Expert guides, tutorials, and strategies to help you publish safely and profitably on Amazon KDP
Your KDP book got rejected. Here's exactly why it happened and how to fix every common rejection reason — metadata violations, formatting errors, content policy issues, and more.
Step-by-step guide to recovering a suspended Amazon KDP account. Learn why suspensions happen, how to write winning appeal emails, and how to prevent future violations.
Master the art of writing book descriptions that convert browsers into buyers. Covers copywriting formulas, HTML formatting, genre-specific templates, A/B testing, and Amazon compliance.
Learn the art and science of choosing book titles that attract readers and rank in Amazon search. Covers keyword research, title formulas, subtitle strategy, testing methods, and common mistakes.
Learn how to create and sell journals, planners, notebooks, and other low content books on Amazon KDP. Covers niche research, interior design, pricing, and scaling to passive income.
Current 2026 guide to Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, targeting, bidding, break-even ACoS, reporting, and evidence-based campaign decisions.
Current Amazon review rules for ARC copies, unbiased review requests, incentives, friends and family, review swaps, and Community Guidelines enforcement.
Understand when you need an ISBN for KDP, the difference between free and paid ISBNs, and how your choice affects distribution, branding, and long-term publishing strategy.
Choose a pen name that fits your genre, protects privacy, and builds a memorable author brand on Amazon KDP. Practical checklist included.
Compare KDP Select exclusivity with wide distribution using your own royalties, KENP, read-through, advertising, and store-level performance rather than generic platform benchmarks.
Current Author Central setup and features: books, biography, BSR, customer reviews, US-only Editorial Reviews/BookScan, followers, and what belongs in KDP Reports instead.
Price inside KDP's current royalty rules, then test eligible prices against your own conversion, royalty, advertising, and series read-through data.
Current Kindle manuscript formats, paperback bleed and gutter margins, print page-count limits, image requirements, and preview checks for 2026.
Master proven KDP marketing tactics that actually work. Learn launch strategies, Amazon ads, social media, email lists, and how to build a sustainable author platform.
Use modelled BSR ranges, heuristic niche scoring, confirmed KDP metadata handoffs, and calculator prefilling on supported Amazon and KDP pages.
Generate relevant keyword ideas, validate them against live Amazon context and first-party data, and avoid treating AI output as measured search-volume or competition data.
Choose three relevant KDP categories for your book, understand marketplace differences, and update them correctly without chasing misleading ranking shortcuts.
Understand KDP's field-specific restrictions for titles, subtitles, keyword entries, and descriptions instead of relying on an invented universal banned-word list.
Current KDP pre-publish workflow covering rights, files, metadata, categories, keywords, pricing, review timing, and compliant review outreach.
Current Kindle cover dimensions plus paperback wrap, bleed, spine-width, safe-area, and file requirements for 2026.
Understand current 35%/70% eBook royalty bands, delivery costs, and the 50%/60% print royalty structure with marketplace-aware examples.
Understand what Amazon BSR can and cannot tell you about sales, why exact conversions are impossible, and how to use range-based estimates responsibly.
Use current KDP print costs, 50%/60% royalty tiers and comparable-book pricing to build and test a paperback price with healthy economics.
Understand current KENP methodology, monthly-rate variability, KDP Select exclusivity, and how to compare KU with paid sales using your own data.
Avoid current KDP metadata, royalty, formatting, category, research, cover, BSR, review, and launch mistakes using verifiable 2026 guidance.