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Huge Untapped Opportunity for Self-Publishers

5 min readJun 10, 2024

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If you’ve been looking for a legitimate way to make a significant amount of money with self-publishing WITHOUT spending money on ads, you’ll want to hear this.

This weekend, I stumbled upon something very exciting!

(Admittedly, I’m a total nerd, so your excitement level may vary.)

Anyways…

Saturday night, I was sitting on my couch checking stats on one of my faceless YouTube channels when I noticed something NEW!

Here’s what I saw:

Screenshot from author.

I squealed with delight.

If you didn’t know, YouTube recently set up an “affiliate” monetization option to compete with TikTok’s in-app shopping feature (aka. product tagging on videos.)

This means YouTubers can tag related products from hundreds of popular brands directly on both short and long-form videos.

Now that Barnes & Noble has been added to YouTube’s affiliate library, I can create a “shopping link” to any book or product they sell and add a highly visible TAG to any of my videos.

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Kristen’s KDP Project
Kristen’s KDP Project

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A collection of KDP case studies, niche research, and more.

Kristen Walters
Kristen Walters

Written by Kristen Walters

Attorney, small business owner, concerned citizen.

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