Amazon AI Update that Changes EVERYTHING You Know About Selfpublishing on Amazon KDP

In this video, we dive deep into Amazon's new AI initiative related to its search algorithm and explore its potential impact on self-publishing on KDP.

What You'll Learn:
-An overview of COSMO and its role in Amazon's AI strategy
-How COSMO could change the way books are discovered on Amazon
-Simple ways for self-publishers on KDP to adapt to any algorithmic changes coming our way

Whether you're a seasoned author or just starting out, this video offers valuable insights to help you navigate selling books on Amazon in the future.

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[qwerasdf]

The impact a book has on readers is experiential! Readers make a book a bestseller! When someone else determines, by their own criteria, which books are recommended for readers, it's called censorship! Of course, this is not necessarily bad, as long as readers can buy the books they like from other publishers! Thanks for the update!

[plumstone]

Lots to think about in here. I think I already implement an audience-focused strategy (easier to do when you write fiction), but it’ll be a huge pivot for some content creators. Thanks for sharing

[selfpublishingempire]

Great to see you back! And with such a cool breaking video too :)

[everybodylovessnoopy]

This is great for those of us who are already doing this! I feel like it's going to be so much more intelligent than the current model.

[johndwyerauthor]

Great video...Good to see some tips for authors who want to make evergreen books.

[LifeMojoMastery]

Thanks for this information. Shouldn't content creators always keep their target audience close in mind?

[mehaboobbasha]

Good Information, thank you for sharing

[thinkjon]

Coming from an advertising background I've always approach creating books in this manner described in the video along with my marketing content.

My questions are...
Will KEYWORDS be no longer used? If not, how will we know if we have positioned our products correctly? Do we have to wait for the decline or increase in our sales?

As they say, we are selling keywords. It was ALL based around keyword research (what competition is using for their keywords, what people are searching for with keywords, and the popularity of those keyword searches).

I see how the AI will improve the search, but can it clearly eliminate the need for KEYWORDS?

[barbaramartinez]

With this information in mind, would you consider category advertising a better strategy than keyword or targeting other books similar to your own. Although I am not by any means a best-selling author, in my own experience I've had better results with category advertising than any other type. Would concentrating on that be in line with the direction the algorithm is headed?

[davidclark]

I was scammed for over $3000 dollars by Amazon KDP Publications.

[CB-mfxf]

It's all nice and good but how is this more fundamental just like on Google's continuous updates along the motto "Write for readers, not search engines."

[pookienumnums]

yeah, and now that things like Luma and Kling, people will be able to make their own animated stories quite easily. And, kling will let you do five or six five second generations for free, per day, at least for the time being. and thats both text to video or image to video.

[Mimi-xzvl]

This is strange to me. How can it be seen as a "threat" when there is more focus on what the book actually delivers than on keywords you can manipulate for your success? How is it revolutionary, when the reader is the center? I don't get it. I plan on publishing myself in a few years and have not yet read / seen much on marketing, but I was prepared for something way worse when I clicked on this video. But there is a possibility that I don't fully get what the consequences are and why this would be much more complex and difficult to handle. I am looking to get deeper into this topic

[BruceWayne]

This sounds terrible, especially for producers like authors. If the AI tries to predict what people will buy, when it comes to books, they are going to heavily punish new authors that are trying to build a fan base. In the early days, authors don't sell much if any books. It takes years to build up an audience. With this change, it sounds like AI is going to punish you and prevent you from ever rising out of obscurity.

[kenneth]

I hope no trees will be felled for AI content. Let's save them for the true creatives.
Remember to plant a tree every year and buy a real book every month.

[mickaelux]

This video explains it's all about being relevant to the target audience. And I agree, that's great. But at the same time I think it's not *all* good, and can create damage on a large scale.

Think of this: if you have to *always* align your products with your audience, you are not *truly* authentic.
(Example with the dinosaurs: if you have to make a book with the kids' most wanted dinosaurs etc, then you cannot illustrate the "cool but completely unusual" dinosaurs that no-one knows, right? Because it doesn't resonate with the target audience. Even though you think it's great and that some ugly but badass creatures should be known by the public!)

So what I see for the near-future, is some kind of "creative" isomorphism, in which it is not easy to get out of the already-established conventions.

Another point I want to adress is that Psychology/UX have shown that the so-called "common sense" concept is not good in multiple social contexts, and that sometimes products that were doomed to be useless make a buzz out of nowhere and get famous for no reason. So sometimes being aligned with a target audience is not needed if the product is good!

Anyway thanks for your video, it's great to have news of the industry.

[IvySnowFillyVideos]

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So long to my friend (innovation) 😧 no place for you in the AI world.