KDP Publisher updates
What’s new in the Book Studio
Everything we’ve added for Amazon KDP publishers, newest first. The cover designer, the free background library, starter covers and the AI features are all live for Publisher and Pro members — and all still in beta.
The Cover Studio, drag-to-move editing, free backgrounds, starter covers and the AI tools are beta features
They are live for every Publisher and Pro member, and they are still being tested. Please bear with us while we work out the kinks, and please be patient if something misbehaves. If you hit a bug, an odd export or anything that looks wrong, — every report gets read by a person and most get fixed within days.
We’re really excited to be offering these to all of our customers, and we couldn’t deliver them without all of you testing them. Thank you.
September 7, 2026
AI puzzle writing, on every main maker Beta
The same credits that paint your covers now write your puzzles. Type what you want on the word search, cryptogram, word scramble, word fill-in, sudoku, crossword or flash card maker, and AI writes the list, the quotes, the clues or the cards.
- One credit a puzzle, and one credit if you want the AI to write your prompt for you first.
- Nothing is applied until you have read it — and every word stays editable afterwards.
- Your Publisher or Pro allowance covers this too; it is one balance across the whole site.
September 7, 2026
Drag anything on your cover Beta
Click the title, author, badge, picture or back-cover text on the cover preview and drag it where you want it. Arrow keys nudge, double-click edits the words, and the export prints exactly what you moved.
- Twenty cover styles, including sudoku grids, crossword squares, word-search letters, large-print bars and a chalkboard.
- A badge field for the corner pill — “Large print”, “Volume 2”, “100 puzzles”.
- Zoom and pan your picture; the cover check warns if a zoom drops it under 300 DPI.
September 7, 2026
Free backgrounds and starter covers Beta
Every book template now comes with an almost-finished cover, and the artwork rail has a library of royalty-free backgrounds drawn in your own colours. Nothing to license, nothing to credit.
- Thirty-five backgrounds: patterns, scenes, seasonal motifs and puzzle grids.
- Starter covers for all 37 book templates, with back-cover copy written in the buyer's words.
- Backgrounds are vector, so they print sharp at any trim size.
September 6, 2026
AI credits: artwork, word lists, back covers and listings Beta
Publisher includes 150 AI credits a month and Pro 400. Paint cover artwork from a sentence, plan a whole book from one paragraph, fill a section with themed words, write the back cover and the KDP listing.
- Text tasks cost 1 credit; a standard cover artwork 10; premium 4K artwork or a photo restyle 20. Premium is a Pro feature — Publisher gets 2 a month to try it.
- A failed generation never costs a credit — it is refunded automatically.
- Top-ups from $5.99 if you run out; purchased credits never expire.
September 6, 2026
The Cover Studio Beta
Design the full-wrap paperback cover and the ebook cover inside the Book Studio. The spine is sized from your real page count, the barcode zone is kept clear, and the print file is checked to the pixel before it downloads.
- Full wrap PDF at the exact size KDP's calculator expects, plus a 1600 × 2560 ebook JPG.
- Live preview is the same file the printer receives — what you see is what KDP gets.
- An AI-content reminder for the KDP upload form when AI made the picture or the words.
Try them on your next book
Open the Book Studio, click Start here — walk me through it, and the guide takes you from a title to an interior PDF, a paperback cover and an ebook cover.
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