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Who owns the five-star review a reader left for your book? Not Amazon, and not Goodreads. Both sites' terms make the rev...
02/09/2026

Who owns the five-star review a reader left for your book? Not Amazon, and not Goodreads. Both sites' terms make the reviewer promise they own the copyright, and both take only a non-exclusive licence, which means the reviewer is the person who can say yes.

Our new post works through what that actually lets you do. It covers why no word count makes a quotation safe, and where the "25 words", "300 words" and "10 percent" rules really came from. It explains why a bookselling site's terms are a contract rather than a copyright question, so a fair use argument does not answer them. It sets out what Amazon's Editorial Reviews field is for, and why customer reviews are one of the nine kinds of content its guidelines do not accept. It covers what changes the moment a review goes into an advert, under both the US FTC rule and the UK advertising code. And it ends with four routes that work, and a table showing which objections each one answers.

Read the full guide here:
https://www.ebookpbook.com/2026/09/02/quote-reader-review-book-marketing/

Quote reader reviews in marketing and the reviewer still owns the words. What the retailers' terms, the FTC rule and the UK code allow.

Paying for a book review and paying for a customer review are two different things. Amazon's ban on compensated reviews ...
01/09/2026

Paying for a book review and paying for a customer review are two different things. Amazon's ban on compensated reviews is written about customer reviews. The editorial reviews field is one you fill in yourself.

Our new guide covers what that means in practice:

- What the five main review services charge, from $59 to $599, with current turnarounds
- How many quotes the field actually holds: five for a print book, one for Kindle, three for Audible, inside a 20,000-character ceiling
- The nine kinds of content Amazon will not accept there, including spoilers and web addresses
- Which services let you stop an unfavourable review before it goes public, and which one you cannot undo
- Where the US and UK disclosure rules land, and what is still unsettled

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Paid editorial reviews go in a different slot from customer reviews: an Author Central field you fill in yourself. What they cost, and Amazon's rules.

The first people most authors think of asking for an early review are friends and family. Amazon's review rules bar ever...
27/08/2026

The first people most authors think of asking for an early review are friends and family. Amazon's review rules bar every one of them.

Our new post is about choosing who gets an advance copy of your book, which turns out to matter more than how many copies you send. It covers the two Amazon rules that decide whether a reader can post a review at all (the ban on friends, relatives and business associates, and the $50-in-12-months spending threshold on their account), the six things your reader application form should ask, where readers who actually read your genre can be found, the four reasons to decline an applicant outright, and the one reason that is never good enough.

Read the full guide here:
https://www.ebookpbook.com/2026/08/26/choose-arc-readers/

Choose ARC readers who read your genre, not just anyone who signs up. What to ask on your form, who Amazon lets review, and when to say no.

Getting your audiobook into library catalogues does not register you for Public Lending Right. In all three countries th...
25/08/2026

Getting your audiobook into library catalogues does not register you for Public Lending Right. In all three countries that pay it, you have to register yourself, and no distributor does it for you.

Our new guide sets the UK, Canadian and Australian schemes side by side: who can claim on residency or citizenship, why an audiobook published only through ACX cannot be registered at all, what counts as an eligible recording in each country, how the payment is divided between writer and narrator, and when each registration window opens and closes.

Read the full guide here:
https://www.ebookpbook.com/2026/08/24/audiobook-public-lending-right/

Audiobook Public Lending Right: do the UK, Canadian and Australian schemes pay for audiobook library loans, what each requires, and who is shut out.

Some Amazon book pages show an ASIN. Others show no ASIN at all. That is not a glitch: on paperbacks whose ISBN begins 9...
18/08/2026

Some Amazon book pages show an ASIN. Others show no ASIN at all. That is not a glitch: on paperbacks whose ISBN begins 978, the ASIN is the book's own ISBN-10, already sitting on the page under a different name.

An ASIN is Amazon's catalogue number, created automatically for every listing for every product it sells. An ISBN belongs specifically to the book trade. Our new post explains what each number is and who issues it, why an ISBN starting 978 gives you an ASIN made of digits while one starting 979 gives you an ASIN beginning with B, the one place your ASIN can always be read off reliably, which number a bookshop, library or distributor will ask you for, and what to do about the two KDP help pages that give opposite answers on whether a Kindle ebook needs an ISBN.

Read the full explainer here:
https://www.ebookpbook.com/2026/08/18/asin-vs-isbn-explained/

ASIN vs ISBN explained: the ASIN is Amazon's catalogue number, the ISBN is the book trade's. See why a paperback ASIN looks like an ISBN, and which to quote.

Uploading an ebook to a store is a technical process, not an editorial one. The checks confirm the file is valid and the...
17/08/2026

Uploading an ebook to a store is a technical process, not an editorial one. The checks confirm the file is valid and the metadata is in order. Nobody reads the book.

