Summary

Jane Bexley earns approximately $1376.70 per month from a single children's book on Amazon, demonstrating the potential of self-publishing.

Abstract

The article discusses the success story of Jane Bexley, a children's book author and illustrator who earns a significant income from a single book on Amazon. Jane writes and illustrates her books, which helps her keep production costs low. Her books are centered around the topic of farting, which is popular among children. Using tools like the BSR to Sales Calculator and the KDP Royalty Calculator, it is estimated that Jane earns around $1376.70 per month from a single book. The article emphasizes the potential of self-publishing and encourages readers to try it out.

Bullet points

Jane Bexley is a successful children's book author and illustrator.
She writes and illustrates her books, keeping production costs low.
Her books are centered around the topic of farting, which is popular among children.
Using the BSR to Sales Calculator, it is estimated that Jane sells around 390 copies of her book per month.
Using the KDP Royalty Calculator, it is estimated that Jane earns around $1376.70 per month from a single book.
The article encourages readers to try self-publishing, emphasizing its potential.

$1376.70/Month With ONE Children’s Book? It’s 100% Possible.

Here’s how Jane’s doing it.

**Source**: Screenshot of Amazon by Author.

You probably know that I’m really into earning passive income from publishing children’s books.

It’s a great side hustle — for sure, and it’s personally put thousands of dollars into my pocket 🎉 💃.

Personally, I really thought you’d have to have a serious catalog of books in order to earn a comfortable living. How wrong I was.

In fact, can you imagine making a living from just ONE book? In today’s case study — that’s exactly what we’re going to be examining. I’m going to be dropping some extremely helpful tools to snipe competition, so please stick around 🤗!

Meet Jane Bexley

Jane Bexley is a prolific children's books author and seems to be doing quite well for herself!

First of all, she writes and illustrates her books by herself — meaning that she doesn’t have huge costs associated with producing her works.

Does that sound intimidating? It doesn’t have to be. For example, here’s a sample page:

Now, this isn’t necessarily the most hyper-realistic or detailed drawing. That’s not to say that it’s of poor quality — but it’s something that virtually anyone who puts in the work can achieve.

Here’s the interesting thing:

Jane has a collection of about 12 books (at the time of this writing) that are all centered around the same topic/brand — farting. What can I say, kids seem to really love the topic, and her sales figures sure speak for themselves.

This leads to an avalanche of sales — one books sells another, which sells another and another.

If you can manage to create a character/setting that both kids and parents love — you’ll ALWAYS make money.

Estimating Sales

Now, to get a feel for how much this specific book is making, we can use a handy little tool from TCK Publishing called the BSR to Sales Calculator.

Essentially, it looks at the best seller rank, which is found in the product details section on Amazon:

Putting the figures into the calculator, we get an estimate of 390 sales per month from just this book alone.

Now, of course, not all of the $11.88 is profit. We’ll need another tool, amazon’s royalty calculator, to determine how much Jane is making:

KDP Royalty Calculator. **Source**: Screenshot by Author.

So, 3.53 * 390 = $1376.70/month! How incredible is that?

Keep in mind, that’s just ONE book — she has other more popular titles in her series. Her real revenue could be many multiples higher than this.

But wait….it’s not all profit. After all — I saw that she runs sponsored ads, and it’s hard to determine how much profit she actually takes home at the day.

Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if she had a fairly healthy margin — after all, she’s been running these ads for months and months.

I really hope this small example of KDP success shows the enormous possibilities of self publishing. In the age of beautifully generated AI art, it doesn’t take a huge amount of time to create and publish wonderful pieces.

Why not give it a shot?