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Amazon’s Search Inside The Book program offers publishers and authors the ability to allow potential readers a look inside their books – to preview sample pages, review the Table Of Contents, read the back copy, and peruse the index. The Search Inside The Book program improves search results and increases book sales. So if you haven’t done so already – get with the program!

REQUIREMENTS

• You must hold the merchandising rights for the book(s) you wish to submit.
• The files you upload must correspond to books already in the Amazon catalog (either available for pre-order or order).

SUBMITTING YOUR FILES

• Submit files via Amazon’s Seller Central
• Existing Seller Central account holders can request a Search Inside The Book upload account by sending an email to insidethebooksubmission@amazon.com
• Uploaded files must not exceed 500MB
• Content files should be in PDF text-based format
• PDF must be free of registration marks, crop marks, and other extraneous and non-printing text, marks or elements
• PDF must be free of security (changes, selection, and document printing must be allowed)
• All fonts must be embedded
• The order of the pages in the PDF must correspond to the physical print book (Each page in the PDF file must correspond to one page in the physical print book)
• Image files (front cover, back cover, spine, front flap, back flap) should be submitted in JPG, GIF, or TIFF format at 300 DPI or higher

Naming The Files:
All files must follow Amazon’s naming conventions:
[9 digit ISBN]-fullinteriorcontent.pdf (for example: 123456789-fullinteriorcontent.pdf)
[9 digit ISBN]-frontcover.jpg
[9 digit ISBN]-backcover.jpg
[9 digit ISBN]-frontflap.jpg
[9 digit ISBN]-backflap.jpg
[9 digit ISBN]-spine.jpg

Note that Amazon cannot accommodate specific requests to suppress individual pages from display on the website. Standard processing is usually completed within 7 to 10 days. Contact your Search Inside The Book representative if you do not see the feature activated within that time frame.

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