Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

Every KDP problem is cheapest to fix before you hit publish — and most account disasters were preventable in minutes. The pre-publish audit a 200+ title operation runs on every book: the instant-stop gate, the six risk domains, and why risk is two numbers, not one.

Written from a real enforcement file that includes two KDP account terminations — both reversed. How to triage which emergency you're in, what to do (and not do) in the first 48 hours, what appeals can and cannot achieve, and the post-restoration audit nobody tells you about.

You wrote it yourself and Amazon still flagged it as "similar to other books." Similarity enforcement isn't a plagiarism check — here are the six ways original books trip it, the keyword-field mistake that has terminated accounts, and the five-minute pre-publish checks that prevent all of it.

The "content quality" email is short and generic on purpose. Here's how to read it, which of the four enforcement modes you're actually in, what to do in the first 24 hours, and the response mistakes that turn a fixable flag into a terminated account.