Publish an AI-Assisted Book on Amazon KDP

Publishing an AI-assisted book on KDP is the same process as publishing any other book, plus one question about AI. This guide walks through it in order. Every KDP rule below comes from KDP's own help pages, read on 2026-10-11. KDP changes its rules, so treat the figures as of that date and confirm them in KDP before you publish.

Step 1: Know which category your book falls in

KDP's content guidelines draw one line. AI-generated content is text, images or translations created by an AI-based tool. AI-assisted is content you created yourself and used AI tools only to edit, refine or error-check; KDP says you don't need to tell it about that.

• Chapters a tool wrote from your material are AI-generated text.
• A cover made by an image tool is an AI-generated image.
• A translation made by a tool is an AI-generated translation.
• Your own writing tightened by a grammar or editing tool is AI-assisted.

These examples apply KDP's definitions to common cases. If one doesn't fit your situation clearly, ask KDP support rather than guessing.

Step 2: Disclose AI-generated content

KDP's guidelines say it requires you to inform it of AI-generated content (text, images or translations) when you publish a new book or republish an edited one. It also says you are responsible for checking that all AI-generated and AI-assisted content follows the content guidelines.

The guidelines page doesn't say whether the disclosure is shown to readers, so don't assume either way. A sensible habit, and only that: keep your source material and drafts for every title, so you can answer a question about how the book was made.

Step 3: Respect the limits and the quality rules

KDP limits how many new titles you can create: up to 2 titles per book format each week, counted separately for ebook, paperback and hardcover. The limit resets every Sunday at 12:00 AM UTC, and updates to titles you have already submitted don't count.

KDP's guidelines also exclude content that is freely available on the web (unless you own it or it is in the public domain), content not significantly different from another book in the Kindle Store, and content excessively repeated within or across books. KDP says it rejects or removes content that doesn't follow its guidelines, tells you if a title is removed, and lets you appeal.

AI makes near-duplicate books easy to produce, which is exactly what those rules describe. Each title should contain something a reader can't get by asking a chatbot the title as a question: your examples, your method, your material.

Step 4: Prepare the manuscript

For an ebook, upload an EPUB or a DOCX. KDP's help pages describe both as supported; an EPUB gives you more predictable formatting, and complex DOCX files may not convert as well. Preview the file before you publish (KDP provides Kindle Previewer and an online previewer) and fix anything odd: a table of contents that doesn't navigate, stretched images, stray blank pages.

SuperEbook exports a PDF, an EPUB and a DOCX of every book. The EPUB is the file to upload to KDP. It doesn't produce print-ready paperback files for text books, so for a paperback take the DOCX to a formatting tool and check KDP's paperback guidelines.

Step 5: Write the listing

• Title. It should be the title as it appears on your cover. KDP's title and subtitle together must be under 200 characters, and the title can't refer to sales rank or promotions (a claim about sales rank, or the word "free", are KDP's own examples).
• Description. Up to 4,000 characters, and HTML tags count toward that limit. KDP supports line breaks, paragraphs, bold, italic, underline, h4 to h6 headings and lists, but not h1 to h3.
• Keywords. Up to seven keywords or short phrases. Don't use other authors' names, brands you don't own, or subjective quality claims.
• Categories. You can select 3 when you create a book.

SuperEbook's free listing kit writes a KDP description, keywords and categories from your finished book. Treat them as a first draft and check them against the limits above.

Step 6: Make the cover

KDP's ebook cover page says to use a TIFF or JPEG, with ideal dimensions of 2,560 pixels tall by 1,600 wide, a minimum of 1,000 by 625, and a height-to-width ratio of at least 1.6:1. A cover made with an image tool counts as an AI-generated image for your disclosure. Check the cover at a small size too: large type and strong contrast read better in search results.

Step 7: Price it and understand the royalty

• 70%

  What you earn

  70% of (list price minus delivery cost)

  Delivery cost

  $0.15 per MB

  List price on Amazon.com

  $2.99 to $12.99 (since July 7, 2026)

• 35%

  What you earn

  35% of list price

  Delivery cost

  None

  List price on Amazon.com

  $0.99 to $200; the minimum depends on file size

The 70% option has other eligibility conditions, for example it is for in-copyright works only and applies only in the territories on KDP's pricing page. Worked example at $9.99: a 3 MB file earns $6.68 per sale on the 70% option, and a 20 MB file earns $4.89, because the delivery cost comes off before the 70%. Taxes in other territories change the figures. The Kindle royalty calculator does the sum for any price and file size.

Paperbacks pay a 50% or 60% royalty depending on list price (on Amazon.com, 60% at $9.99 and above, 50% at $9.98 and below), minus printing cost. Expanded Distribution pays 40% of list price minus printing cost. KDP pays royalties about 60 days after the end of the month in which the sale was reported (Expanded Distribution, about 90 days).

Step 8: Decide on KDP Select

KDP Select makes your ebook exclusive to KDP (and public libraries) for each 90-day enrollment period, and the book is then included in Kindle Unlimited. During that period you can't distribute the digital book anywhere else, a PDF on Gumroad or your own site included. Print editions can still be sold elsewhere, and KDP lets you make up to 10% of the book available elsewhere as a sample. If you plan to sell the ebook on your own site, publish without Select.

Step 9: Submit and wait

KDP's timelines page says titles are typically reviewed and published within 24 to 72 hours, and that some content types take longer; it gives 3 to 4 weeks for low-content books. Don't announce a launch date until the status says the book is live.