You’ll have a choice of gloss or matte laminate, and white or cream endsheets (to match the pages). There are five available trim sizes, and the page count must be between 75 and 550 pages. What’s included with hardcover binding?Īmazon KDP’s hardcover binding includes a printed laminate cover over 2 mm boards. Now you can publish your book in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle formats! All three editions will be listed on your book’s product page to give readers a choice. Click To Tweet Hardcover binding is now available #Book #authors: get up to date with the latest #Amazon changes, including #ePub for #Kindle, hardcover binding, and A+ Content. We now recommend assigning one ISBN for the EPUB, PDF, and MOBI formats of a title. Fixed-layout Kindle ebooks can still use the MOBI format, otherwise all ebooks will be EPUBs. The best practice moving forward is to submit multiple ebook formats (if you need them) under a single ISBN. ISBNs for ebook formatsĭid you assign one ISBN for all your ebook formats, or a separate ISBN for your EPUB and MOBI files? Amazon only cares about the ASIN for your Kindle ebook, so as long as the ASIN doesn’t change, your ebook retains all of its sales ranking, history, etc. Replacing your MOBI with an EPUB will not affect the availability of the title, ranking, or product page on Amazon. The MOBI format is still fine for comics and other fixed-layout Kindle ebooks. Amazon prefers EPUB now for reflowable ebooks.

However, if a time comes when you need to make changes, you’ll need to upload the new file as an EPUB, Word doc, or KPF (Kindle Create file). Your already-published reflowable MOBI can carry on as usual on Amazon with no action required on your part. If you’re like us, you already have two different ebook formats to manage: EPUBs and MOBIs. Are you managing two different ebook formats? The MOBI format is still fine for fixed-layout Kindle ebooks (comics, picture books, etc.). So, just to be clear, EPUBs are now accepted by Amazon for reflowable Kindle ebooks. Please note MOBI files are still accepted for fixed-layout eBooks.You don’t need to take any action for reflowable eBooks already published unless you are updating the eBook files.

Instead, we ask publishers to use EPUB, KPF (Kindle Create files), or DOC/DOCX (Microsoft Word files) files for reflowable eBooks. Starting June 28, 2021, we will no longer support files in MOBI, PRC or AZK formats when publishing new reflowable eBooks or updating the content for previously published eBooks.

We listened to your feedback and are making it simpler to publish eBooks on Kindle. Here’s what Amazon has to say about the MOBI format: EPUB is now the preferred format across all devices including Kindle. Yes, you read that right! We no longer have to struggle with the ever-problematic MOBI format for reflowable Kindle ebooks. MOBIs replaced by EPUBs for reflowable Kindle ebooks The main Amazon updates for book authors are: 1) EPUBs are replacing MOBIs for reflowable Kindle ebooks, 2) hardcover binding is now an option, and 3) A+ Content is available for your book’s product page on Amazon. Trying to keep up with Amazon updates? So are we! There’ve been a few changes lately, so we’re discussing them here to keep you up to date.

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