[publicdebates]

KDP usually cuts off high volume sales at a certain point, in order to give other books a fair amount of copies to print on demand. Usually it takes a few weeks of sales, but I sold so many copies that evening, from a single 10M view video that someone posted, so they cut it off that night for two or three weeks I think.

[mattmaroon]

Since they make money on every sale I’m really confused by that. Why wouldn’t they just expand printing capacity?

In any case congrats that’s awesome. What was the book, if you don’t mind sharing?

[publicdebates]

I don't know why they do that, but it's really the main (only?) drawback to KDP.

My guess is that they do expand, but only when genuinely needed for long-term. They probably keep a certain amount of blank books in stock, and ration them out to PoD books somewhat evenly, with established books getting higher priority.

This was the video that singlehandedly got me all those sales I mentioned earlier: https://www.tiktok.com/@alwayscandid/video/73180668430448755... ... honestly it's quite poetic how it all turned out. I did almost no work making a book, I made way more money than I ever deserved, I wasted all of it, and now I'm sleeping in my car. It's very fair, it's more than fair. It's generous.

[mattmaroon]

Ha yeah I could see that. And at least you got a great story out of the deal.

I have made and squandered a few very small fortunes myself so, respect.