Guides
Guides for KDP self-publishers
Practical guides from the same research behind our tools: KDP's own rules, checked figures, and things we've measured ourselves.
G1Where Amazon cuts off your book descriptionWe measured where Amazon hides book descriptions behind "Read more" on desktop. It isn’t a character count: it’s a fixed 280-pixel box. Results from five bestsellers.READ
G2How to publish a low-content book on KDPA step-by-step guide to publishing a notebook, journal or planner on Amazon KDP: interior, margins, cover, low-content settings, ISBN, keywords and pricing.READ
G3How to find KDP keywords for freeA free method for finding keywords for your KDP book: Amazon’s search suggestions, reader language, checking results, long-tail phrases, and filling the seven boxes well.READ
G4How to price a KDP paperbackHow KDP paperback pricing works: the 50% and 60% royalty thresholds, printing costs, minimum list prices and worked examples, in US dollars, pounds and euros.READ