🏷️ The KDP Listing Kit And Metadata

The listing kit writes the words that go on your KDP book page: titles, subtitle, description, keywords and categories. It reads your actual book, so the words fit what is inside. Every field has a Copy button, ready to paste into the KDP form.

Where to find it:

Open the Publish tab, pick your book in the selector at the top right, and find the KDP Listing Kit card on the left.

What it needs:

A text AI key: Anthropic, OpenAI or your Google key. Without one the card says No listing kit yet. Click the button above. Needs a text AI key (Anthropic, OpenAI or your free Google key) on the Providers tab. See Text AI Keys: The Writer, Listing Kit And Rewrite.

Making the kit:

1. Click Generate Listing Kit. The button says Writing your listing... for a few seconds.
2. The fields appear in the card.
3. Click Copy on any field and paste it into the KDP form. The button says Copied for a moment.
4. Not happy? Click Regenerate Listing Kit. The new kit replaces the old one.

What the kit reads from your book:

The book type, your title, your premise, the main character's name and description if there is one, the page count and the trim size.

The fields:

• Title Options: three titles in Title Case.
• Subtitle: a subtitle full of benefits, under 200 characters.
• Description (HTML): three to five short paragraphs: an opening hook, what is inside, and a closing invitation, with key phrases in bold. Only simple paragraph, bold, line break, italic and list markup is kept.
• 7 Keywords: exactly seven buyer search phrases of two to four words, in lowercase, one for each KDP keyword slot.
• 2 Categories: exactly two browse paths, written like Children's Books > Activities, Crafts & Games > Coloring Books.
• Age Range: a suggested reader age, or an adult range for journals and planners.
• AI Content Disclosure: a fixed reminder, not written by AI, that KDP asks whether you used AI tools, and that you answer yes and tick the parts that apply.

The rules the kit follows:

The kit is told to avoid other brands and author names, words such as free, bestseller and new, and claims about price, ranking or shipping. Keywords do not repeat words already in your title or subtitle, because KDP already searches those. If the AI returns fewer than seven keywords or two categories, the plugin tops them up so you always get the full set.

Where else the kit is used:

• The description becomes the blurb on the back of your cover PDF.
• The first title, the subtitle, the description, the keywords, the categories and the age range fill in the KDP Upload Checklist after you export.

So generate the kit before you click Build Export Files.

A real example:

For Dinosaur Friends Coloring Fun the kit gave three titles, including Happy Dinosaurs Coloring Book For Kids, seven keywords such as dinosaur coloring book kids and preschool coloring pages, and the categories Children's Books > Activities, Crafts & Games > Coloring Books and Children's Books > Animals > Dinosaurs.

Tips:

• Use the kit as a strong first draft. Read every field and make it sound like you.
• Paste the description into the KDP description box as it is.
• The book's title in the plugin does not change when you pick a different title option. The cover uses the book's own title, so pick the title you want before you create the book.