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Upload Your Coloring Book to Amazon KDP

You leave Coloring Book Engine with exactly what KDP’s paperback flow asks for: a print-ready interior PDF and a one-page cover PDF at the correct spine width — both already validated.

The Short Version

Section titled “The Short Version”
  1. At kdp.amazon.com, create a Paperback.
  2. Book details — title, description, keywords, categories. (Your brainstorm answers — audience, theme — are good raw material for keywords. Avoid stuffing generic terms like “book” or “gift” into the title; KDP’s metadata rules prohibit it.)
  3. Content — set the trim size to your project’s book size, no bleed (your PDF is already sized correctly), and upload the interior PDF, then the cover PDF (“Use a cover you already have”).
  4. Run KDP’s Print Previewer. Because you validated locally, this should be a formality.
  5. Set your price and publish. If you exported a Digital edition, the same book can go up on Etsy or your own store; the ARC edition is for your advance readers.

AI-Generated vs. AI-Assisted: How to Answer KDP’s Disclosure

Section titled “AI-Generated vs. AI-Assisted: How to Answer KDP’s Disclosure”

During publishing, KDP asks whether your book contains AI-generated content. Under KDP’s official definition, artwork whose first version was produced by an AI tool is AI-generated — even if you substantially edited it afterwards. So a book made with Coloring Book Engine’s generation stages should be declared AI-generated: answer Yes. Two things worth knowing before that makes you nervous:

  • There is no penalty for answering Yes. The disclosure isn’t shown to buyers. The account-level risk is in answering No and being caught — image-heavy categories like coloring books get extra scrutiny.
  • If you imported your own hand-drawn artwork and only used the local pipeline (processing, vectorizing, assembly), that’s AI-assisted under KDP’s definition — no disclosure required.

One practical timing note: reviews of AI-disclosed, image-heavy books are commonly reported to take several days rather than hours — leave a buffer before any announced launch date.

(Draft note: this chapter will get screenshots of the actual KDP flow and pricing guidance in a later pass.)