How to Get Around the Amazon KDP Upload Limit of 10

It is widely known that late last year Amazon began to enforce a 10 book per week upload limit.

Many people took this at face value and will just upload 10 per week, then wait till Monday and upload the next 10 — like clockwork.

But what isn't known is that if you actually read the guidelines straight from Amazon, it says "10 per book format each week," the keyword being "book format." (source)

KDP offers three distinct formats:

• Kindle eBook

• Paperback

• Hardcover

While many authors may then upload one book and do the three different formats, you should be able to publish 30 in total.

A Potential Strategy

By no means am I suggesting that you spam Amazon KDP into oblivion, as that only opens up your surface of potential issues (i.e. more books = more areas where you may likely violate KDP terms and get kicked out of the program), but what I am suggesting you consider is a three-way approach to publishing.

You could market long-form fiction books as just Kindle eBooks, then perhaps use Paperbacks for non-fiction resource material, coloring books, etc., then hardcover for perhaps photo books, journals, or other premium print products.

This way you are not just gaming a limit, you are actually building a more intentional catalog across three distinct product lines, each with its own reader and its own shelf.

The KDP Drafting Loophole

If you simply cannot hit the 10x per week limit, then here is a creative loophole — I have no idea how long this will last. You can actually create a title and save it as a draft (just put in filler data) and it will save its spot.

So you can theoretically do this for a few weeks and have a mountain of unpublished titles that you can then submit to KDP all at once.

The limit applies to draft creations, not to how long a draft sits in your dashboard.

So stack up your drafts for when you can lock in and publish a ton of books across the three different formats at once.