What Is KDP AI Disclosure?

What does Amazon actually ask at publishing?

When you publish through Kindle Direct Publishing, the submission flow asks whether AI tools were used to create your book, and if so, whether the content counts as AI-generated or AI-assisted. AI-generated means a tool produced the content with minimal human direction — chapters drafted by software and published largely as-is. AI-assisted means you created the content and used AI for support: brainstorming, outlining, editing, or polishing your own prose.

Your answers go to Amazon for cataloging, not onto the product page. Readers never see your disclosure responses; they see your title, description, and cover like any other book. Answering yes does not block publication, lower your royalty, or flag your account — it puts the book in the right internal bucket.

The requirement covers text, images, and translations alike. A human-written manuscript with an AI-generated cover still has AI involvement to report on the image side, and the reverse holds for AI-drafted text with a hand-designed cover. When in doubt, disclose — over-reporting costs nothing, while a misleading answer can get the book removed.

AI-generated vs AI-assisted: where is the line?

Amazon's split turns on who did the creating. If the machine drafted chapters and you lightly edited, that is AI-generated. If you wrote the chapters and the machine fixed grammar, tightened sentences, or suggested chapter titles, that is AI-assisted. Most EarnDraft authors land in the first camp for drafts and the second for everything after editing — and both answers are normal, accepted, and publishable.

Think of it as a spectrum with a practical test: could this book exist without the AI's contribution? If the answer is no — the AI wrote the first draft of the substance — call it generated. If the book is recognizably yours and the AI sanded the edges, call it assisted. Document which tools touched the manuscript so your answers stay consistent across retailers.

Keep a one-line production note per book: tool used, what it produced, and what you changed. That note takes thirty seconds to write and answers every future question from any store, not just Amazon.

Why does Amazon require disclosure?

Cataloging is the boring, real reason. Amazon lists millions of titles and needs to know how each was produced to manage quality, handle customer questions, and respond to regulators circling AI-made media. Disclosure gives them that metadata without judging your process.

The policy also protects honest authors. When every AI-made book is labeled internally, stores can spot spam operations flooding categories with unedited machine output — the behavior that actually gets books removed. A disclosed, edited, well-formatted book from a tool like EarnDraft is exactly what the system is designed to accept.

Expect sibling stores to converge on similar questions. Apple Books and other retailers already probe provenance in their own ways, so a disclosure habit built for KDP transfers everywhere. Your production note becomes a publish-everywhere asset.

What do honest answers look like in practice?

Picture a coach who types one sentence into EarnDraft, gets a five-chapter lead-magnet draft with a cover, then spends a weekend rewriting stories, adding client examples, and tightening every chapter. At publishing she answers that AI was used and the content is AI-generated — because the first draft was machine-made — and completes the store’s disclosure questions herself. The book publishes normally.

Contrast the risky version: the same draft published untouched with AI questions answered no. The listing looks identical on day one, but the answers are false, and false answers are what trigger removals when Amazon audits or a reader reports the book. The disclosure itself was never the obstacle; dishonesty is.

The pattern generalizes: disclose the strongest AI involvement anywhere in the pipeline, keep your production note, and move on. Two checkboxes and one included page are the entire administrative burden.

How does EarnDraft handle disclosure for you?

Review AI-assisted content and each retailer's disclosure requirements before uploading. EarnDraft does not submit retailer disclosures for you.

Because the exports include PDF, EPUB, and DOCX after reviewing any AI-generated content, check each retailer's current disclosure and file requirements before uploading. And the commercial license included with paid plans permits commercial use. It does not guarantee copyright, uniqueness, or clearance of third-party rights; retailer fees still apply.

If you publish under a pen name, disclosure works the same way — Amazon ties the answers to your account, not your author name, so the pen name on the cover is unaffected. One honest account, as many pen names as your catalog needs.

• Use the How-To Guide Generator to draft content, then review the retailer's current requirements.
• No automatic disclosure page is inserted into your book.
• Keep your own record of how the final text and images were created.
• You review and submit — nothing is filed on your behalf.
• Check the file format and content requirements of each retailer.