Ike Paz

Ike Here,

Packed the kids' lunches this morning and forgot my own coffee on the counter.

Anyways...

You don't need hundreds of reviews to make daily sales.

I found a Bible puzzle book doing it with just 60 reviews.

I pull it apart in the video so you can see what's working.

1 week ago | [YT] | 2

Ike Paz

In this video I check the niche on Amazon with my niche meter (78, Excellent, median reviews: 1), walk through an advent calendar book with 0 reviews earning an estimated $600 a month, and look at the gap on Etsy, where almost nobody sells floor-plan murder sudoku. It opens with two Shigai Royalty buyers already getting sales.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 1

Ike Paz

A book with 6 reviews is outselling a book with 366. Almost 3 to 1. 👀

The niche is cryptograms. Quotes where every letter is swapped and u crack the code. Newspapers have run these for decades so this isn't a fad.

The 1 month old book with 6 reviews sells about 11 a day. The 3.5 year old book with 366 reviews? About 117 a month. A fresh book with the right angle can jump right past the old ones.

And the angle that keeps showing up... funny. Funny quotes r selling.

1 warning tho. My 1st version was 375 pages and paid me 42 cents a copy at $12.99. I rebuilt it at 3 puzzles a page, 214 pages, and it jumped to $3.16. Check ur page count before u upload.

@everyone what puzzle niche r u working on right now? Drop it below 👇

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2 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

Ike Paz

Everyone keeps asking me the same thing.

"Who is going to buy a book full of names? Or numbers?"

I get it. If u don't get the puzzle, it looks strange.

But here is what I keep seeing... people r hungry for these books. They finish 1 and go looking for another author. Then another.

This is not like coloring books where everyone sticks to 1 name. It's a broad niche with room for everybody.

And now the puzzles themselves can be built valid in minutes. So the real work moves to the part only u can do. The idea. The cover. The title. The pen name.

That is where this niche gets won.

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1 month ago | [YT] | 1

Ike Paz

Writing this from the Ohio countryside, about 40 min from Cleveland. Lots of time to think out here 🌲

Watching Marina walk through Jikan Nazo, 1 thing jumped out. The best puzzle tools r now being built from buyer feedback, not guesses.

Solvers said they prefer columns, so columns r the default. Buyers left bad reviews after spotting the answer by accident, so the answer is now coded. Numbers too close to the spine? Mirror margins fix it before KDP ever sees the file.

The creators who win in puzzle books won't be the ones who publish the most. It'll be the ones who read the reviews and build around them.

City or countryside for u? Tell me below.

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1 month ago | [YT] | 0

Ike Paz

Wild stat from a KDP creator today: two books, same content, $23,000/month vs $0.

It's a good reminder that in a market where anyone can generate the same puzzles, the data isn't the moat. Packaging is. The seller making $23K didn't have better puzzles — they had a name, a story, and a cover that looked like a real book instead of a spreadsheet.

Feels like a bigger shift happening across self-publishing generally. As generation gets easier, standing out gets harder — and more valuable.

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1 month ago | [YT] | 0

Ike Paz

Low content publishing keeps shifting, and puzzle variety is where it's headed next.

Most KDP publishers are still stuck on the same 2-3 puzzle types. Meanwhile the ones digging into niche variants, like find-the-date, are finding wide open categories with barely any competition.

Watched Marina break this one down and it's a good reminder: the tools to build these books already exist. The gap is just knowing the settings.

Worth thinking about where you're publishing right now versus where the room actually is.

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1 month ago | [YT] | 0

Ike Paz

Something interesting is happening in the puzzle book space right now.

A brand new KDP author published two books last month. No ads. No promo. No reviews. Just organic sales, every single day since.

That's not a fluke. It's a signal. Demand for this niche is real, and most publishers haven't even noticed yet.

Q4 is coming. The publishers who move now are going to own this space before everyone else catches on.

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1 month ago | [YT] | 2

Ike Paz

Amazon KDP self publishers and book creators

Something shifted and most people have not noticed yet.

The barrier to producing a finished book used to be production. You needed the skill, the software, the hours. Now a free AI writes your puzzle content in one pass and a generator lays out 155 pages in bulk. Production is basically solved.

Which means the whole game moved. It is now research and presentation. Finding the pocket where demand is loud and supply is thin, then showing up with a cover good enough to earn the click.

I found one of those pockets this week. An entire evergreen category with 261 results and listings buried in reviews. That gap is not a secret formula. It is just that nobody bothered to look, because everyone is still busy trying to solve production.

Something to think about if you have been waiting for the right moment.

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2 months ago | [YT] | 1

Ike Paz

Ike Here,

I went hunting for a soft spot on Amazon and found one.

Spiral word search books. Only 734 results show up for them.

We just released a free generator that builds these books in bulk.

See the 734 result niche: YOUTUBE_URL_HERE

Be well,

Ike & Luke

PS. Everything you need is in the PINNED comment. Let us know what you think in the comments section.

2 months ago | [YT] | 5