No company gets everything right for every author, every time. What matters is how we handle a concern after someone raises it. We’d rather be upfront about our process than..

We know why you’re asking this question. The self-publishing industry has a real trust problem, there are companies out there that take an author’s money and disappear, use stolen book..

Kindle Direct Publishing accepts several manuscript file types for eBook publication. EPUB is a standard digital publication format, DOCX is the document format used by Microsoft Word, and KPF is..

The Kindle Direct Publishing tax profile is completed through an online questionnaire. Known as the KDP tax interview, it collects information that Amazon uses to identify the publisher for United..

Kindle Direct Publishing pays eligible royalties through the payment information recorded in a publisher’s KDP account. The bank section identifies the financial institution, the account that can receive the funds,..

A Kindle Direct Publishing account may be operated by an individual author or by a publishing business. The account holder controls the Bookshelf, receives Amazon’s account notices, supplies the payment..

Kindle Direct Publishing is Amazon’s self publishing service for eBooks, paperbacks, and hardcover books. A KDP account is the administrative record through which an author or publisher manages titles, enters..

Categories and reading age look like small checkboxes in the KDP setup flow, but they directly control where your book shows up in Amazon’s store, and for children’s and YA..

Every Kindle eBook on KDP earns royalties at one of two rates: 35% or 70%. Which one you’re eligible for depends on your price, and as of mid-2026, the rules..