Easter coloring books are making
up to $150 a day on Amazon as they approach Easter Sunday or
up to $250 if you throw in some puzzles with that. Now in this video, I'm going to show you how you can take
any image or vector image and in just three steps, create an interior for one of these
coloring books to publish on Amazon, just using your computer or laptop. And
you can even do this with free software, but you have to be quick if you're
going to get your books published. So what are we waiting for? Let's go.
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produce more videos like this. Now in my most recent video,
which are link to below, I looked at the Easter niche in some
detail and explored the keywords and resources for the covers and interiors. But if we take a quick look at the
market for Easter coloring books on Amazon, it's quite strong.
And if we look here, as I do a search for Easter coloring book, we can see that the market is
quite strong and competitive. There are 3000 results here, but if you do watch that previous video,
you'll see that on my Gumroad shop, I do have Easter coloring book
keywords listed there for free. And there are some less
competitive keywords. But if we have a quick look down here
at the coloring books that are listed. What I did was take around about
the top four books based on their best sellers ranks. And I put the details into a
spreadsheet and looked at the best sellers rank sales per month, using the TCK book publishing calculator. You just put the best
sellers rank in here, and it'll tell you how many sales
per month or how many sales per day. Then I used tangent templates entering
the page count and list price to get the profit per book, and then work
out the income for each book. And also I wrote down the
number of pages per book there. So we just get an idea of what the
average number of pages per book is in the market. We can see here, it's
somewhere between 50 and one 107. But you can see the income
is not huge at the moment. We're looking at anywhere
between $57 to $290 per month. Now I know the book calculator does
underestimate quite a bit when I compare my sales, with the best sellers
ranks of some of my books. So this is probably an underestimate, but anywhere here between
$57 to $290 a month. However, that's at the moment. But what I'm about to show you in a
second will change that completely. Because if we don't find some books that
have got a sales history over the last two years, we can see that it
looks quite different. Here we've got a book selling for $7.95,
and we can see using a free plugging. I got called Helium 10. It's
absolutely free. It's a Chrome plugin. You can see here that the best sellers
rank rises and then drops as It's coming up to Easter and then reaches a low.
And for this particular book here, it's around about, I think it's
roundabout the fourth 4,167 I think. Then I went and had ta look at this
other book again, selling $7.97, which is good because it means there's
profit there of around about $2.60. And again, we can see that the best sellers
rank has dropped twice coming up to Easter. And again, I think the low
was around about the 8,000 mark. And then we have this one here,
which is actually a coloring book, but it's got some puzzles in there
as well to make it an activity book, not selling as such a high price, but the best sellers rank really dropped
on this one, particularly last year. If we look here, I think it
went down to I think about 789, which is selling a real lot. So
I put that into the spreadsheet, as you can see here, and we can see that for the first
two first two coloring books, they're making roundabout
the $150 mark per day. Remember this is an underestimate. The actual activity book is making a
lot more, almost $250 a month. Again, probably an underestimate. So you can see, although the sales are not
brilliant at the moment, those best sellers ranks will
drop as sales start to increase. So it really is important to get your
books in now to take advantage of that and get those keywords for your
book indexed on Amazon well before actual Easter Sunday approaches, which I think this year is
around about April the 4th. So let's look at creating the interior. For any book this is usually
the most difficult part, but especially for things like
coloring books, puzzle books, and handwriting books. They do take quite a bit of
time to create the interiors. But what I'm going to show you is
quite a quick and effective method. Now, if you're an artist, you can create these yourself
or trace images on an iPad using something like Procreate. If not, like me, you can outsource on Fiverr or Upwork or buy ready-made graphics
to customize yourself. And this is important to make them unique
and avoid any issues with duplicate content penalties. You could just go straight to creative
Fabrica and download a coloring book interior. Here, we've got
an interior that's listed. I just did a search on Creative
Fabria for Easter interior. And we've got this one here. The advantage of this particular
listing has that it does come as Adobe illustrator file, which means
each page is fully editable. If we do go back, we can see that
there are some other offerings here, but they're not as easily editable. So you can imagine if more people are
buying these and they're not modifying them, then there can be issues of lots of people
creating coloring books with the same interior. So it's quite
important to modify them, to make them original. Now you could combine a coloring
book interior with puzzles to create an activity book. So you could use in a way these
ready-made coloring book interiors, and add some puzzles in there. Again that would make your
interior more original. So I'm going to show you how
to do this in just three steps. You could use this method
to make the covers too. Now the first step is
finding suitable images. The second step is editing
them and making them original. And the third step is putting
them all together in an interior, ready to upload to the
KDP platform on Amazon. So we'll first find our main images. We want vector images for these. Vectors are great because you can enlarge
them without reducing the quality and they're easily manipulated in software.
