Kindle Direct Publishing Why Is My Uploaded Book Justified

Content published through Kindle Directly Publishing is held to the loftier standards customers have come up to expect from Amazon. If readers tell united states about a problem they've constitute in your eBook, we'll make sure you know about it and point y'all in the right direction to get the problem fixed. The information listed hither will help you understand the types of quality issues we run into most often and will give you an idea of what you should be paying close attending to when edifice your eBook. For details on making books bachelor for Kindle devices and apps, see Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines.

Note: Since Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) aims to provide the best possible tools for independent publishers and the best experience for readers, we take a zero tolerance policy for whatsoever volume content meant to annunciate, promote, mislead, or that doesn't accurately correspond the contents of the book. Please follow the guidelines below to ensure your book'south content, including cover art, metadata, and product clarification do not result in inaccurate or overwhelming search results, or impair readers' ability to brand good buying decisions.

Contents

• Identifying errors
• Reviewing your eBook
• Typos
• Metadata issues
• Unsupported characters
• Encompass issues
• Paradigm quality
• Formatting issues
• Links
• Tables
• Duplicated content
• Missing content
• Incorrect content
• Content unsuited for reading on Kindle
• Disappointing content
• Companion guides
• Multi-piece of work books

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Identifying errors

It'due south very important to search your eBook for errors before uploading the original file or prior to uploading a new file later on fixing bug mail service-publication. Some errors may cause a book to be considered incomplete or unusable. We refer to these as Disquisitional Issues. Because Critical Issues significantly impact the reading feel, whatsoever Disquisitional Issue volition result in the book existence removed from sale until corrections are made.

Other errors can forbid the reader from understanding the author'south intended pregnant. Nosotros refer to these as Subversive issues. The most common type of errors are Distracting Issues, which briefly remove the reader from the writer's globe.

The combined touch on the reading experience of a book with excessive Distracting or Destructive Issues can lead to the book being removed from auction until the corrections are made. A moderate corporeality of Distracting or Destructive Issues can outcome in the book remaining available for sale, but with a temporary quality warning displayed on the detail folio until corrections are made.

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Reviewing your eBook

When you review your eBook for quality issues, we highly recommend that yous utilise Kindle Previewer. This free program allows you to run into how your file volition look on diverse Kindle devices and apps. If you're using Microsoft Word to format your eBook, check out our step-past-step formatting guide.

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Typos

Typos are among the about common quality issues customers report. To produce a high quality eBook, delight ensure your book is free of typos. Typos may be caused by a variety of bug: mistyped words, poor optical character recognition for scanned texts, copy/pasting beyond source documents, or multiple conversions of a source file. Here are some examples of common typos to look for:

Blazon	Example	Should be
Numbers in place of messages	5arasota	Sarasota
Letters in place of numbers	1o66	1066
Incorrect punctuation	The dog ran,	The dog ran
Soft hyphens	re-peat	echo
Missing letters	Nothi g	Cipher
HTML tags in place of characters	< sup >®	; ®
Junk characters	•"gainst	Against

Preventing and fixing typos

If at that place'due south typo in your eBook, information technology'south of import to search for the term throughout the text to ensure all occurrences are corrected. Information technology's likewise important to review your text for errors of a similar nature. The search function of Kindle Previewer tin can help locate all instances of a repeated typo that need to be fixed. Sometimes improper or dialectic spellings are intentionally used past the writer. These are not considered errors. Common examples would include graphic symbol dialogue. Spelling differences between US and British English aren't considered errors.

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Metadata issues

Make certain your eBook's metadata doesn't result in inaccurate search results or impair readers' ability to make good buying decisions. Hither are common bug with metadata:

• The title, series proper name, edition, subtitle, volume, or contributor in your file don't match the metadata you entered.
• The title, series proper noun, edition, subtitle, or volume in the metadata comprise a URL, keywords, genre descriptions, promotions, references to other books within the category, or spelling errors.

See our metadata guidelines.

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Unsupported characters

If your text appears in Kindle Previewer every bit strings of jumbled characters or boxed question marks, this normally means your book contains an unsupported accent marking or graphic symbol. To ensure your book doesn't contain unsupported characters, review your book in Kindle Previewer and look for square boxes or jumbled characters like these:

Preventing and fixing unsupported characters

If an unsupported graphic symbol is nowadays in your volume, it's of import to wait for this result throughout the text, as 1 unsupported graphic symbol unremarkably indicates others. Use the search function of Kindle Previewer to locate all instances of an unsupported graphic symbol. Learn more than virtually supported characters.

