Book Metadata Guide for KDP & IngramSpark

Metadata is how retailers, libraries, and search engines decide where your book appears. This step-by-step guide shows you how to choose keywords, select categories, write an optimized subtitle, and organize your book data so readers can find it.

What’s Included

• Sell Sheet Essentials: Guidelines for your core commercial metadata, from ISBNs and trim sizes to age ranges and launch dates.

• BISAC & Thema Codes Demystified: How to choose primary and secondary subject codes for IngramSpark and wide distribution.

• ONIX Standards Guide: The logistical details, including spine width calculations, carton quantities, unit weights, and international sales rights.

• 5 Critical Metadata Blind Spots: Common mistakes that cause catalogs or library systems to reject or bury titles.

• Platform Mapping Strategy: How to translate your raw metadata into the right fields on Amazon KDP and IngramSpark.

• Fillable Metadata Worksheet: One workspace for contributor bios, descriptions, keywords, and pricing tiers.

Format: One PDF.

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