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Real conversations with the Amazon KDP publishers who are actually doing it. Hosted by Peter Holmquist of Driven Publishers, each episode digs into how working self-publishers pick niches, run ads, build a catalog, and scale past five and six figures a month, plus the mistakes that keep beginners stuck. If you want the unfiltered playbooks behind real publishing businesses, hit follow.
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Update frequency:
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Average audio length:
36 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
47 episodes
since Jan. 10, 2025
episodic
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Acutrack prints and ships books for some of the biggest self-publishers selling outside of Amazon, especially on TikTok Shop.
In this interview, Peter sits down with Raj, founder of Acutrack, and Pete, VP of Strategic Initiatives. Acutrack started in a Silicon Valley garage in 1992 shipping softwa…
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Kevin Faggioli has generated more than $2 million through Amazon KDP, sold one of his publishing portfolios for multiple six figures, and had a single month with over $140,000 in profit. A big part of that came from markets most publishers ignore: Europe.
He started in 2019 on amazon.com, fought t…
Eiri is the founder of PublisherChamp, the platform more than 40,000 authors use to see the real numbers behind their publishing business.
He built it seven years ago for his brother-in-law, who kept refreshing the KDP dashboard to see if he had made a sale. Today it pulls royalties and ad spend f…
Mike is 27, lives in Cyprus, and until recently he was a software engineer. He learned about Amazon KDP over coffee from a publisher friend who showed him his real numbers. He published his first three books, got to somewhere between $400 and $500 a month in revenue, and then did the thing most peo…
A year ago Matthew and his wife were both full-time teachers, twenty years into a career that had ground them down, and his first Amazon KDP book made him about $20 in its first month. He kept going anyway, working forty-plus hours a week on publishing on top of teaching, including twenty hours eve…
Six months ago Adrian was the $51,000 month. He had sold his first KDP business for $278,000, walked away from publishing, come back, and hit $51K in a single month within seven months. This time he opens the call with a screenshot and a sentence nobody expects: "I realized that my profit per book …
Charlie Piper started publishing on Amazon KDP at 18, sold multiple publishing accounts for six figures before he turned 23, and came back full-time in 2023 as head coach at Royalty Hero. He has now done over a thousand coaching calls, and he says the thing that separates a student making 5K a mont…
In early 2025 Gerald and I sat in Peru and decided to take publishing on the road. Barcelona was 30 people in a hotel room. Las Vegas was 100. London was over 120 experienced publishers, some doing more per month than anything we had seen on YouTube. In this session, Gerald and Tim from the Driven …
Laurenz is 23, from Germany, and published his first book on Amazon KDP in November 2025 while still studying landscape architecture. For the first 4 to 5 months he was stuck at roughly $3,000 a month in revenue and, by his own admission, not profitable. Last month he did around $36,000 in revenue …
Andrey Bernhart has made over $600K on Amazon KDP in just over two years, publishing 55+ books. In this solo episode (sitting on the rocks in Cyprus, in tribute to Peter's early "walking videos") he breaks down what actually got him there since first discovering Peter Holmquist and Driven Publisher…
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