What eleven published KDP titles actually taught us
Every article here reports something that happened to our own catalogue — a category removed, an advertising account suspended, an A+ submission rejected, a trim size change that cost more than it saved. Numbers are measured, not estimated.
Print costs, trim size, marketplace differences
Category removals, ads suspensions, A+ rejections
What organic sales and A+ content really do
KDP’s Two-Titles-Per-Week Limit
Blocked on our third paperback. What counts, and how we replanned.
Low Content vs High Content
Amazon charges by the page. The content model is not an input to the formula.
An Ads Campaign at Zero Impressions
0 impressions across 4 days. The bid sat under the suggested floor.
210 of 350 Backend Keyword Characters
What our own audit found, and the three rules that freed the space.
How to Check if a KDP Book Sold
Four channels, four delays — and why an absent rank is not a zero.
Eleven Titles, Zero Reviews
What organic KDP sales actually look like, measured.
Amazon Ads Account Suspension
What triggers it, and the move that makes it worse.
When Amazon Removes Your Category
Why the empty low-competition category was always the trap.
Why A+ Content Gets Rejected
The real causes behind Amazon's misleading validation error.
Does A+ Content Actually Sell More Books?
Measured across 11 titles — and 16 page-one competitors, none of which had A+.
Amazon.ca vs Amazon.com for KDP
Rank is not comparable, node IDs do not transfer, French pages break parsing.
Changing Trim Size Creates a New ASIN
161 to 136 pages saved 0.28 CAD a copy. The new ASIN cost more than that.
KDP Print Costs and Royalties
Price paperback and hardcover books correctly.