“It Takes Money to Make Money.”

When capital is limited, start with a low-cost asset you own, and build from there.

If you have little or no money for stock, premises or advertising, a useful nonfiction book is one of the most sensible places to begin. KDP’s publishing tools are free and print on demand, so there is nothing to buy or store. A book can test a market, earn royalties and become the first step towards a lead magnet, an email list and your own products or services.

The Book Publishing System is a complete, tested workflow for Claude that takes you from roughly forty book ideas to one worth writing, then to the files you upload to KDP: a paperback interior for each edition, a Kindle eBook, the covers and the full listing. After launch it keeps checking your live pages every week. You make every decision that matters.

This is not a hyped sales pitch or an automatic AI-book machine. Claude researches, drafts, builds and checks. You read the evidence, correct the drafts and approve each stage, because accuracy, usefulness and the decision to publish stay with you. The system refuses to invent a rank, a sales forecast or an income figure, and its checks flag unsupported claims in your listing too.

See what is included Why this process matters

You need a paid Claude plan (Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise), Google Chrome, a free GitHub account and Google Drive.

Dear friend,

I am a pensioner, and I publish on a pensioner’s budget. Like many people on a fixed income, I wanted to publish books without paying for editors, designers and formatting, and without spending months on a book nobody was looking for.

So I built a system to do it properly. Claude checks the market on Amazon before a single word is written. It helps me plan, draft and check every chapter in my own voice. It builds the print files, the Kindle edition and the cover, and checks everything against KDP’s rules before I upload.

My two gardening books, What Will Grow Here and Dwarf Fruit Trees in Containers, are two examples of the books I have published with this system; you can see both further down this page. Now I have packaged it, tested it step by step and written a plain-English manual, so you can use it too.

This is not a push-button book machine. It is a careful partner that takes the slow, confusing work off your hands, so your time goes into a book worth reading.

Try it for 30 days. If it is not right for you, you get every cent back.

Warm regards,
J.E. Minnie

Public KDP market indicators

Millionsof readers worldwide can be reached through Amazon KDP.

10+ / 45+countries and languages supported by KDP's publishing tools.

$69.4mKDP Select author earnings reported for August 2026.

$668.4m+Kindle Unlimited fund reported over the 12 months to May 2025.

Amazon’s own published figures for reach and for total payouts across all its authors (not typical results for any one book). Sources are linked below.

From book to business

A low-cost book can also be the start of your marketing funnel.

Amazon says its KDP tools are free and a book can appear in its stores within about 72 hours. Print on demand removes the need to hold stock. The longer-term opportunity is a useful book that can earn and also introduces readers to you: a free resource, an email list, and the products, services or recommendations you offer next.

Useful KDP books
Royalties, where readers buy
Create a lead magnet
Build an email list
Follow up with products, services or affiliate offers

Quality before quantity

Do not flood KDP with low-value books. Research the market and publish work readers can trust.

The research is a funnel with eight stages. Roughly forty candidates go in and one comes out, and most of the value is in the thirty-nine it eliminates. Every figure carries a tag saying where it came from, and a figure nobody could read stays blank rather than being guessed.

Project 1: find the book worth writing

A research workbook with the formulas built in holds the state of the research, not a chat. Claude reads Amazon itself from the Claude sidebar in Chrome, opening the books and writing each figure into the workbook with the page address and the date.

Your starting pointResearch around what you can credibly write about, or leave your credibility out so any subject is open. Either way: your hours, your budget and three permanent exclusions.
The longlistThirty to fifty candidates, with the gaps usually found where two subjects meet.
The screen and the gatesDemand, trend and “is this book-shaped?”, and how evergreen each idea is, then nine knockout gates and a compliance gate. Only the strongest candidates go through.
The competitor logThe top ten to fifteen books, every number read off a live page today. The system looks for proof that readers are already buying in the niche, not only searching for it.
The gapEvery two- and three-star review on the top five competitors, counted. The same complaint across four books is a market gap.
Keywords and categoriesSeven keyword slots, autocomplete read live, and category depth from the bestseller lists.
The economicsCopies a month to reach $500 net, and your effective hourly rate, from KDP’s current rates.
The decisionScore the finalists on six criteria, evergreen among them, then Claude argues against your winner: kill criteria, a pre-mortem and the cheapest test that would prove it wrong.

Project 2: build it, publish it, look after it

The winning idea crosses to the production project as a one-page brief and a short handover of what is verified, estimated and unknown. You can also start there without any research, from three cells: title, subtitle and description.

Blueprint and budgetA table of contents with a page, figure and word budget per chapter, taken from calibrated page settings rather than guessed.

Your voiceA voice profile built from your own writing, so the drafts sound like you and not like every other AI book.

Chapters, figures and worksheetsChapters checked against countable style rules, line drawings through a figure gate, and worksheets built to the page.

