@Tammy Smith Ok, gotcha. When you unpublish your listing on KDP, it makes your book unavailable in the Amazon store, but the listing will still be there in your dashboard. The listing should have options to unpublish and delete. (I'll check this when I get back to my desk.) Don't delete. Just unpublish. Then you would buy your own ISBN and create a completely new listing on Amazon. Contact their support chat to connect the reviews. I did this with a client and had to keep checking back in with them, but they eventually did it. It took a little over a week to get it all sorted. At that point, you are now the publisher of record, so you'll be able to list it on any other self publishing platform as well. If you end up going with a traditional publisher, you'll have to unlist it, and they'll give you their ISBN which will list them as the publisher. At that point, you're in a contract with them and generally can't self publish again.

Sorry, rereading that last paragraph was a little confusing. If you go with a traditional publisher, you'll have to unpublish or remove it from the self publishing platforms you're on and then generally will not be able to self publish again due to contract limitations with whoever you sign with. Let me know if that makes sense!

I guess that's the point.

@Timothy Colomba 😂 that's actually not the reason. But I'll save it for therapy.

Ugh, I'm so sorry that happened! You're in exactly the right place! We're all here to support each other. :) Definitely start with Step 1 and let me know if you have any questions!

@Vanessa Onstad-Pierre so true!