Amazon Guidelines

Publishing on Kindle: Guidelines for Publishers
o Cover: The Kindle book should have a cover.
o Single Cover: From the cover, flip to the next page. There should not be another image
of the cover page.
2. Go to the table of contents.
o In the table of contents, each item should be clickable and should jump to the correct
location in the book. There should be no page numbers in the TOC.
3. Go to any location in the book.
o Font size: Change the font size in the Kindle menu; the book font should change
accordingly. Regular text should not be bold or italicized, and its alignment should not be
forced.
4. Go back to the first page and flip through every page of the book.
o Images: Images should not be too small. Make sure that all text in images is legible.
Large pictures should be scaled to fit the page.
o Tables: Tables should appear correctly. Make sure that all text in tables is legible.
o Page numbers: There should not be any references to page numbers in the book,
including in the cross-references, TOC, and index.
o Material only included with physical book: There should not be any references to
material (such as a CD or DVD) that is only included with the physical book.
10 Kindle Quality Guidelines
Amazon strongly recommends that you verify your exported content before converting it into a Kindle
book because some content creation tools format content differently when exported to HTML.
In addition, Amazon encourages you to review the entire book for:
• missing content;
• wrong content;
• typos;
• alignment errors;
• forced font throughout the entire book; and
• proper paragraph spacing.
These errors negatively affect readability and may require the Amazon team to suppress the title to
protect the reader’s experience.
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