Critical bug

Content uploaded in unsupported languages won't brandish properly on Kindle devices and volition be removed from sale. See the languages we support.

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Cover issues

A high quality embrace epitome may have an impact on a reader's determination to buy an eBook. Hither are some of the most common problems with covers:

• The cover either has extra space in the margins or is as well large and doesn't fully brandish
• The embrace image is blurry
• The comprehend is missing
• The embrace image is inserted into the manuscript file, causing an error
• The embrace includes references to advertisements or promotions (e.grand., "free")

Creating and adding a cover

Check out our guidelines for creating eBook covers.

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Image quality

Having clear, readable images in your book is an important part of the reader feel. Images with text tin can be a problem if the source quality is poor, so make sure the text is readable on Kindle by previewing it in Kindle Previewer. Also brand certain that the images in your volume aren't blurry. It could exist annoying for the reader and may impact their understanding of your content for images that crave loftier levels of detail.

Disquisitional issues

Practise not brand an eBook composed of scanned pages of a concrete book. Books that are entire scans will be removed from sale, as they become unreadable on Kindle devices and the reader won't be able to change text size. Manga, comics, children's picture books, etc. are excluded from this requirement. Other quality issues include blurry images and images with illegible text.

Ensuring loftier-quality images

The best style to ensure your volume has clear images is to choose the highest possible quality in your source images. Larn about guidelines and best practices for paradigm formatting.

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Formatting issues

Formatting issues may affect the visual or layout level of an eBook and tin include problems similar actress spacing between paragraphs or forced text justification. Formatting errors in your eBook may prevent readers from customizing their reading experience to their preferences, and besides may include issues that cause text menstruation to be unintelligible or confusing. To produce a loftier quality book, please ensure your volume has proper formatting. For the best reader feel, we recommend uploading your volume content in a reflowable file format such as Md, DOCX, or HTML.

Ensuring correct formatting

An constructive way to view your eBook'southward formatting is to preview it with Kindle Previewer. This tool tin help you identify formatting errors before you lot make it your available for sale. Delight see our step-past-step formatting guide for tips on formatting in Microsoft Word. Check your whole manuscript for similar issues because formatting errors tend to occur throughout the book. For example, incorrectly set left or right margins would announced on each folio.

Disquisitional Issues

• Body text rendered as bold, italicized, underlined or hyperlinked text
• Extra body text margin padding that is more than 1/iv of a screen wide
• Primary content is oriented in landscape mode without any detail page disclaimer
• Body text non set to default colour
• Forced white text or forced black background that causes text to be unreadable. For case, forcing a code such every bit Font = white will cause text to be unreadable while reading on a white background mode or on an east-ink device.
• In-line folio numbering is present

Page numbers entered within the volume file break the flow of the reading experience and must exist removed.

Hither are some examples of other formatting issues:

• Forced alignment of body text
• The size of the trunk text is forced, causing it to be larger or smaller than standard text sizes
• Body text incorrectly changes size
  
• Bullet points missing from a bulleted list
• A listing has bullets which appear on a dissimilar line that the list contents
• Missing list formatting

A best practice is to preserve the reader'south customizable reading experience by non forcing formatting for text.

Lists without proper formatting can exist unintelligible to the reader.

• Incorrectly added line suspension
• Missing indication of paragraph separation (indentation or unmarried line spacing between paragraphs)
• Missing line pause that indicates a section or scene change
• A hard folio break in the middle of a department or affiliate
• Excerpt or block quote not differentiated from body text

Boosted or missing breaks may misfile the reader and interruption narrative flow.

• Sidebar text interrupts a sentence, paragraph, or section
• A footnote interrupts a sentence, paragraph, or section
• An paradigm interrupts a judgement or paragraph.

Improperly inserted sidebars, footnotes, or images can fragment the reading experience, leading to confusion.

• Extra trunk text margin padding that is less than one/4 of a screen wide
• Double spacing between each paragraph
• Consistent incorrectly added line padding between section/affiliate headings and first paragraphs

Readers should gear up their own reading preferences and non have to page forward more than needed.

• Split monograms; the first letter of the alphabet of each chapter in your volume should appear on the same line equally the rest of the word.
• Individual paragraph incorrectly rendered as bold, italicized, underlined or hyperlinked text
• Forced black text or forced white background that causes text to be unreadable. For example, forcing a lawmaking such as Font = black will crusade text to exist unreadable while reading on a black background mode on color devices.

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Links

All links in your book should navigate correctly to the identify where the reader would await them to go. The reader should likewise be able to navigate to the locations listed in your volume'south Go To menu (such as embrace image, beginning, and Table of Contents). Please test links, including Go To items, on your Kindle device to ensure the links in your book navigate to their intended places before making your book bachelor for sale. If y'all don't have access to a device, Kindle Previewer is a helpful tool that volition reproduce how content will appear on a device.

Preventing Linking Issues

Cleaved or incorrect links usually occur when a mistake has been made in the link URL or an incorrect link location has been pasted in. Bank check the HTML or inserted links in your text to correct this problem. Below are some examples of linking issues nosotros see in books.

• A Go To item link that does not work
• A link in the Table of Contents (TOC) that does non work
• A link at the beginning that takes readers to a TOC at the cease of the volume
• A link outside the TOC that takes readers to unrelated content at the cease of the book
• A link in the TOC that does non follow the chronological order of content appearing in the book
• An unlinked footnote
• A prohibited external link
• An external link that does not work
• An internal link (TOC, Navigational Control File from XML (NCX), or other) that does not link to the correct location
• Reference to an unlinked folio number
• Missing Logical Table of Contents (NCX)

Some examples of prohibited external links include:

• Links to pornography
• Links to commercial eBook store sites other than Amazon
  
• Links to web forms that asking customer information (e.thousand., email address, physical accost or similar)
  
• Links to illegal, harmful, infringing, or offensive content
  
• Links that are malicious in intent (east.g., virus, phishing, or similar)
  

Warning: Unnecessary or confusing hyperlinks, misplaced Tables of Contents (TOCs), or the addition of disruptive content that takes readers abroad from the main content of your book can outcome in a poor customer experience. If the formatting of a book results in a poor feel or 18-carat reader confusion, or is designed to unnaturally inflate sales or pages read, we will take activeness to remove titles and protect readers. This likewise includes disruptive or unnecessary enticement to click on elements within TOCs. Continued addition of these types of elements in your titles could affect your account status, up to and including termination.

For more data regarding:

• Table of Contents and NCX, please run into Navigation Guidelines.
• Internal and External link Guidelines, please see Hyperlink Guidelines.

Critical problems

Do non frontload bonus content (e.m., other stories, or previews of other books) at the beginning of a book or use a link that takes readers to the bodily volume at the stop.

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Tables

A common complaint we get nigh tables is that part of the table is cutting off, which commonly happens when tables are used for formatting non-tabular data (e.g., sidebars, lists, large chunks of text, etc.). It's best to avert using tables to format text or to try to brand volume elements appear in a certain way.

Critical issues

Whatever table with content cut off at lesser of screen when viewed at font size three (the default). This causes content to be inaccessible for the majority of readers. Other issues we run across in eBooks include tables consisting of non-tabular data and tables that require the reader to pan right over non-tabular information. Tables with not-tabular information often force readers to take additional activity to be able to read plain text content, for example, a table with forced line breaks or a table with a word in a cell dissever across 2 or more than lines. If the data admittedly must be displayed in tabular grade and you still encounter the mistake, effort breaking your table into more than cells so that in that location are more available interruption points. For more data on table guidelines, see section 3.six in the Kindle Publishing Guidelines.

The Previewer and Kindle for PC will not always reproduce table display very accurately. If possible, brand sure to bank check table formatting on a Kindle device, especially if it appears to be a critical issue.

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Duplicated text

This refers to any text which repeats in the book when it is not intended to repeat. Usually this is the result of a copy-paste error and can exist fixed by removing the duplicated text.

Critical bug

• A repeated affiliate that is also mislabeled

Other duplicate text bug include:

• A repeated chapter
• A portion of text that is repeated inside a chapter or section, excluding single words

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Missing content

Missing content issues occur when some intended part of the volume is either mistakenly removed or includes references to a portion of the book that isn't included in the volume.

