Good morning. I have a question I hope someone can give us guidance on. We published a title over the weekend and received a proof copy on Tuesday. The book was approved and we went through the proof last night. We published around 6 pm and it was live by 9:00 pm I believe. In preparing the book, we had gone through the keyword on Amazon and thought we were aware of all the competing books for the niche. However, we went through the keyword again last night and realized we had not seen all the competitors, which included quite a few from this community. And to our chagrin, we discovered a book with the same basic cover as we had posted. We decided to edit the cover design and reposted about two hours later. Same book, different cover, and the inclusion of the ISBN, and a QR code for reviews. That book has been blocked by Amazon and the email sent to us stated the reason was that the book would result in a poor reader (customer) experience. My question is whether anyone else has experienced this? If so, do you have advice on how to move forward? We are currently in the workforce, but nearing retirement age and want to use KDP to supplement and grow our income in that season of our life. We have other books that are in various stages of development that can get to publication shortly. So, the blocked book is not that big of a deal. We are just curious as to why the first book was approved but the second was blocked. Any thoughts?

In the YouTube video I released yesterday I talk about my learnings from the DPE London Mastermind Event. It was 2 weeks ago and changed my perspective on KDP a lot… Especially the speech of Eiri, the founder of PublisherChamp, was remarkable. I mention some of the numbers he shared in my video. We all were speechless. Hope you enjoy it!

...You mentioned you’d cover how to get reviews for our books on your YouTube channel. Looking forward to it :)

Just giving a little feedback. I'm working on my first book using the software and once I got past the initial "what do I do", "where do I go" questions I've got to say I've been very happy with the process. Everything is moving along pretty smoothly. I probably spent 6 hours getting the outline right which has certainly helped with the writing output. I'm about 2/3 finished with the chapters. I did notice, or maybe it is something I was doing wrong, can we not ask the writing assistant to rewrite something after the fact check? I tried copying a section of a chapter and pasting it in for the WA, but it started rewriting the entire chapter. Since I'm not fully immersed into how everything functions yet, I have been cheating slightly with ChatGPT and Gemini maybe for peace of mind. I expect to not need those tools after using PublishFlow for a couple of books. Thanks Andrey and Roman for creating this tool!!

Hello everyone! 👋 I'm Varvara, the new addition to the PublishFlow team 😊 I will be supporting Andrey and Roman in Community Management, and you’ll also see me in the support section, where I’ll do my best to help out with any questions or issues. Excited to be here and looking forward to helping you create great books! ✨📚