After you publish: add your ASIN

What an ASIN is

An ASIN is the 10-character code Amazon gives each book, made of capital letters and numbers, like B0ABCD1234. It’s how Amazon tells your book apart from every other one.

When it appears

Not straight away. After you submit your book on KDP, Amazon reviews it first. KDP says publishing usually takes up to 3 business days, and it can take longer for your first book. Once it’s live, the book’s page can take up to 72 hours more to show on Amazon.com. See KDP’s timelines.

No ASIN yet? That’s normal. Come back any time; nothing is waiting on you.

Where to find it

• Your KDP Bookshelf. Once your book is live, open its details on your Bookshelf: the ASIN is listed there. (KDP’s Bookshelf help)
• Your book’s Amazon link. Open your book on Amazon and copy the link from the address bar. You can paste the whole link into ColorCraft and we’ll pick out the ASIN.

Add it in ColorCraft

Any one of these opens the same box. Paste the ASIN or the link, then click Save ASIN.

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   In the editor

   Open Print & sell and choose I published it on Amazon.

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   In the KDP upload guide

   The guide’s last step is Add your ASIN. The guide opens after you export, or from Print & sell → Upload to Amazon KDP. The steps are also in Upload your book to KDP.

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   On Home

   Under a book you’ve exported, click the Add your ASIN line below its buttons.

To change it later, open the same box and click Change ASIN. If you saved it by mistake, click Remove ASIN.

What you get

• A free check that your book is live. When you save the ASIN, we look for the book on Amazon. If it’s there, you’ll see Found on Amazon with its title, so you can make sure it’s yours. This check is free.
• Weekly tracking, if you want it. Once your book is found, you can tick Track this book and click Start tracking. It uses 1 research search, from the same allowance as Niche Research, and adds the book to your watchlist, so you get a weekly email when its sales rank, reviews or price change. Nothing is used unless you tick the box and confirm. If you have no searches left or your watchlist is full, we’ll say so; your ASIN stays saved either way.

“We’ll look for your book on Amazon shortly”

Your ASIN is saved, and we haven’t looked for the book yet. We will soon; you don’t need to do anything.

“Amazon doesn’t show your book yet”

Your ASIN is saved; Amazon just hasn’t shown the book yet, which can take a few days. You don’t need to do anything: we check again about once a day for two weeks. If it still isn’t found after that, check the ASIN on your KDP Bookshelf and save it again.