KDP Book Promotion Beyond Free Days
KDP gives you four promotion tools and every one of them either ends or costs per click. This page is about the fifth thing: a free, permanent page for your KDP book that lives outside Amazon, links back to your product page, and is listed where readers browse by genre. It takes one form and never expires.
Free
no fee, no card
2 days
usual turnaround
Forever
no expiry
What KDP gives you
Free Book Promotion days
Five days per 90-day Select term at zero price. Good for downloads and read-through on a series, weak for revenue on a standalone.
Kindle Countdown Deals
A timed discount with the original price shown. Keeps your royalty rate, needs a promotion site or a list to send traffic.
Amazon Ads
Pay-per-click, inside the store. Works when the product page converts, burns money when it does not.
Author Central
An author page and editorial fields. Free, permanent, and most KDP authors never fill it in.
What KDP does not give you
A page outside Amazon
Everything KDP gives you lives inside the store. If you want a link that is yours, you need it somewhere else.
Readers who were not already searching
Amazon shows your book to people who typed a related search. Someone reading a best-of list on another site is a different audience.
Anything permanent that is free
Free days end. Ads end. Countdown Deals end. Author Central is the only KDP feature that stays, and it does not bring traffic on its own.
The order that works
- Fix the KDP product page: keywords, categories, description. Our free KDP tools cover all three.
- Fill in Author Central. It is the one permanent thing Amazon gives you.
- List the book on Skriuwer. Free, permanent, links back to your product page.
- Use a free day or Countdown Deal for launch week, with a deal newsletter to send traffic to it.
- Spend on ads or a placement only once the page converts.
Free listing, optional placement
The listing itself is free and permanent: your own book page, an Amazon buy button, and a badge for your site. Free pages stay out of Google on purpose.
Want readers? A placement puts your book inside one of the best-of articles that bring the traffic, and opens your page up to Google. One-time fee per book, no renewals. Buys the spot in the article, not the listing.
1 book
€29
one placement, one-time
3 books
€24 / book
€72 total, save €15
5 books
€19 / book
€95 total, save €50
10+ books
€14 / book
Best for series and publishers
List your KDP book. It is free.
No fee, no card, no account. Fill in the form and we build your page, usually within 2 business days. Add a placement later if you want readers.
List my book for freeWant readers too? Placements from €29, one-time
Common questions
Is Skriuwer a KDP promotion site?
It is a book recommendation site that lists KDP books for free. The listing gives your book a permanent page off Amazon with a buy button that sends readers back to your KDP product page.
Do I have to be in KDP Select?
No. Select, wide, or Kindle Unlimited, the listing is the same. Nothing on Skriuwer depends on exclusivity or on a free day.
What KDP tools does Skriuwer offer?
Free ones for the product page: a KDP keyword tool, a category finder, a description formatter, and a pricing check, all under our iWrity toolkit. Fix the page first, then promote it.
Should I run Amazon Ads or buy a placement?
Different things. Ads reach shoppers already in the store and charge per click. A placement puts your book in one of our best-of articles for a one-time fee from €29 and stays there. Start with the free listing, then decide.
Can I list a KDP paperback with no Kindle edition?
Yes. The buy link goes to whichever format you sell. Most authors use the Amazon page that shows every edition.
Related: Kindle book promotion, book marketing for self-published authors, and book launch promotion.