Our new post is a checklist rather than an essay. Eight checks apply to every ebook, whatever made it: spacing and alignment faked with tabs and spaces, wide tables and diagrams, images that had text wrapped around them in print, web addresses, footnote and endnote links, scene-break ornaments, index and page cross-references, and the title and author name as they show in the reading app's library. Then you add the list for your source file. Five more if the ebook came from Word: corrupted characters, chapter titles never tagged as headings, body paragraphs that do not match, italics and bold applied by hand, and long one-word headings. Seven more on top if it came from a print PDF. Four things to confirm if it came from InDesign.

Not every book has all of them, and plenty of books come through clean. But do not assume the ebook is right because the print book was. Reviews are usually pooled across a book's formats, so a reader's complaint about the ebook reading experience sits on the paperback's listing too.

Read the full checklist here:
https://www.ebookpbook.com/2026/08/14/proofread-epub-and-print-pdf/

Proofread the EPUB as well as the print PDF: conversion introduces faults print never shows, and what breaks depends on your Word, PDF or InDesign source.

Which file do you upload to a book mockup generator? The flat front cover as a JPG or PNG; never the print-ready cover P...
13/08/2026

Which file do you upload to a book mockup generator? The flat front cover as a JPG or PNG; never the print-ready cover PDF your designer delivered for the printer, because that file contains the back cover and spine too.

Our new guide walks through the four free generators (DIY Book Covers, Canva, Book Brush, and Placeit) and what their free tiers actually include (Canva's free plan alone covers 2,500 mockups). It also shows how to extract the front cover from a print PDF in Acrobat, when a mockup needs a spine image, what each tool's licence permits in paid ads, and the pixel sizes Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Amazon recommend.

Read the full guide here:
https://www.ebookpbook.com/2026/08/13/create-3d-book-mockup/

Create a 3D book mockup for your book marketing: which cover file to upload, the free generators to try, licensing rules, and the right size for each platform.

Setting up a print cover for Barnes & Noble Press? Paperback, printed case, and dust jacket bindings each need a differe...
12/08/2026

Setting up a print cover for Barnes & Noble Press? Paperback, printed case, and dust jacket bindings each need a differently sized cover file, and the rules about bleed, margins, and spine width are not intuitive the first time you meet them. The good news: B&N's free cover template makes them easy to follow.

Our new guide walks through the whole process: how the cover file changes with the binding style, how the template generator builds your spine width from six details about your book, what each coloured guide on the downloaded template means (bleed, safety margin, spine margin, folds, and the barcode box), the checks your PDF must pass, and why a cover built for another platform needs a rebuild rather than a re-upload (different platforms use different papers and binding options, so the spine changes even when the front and back do not).

Read the full guide here:
https://www.ebookpbook.com/2026/08/12/barnes-noble-press-cover-file/

Barnes & Noble Press cover template setup explained: how paperback, printed case, and dust jacket cover files differ, plus spine width and PDF specs.

What does it actually cost to record an audiobook at home? About $100 to $185 for an entry setup that can pass ACX's aud...
12/08/2026

What does it actually cost to record an audiobook at home? About $100 to $185 for an entry setup that can pass ACX's audio checks, before the computer you already own.

Our latest post lays the whole thing out in tables: the eight ACX submission rules (including the -23 to -18 dB RMS loudness band and the -60 dB noise floor), three itemised equipment tiers from a $99.99 Samson Q2U to a $559 XLR chain, the five-step free Audacity workflow with the exact mastering settings (-20 dB RMS, -3.5 dB limiter, ACX Check), and a comparison of how Spotify, Kobo, and Google Play's upload rules differ from ACX's.

Read the full guide here:
https://www.ebookpbook.com/2026/08/12/audiobook-recording-software-equipment/

Audiobook recording software and equipment for home studios: what a compliant setup costs, the free Audacity workflow, and the audio specs platforms check.

Amazon can display ten different format labels above your book's price, and you cannot choose or edit a single one of th...
11/08/2026

Amazon can display ten different format labels above your book's price, and you cannot choose or edit a single one of them.

The word comes from binding data selected at setup, not from your ISBN. The new post decodes all ten labels, from Paperback to Audio CD, and gives the industry codes behind them. It explains why every KDP print book resolves to Paperback or Hardcover and can never say Library Binding. It lists the nine details Amazon compares before it will put your paperback, hardcover and Kindle edition on one page, and names the one that trips people up most. And it sets out the 72-hour window for fixing a title or author name before the field locks for good.

Read the full guide here:
https://www.ebookpbook.com/2026/08/11/amazon-book-format-labels-explained/

Amazon book format labels are set by the binding data a publisher supplies, not the ISBN. Here is what each one means and why you cannot change it.

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