Victorine Lieske reveals she made $17,000 from her audiobooks on YouTube.
Frankly it never even occurred to me that people would listen to audiobooks on YouTube, but apparently it’s a growing trend.
Book publishing in general deals with spikes and dips in income. You publish a book and get a spike of sales, then the sales dip over the months unless you continue to market the book heavily.
Victorine has 10,000 followers on her YouTube channel and it provides a more stable, predictable income for her.
Plus, it also gives her more exposure which results in more book sales, too.
While Victorine writes romance books, this could work for non-fiction as well.
Now here’s the hidden business opportunity in all this: Of course you can publish your own books on YouTube, but why not act as an agent, publishing all sorts of other people’s books on YouTube?
Choose an author, offer to handle all the details for them and get them online. Send some traffic, be sure to include links to their books on Amazon and share the YouTube income with them.
The author gets their books on YouTube without having to do anything. They get a cut of the income as well as traffic to their books on Amazon and more sales there.
You handle the details and get paid for it. You then add more authors in the same niche and build up your audience and your stable of writers.
The trick to this will be choosing one niche and sticking to it. This way subscribers know just what to expect from your channel and it’s much easier for you to bring in new traffic, too.
How much can you earn? Impossible to say, but if you get ten authors like Victorine and divide the profits in half, the profits are pretty easy to calculate.