Teaching Materials You can Convert into Income-Generating Low-Content Books via KDP

LCB Starter List for Teachers (Post #5 POD)

Teachers are sitting on a gold mine and are not using it to create an income stream. I am talking about educational materials and forms you created in the course of managing your classroom. In this post, I will ignite your imagination on WHAT among the materials you created, and now sit in your computer hard drive, can be converted into income generating low-content books. First, if you haven't seen the other posts in this series, please take time to see them:

1. New Income Streams via Amazon's KDP - Introduction to Print-on-Demand and Low-Content Books

2. Understanding Print-on-Demand Books: From PDF Printouts to a Physical Book

3. How to generate Passive Income from POD Low-Content Books for Teachers - Let's Talk About ROI, Royalty and Sales per Day/Month

4. Avoiding Misconceptions about LCB so Teachers can Start a Passive Income Now - Five Self-Publishing Myths

Now we’re ready to find out, WHAT, among your digital and paper teaching files, can be converted into income-generating low-content books.

Low-Content Books as Defined by Amazon

Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) defines low-content books to have “minimal or no content on the interior pages. Low-content books are generally repetitive, and designed to be filled in by the user.” Did you get that? Let me repeat it:

• minimal or no content - as in minimal text or just lined books

• repetitive - what you have on one page can be repeated in other pages

• to be filled by the user - you write, draw or color the pages

It is basically a book that you can let your students do an assigned task, fill-in or write on. Did this just strike your imagination? Look at the short video of this low-content book if you want to visualize it. KDP added that low-content books “ does not typically include activity books, such as puzzle books or coloring books, which generally do not feature repetitive content on each page. Again, did you get that? Activity books, puzzles and coloring books are NOT low-content books. You do not need to create a Math Workbook, nor a Word Search Activity book to publish a low-content book. You can create those, but it will take time. It will be better to create books with minimal content while you are starting to learn self-publishing at KDP. You can create your other masterpieces later if you want. Here are Amazon’s examples of low-content versus other kinds of books:

The first example are notebooks. Notebooks! That means simple lined-books. But what if you created special lined notebooks for Math computation? What about for students who needed wide lines, margins or with arrows? You can self-publish that! The second example is planner. I am sure you have a lesson plan template. What about a day planner for your student? Even though you only designed one page, you can convert that into a 120-page paperback as I showed in this post.

LCB Starter List for Teachers

One of Amazon’s LCB example is a log book which can look like this hospital guest book. It is just a paperback converted into a notebook where guests can write messages while the patient is resting. Here is an example of an ELA Interactive Notebook which is just a collection of lined pages plus an blank Table of Contents. I am sure you have so much more in your teaching files. Here is an initial list of teaching materials that you can convert into low-content books:

• Behavior Observation Logbook

• Self-Monitoring Behavior Logbook

• Timeout Log

• Room Timeout Log

• Parent Communication Log

• Homework Log

• Individualized Behavior Plan Notes

• Behavior Incident Report Notebook

• End-of-the-Day Reflection

• Hallway Behavior Chart

• Token Economy Chart

• ABC (Antecedent - Behavior- Consequence) Chart

• Peer Monitoring Chart

• Group Behavior Chart

• Birthday and other Celebrations Log

• Field Trip Permission Log

• Parent Meeting Notebook

• Tutoring Sign-Up Sheets

• Club Notebook

• Classroom Materials Log In/Out

• Book Review Sheets

• Blank Handwriting Notebooks

• Graphing Notebook

• Blank Math Computation Sheets

• Reflective Teaching Journal

If you don’t have any of these, you can easily make one. I prepared a free PDF download for paid subscribers that look like the one below. It has a list of log books, charts, and templates teachers usually create in the classroom. For only $6 a month, paid subscribers will get links to free useful lists and other resources like the one below. You will also get 30 to 40 percent discount codes on coming Teacher Career Change courses. Free subscribers, on the other hand, will continue to get informational posts weekly. In our next post, I will show you how you can start creating and designing LCB even though you do not have expensive softwares.