2025.04.07 - Online Biz Acquisition Opps

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Corey Philip
April 07, 2025

Corey’s Quick Take: I love these high margin digital product businesses, but not when they bring the platform risk of existing on the Amazon Kindle platform. Someone is acquiring them, and at a certain valuation (like 2x) they are attractive, but I think there are better businesses to buy. Let me know if you feel like my take on Amazon KDP businesses is off.

Amazon KDP Publishing Biz – $232K Profit – Asking $735K – 3.15x
Listing Type (?): Interesting Find

A 3.5-year-old KDP publishing business with two brands across puzzle books and educational/test prep niches. With 77% profit margins and $19K/month in earnings, it’s a lean, SOP-driven content machine. Seller includes video tutorials, book templates, and pre-researched Amazon keywords. The listing includes monthly profitability since inception which shows a nice growth path!

✅ What I Like

  • 77% margins with diversified revenue across many titles

  • Comes with strong SOPs, templates, and growth playbook

  • Email list of 1,350+ for direct marketing

  • Minimal weekly workload (10 hrs/wk)

⚠️ Risks / Challenges / Questions

  • Entirely dependent on Amazon's platform and ToS

  • Amazon ad costs could erode profitability

  • Hard to build a moat—low barrier to entry

  • Why sell now?

📈 Ways to Grow

  • Publish more titles under the same seller account to leverage reputation

  • Build a direct-to-consumer site and run ads to sell digital products eCommerce-style

  • Translate content into other languages

  • Expand into audiobooks via ACX

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