Amazon Kindle Ebook Publishing Guidelines

Before you start creating your cover make sure it complies with our content guidelines and you have all rights necessary for the content of your cover image.

Amazon kindle ebook publishing guidelines. After your ebook is published on kdp amazon assigns it a 10 digit asin amazon standard identification number. Publishing takes less than 5 minutes and your book appears on kindle stores worldwide within 24 48 hours. Self publish ebooks and paperbacks for free with kindle direct publishing and reach millions of readers on amazon.

The guidelines include suggestions to ensure a smooth conversion and publication process. For directions on how to format your ebook manuscript using mac visit publishing for mac users. The ideal size of your ebook cover art is a height width ratio of 1 6 1.

1 write a book worth buying. There is a minimum charge of 0 01 and delivery fees vary by country. There is no delivery fee for books priced.

This is provided separately from the ebook file. But if you re not much of a writer or have no idea how to write a book in the first place that can make this entire process much more daunting. Get to market fast.

Kindle ebooks must have a marketing cover image provided for use on the website detail page. Calculating kindle ebook delivery costs. You can choose to upload your own cover image or you can use our free cover creator tool to design a cover for your kindle ebook or paperback.

Kindle publishing guidelines these guidelines describe the primary ways publishers authors and conversion houses can make their content available for amazon kindle devices and applications. See the guide to kindle content quality for examples of content that s typically disappointing to customers. There are two components to book and ebook costs when selling on amazon using kdp kindle direct publishing.