How to Choose Amazon KDP Keywords
Build seven useful keyword entries from reader intent, genre evidence and the language your book can honestly support.
Read the keyword guide →Hatti publishing guides
Clear answers for independent publishing decisions.
These guides explain the practical relationship between a book's manuscript, cover, metadata and retail presentation. They are written to help authors make better decisions—not to promise rankings or sell unnecessary work.
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Start with the current problem
Eight focused publishing guides.
Use the guide closest to the decision in front of you. Each article links to the relevant service only when professional review would add value.
KDP Paperback Cover Size Explained
Understand trim size, bleed, spine width and why the final page count must come before the print wrap.
Read the paperback-cover guide →Kindle Cover Size Requirements
Prepare an ebook cover with the right proportions, resolution and thumbnail behaviour without stretching artwork.
Read the Kindle-cover guide →What Is Amazon A+ Content for Authors?
Learn what A+ Content can add to a detail page, where it fits, and when extra modules would only repeat the listing.
Read the A+ Content guide →How to Write an Amazon Book Description
Shape a retail description around reader fit, conflict, specificity and momentum rather than a chapter-by-chapter summary.
Read the description guide →Why Is My Self-Published Book Not Selling?
Separate discoverability, conversion and reader-satisfaction problems before changing the cover, metadata or manuscript.
Read the diagnostic guide →How to Relaunch a Self-Published Book
Decide whether a relaunch is justified, what to change, what to preserve and how to sequence the work.
Read the relaunch guide →How to Prepare a Manuscript Before Publishing
Check structure, continuity, front matter, trim decisions and production readiness before uploading files.
Read the manuscript guide →When a guide is not enough
Diagnosis comes before a paid recommendation.
If several parts of the book may be working against one another, the Free Book Health Check identifies the most useful next step without asking for a KDP password or full manuscript.