The file formats for these are.ai, .svg and .eps. A popular site for
vector images is Vecteezy. And here I did a search for Easter. Now, you'll know there's lots of graphics
here with this little free badge on. Now, you can use these. You normally have
to put an attribution in your book. You can do that, you
know, on the first page, but you're only allowed to sell 50 copies. But what you could do is use the
money to invest in a pro license, which is currently $108. So you could use your profits you make
to invest and then upgrade to the pro license and use as many of these as you
like, and to create even more books. But if we have a look here
just a quick scroll down, I'll see as anything that I
like that jumps out at me. And I'm going to have a
closer look at this one. So I'll go ahead and download this
particular one because I can see good potential. Now there are other sites where you can
get images from the ones I've used are Designbundles and Creative
Fabrica as mentioned in many videos. Creative Fabrica is one of my favorites
at the moment because they sell lots of interiors, great graphics,
images, and also fonts. I'll leave a link down below to
that. It is an affiliate link. So I do get a small commission for that,
which helps us keep this channel going. But if you click on it,
it's entirely up to you. So let's have a look at what they've
got on offer at Creative Fabrica. Now again, I did a search for Easter and I went
down a few pages and came up with these, which look pretty interesting.
I can see a use for these. So I'm actually going to go ahead and
click on this one and click on download so we can download it to the computer. Now to make these original
one also going to need, particularly for the second graphic. I think we're going to be all right with
the first graphic, but the second one, we're going to make it original by
downloading some backgrounds that can be colored in or patterns. So went
over to Creative Fabrica again, and did a search for patterns. And
there were lots to choose from. And I came across this one. 25 geometric pattern coloring
pages. These are all JPEG files. So I went ahead and downloaded them. If
you were really feeling enthusiastic, you could create these patterns
yourself in your software of choice, but we're going to download
them, make life a bit easier. So by the time you've combined
your main image with a pattern, you will have something original because
it's unlikely anyone else is going to have that same combination. Now, if you are getting value
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noticed and it's much appreciated. So now we've got our images, we're onto step two and that's
editing them in software. Now, today I'm going to use Affinity Designer. I'm actually new to this software,
but I really like its functionality. And is a cross between Adobe
Illustrator and Photoshop. I also bought Affinity
Photo for photo editing, which is similar to Adobe
Lightroom. Actually, they're currently offering
the software at half price, which I thinks around about the $28 mark. They actually reduced
it to about half price, approximately three days after I paid
full price. But that's how it goes. So that's actually a bargain. So if
you are interested, check them out, Affinity Designer. You can also do what I'm going
to show you in Adobe Illustrator or there's free software, such
as Inkscape or Gravit Designer. Now Gravit Designer is
a web-based software. And what I'm going to
show you is pretty basic. So can easily be performed
on any other software. So let's go over to our software of
choice, which is Affinity Designer. Now what I've done is I've set
up my blank page first of all. Now this is going to be a coloring book
and the images are going to go to the edges of the pages. So we need bleed. So this is going to be 8.5 by 11, but because it's bleed because
the images go to the edges, we're going to need to
add on an extra amount. So we're going to add on 0.25
to the height and 0.125, two, five to the width. So it's going to be 8.625 by 11.25. So we've got our blank document
here for our first page. So we're going to take our
image. Now, first of all, I want to get rid of this background
here. So I'm just going to delete that. And that leaves us with this main image. Now we need to drag a bounding
box around the whole image. And what we need to do is
click on our color tab. And we're going to put an outline
around all the components of this image. So we click on this, which is the stroke, and we're going to click
on black so that will put, you can see that it outlines our image, and we're going to do the fill as white. Now those lines are a bit fine. So, we're going to increase
the size of the stroke. We're just going to move it up
a bit, I think, to about three. So there we've actually
got our first image, which I think would be a great
first page in our coloring book. Now we come onto our second image. Now we don't want these
background components, so we're just going to
delete those. And again, we're going to put a bounding box.
