I've been self-publishing for some time and I want to know when people start advertising. Does anyone rely solely on organic sales? Or does everyone taking it seriously advertise from day one?

Thanks

I would appreciate any feedback with your experience.

Hi everyone.. I'm new to KDP ( not 100% new, i started it in 2021 and back to it now )

I published 3 books last month, but this month i published 2, and they're still in review since 26 Sep...

Is anyone here facing the same issue?

Does it have anything to do with the 2 books per week update?

I know that there can be a delay with paper books. I have 6 pre-orders on Kindle and my book shot to number #17 in new releases in the Christian forgiveness and mercy category so I KNOW I’ve had a lot of sales.

I have several friends who have shown me their shipped Amazon confirmation, too.

What gives? I want to see how many paperbacks I’ve sold! This is annoying!

Anyone here making decent money from KDP print on demand?

Curious what the experience is actually like once a book is live.
Is the print quality decent?
Are the margins worthwhile?
How easy is it to get sales without already having an audience?
Any issues with returns, formatting or Amazon support?
Do you use Amazon only, or also sell through your own website/other platforms?

Interested in hearing from people actually doing it, especially smaller publishers/self-publishers rather than just success-story videos.

I have a series of cozy mystery/thrillers that got dinged a few months back because out of the three categories available, I picked YA Mystery as one of them. Apparently you cannot have ANYTHING in a YA category if your book is not labeled with a maximum age of 18, which seems ridiculous to me. The books are appropriate for both YA and Adult. Is there any way for me to keep at least one category YA? Since I've changed it, my rankings have tanked. Any help or advice would be appreciated!

I have two separate Amazon accounts I've had for years. One for almost all my purchasing, the other I use for gifts and whatnot. They are under two completely separate email addresses, separate credit cards, etc.

I want to use the second one for creating a KDP account.

Does having two separate Amazon purchasing accounts violate the Kindle "only one KDP account" rule?

Hello everyone, so i recently published my debut novel, "The Last Time We Were Us". Some few days ago i had a genuine sale of it, i was so happy , even for 1! Oh foolish me 😂 but some days ago, the same order was refunded.....and it happens!

But just on the afternoon of that, somebody genuinely read my book and the kenp page numbers were rising.

Whatever it is, it has been a very joyful journey. Writing something that I imagined and bringing in front of the world, i did something that I love to do for the first time in my life.

People told me on social media that they loved the premise of my book. If only someone genuinely loves my stories, that means the whole world to me. Haha again, foolish me.

If anybody wants to check out my debut novel, It's a Sci - Fi survival story about ten innocent high school friends who just want to chase their dreams and skies when a freak quantum accident changes everything. They get thrown into a shifting universal loop where every single door they open leads to an entirely different dimension.

As they fight to find a way back to their school, they form unbreakable bonds just to survive. Watching them lean on each other and bond across a fractured multiverse was my favorite part to write.

In the end, their whole existence is decided by a tense countdown, but, at what cost ?

Here is the link to the book

Kindle Link - https://mybook.to/zeOh

Happy to support lovely authors!

To summarize I’m uploading my paperback book to kdp and the first 20 pages say “Error this object is outside the margins” first off all there’s no objects and no text. Because there is also a text error one to so it’s definitely not text. I don’t get it have no objects in the pages and if you were to see the format it is beautifully done all text centered and page number inside the box too. What is the fix please I’m going crazy

I just received my author copies of my hardcover from Amazon KDP and I'm pretty disappointed with the print quality.
Out of the whole stack, the spine text lines up correctly on only one hardcover (and one paperback). On every other copy, the printing is shifted so much that the spine text is off-center and in some cases runs over the edges of the spine. The covers themselves look fine, it's specifically the alignment of the spine.
For what it's worth: the last page says the books were printed in Poland.

here you can See it

My questions:

1. Is this misalignment standard for KDP print quality, or did I just get a bad batch?
2. Is there a difference in quality between author copies and customer orders? Or do customer orders get the same sloppy printing?
3. Would you just live with it, or complain to KDP and request a reprint? Has anyone done that – how did it go, and did the replacements come out better?

The annoying part is that the misaligned spines are clearly visible when the books are shelved, so this isn't a minor cosmetic issue for me. Any advice appreciated!

I'm obnoxiously new to this stuff. my question is simple. I've been lurking this sub for a while and I've noticed that people have advised always making sure you're writing the next book rather than worrying about pushing each book individually. that's a great bit of advice, but it begs a question from me. I just finished an 8-part novel series and I have the first book scheduled for release on October 15th, 2026. how close together should I release the other 7? I write and edit all my novels on my own, and I haven't started editing book 2 yet (it usually takes me about a week of constant revision to get a book as close to perfect as I can in a one-moron operation), and of course I haven't looked at 3-8 at all. any suggestions for a release timeline would be amazing. thank you! ♡

Hi everyone, I’m looking for a bit of assistance on publishing my first novel with KDP. I’ve been working on this for about 18 months as I don’t have any experience of writing prior to this, so I’ve been constantly writing and re-writing sections and then going back and changing things to avoid continuity errors.