Critical Issues

• More text is missing than but a curt phrase
• Missing image section that the product clarification or the contents of the book point should be included
• Main volume content that is simply accessible through external links
• Product description indicates book includes CD, DVD or other ancillary content that is not accessible
• Missing or unplayable sound/video content in a Kindle Enhanced with Sound and Video

Other missing content issues include:

• A short missing phrase
• A missing image

Useful image formatting tip: Avoid pasting in images
Images should be inserted in JPEG (or .jpg) format with middle alignment (don't copy and paste from another source).

• Click "Insert" at the top of the screen in Word
• Click "Picture", which brings up a dialogue screen to locate the motion-picture show that will be inserted in the document
• In the dialogue screen, locate and select the file

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Wrong content

Books with wrong content are always removed from auction. Incorrect content occurs when a customer receives something other than what is advertised. This is near ordinarily caused by uploading an wrong file, but tin sometimes also occur if updates are fabricated to the product information or copy/paste issues make the description wrong. The easiest way to ready it is to upload the latest version of the right file.

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Content unsuited for reading on Kindle

Books that are non suited for Kindle are removed from sale.

Some books are simply not well suited to the Kindle format. These include any kind of book where the primary purpose is to allow the reader to write or colour on the pages. These books are improve suited to publishing in a physical form.

Examples of books not suited to the Kindle format include the following:

• Puzzle books
• Blank Journals
• Pattern books
• Coloring books
• Facing folio translations (left folio in i language, right folio is aforementioned content in another language)

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Disappointing content

We do not allow content that disappoints our customers or creates a poor shopping experience, including but not express to:

• Content that is either marketed equally a subscription or redirects readers to an external source to obtain the full content
• Content that is freely bachelor on the web (unless you are the copyright owner of that content or the content is in the public domain). For more than data, you can refer to the sections titled "Illegal and Infringing Content" and "Public Domain and Other Non-Exclusive Content" in the Content Guidelines.
• Content whose primary purpose is to solicit or annunciate
• Content that is not significantly dissimilar from content in some other volume available in the Kindle Shop
• Content that is too curt
• Content that is poorly translated
• Content that does non provide an enjoyable reading experience
• Bonus content that appears earlier a book'due south chief content
• Content that is excessively reused, recycled, or repeated within or across books
• Content that is rebranded or re-released with pregnant changes to the metadata, resulting in a confusing reader experience

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Companion guides

Companion guides, or books that are based on a different original piece of work (including summaries, study guides, workbooks, or analyses), that confuse our customers aren't allowed.

To ensure that customers don't confuse your work with the original source textile, nosotros ask that books of this type run across all the following criteria:

• The title must brainstorm with Summary, Study guide, Workbook, or Analysis (for example, Summary and Analysis of Pride and Prejudice).
• The cover paradigm must prominently indicate the content is a summary, report guide, workbook, or analysis before the title of the original volume and in a font that is at least as large every bit the rest of the title, and cannot resemble or repeat the original piece of work in any way.
• The contributor(s) of the original book don't appear in the contributor field.
• The content is categorized in the Study Assist category (The content cannot be included in whatever category outside of the Study Aid category (for example, Study Assistance | Book Notes).

Tip: Authors and publishers of elevation-selling companion guides frequently utilize covers with a consistent await and feel. Consider using a similar color scheme, layout, and font across your companion guide catalog to create a brand that readers recognize.

Nosotros don't allow companion guides based on copyrighted works to exist published exterior the U.South. without written permission from the copyright holder.

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Multi-work books

If you're publishing multiple stories as i volume, ensure the contents of your book are accurately reflected both in the championship field and on the cover, past including terms such equally "Boxed Gear up," "Bundle," "Collection," "Compilation," or "Series." Stories that are function of a series must be in sequential order within a book and collections of individual stories must take all stories listed in the metadata.

Collections of works and numbered series may include content you've previously published in your catalog. However, in order to provide an optimal customer experience, the same content may not be excessively reutilized beyond multiple books. We consider "excessive" whatever amount of content repetition that would create a poor shopping or reading feel.

Multi-work books must encounter all program guidelines (e.chiliad., you must have exclusive publishing rights for all content enrolled in KDP Select). For more information, come across our content guidelines and Terms and Atmospheric condition.

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