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A Kindle ebook can go on pre-order, up to a year out. The final file is due before the release, on a deadline KDP sets, and missing it can cancel the pre-order and block you from another one for a year. Paperback is not the same kind of pre-order. We put the deadline on a calendar before the page goes up.
The clock
KDP lets you list an ebook pre-order and deliver the final manuscript later, inside their window. That window is a number of days before the release, and we do not shave it to the last afternoon. If the file is late, KDP can cancel the pre-order. A canceled pre-order can keep you from running another for a year. Those are their rules, and we treat them as real.
The pre-order page is already selling. Cover, description, categories, and price should be ready when it appears. A temporary cover teaches the wrong reader to want the wrong book. Print does not follow this calendar. Do not announce a paperback date just because the ebook has one, unless the print files are actually done.
Order of the work
What the buyer is promised
Changing the title or the premise after people have ordered is how you spend the trust the pre-order was for.
What we need
If you are still outlining, you do not have a pre-order. You have a wish.
Decisions
You have readers to tell, and a manuscript that can hit the cutoff. We build the page and the reminder.
Better when the file is the uncertain part. No cancellation risk. Less of a runway.
Honest if you say so. The ebook date is not printed on a paperback announcement.
House rule
A year-long ban on pre-orders is a high price for a weekend of optimism.
Before the date is public
Days before their cutoff, not hours. Conversion and a preview always take longer on the day you are late. We pick an internal date ahead of theirs.
Sometimes, inside their rules, and it is not something to do casually to people who ordered. Ask before you announce a new day.
Not in this way. Do not plan the print release as if the ebook tool applied.
If you want a date
We will say if that day is safe. Call (833) 688-4166 or write [email protected].
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