Upload files and a listingPaperback interiors per edition, an optional hardcover, a checked Kindle eBook, covers measured to KDP’s margins, and the whole listing, then one go or no-go before you upload.

After launch, and a seriesA weekly check of your live pages, an ads starter pack, a Kindle promotions plan, an Author Central kit, a keyword refresh, reviews turned into a second edition, and series set up the right way.

Final judgmentYou still approve every claim, file, disclosure and publishing choice.

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More than a prompt

Why a system beats a string of disconnected prompts.

A one-off prompt can draft useful text. The advantage comes from keeping the research, the reader, the blueprint, every chapter, the files and the listing connected, and from measuring the things that get books rejected instead of trusting that they look right. That is what the system is built to do.

Difference	Typical one-off AI prompt	Claude project with normal chat	Book Publishing System
How the work runs	Responds to the current instruction. You decide each next step, check it and carry the result to the next prompt yourself.	Better context for each chat. Instructions and stored files guide the replies, but you still direct every step.	Twenty skills, one per stage. Say “log the competition” or “typeset it” and the matching skill runs that stage to the house rules, then stops at your approval gate.
Amazon research	Numbers from memory, which are often out of date or invented.	You paste pages in, or the chat works from what it remembers.	Claude reads Amazon itself in the Chrome sidebar and records every figure with its page address and date. Pasting pages remains a fallback.
Files and saving	You copy text between prompts and format the files yourself.	Reference files can live in the project, but finished work is still a chat reply.	Everything lives in your own private GitHub repository, with every version kept. Chapters come to Google Drive as Google Docs you can edit, and your edits flow back.
Numbers	Page counts, spine widths and royalties are guessed.	Better guesses, still guesses.	Measured. Page counts come from real renders, the spine from KDP’s formula, and royalties from KDP’s current pages, with the date they were checked.
Checks	Whatever you remember to ask for.	Whatever you remember to ask for.	Built in: style rules counted, a figure gate, EPUBCheck and KDP’s eBook rules, cover text kept at least 10 mm in from every edge of the cover, fonts checked for embedding, and a single pre-flight before upload.
Usage	Usually the most economical choice for a quick, simple request.	Reused project files are handled efficiently.	Multi-step work with tools does real work in every step. The manual shows how to keep each stage focused so your usage goes where it creates value.

Two projects, one repository. The research project and the production project each carry their own instructions. The skills do the work stage by stage, and your GitHub repository keeps the engine, the rules and every book together. Any session, on the web, on your phone or in the Chrome sidebar, finds the same files.

The practical KDP advantage

One validated decision carried all the way from market evidence to the files you upload, and beyond.

Instead of separate prompts for research, outline, chapters, formatting and marketing with nothing connecting them, the system works through a controlled sequence from the same approved brief, glossary, voice and status file. The result is more consistent, easier to check and repeatable for the next book. A worked example book ships with it, so every stage has a real file to look at.

Validate before writing

Before you write a word, Claude reads the live Amazon pages of the books you would compete with, counts the complaints in their two- and three-star reviews, and works out the copies a month you would need and your effective hourly rate. Only the strongest ideas go forward, so every hour you spend writing goes into a book readers are already looking for.

Keep the book coherent

The approved brief, a locked glossary, your voice profile and a status file travel with every chapter. A term defined in chapter 2 means the same in chapter 11, a decision made last week is not asked again, and the drafts sound like you, because the voice profile is built from samples of your own writing.

Measure, don’t guess

Word targets per chapter come from page settings calibrated on a real typeset book, not from a rule of thumb. Page counts, spine widths and royalties are read off the actual files, separately for each edition, so the numbers you enter on the KDP form match the book KDP prints.

One manuscript, every edition

A paperback, a large print paperback, an optional hardcover and a Kindle eBook all come from the same manuscript, outline, glossary and figures. Each edition gets its own page count, spine, gutter, cover, price and index, and worksheets and tables are built to each edition’s exact page, so labels land at the right size.

Real upload files

The paperback PDF is made in Claude’s workspace with the contents page filled in, the page size exact and every font embedded. The cover wrap is sized to the final page count, with every word kept at least 10 mm in from the edges: a little more than the 9.5 mm KDP’s cover specifications require. The eBook is checked with EPUBCheck and KDP’s eBook rules. You do not need Word or design software.

Catch problems before KDP does

One pre-flight checks the interior, cover, eBook and listing together and gives a single go or no-go. It confirms the title matches on the title page, the cover and the form, that every font is embedded and that the files agree with each other, so problems are fixed before you upload rather than after a rejection email.

Stay inside KDP’s rules

KDP’s specifications, royalty rates and content rules live in one file, read off KDP’s own pages and dated. A compliance gate screens every idea, title and listing for another author’s material, trademarks and claims the book cannot support, and the system shows you how to answer KDP’s AI-content questions honestly.

