Your Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Bookshelf is the hub of your KDP account. You can navigate your account, view and archive your existing titles, and create a new book or series. From your KDP Bookshelf, you can update existing book details like the description, cover image, and list price. If you would like to remove a previously published title from Amazon, you can unpublish it from your Bookshelf. If your book was never published, you will have the option to delete it.

Contents

• Bookshelf view options
• Find books in your Bookshelf or on Amazon
• View title details
• Archive your titles
• More helpful resources

Bookshelf view options

Your KDP Bookshelf includes four different views of your titles:

• Your titles is your default view and does not include archived titles.
• Series titles only shows titles you included in a series, and does not include archived titles.
• Archived titles shows titles you archived.
• All titles shows all of your titles.

Find books in your Bookshelf or on Amazon

Starting with the KDP Bookshelf — if you don’t see your books when you log into KDP, check that you’re logged into the correct account. People often tend to log into their regular Amazon account for shopping instead of their KDP-associated account.

Troubleshooting steps for missing Bookshelf books:

1. Log out of KDP.
2. Sign back into KDP using the email address and password you used to create books with.
3. On the KDP Bookshelf page, confirm your books are available in your account.
4. If they’re still not visible, ensure you have no filters applied that would hide the books.

If you want to locate your book on Amazon, the easiest way is to use your Bookshelf. Here's how to do it:

1. Go to your Bookshelf. Remember to sign into the account that you published under.
2. Scroll down and find your book.
3. Look for the View on Amazon link next to your book title.
4. If you hover over that, you can see links to each Amazon store you published under.
5. Click the store you want to view your book on. This will redirect you to Amazon's website, where you can see your book.

For more details on finding books on Amazon, visit this Help article about search results.

If you’re using the search bar on Amazon and your book isn’t appearing, here are the typical reasons:

1. It takes up to 72 hours for newly published books to appear on Amazon search results.
2. If you published a book with adult-content, it won’t appear in search results.
3. Make sure the book is published within that Amazon store or marketplace (e.g. Amazon.com vs Amazon.ca).
4. Confirm the status of your book on the KDP Bookshelf. If there was a reason we couldn’t publish your book, we’ll communicate that via email, but you can also see status information within your account. Simply go to your Bookshelf, scroll down to your book, and hover over the status for details.

View title details

Use your KDP Bookshelf to check your book’s status and view the following details:

• ASIN and ISBN
• List price of your title
• View your book in the Amazon store for each marketplace that it’s available
• Order Author copies of your published titles

Archive your titles

A way to organize your Bookshelf is to archive titles. The archive feature allows you to hide titles from your default Bookshelf view without changing its status or availability on Amazon.

To archive a title:

1. Go to your Bookshelf.
2. Next to the book you want to archive, click Manage title.
3. Choose Archive title from the menu.
4. Click Archive to confirm.

To unarchive and return titles to your default Bookshelf view:

1. Go to your Bookshelf.
2. Click the View drop-down menu to the left of the search bar.
3. Choose Archived titles.
4. Next to the book you want to unarchive, Manage title.
5. Click Unarchive title from the menu.

For linked titles, you will only need to select Archive title for one format to archive all linked title formats. If you only want to archive one format, you can unlink the title formats. Learn more about linking formats.

More helpful resources

For more specific information on creating a series, creating a new book, and knowing your book’s status, check out the links below: