Publish Books on Amazon KDP in 10 Minutes (2023)

About this video

Provenance note: this transcript track is in Arabic (verified by reading the actual text, not the ledger label), summarized faithfully in English here. In part three of a four-part series sponsored by Book Bolt, Dale times himself uploading three low-content books to KDP, each in under 10 minutes because the metadata was prepared in advance. The walkthrough covers choosing paperback or hardcover, entering a keyword-rich title and subtitle, author name and description, claiming the top copyright option since he created the content, filling all seven keyword slots with overlapping root words, and picking one or two BISAC categories, which he describes as guideposts rather than the categories shoppers see. For low-content books he skips buying an ISBN and the publication date, uploads the interior and cover as PDFs (warning that KDP’s own cover creator templates are used by tens of thousands of others), checks the print previewer, and sets prices across all territories — his example is about $3.99 in the US versus $2.99 in the UK. His three timed uploads finish at 9 minutes 38 seconds, a new record of 7 minutes 48 seconds for a planner, and 8 minutes 32 seconds for a word-search puzzle book. He notes low-content books cannot use expanded distribution because Ingram no longer distributes most of them, prefers the 6x9 trim size from more than 16 options, and recounts how a KDP phone representative wrongly told him a word-search book was low content, which cost an extra day of processing but no penalty.

Key takeaways

• Prepare all metadata in advance and a low-content KDP upload can be finished in under 10 minutes — his three timed runs were 9:38, 7:48, and 8:32.
• Fill all seven keyword slots with overlapping, related terms, and treat the one or two BISAC categories as guideposts that help KDP place the book.
• Skip buying an ISBN for low-content books, upload interior and cover as PDFs, and always inspect the result in the print previewer before publishing.
• Ink and paper choices drive print cost — standard color costs more and premium color is most expensive — and he defaults to the popular 6x9 trim size.
• Low-content books are excluded from expanded distribution because Ingram no longer distributes most of them, and KDP’s own classification can be inconsistent, as his word-search book showed.

Episode details: published February 16, 2023 · 10:00 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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