The words that get a book listing rejected (title, subtitle, keywords)
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R. S. Breed Founder
Stores reject listings for things authors often don't know are against the rules: sales claims like "bestselling" or "#1" in a title or subtitle, "free" or "on sale" used as a promotion, prices or links in the description, or a program name like "Kindle Unlimited" in your keywords.
The free metadata checker tests your title, subtitle, series name, description and keywords against Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Apple Books, Kobo and Google Play before you upload: https://bervet.com/tools/book-metadata-checker
It checks two things:
- Length. Only KDP and IngramSpark publish length limits. Where a store doesn't, the checker says so rather than guessing.
- Words the stores don't allow, from each store's own help pages, with a note on which store's rule it is.
It's careful not to cry wolf. A word that's fine in context (a book actually called something with "free" in it, say) gets a "check this" rather than a fail.
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