Publishing Low and Medium-content Books (puzzle Books, Activity Books) on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing
Originally published Sep 6, 2026 — Greg Gottfried
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One of 9 ideas covered in this video
Publish low and medium-content books through Amazon KDP's print-on-demand system (Amazon prints, ships, and handles customer service per order, paying a royalty split), focusing specifically on puzzle books, crossword books, word search books, and similar activity content rather than full-length novels, which the presenter found much harder to sell; use pre-made templates for puzzle generation rather than building content from scratch, and apply the same specific-niche thinking used for the T-shirt business.
The presenter says he originally tried this stream years earlier without much success, and only found real traction after switching strategy specifically to niche puzzle books, framing this as a valuable lesson that low-content book type (not the KDP platform itself) was the reason for his earlier failure.
Someone willing to niche down within the low-content book category (rather than novels) and use templated tools to speed up creation.
Amazon KDP's print-on-demand model and the general distinction between the difficulty of selling novels versus low-content books are accurate and match common self-publishing knowledge. No specific revenue figures for this stream are given in this segment, only the presenter's own account of an initial failed attempt followed by later success after changing approach.