How Many Reviews Does a Book Need to Make Sales on Amazon KDP?

Here’s my answer based on 40,000+ copies sold.

Kristen Walters
Kristen’s KDP Project
4 min readApr 15, 2024

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I’ve noticed that there are a lot of people in the self-publishing community who believe that a book needs to get a lot of reviews BEFORE it will sell well on Amazon (or any other publishing platform).

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