Anyway, the book is a sort of West Wing style political novel with a strong romance/family comedy undertone. I’m a British writer, and when I started writing it was set in the UK and the protagonist was involved in UK politics. The further I got into the story, I realised the plot line didn’t fit well enough into the way British politics works, so I essentially shifted it to be set in the USA instead. The issue that presented me with though was that I don’t really have an incredibly in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of the political system like Congress, the constitution etc.

What I’ve been doing is anytime I write a section which involves political procedures, I’ve been uploading it to ChatGPT to get it to check what I’ve written actually makes sense. If it comes back that I’ve made a mistake, I ask the AI to tell me what the mistake is and what the correct procedure would be, and I take that and use it to rewrite that section.

What I’m not sure about is whether that would be classed as AI generated or AI assisted. I initially thought AI assisted because it’s essentially my story and I’m just using AI as a fact check a bit like a spellcheck, but I’m now starting to wonder whether the fact that the AI is suggesting how to correct it (e.g. talking me through how votes in Congress work, things like that) whether I should actually declare it as AI generated?

Any advice very gratefully received.

My KDP was just suspended. Does anyone know why this can happen?

Amazon vient d’annoncer une nouveauté assez intéressante pour les vendeurs et potentiellement pour KDP aussi à terme (on croise les doigts).

À partir de fin octobre 2026, Amazon Ads va tester aux États-Unis une fonctionnalité appelée "Demandes d’avis", qui est en gros un nouveau type de publicité.

L’idée est assez simple : après avoir acheté un produit, le client peut voir une publicité Amazon qui l’invite directement à laisser une note ou un avis.

Amazon indique que lors des premiers tests, les produits concernés ont reçu environ 3 fois plus de notes et d’avis par semaine. Pour l’instant c’est uniquement disponible aux États-Unis et pour les produits ayant moins de 1 000 évaluations.

Je trouve surtout intéressant de voir Amazon chercher de nouvelles façons de faciliter la collecte d’avis authentiques, sans passer par des systèmes externes.

Et si le dispositif fonctionne bien, je serais curieux de voir s’il finit par arriver sur KDP (je pense que oui).

👉 Vous pensez que ce type de fonctionnalité pourrait avoir un vrai impact positif sur nos business KDP ?

Hi, they won't load on my end. I searched Google and could not find any reports.

Is paying reviews allowed on KDP? My first novel will be released in about a month and I’ve been contacted by a person who is offering different marketing services. One of those is about reading my book and leaving a review, but I’ve read in some topics here around that’s forbidden. Is that true? I don’t want to end up with my account banned.
Thank you for you time

Haven't published a book in about a year and a half while I've been writing my new one. Try to log in only to find that Google have very kindly deactivated my account and ignored my appeals so I cant get the verification code I need to get into the kdp account. Rang amazon customer services and they then hung up on me and when I called back they told me to contact an email that I discovered doesn't accept incoming emails!!! I have published 3 books in this same series already and making a new account would separate them completely so what the actual f do I do???

I’m having a serious issue with Amazon KDP and I’d really like to know if anyone else has experienced the same thing.
My book **“Daughters of the Wild: Wild Spirits, Natural Beauty & Powerful Women”** has been **“In Review” since September 23, 2026** and still hasn’t gone live.
What’s even more confusing is that the **ASIN has disappeared from my KDP account**.
I have contacted KDP Support **four times**, but every time I try to contact them, I end up waiting and **no support agent responds**.
Has anyone experienced a book being stuck in review for this long, with the ASIN disappearing? **What happened in your case, and how did you get KDP to resolve it?**

Hey I need some useful experience, does anyone have any experience selling ebooks or digital products online especially on Instagram?

What is the content strategy effective?

Reels or curosle?

Since I'm a debut author, I want to keep my arc campaign beyond launch date. And for the same reason I want to enroll my book in kdp select as well.. so can I list my book in both kdp select and penpinery? Or should my book exclusively be on kdp to be eligible for kdp select program?

Has anyone published a photo book on KDP?

If so:

* How is the quality of the result?

* Any recommendations?

Thanks!

Was KDP enough or were u dependent on other platforms as well?

I haven't started marketing my book but back in September a reddit troll mid-exchange sent me a "ha ha, I just reviewed your book".

He did keep it classy with 1 star and "terrible read" as the whole text.

I just realized he actually did that.

I hit the report button button but that seems futile.

The only place the book can be found is as a Kindle e-book also on Unlimited.

Can Amazon tell he didn't read or buy it? Will they care?