How to export your KDP cover and listing and upload to Amazon

Step by step

1. 1Open the Cover check: wrap size, spine text (allowed from 79 pages), artwork resolution and the barcode zone.
2. 2Keep the 2″ × 1.2″ barcode area on the back cover empty — Amazon prints its barcode there.
3. 3On the Publisher plan, download the paperback cover PDF and the ebook cover JPG.
4. 4Click Download listing pack for your title, subtitle, 7 keywords, categories, description and exact spine numbers.
5. 5Or click Write listing with AI · 1 credit, read every field, and copy each one into KDP.
6. 6Check royalties, page count and spine width with the free calculators at puzzlepage.app/kdp/tools.
7. 7On KDP, upload the interior PDF as the manuscript and the paperback cover PDF, matching trim, paper and bleed.
8. 8Answer the AI-content question honestly, set a price and press Publish.

Transcript

Episode ten: from cover check to Amazon. The cover check runs before Amazon's does. The wrap size. Spine text, which K-D-P allows on books over seventy-nine pages. Art sharp enough to print. And a clear space for Amazon's barcode. Keep that white box empty. Print files need the Publisher plan. Download the paperback cover, a PDF for K-D-P's cover step. Then the ebook cover, a JPG for Kindle. Designing the cover is free. Back on the interior, download the listing pack. It needs no plan. Inside is everything K-D-P's form asks for. Your title, seven keywords, two categories, a description, and your exact spine width, once the full interior is built. Or let the AI writer draft it. That's Publisher, and in beta. One credit, sped up here. Read it first, because it goes out under your name. Then copy each part into K-D-P. The free K-D-P calculators double-check your numbers. Royalty, for example, is what you earn on each sale. You used AI, and K-D-P will ask about it. On K-D-P, upload your interior as the manuscript, then the cover PDF. Match six by nine, white paper, no bleed. When K-D-P asks about AI, say yes. Then press Publish. K-D-P reviews it, and it goes on sale. And you're published. That's the whole course, all ten episodes. Thanks for building along. Here's to your first book, and the next one.

Chapter by chapter

0:04 Read the cover check

Wrap size, spine text (from 79 pages), 300 DPI artwork and the 2″ × 1.2″ barcode zone Amazon prints on.

0:19 Download the cover print files (Publisher)

On the Publisher plan, download the paperback cover PDF for KDP and the 1600 × 2560 ebook cover JPG.

0:30 Download the listing pack

Title, subtitle, 7 keywords, categories, description and exact spine numbers, ready to paste.

0:46 Write the listing with AI (Publisher)

Write listing with AI · 1 credit, read every field, and copy each one into KDP.

0:58 Check the numbers with the free KDP tools

Seven free calculators — royalties, page count, spine width and more — at puzzlepage.app/kdp/tools.

1:06 Upload it to KDP

Upload the interior and cover PDFs, answer the AI-content question honestly, set a price and publish.

Parts marked Publisher (the full interior PDF, the cover print files and the AI tools, in beta) need a KDP Publisher plan; building, previewing and the first 10 pages plus cover are free. Everything else shown is free. See the plans.