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KDP prints the hardcover art on the boards. A jacket file will be rejected or cropped. The page-count minimum is higher than paperback, the trim list is shorter, and the spine is wider. The hardcover needs its own ISBN. We check the minimum before we promise a case.
The case
A novella may not qualify. We put the final page count against the current KDP hardcover minimum and the trim list before design starts. If it qualifies, the interior is still a print PDF, usually close to the paperback interior, with margins that suit the case. The cover is a new template. Spine title, author, and any art have to sit in the wider spine and clear the hinge. What looked fine on a paperback spine can collide with the board edge.
Print cost is higher. The list price has to clear it or the royalty is a loss. Readers who buy the hardcover as a gift will compare it to the paperback price, and the two should make sense next to each other. We set both. If you need a dust jacket, that is Ingram, not this page.
Order of the work
Paired with paperback
The series name and subtitle should match. The ISBN and the wrap should not.
What KDP measures
A paperback wrap uploaded to the hardcover form fails, and it should.
Decisions
Right if Amazon is the shop and the page count qualifies. Art on the boards. A proof before it is live.
Ingram, not KDP. We will move the job rather than crop a jacket onto a case.
A honest outcome for a short book. We would rather tell you than force a count with blank pages.
House rule
Blank pages added only to clear a minimum are a tell, and we will not pad a novella that way.
Before the case
It should be, unless you have a reason to add a page. The cover and the ISBN still differ. A small interior change can change the spine, so we do not tweak casually.
Not from KDP. A bookstore hardcover is an Ingram conversation, often with a jacket. Say if that is the actual goal.
You do.
Start with the count
We will say if KDP hardcover can bind it. Call (833) 688-4166 or write [email protected].
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