KDP Blocked Your Book? The Uncomfortable Truth About Amazon’s Automation

You open your email and see the words that make your stomach drop: “Disappointing customer experience.” 

No specifics. No line-by-line explanation. Just a vague label that freezes your sales and leaves you guessing what to fix.

Panic sets in—and every instinct tells you to rush into the dashboard and start fixing things. 

That reaction is how publishers lose entire catalogs.

In this episode, we break down the exact prevention and recovery playbook for book-level KDP blocks. 

What Amazon’s system flags first. Why bonus content, links, and interactive elements quietly trigger rejections. 

Why touching other books during a block can cause cascading bans. And how one calm, strategic move can be the difference between recovery and permanent damage.

This is not generic advice. It’s a step-by-step survival protocol built from real compliance checklists and recovery procedures—covering containment, appeals, AI-based claim verification, archive-and-republish strategy, cooldown timing, and the final diagnostic test that tells you whether you’re fighting a content issue or an account-level flag.

If your book is blocked right now, this episode gives you clarity, control, and a path forward before Amazon’s automation decides for you.