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Is Amazon KDP really “passive” income? I took a month off to find out.
Here are some detailed data-filled results of what happened.
Passive income seems like it’s been having a moment on the internet lately, I suspect due to the current instability of many people’s jobs.
Though many people see it as a total scam (and I honestly can’t blame them with the rise of highly suspect Youtube videos on the topic), the idea of passive income has existed long before the internet.
Amazon’s KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) is just a straightforward and user-friendly way for designers and writers to enter the passive income scene with book royalties, without needing a traditional publishing contract.
You write (or in my case, design notebooks, day planners, journals, etc), Amazon does the work of printing and shipping physical books (or getting Kindle ebooks to your customers), and you collect a royalty based on the price you set for your work.
In January 2021, after about a year of dabbling with the program and 98 books published under various pen names, I finally saw over 1k royalties.
