4 Low Content Books That Aren’t Lined Notebooks
It’s easier to make sales in areas with fewer sellers.
Low content books are an easy way to create digital products. The ease makes differentiation a must.
But you can be ahead of the game. Most people fuss over their covers and create more notebooks. The niche gets plenty of love. There are four other book types worth considering. You can make them in 30-minutes and have them published within three days.
Journals
Journals are another type of low-content publishing book you can create. It is much like lined notebooks. But with thought guides. Yeah. You include self-care, reflection, or gratitude prompts. Make boxed slots for answers. Or you can state a question and include lines for answers. Some journals also have emoticons for persons to rate their day. Here are ideas for this book category.
- Reflection day calendars
- 3 or 5-minute gratitude guide
- Dear diary
- Hate letter burn book
- “How do you want to remember today?” notes
These prints are more than just using blank lines to fill a page. It’s about giving the user writing points. So, their journaling time feels intentional.
Quotes
The takeaways from most stories are quotes. Some people would never read self-help books. Why? Because you can summarize pages of content down to one sentence. Quote-based paperback or hardcover books use this quality to their benefit. Readers get the of best self-help books in a quick read. Every page has one quote for the reader to feel empowered or inspired. You would find quotes related to one theme and compile them using Canva. Here are some categories for your phrase book:
- travel
- personal development
- self-care
- love and relationship
- finance
- making money online
If, for example, you search “travel quotes” on Pinterest, you would get pins with links to websites. These websites feature up to 150 inspirational quotes, which you can use in your book.
Coloring Books
Coloring books are therapeutic for adults too. It was surprising to learn an industry for this exists. You can place expressive phrases on backgrounds for buyers to fill with color. If your sayings include expletives, remember to tick the content for the 18+ audiences box. Any font can become an outline by using the hollow effect feature in Canva. Here’s how to find this tool:
- Click ‘t’ on your keyword for a text box to appear
- In the white header section, look for — effects
- Click hollow and drag the bar below to adjust line thickness
Before you create your book in Canva, look at the inch dimension of books to make your pages the correct sizes from the start.
Planners
This niche is blowing up. More people want to diversify their incomes, so they hope to organize their time better. And the popularity of planners is born. Please don’t go the ‘daily schedule’ route. Most planners are in calendar format. But brands built on organization have expanded this book category. These are areas worth trying:
- wedding planner
- travel itinerary
- marketing master list
- branding checklist
- sales insights manual tracker
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