But getting it right in retail stores is far more important.
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Then I’ll walk you through how to change it inside your ebook.
The bottom line is that you need to make sure your metadata is right in both places:Įach retailer has its own system for doing that, but because Amazon is the by far the largest ebook retailer in the U.S., I’m going to walk you through changing your metadata information specifically in the Amazon KDP system. It adds things like your book’s description, an author bio, and other marketing copy to help readers find your book. Retailers have a separate system for entering your metadata directly into their catalog. To change that metadata, you have to change the ebook.īut metadata also appears in catalogs, like Amazon, where people can buy your book. This ensures your book will display correctly in an ebook reader.įor example, a Kindle device can sort your book correctly in a reader’s library by your Author name or by your book’s title, because it sees that information in your metadata. Some of that data is included inside the ebook itself using special ebook coding. It includes things like the title, your Author name, the ebook’s ISBN, the date it was published, and so on. Ebook metadata is all the data about your book.
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