- Fun fact, there are things you can instantly write about
inside your book that can get it
kicked back from distribution.
Stick around.
I'll tell you the interesting one we encountered recently
and the fixes available if it happens to you.
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Hey there, I'm Julie the Book Broad.
Award-winning author and founder of Book Launchers,
your professional self-publishing team
that will help you write, publish and promote
a money making, impact creating, non-fiction book.
As part of our service, my team manages
the always nitpicky and slightly painful task
of uploading your book
everywhere that you want distribution.
Most cases this means IngramSpark for bookstores,
and Amazon everywhere other than Amazon.com,
KDP for Kindle and Amazon.com
and Draft2Digital for wide e-book distribution.
I talked about e-book distribution in this video right here
and I'll put it at the end
so you can catch up if you missed it.
During that upload process there are sometimes errors
and flags that come up.
Usually it's image issues or some other minor issue.
But every once in a while
something will catch you off guard.
The latest was inside one of our client's books
where he references an Amazon TV series.
It doesn't matter which one.
Although in case you're wondering,
there's several that I really like,
like The Marvelous Miss Maisel and Bosch.
I love Bosch when he was a character in a book
and I love him even more in a TV series.
Anyway, those aren't even the shows he referenced.
Draft2Digital sent us a note back
that the book was rejected for the use of the word,
I need the drum roll again. (drum rolls)
Amazon. (chuckles)
Is this a turf war, or what?
Now we laughed at this, thinking if you've written a book
about the Amazon jungle, you're in for a really fun journey
fighting your e-book distribution.
But seriously, at this point, we had two options.
Contact Draft2Digital and explain that the context
of the word was not directing people
to buy something from Amazon,
or just change the wording.
For simplicity, we just removed the reference to Amazon
and left it as the TV series title.
In talking about this on a recent live stream,
Kevin Maguire posted that this can happen with Amazon
if you put the word, free, in your book title.
For example, eat fat-free and have no fun. (chuckles)
I think that'd be a good book, actually.
But I just made it up.
But it's a legit use of free,
but your book would get rejected because of that title.
At that point, you can change that awesome title,
or contact Amazon and push for approval.
You have to remember that there are bots
behind these decisions and they're not totally versed
on context, yet.
So sometimes human intervention is required.
But I wanted to mention this for two reasons.
One, is to think about what you're putting in your book.
Apple doesn't want you linking to Amazon.
And possibly even mentioning Amazon triggers this now.
Which could be why Draft2Digital
rejected the book mentioning Amazon.
Right now Amazon books is the only one I know of
that has this restriction.
But if you know of others,
let's share in the comments below.
Two, there is no master list of things
that can cause your book to get rejected
because it's changing all the time.
We run into new things all the time
as we're helping clients.
So give yourself time.
Just because your book is done,
do not assume you're going to be able
to launch it in a few days.
If you're planning a specific launch date,
get your book done early and load it up
so you can find out about these problems early.
If you set a date, promote that date,
but upload your book in the very last minute,
and you get it kicked back,
you're gonna be scrambling to find something
that's causing your book to be rejected.
So time is your friend and for a lower stress book launch,
I highly recommend you give yourself a lot of time.
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