- Are you wondering how do I unpublish a book on Amazon KDP?
And are you really concerned,
if there's any repercussions when it comes to unpublishing
or delisting your book through KDP.
I got you covered in today's video, so stay tuned.
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Every now and then you're gonna probably run into a point
where you're gonna have to delist or unpublish a book.
And there are some concerns from some people
and some valid concerns of whether there's any type
of repercussions when it comes to unpublishing your book.
First of all is, don't worry.
So long as you have the best of intentions
in delisting your book you're gonna be completely safe.
In fact, quite a bit of books over the years
have actually been delisted
in order to publish a newer edition.
So a first edition, there will come a second edition
and a third edition and so on and so forth.
So sometimes some publications are gonna need
a little bit of tweaking and finessing.
And every now and then, if, for instance,
you end up selling the rights or regaining the rights
to a given title, you're gonna need
to make a different edition.
So as a for instance,
let's say that you've already published your book
on the Amazon KDP platform
and you've acquired your own ISBN.
In other words, you have your own imprint.
You don't want Amazon on that anymore.
You can go ahead and unpublish it and then republish it
with the new ISBN as a second edition.
Reach out to KDP for further clarification,
all you have to do is scroll down,
select the contact us and they'll answer
all your questions there.
Now there is an old scamming method.
And if you try doing this, it will get you in trouble.
And that's when you try to unpublish
and then republish repeatedly
because you're trying to game the algorithm
and it's not a good idea.
If you don't know what I'm talking about,
it's probably a good idea that you don't learn it anyways.
But either way, it was an antiquated system
to where people used to game the Amazon algorithm.
Don't delist a product and relist it
because you had bad reviews
or that your rank is starting to tank.
It's just not a good idea, leave it up.
Or worst case scenario,
take it down and don't put it up again.
Here's how to unpublish an ebook.
You're gonna log in,
hover over the three dots on the right of an ebook listing.
Left click unpublish ebook.
There's gonna be a warning screen.
Now if you're already enrolled in the KDP Select program,
you still have to fulfill your 90 days and it says this,
the book must remain exclusive to kindle
for the remainder of the current 90 day enrollment period
regardless of its publishing status,
please click here to see the KDP Select FAQ.
Are you sure you want to unpublish this book?
So this means essentially that,
if you're already enrolled in KDP Select program
you still have some time left over on the 90 days,
they're going to go ahead and delist it for you
but it's going to stay on
until the actual enrollment is complete.
But if you're not in the KDP Select program,
then this is going to be the warning that you're gonna get
by confirming you will be unpublishing this ebook
it should become unavailable to buy
and unsearchable from Amazon storefront after.
It will not be available for purchase
until you republish it.
Click on publish now.
Now just so you know, the work doesn't go anywhere.
You can't delete it,
I know there's been some people
they want to completely remove it.
There used to be an option for deleting
but it has since disappeared
so any type of work that you've already published
through KDP it's going to stay in your dashboard forever.
Here's how to unpublish a print book.
Before we do jump into publishing a print book.
It's important to note that you can unpublish an ebook
and the product details disappear on Amazon.
However, for a print book since it's a physical product
and it can be resold in some capacity,
then they have to leave the product page up.
So that means that that's up there forever.
So as soon as you've published something through print,
it's there forever, you can take it down
and they'll stop fulfilling that
but the product page is there in perpetuity.
So it's gonna be the same steps,
you're gonna log in, hover over the three dots
on the right of the print book,
left click unpublish print book.
Now there's only one type of warning screen
it's gonna say by confirming
you will be unpublishing this book.
We'll stop printing copies of your paperback
to fulfill customer orders.
Third parties may still sell copies
of your paperback on Amazon.
That means your paperbacks detail page
will stay live on the website.
They should add forever, but they didn't, click unpublish.
Again, kinda like the ebook,
it's going to be the same for the print book
and that the contents going to remain
in your account forever, there is no deleting it.
And hey, so now that you're off the Amazon KDP platform
have you considered publishing elsewhere?
Believe it or not, I actually got a full video
to where I show you how to sell a published book on Amazon
and beyond in 30 minutes.
So you actually can probably do it shorter than 30 minutes
since you won't do it to Amazon KDP
see in the very next video where I'll show you how to do it.