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Top 5 Reasons Your KDP Books Get Rejected (How To Fix Them)

Greg Gottfried

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Top 5 Reasons Your KDP Books Get Rejected (How To Fix Them)
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In this video, I'll share the most common reasons Amazon KDP books get rejected, and how to fix them. This video also applies to Amazon KDP books getting blocked, using the same fixes to get the books published. If you're an Amazon KDP beginner, or if your KDP books keep getting rejected, this video should be very helpful. Enjoy!

Table of Contents:
0:00 Introduction
1:07 Cover Margins
2:42 Copyright/Trademark
6:15 Author/Contributor Name
8:05 Disappointing Customer Experience
10:37 Title/Subtitle
12:18 KDP Resources

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20 Comments

@GregGottfried Creator 7 months ago Pinned

I hope this video is helpful! Here are the links mentioned & Table of Contents:
Amazon KDP Cover Tutorial: https://youtu.be/3LPJFgl6EAI
Full Amazon KDP Tutorial: https://youtu.be/dopQWKDB0lU
Amazon KDP Cover Templates: https://greggottfried.com/kdp-covers

Table of Contents:
0:00 Introduction
1:07 Cover Margins
2:42 Copyright/Trademark
6:15 Author/Contributor Name
8:05 Disappointing Customer Experience
10:37 Title/Subtitle
12:18 KDP Resources

@healthyliving8104 4 months ago

Can you teach on how to create coloring books?

@Winterfauste 7 months ago

Thanks Greg! I got my first book published today, passed review and all.
Starting small time as a youtuber, and now KDP, its weirdly a hobby im enjoying!

@maritanell8737 5 months ago

fantastic info TX!

@Okafor1000 7 months ago (edited)

Its crazy cos one of my books just got rejected citing a contributor problem 😂😂😂. Thank you so much Greg. You have been a literal life saver with your videos and the chat GPT tool. I appreciate it soon much

@andrewday8150 7 months ago

This is wild. I just dealt with this yesterday. I finally figured it out with Google and a quick name change.

@Styledbykate_k 6 months ago

Hi Greg!l just want to say a very big thank you for your tutorials,it’s been very helpful.So I published my first ADHD SUDOKU BOOK,but with Amazon Cover back because I couldn’t upload the one created.But now l’m having issues publishing another book because kdp doesn’t allow me to upload the manuscript as pdf

@mariyam_z 7 months ago

Thank you so much

@paraisoasiatico 6 months ago

Obrigada por colocar faixa de áudio para português

@jcristi321 7 months ago

More about trademarks. The yellow border around National Geographic, the red border on Time Magazine, the TIME font and other design elements are frequently trademarked. Interlocking or monogrammed letters of universities are usually a no-no, even if the font doesn't match and you're not even talking about the school. Just something else to keep in mind.
Jan

@jamesuche1380 7 months ago

Thanks so much...my book just got blocked on a biography niche

@Meriam-n9t 7 months ago

My first book is already a month live on kdp.,no sales yet

@fargolAcademy 6 months ago

Thanks for your video. when I publish my book, after 5 minutes, I see "continue setup" in my bookshelf. what should I do? thanks again

@ritamcv 7 months ago

Very helpful, thanks. I already have my book cover not made in Book Bolt. Can I upload it to Book bolt to check if it complies with KDP?

@SierraCampos-v1r 7 months ago

Good morning, Greg! In your video, you mentioned specific names, logos, etc. being an issue on covers. Does content within the puzzles pose the same problem. For example, if I were to make a word search book about princesses, could Cinderella, Jasmine, etc be used even though Disney has movies about them or would that potentially cause copyright problems?

@brendalitheron8109 7 months ago (edited)

Hey Greg; would like to know more regarding the payoneer profile; in order to create Amazon merge on demand page please any advise would be appreciated as this been a unreal struggle

@shaikhshorrts 7 months ago

I’m from India and I’m unable to get a Book Bolt subscription because I don’t have a credit card. What should I do?

@TiffanysBunnyGang 4 months ago

I’m getting “disappointing customer experience” it’s definitely not my cover. My title is complete & relative. They blocked 3 books within an hour of submitting

@melvingoodness7500 6 months ago

If your book is rejected and no one says anything other than the possibility of a "disappointing customer experience"...is there a way around that?

@brianspain9042 5 months ago

I'm having a problem with the fourth thing you mentioned, "Disappointing Customer Experience". My question is that since there are multiple things that could be the issue, would I be able to submit four different versions of the same book at the same time to try to pinpoint what their issue is and then if more than one passes just delete all but one or would that be flagged somehow by Amazon