any kind of ranks here perhaps
because of the niche that i'm looking at
when i did look at that one the other
day when i when it first popped up when
i was doing my other niche research it
did have a rank
and it was coming up as a rank in the
books section so i'm not sure if that
was a mistake or anything like that but
since then i haven't been able to see
these books and any kind of
ranking or indication of sales and
things like that but
you have to look at things like the
reviews it's got 3 000 reviews so there
has to be
a lot of people buying this even though
i can't see
any kind of rank in
the sales search results or anything
like that there's no way to determine
how much visa selling how many people
are buying them they have to be selling
though otherwise they wouldn't have that
many reviews on them so we'll go through
a few more here we've got colors and
shapes sentence boot camps some phonics
letter sound worksheets and this is sort
of cool as well so you can even sell
things just related to schooling so
these are just printables for when you
want to take a photo
to remember your child graduating from
kindergarten so this is sort of um
something you would usually find on etsy
are printable photo props and things
like that so it isn't by the looks of it
just exclusive to
actual educational resources we've got
some reading comprehension here print
and digital packs included so i feel
like there'd be a lot more freedom
with this program in terms of how you
can make your books look or how you can
make your printable document look
and what exactly it is that you want to
sell i've just clicked on this
particular educator read like a rockstar
and this is coming up under naomi
o'brien so they have done
printables for critical thinking writing
sentences maths practice
events recipes
take a closer look philosophy
so there's just so many different topics
it looks like that you can do and even
if you're not eligible to join this
program this might even give you some
ideas for paperback books if you're into
the kids educational niche now at this
point i'm not 100 sure why the program
is so exclusive they say on their
website on amazon's website that it is
to
make sure that they are only providing
the highest quality content for this
program which i understand this is kids
learning things you can't just let
anybody create this kind of stuff when
it's going to be used as educational
resources but also i'm not sure how long
this program has been going for perhaps
it's still sort of in the trial or the
beta kind of phase where they're just
testing it out seeing how popular it is
and things like that printables are
popular on etsy and a lot of other
websites and maybe amazon want to dip
their toes into that too i mean if they
can still sell as many products but
without the printing costs of books like
a paperback book that they have to print
then you know why wouldn't they do it
and so what is this program well the way
that you can do this the way that you
can sell printables on amazon is through
their program called amazon ignite
amazon ignite is a program specifically
for educational digital download
products from kindergarten through to
year 12. you can sell these in a bunch
of different formats pdf powerpoint word
document excel etc so you don't have to
only upload a pdf
like you do with kdp or a pdf or a doc
file i believe now there is a 70 royalty
on sales of these products so a bit
higher than what you do get with kdp but
again because there aren't any printing
costs to take into account you can do
things like have color pages or you can
have a large amount of pages in your
document without eating into your
royalties i noticed when i was looking
through a few of those products that
they were a high page count so 130 150
pages there was the one with 300 sight
words and things like that so you can
build a bigger product without having to
worry about the cost and
what you have to set your sales price at
after taking into account printing and
all that sort of thing which you do when
you're creating paperbacks with kdp now
if your product is under 299 they do
charge a transaction fee on each product
sold but when i was looking through
amazon earlier there was only one i
think that i saw that was 2.99 i didn't
see any under 2.99 so i don't imagine
you would go that low with pricing
either to worry about that that
transaction fee something else that is
really great is that your products
aren't exclusive to amazon so if you do
already sell digital education resources
somewhere else like on etsy or if you
sell printable products that would fit
this category somewhere else like etsy
or your own website or something you can
keep doing that and you can sell them
you can sell the same products through
amazon ignite as what you sell elsewhere
already now who can actually do this
well amazon ignite it's kind of
exclusive and it's kind of private in a
very similar way that merch by amazon is
except it's a lot more private it is by
invitation only so to start with you
just head over to the amazon ignite
website you click here to request an
invitation
now unfortunately i can't log into my
account because i'm recording this video
with my phone and it is on airplane mode
so i can't receive my text
with my little code that i get to log in
but basically if you were logged into
your amazon account now it just has a
couple of questions pretty much
your name your email if you already
create educational resources how many
educational resources you plan on
creating i think was one of the
questions and it also asks what country
you're from they say that this is for
education content creators
on
their website and so if you worry that
maybe you need to be an actual teacher
or an educator by training from what
people say you don't need to be you just
need to provide your own original
content so you can't buy the pre-made
stuff from creative fabrica or elsewhere
you need to create this stuff from
scratch it needs to be all original and
lastly
this is currently only open to residents
of the usa sadly now personally i still
did go on and request an invite one of
the questions as i said is what country
you're from be honest when you answer
this you cannot lie
amazon will know what country you're
from so i entered that i was from
australia and then hopefully if they
ever open it up to my country i would
imagine i'd get notified when that
happens or get sent an invite to join up
so if you're from a country other than
you the usa still request an invite if
you're interested you never know when
they might decide to to
invite people from outside of the united
states i'll pop a link to the amazon
ignite website in the description below
if you do qualify for this program and
want to request an invite or if you do
just want to request an invite so that
you get some sort of notification if
this ever becomes available in your
country i hope that this video has been
helpful to at least some of you out
there watching if you are eligible to
join and you are going to request an
invite let me go know in the comments
i'd really love to know or if you are
already a part of the amazon ignite
program let me know as well because i'd
really love to know your experience with
it and how it all works and whether it's
a profitable business model with amazon
and i'll see you guys in the next video