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Update

Posted on by Brenda Poulos
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Have you been thinking of updating one of your books? 

If you’d like to change your book’s details (contributors, categories, or description), manuscript, cover, or territory and publishing rights) here’s how to do it: 

Click on the ellipsis button next to your book on your bookshelf. Choose EDIT BOOK DETAILS, then SAVE AND CONTINUE. 

At the bottom of the Pricing page, click PUBLISH. Amazon will review your book to ensure it still meets their guidelines for quality/standards.

Some changes can be made directly to the published version on your bookshelf. Other changes require you to publish a new edition of your book.

Certain features are “locked” and cannot be updated until you publish the book as a new title (a new edition) from your KDP Bookshelf.  They are: language, title, subtitle, edition, primary author, digital rights management.

Unpublished Your Book

Posted on by Brenda Poulos
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Last week we concluded that books without an assigned ISBN and have never been published can be deleted from an author’s KDP bookshelf.

If a book has been published, it can be unpublished, but it cannot be removed from the KDP bookshelf.

Authors can do this by clicking UNPUBLISH under the ellipsis button. Once done, it will no longer be listed for sale.

It WILL remain on the author’s bookshelf, unless you archive it using the same ellipsis button, but selecting ARCHIVE TITLE instead. (And, yes, you can “unarchive” in the same manner.)

Next week, I’ll tackle the subject of updating books.

Deleting a Book From Your Bookshelf

Posted on by Brenda Poulos
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From time to time, authors may want to delete a book from their KDP bookshelf.

It is an easy process IF it meets the following requirements:  If it is in DRAFT status, has never been published and has never been assigned an ISBN.

Directions: Go to your Bookshelf, click the ellipsis button next to the book, then click Delete Book.

However, take a minute to make sure you want to delete it because once you do, you won’t ever be able to recover it. 

But what about books that have been published? Can they be deleted?

I’ll cover that next week…