Questions tagged [kdp]
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is a system where authors can upload ebooks for delivery via Whispernet and set the price for downloading.
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How can I identify what is causing a KDP server error 500 when I try to post the updated version of a title?
Before posting, I checked and re-uploaded another title that was unchanged. I got identical error behavior, so while there may be something wrong with my HTML, it seems Amazon KDP is experiencing ...
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Reducing size of e-book on .MOBI file. Or any alternative to .MOBI file for KDP
I´m working on a e-book for kids with some images on it. I want to load to Amazon Kindle KDP.
I have a book that it is only 26 pages and that it would have about 25 images.
I tried to load the file ...
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Any way to identify source of traffic on Amazon KDP?
Given a kindle book published on Amazon KDP, is there a way to find out from where traffic or sales came from?
For example, I might add links pointing to my book on my website, or on social media, on ...
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Code block formatting in KDP
I am planning to create an ebook and publish on Amazon (kdp) format. However,When I converted my rough copy to kdp . The code formatting was not up to the mark . What is the best way to include code ...
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Can I make my ebook free while retaining the paperback available on KDP
I have a computer title as an ebook and a paperback on KDP. Because the book is about an open-source software I have promised to make the ebook free after one year. I can make the epub a free download ...
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how to NOT have calibre reduce pictures' resolution when converting from epub (or anything I guess) to MOBI
I'm selling art ebooks on KDP Amazon, and I need the pictures not be shrinked as they automatically are when passing from odt to mobi/epub.
But it would be easier if Amazon didn't have to convert epub ...
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Kindle Direct Publishing: How to mention other Books
Somebody knows how I can create "View in Store" Links within my Kindle E-Books?
I noticed that some books I've bought on Amazon use these special type of links which have a little book symbol next to ...
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How do you create and add a .apnx file to a Kindle book to display real page numbers?
I have a decent amount of experience creating epub files and converting them to .mobi using Kindlegen or Amazon Kindle Previewer 3 for self publishing on KDP. I'm looking to add the "real page numbers"...
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Kindle Book published old version
I am the book author and I have access to KDP and can preview my internal texts from there. I have checked and double checked the internal version did indeed update to fix typo and a program (for ...
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My Amazon book does not have links from ToC to chapters, why?
I recently wrote a book. The book is published. When I looked over the result, I found out that the Table of Contents does not have links going to the individual chapters (and sections within ...
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Publishing HTML to Kindle - Encoding problem
I am publishing an HTML page (a book) to Kindle using kdp.amazon.com and I encountered an encoding problem so I added:
lang="en"
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www....
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Royalties on self-published ebooks on Amazon
Do you get your royalties as a one-off payment, or you are paid per sale of each publication on an ongoing basis?
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How do I publish a book permanently free on Amazon
I have tried to publish a book permanently free on Amazon but I couldn't. I have seen many books on Kindle that seems to be permanently free. How do I publish a book on Kindle and keep it free forever?...
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What triggers the "adult" designation on Amazon Kindle books (romance genre)?
I do software development for an ebook publisher specializing in Romance novels. One thing we encounter from time to time is that a book gets classified by Amazon as "adult". That effectively removes ...
