For any non USA citizen, when we get our royalties, we pay conversion charges on the amount and when we spend in Amazon ads, we again pay conversion charges, and in both the cases, some bank forex charges are also applied. So I was looking for a solution where I can keep my royalties in local account and pay via this one for ads, this way I can avoid double conversion charges. While searching about it online, I found out about Payoneer, according to AI mode of Google search, this saves 7-9% or transaction costs. So I am curious to know if anyone uses Payoneer or any similar service.

KDP recently tightened its payment requirements, and many authors worldwide are now seeing errors like “Only deposit-taking banks are allowed.” This means KDP no longer accepts virtual banks, e-wallets, or fintech-only accounts that don’t hold a full banking license. Examples of virtual banks that may be rejected include Revolut virtual accounts, N26 “Spaces” virtual sub-accounts, Wise virtual balances, Monzo virtual pots, and CashApp/PayPal balance accounts. To continue receiving royalties, KDP now requires authors to use traditional banks or approved Payment Service Providers (PSPs). Examples of accepted traditional banks include Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, HSBC, Barclays, Santander, TD, ANZ, NAB, Scotiabank, RBC, and other banks with full deposit-taking licenses. Approved PSPs KDP currently supports include Payoneer, Wise (approved business accounts), and a limited list of compliant providers under Amazon’s PSP Program. If your current payout method is a virtual bank, KDP may hold your royalties until you switch. Go to KDP → Your Account → Getting Paid to review your payment status. To avoid interruptions, your safest options are: a traditional bank account in your country or a PSP that KDP officially recognizes. This update is part of Amazon’s compliance process, but it means authors must avoid virtual-only banking solutions to prevent payout delays.

Hey everyone, I have found a niche and sold around 330 copies in total in roughly around 2.5 months out of which 240 are sold in paid filter on kdp order dashboard. This niche is somewhat like sometic exercises or pcos or other niches like those where I could have affiliate of a practitioner as my backend offer. What I want to learn is 1. Have anyone tried it before 2. How good is this idea? 3. How to find out correct backend practitioner/network? 4. What is the realistic conversion expectations? 5. What to expect in commission from affiliate? 6. What is the right approach to set it up in the book? 7. any other advice here.

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Hi everyone, I have taken last advice from Emeka seriously on the prompt game. I have started training my chat. How I do it: 1. I create a project in ChatGpt. 2. I share top performing books on the topic with it. 3. I share publically available details with it. 4. I ask gpt to understand market and audience along with the problem and solution based on book's data. 5. I ask it to tell me what is the right tone and angle to approach the problem. 6. Then I ask it to generate instructions for generating best seller content. 7. I give it humanising prompt which I got from the community itself and ask chat to incorporate it with the instruction it gave. 8. Then I give those instructions as project instructions. 9. Post that, I ask for the best selling outline and refine it couple of times, asking followup questions. 10. After that, I ask it to share chapterwise plan and then go with chapter section by section. Here is the sample output of all this effort: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k95NkB3Ww-_R5nIOHDjxfmgNEU-X2v4tYf3jUFaRDb4/edit?usp=sharing Since I have been doing all this process, Now, I am not able to identify if this is good writing or not. It sounds good to me for now. What I need from the you, go through this short sample output and let me know if this output and process is worth or not. And is this output directly publishable on amazon qualitywise?