Amazon KDP Review Guidelines CHANGED - What You MUST Know

appreciated

can you give away book (lets say to mail list members) and ask for a review?

Hey sean!

I’m from India and was considering buying your course on KDP publishing and I had a few questions.
1. Is your course a one time thing or is it a funnel where i’ll just be asked buy a more expensive course at the end of the course.
2. I don’t have a lot to invest so i’ll be wanting to publish something that requires less capital but also profitable so that i can build a corpus to invest more in a high content book. Will this approach help me?
3. Is it possible for me to sell from india worldwide with an indian bank account?

Would be really grateful if you would address these queries.

Thank you.

Thanks for the update!

Hi Sean, I just put this in google: "is bookbounty ok to use with new amazon review policy" and got this (can you please comment?): No, using BookBounty with the new Amazon review policy is not considered acceptable as it essentially incentivizes reviewers to leave positive reviews in exchange for compensation, which directly violates Amazon's guidelines regarding review manipulation and could lead to account suspension or other penalties.

Sean...Great information...thank YOU 😊

Great video. Are there any sites you could recommend to get reviews on my coloring book? I think book bounty is just for e books

Thanks. We keep grinding.

Hi Sean Thank you for the update. And all the great content that you do. Your videos have helped me out a lot in getting off my butt and actually trying to and put my work out there. I do have a question though as I am still fairly new to this I've been using pubby to accumulate points for the book I'm going to be publishing would this no longer fall under Amazon's guidelines? Thank you for any help you can give. Seriously thanks 🙏

Does this also work with ACX.

Hi Sean! What's the best way to get verified reviews? I've used a couple of review sites and uploaded my $0.99 and $2.99 eBooks in the hopes of a verified review, but I get no bites. But when I upload a free PDF then I get reviews but they're all unverified. I like to purchase people's books to leave them verified reviews to support them, and so that it looks like I'm not spamming unverified reviews everywhere, but it seems nobody really wants to spend even a dollar just to collect free credits. It's a struggle.

Hi Sean , thanks for your information. That mean the pubby is not working under the new policy?

Hey Sean--what if I write a quality children's story based on a professional mentor's input and the person reviewing my book, doesn't understand the criteria for a quality children's book and would potentially never buy one?

Thank you. What's the best way to gather reviews for low-medium content books?

Is good option Book Blaze?

if i don't want to read and leave reviews, can I still use book bounty to post my book for reviews? (the verified kind, where they have to buy my book), thanks.

Can a book enrolled in Amazon's KDP Select program, which offers them for free on Kindle Unlimited and Prime, be uploaded to Book Bounty for reviews without violating Amazon's guidelines and the KDP program exclusivity?

SEAN - does it matter or not if your book is in Kindle Unlimited when using places like Book Bounty and Pubby???

Thanks, im just getting into kdp low content, just created my first book, now just need to figure out what to do next 🤣🤣

Thank you for keeping us in the loop❤

Thank you so much😊

Oh so have to pay for the site who makes reviews?

First time and found you randomly... excited to start my kdp journey....

KDP Has terminated my account and won’t reinstate it. Please help me. My account was blocked for a book that was blocked in the review stage.

Thanks a bunch, this is what I really need now. Going to try the web

I can view this video translated in French

Banger
Merci mec

You are really one in a million Sean.
I think most of us now wait EACH DAY for your next video. I have personally referred your videos to a number of author friends and contacts.
Keep them coming!

Thank you for your very informative videos. Book Bounty is awesome! I was able to get a few good reviews for my debut novel. I was even able to get verified purchase reviews, so the reviewer can purchase the ebook and have 6 days to complete the review (since my book has 444 pages).

Thanks you have some pretty content on your channel 👍👍

Sean, thank you so much for your concise teachings....greatly appreciated

Thanks man, that was definitely important. Any suggestions on creating an email list. Wondering because Amazon doesn't like it if we put a link in the book through which customers can provide email in exchange for some gift . Thanks again.

Doesn't it get expensive buying people's books when part of a review swapping site?

Do you recommend publishing under multiple names until I get the hang of the process or should you stick to one publishing name starting at book #1?

I seen your last video when you were critiquing book covers and letting people know the reason they were not getting sales and things like that I seen that you had said something about a book called fruit of the spirit and that you never heard of the term or anything like that which leads me to believe that you either know little or nothing about Jesus Christ our Lord and savior fruit of the spirit is a biblical term I encourage anyone that does not know what fruit of the spirit is to Google Galatians 5:22 - 23 New King James version NKJV not only to educate you but to possibly change the lives of yourself and others as well then let that customer know how they should go about changing the cover or what they need to do in order to get sales

So, no more Pubby?

Thank you Sean! This video is very helpful. And Book Bounty looks like a useful tool.

after subscribing to bookbounty, is there a limit to the number of books you can upload to bookbounty for review?

Do you use book bounty for coloring book reviews as well? Or just applies to high content books?.. awesome NO BS videos

Is there any site similar to pubby for kobo published books

Sean, how can I send you a link to my book for you to review (or roast)?

Thank you Sean for the information! I am a member of Pubby and just registered to Book Bounty as well. I wrote an email to Pubby support if they have any plan, consideration for implementing changes based on these information. I encourage others to do the same to show them that we care about this. Thank you again Sean for the useful info, you are the best!!

Sounds like you want to promote this website

2 days ago I signed into my KDP account to submit an eBook and found out that KDP no longer accepts the book cover in PDF format but only in TIFF, JPEG, front cover image only thru the templates provided in the KDP app downloaded to my computer. Similarly the interior pages PDF needed to be uploaded in the KDP app and rename to have the kdp doc extension. Have you Sean or anyone else noticed this? TYU

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge Sean. Btw KDP couldn’t exist without publishers 😝. But I do like the changes, it’s keeps everyone honest. The customer gets a better quality book and the publisher gets paid. Win-win in my book (pun sorta intended) 😂

Hmm but if my books only have reviews by accounts named as 'bounty hunters' would the customers trust me? it would be suspicious don't you think?

Dang, I didn't know you had to pay for it

Hi Sean, thanks for this, really like the clarity in your videos. One question, what reviewer name does the BookBounty method give on Amazon, is it just their regular Amazon reviewer name, but the difference is that I can't see in the BookBounty app who did what, as opposed to Pubby? Thanks man!

The thing that concerns me about using one of these sites (if I do it will be book bounty) is me having to spend hours, days, weeks doing reviews just to get enough "points" to get a review. That seems like a lot more work for a review or two. I heard one guy say he prepped his bounties for 2 months before launching his book. That sounds crazy to me to spend 2 months giving reviews (where he actually bought the peoples books) just to get to launch one book and get a couple reviews.

I'm getting good book reviews from Pubby. Thanks for the great info, Sean. 😊