Earn $150 A Day PPK Coloring Book Interior in 3 Very Easy Steps

 

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. 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 from this video so far,  then please hit that like button.  It does help the channel get 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. goodbye.  

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