So we're just going to draw a box, which is going to select all the
components of this image. Now, as we did before, we
want our stroke as black, and we want our fill as white. Now we've
got lines of different thickness here, so we want to make them
all equal. So again, we click on stroke and we're just going
to see what that looks like at about four. So this one will be eight, like, so. So now we're going to go on
to our blank page for this. Now what I want is our
pattern that we downloaded. So we're just going to drag
across our pattern, like, so, and put it onto our
page, holding down shift. I'm just going to drag that
so it covers the whole page. Then we're going to go back to
our image of the rabbit and again, a bounding box around it all
command or control C to copy, command or control V to
paste. That's quite large. So let's just srink it all
down holding down shift. I'll just reduce the size of the image, drag it up to our page and
large that again. Now our image, the stroke seems to be a bit wild.
So let's just adjust that again, just to make it match our background
and there how we have our page. And that's something that
a child or even an adult, if they're into Easter coloring books
could quite easily color in. So, you know, you might want to spend more time in
picking a background or again, as I said, creating a background yourself.
So now we've got our two pages, two images sorted out.
We're now onto step three, which is to create the interior. And today I'm going to use Keynote because
I'm on a Mac. You can use PowerPoint, or you can do this in something
like Canva, which again is free. So I've set up my page size in Keynote. You do have to convert the inch size to
points, but you can just Google that. And it comes up with a calculator. Using keynote and PowerPoint is
how I've created all my interiors. I haven't used anything fancy like
Indesign or Affinity Publisher, but you can use those and do the same
process that I'm going to go through here to create the same sort of interior. So we open up Keynote and
we've got our blank page here. This is going to be a
60 page coloring book. So all you do is just highlight your
page command C or control C to copy, and then just command V or control V to
paste until you get down to the number of pages you want to do. In
this case, as I said, 60, and we got our 60 pages here, so we can go to the top and
just highlight our first page. So we go back to Affinity Designer, take our first image and just draw
another bounding box around it, command C or control C to copy,
go back to Keynote paste in place, and then just adjust the size. Now, a lot of people will use the page
behind as a blank page or keep it blank so that colors don't bleed through. So we're going to leave that page
blank and go on to page number three. Go back to Affinity Designer, go to our second image or second
page command C or control C to copy back to Keynote and
command V or control V to paste. And there we have our next page. So now you could repeat this process
and go through what this book would require. What is it, 30
images or 29, probably 30. And you can do the same thing and you
can see how quick this process is. And you can make it as simple
or as complex as you want, but by creating those or
combining those two images, the main image and the background, we do arriveat something that is original. And so you avoid those
duplicate content penalties, which I know has been quite a big issue
with people producing particularly coloring books have just
downloaded an interior, not made any changes and
just uploaded it to KDP. So there's a way just to make
things a bit easier for you. And as you can see on something
like Creative Fabrica, you've got loads of graphics
you can choose from. So really once you start combining the
two there's really unlimited combinations that you can do. But part of this is
also just to spark your imagination, to think about what I've done here and
how could you apply it to other images and do a similar. Then the last thing you need to do is
just click on file export to click on PDF. Leave the image quality
is best, click on next, call it whatever you like, save
it to your documents folder. And there you're going to
have your PDF file already to upload to the KDP platform.
And you're good to go. Now, if you want to learn more
about this niche, especially
the market, the keywords, which are crucial to getting your book
ranked, then click this video here. I create regular videos on making
money online with KDP books. So hit that subscribe button and hit
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them. Thank you for watching. I really appreciate you spending your
time and until next time, goodbye.