Keep improving after launch

A weekly check reads every live page and compares it with what you set: title, price, page count, description and series. You also get an Amazon Ads starter pack, a Kindle promotions plan on real dates, an Author Central kit, a keyword and category refresh at 60 to 90 days, your reviews turned into a second edition, and a shelf of all your books. You make every change in KDP yourself.

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Human-led, evidence-based quality

The strongest quality control is not more AI. It is a better human approval process.

Fully automated, one-shot AI content can turn an unsupported assumption, a weak source or a misread reader into an entire manuscript before anyone notices. This system sets Claude up as an assistant, not the author. It organizes the research, records where every figure came from, flags open questions, drafts in reviewable stages and revises against your comments, while you decide what is true, useful, original and ready to publish.

Claude brings processing, consistency and production. You bring judgment, lived experience, ethics and final accountability. A compliance gate screens every concept, title, figure and listing for another author’s material, trademarks and claims the book cannot support. The aim is not to disguise AI-generated content. It is capable AI assistance under visible human control.

Collect evidenceLive market readings, credible sources and the real questions readers ask.
Claude organizesCompare the evidence, find the gap, tag every figure and write a transparent brief.
You verifyCheck the sources, claims, relevance and direction before any chapter is written.
Claude drafts and revisesWrite in reviewable stages from the approved brief, then apply your specific corrections.
You approveAccuracy, usefulness, voice, rights and the final KDP files, before anything is uploaded.

Why this can produce better content: each stage is built on approved information, so errors are corrected before they spread into the next deliverable. The finished book can be more coherent, more relevant and more defensible than an unchecked AI draft. Your own review at every gate makes it better still: the system screens every title for conflicts and keeps you in charge of every judgment that matters.

Nothing depends on a chat remembering it.

Memory, the current conversation and stored files are different things. The system keeps what matters in files, where every session can find it.

The research workbookThe state of the research, with the formulas built in. If a chat and the workbook disagree, the workbook is right.

Each book’s folderThe brief, outline, glossary, voice, chapters, figures and listing, in your GitHub repository with every earlier version kept.

Reading copies in DriveChapters and the listing as Google Docs to read, edit, comment on and share. Your edits are brought back before Claude touches a chapter again.

A status file per bookWhat is settled, what is open and the next step, updated at the end of every session, so no decision is asked twice.

Protect usage limits by using the right place for each job.

The manual shows where each stage runs and how to keep sessions focused.

Use the Chrome sidebar only for the stages that read Amazon, and Claude on the web or your phone for everything else.
Run one stage per request, with its inputs, outputs and approval point stated at the start.
Let the files carry the context: the workbook, the brief and the status file, rather than long conversations.
Start a fresh session from the status file when a conversation gets long.
Use higher effort for research and judgment, and lighter settings for routine work.
Watch Settings > Usage. Message length, attachments, tools, model choice and effort all affect consumption.

Usage well spent: a system that researches, builds files and checks them does real work for you in every session, and its structure makes every bit of your plan's usage count.

Happy elderly man reading an eBook on a tablet beside an elderly woman reading a printed book, with their dog and cat

What the system provides

Research, writing, production and after-launch care in one controlled workflow.

Two Claude projects, twenty skills, a tested engine of scripts in your own repository, and approval gates that carry approved decisions from the first idea to the live listing.

Niche and book research

Eight stages, from your starting point to a scored decision.
Amazon read live in the Chrome sidebar, with the page address and date.
Knockout gates that eliminate, not scores that flatter.
Evergreen choices first: every idea rated for lasting demand and for how long its content stays accurate.
Review mining that counts complaints across competitors.
Royalty, break-even and your effective hourly rate.
A handover of what is verified, estimated and unknown.

Book creation

A table of contents with page, figure and word budgets.
Your own voice profile, built from your writing.
Chapters drafted one at a time and checked against the style rules.
Line drawings through a figure gate, and worksheets built to the page.
Front and back matter, glossary and an index from the real page numbers.

Production, launch and after

Normal print, large print, or both, each with its own page count.
The interior font: the supplied one, your own, or one Claude proposes for the book.
Black-and-white interiors only, to keep printing cost to a minimum.
KDP’s free ISBN or your own, with your imprint, set up the way KDP checks it.
A Kindle eBook validated against EPUBCheck and KDP’s rules.
Covers with the best font for the book, and every word kept at least 10 mm in from the edges.
The listing pack, then a single pre-flight before upload.
An optional hardcover, its case wrap built to KDP’s own hardcover measurements.
A review page at the back that asks readers the way Amazon allows.
A weekly check, ads starter pack, Kindle promotions plan, Author Central kit, keyword refresh and review analysis.
A second-edition workflow, by KDP’s own rule on updates and new editions.

Flexible by design

A system you can adapt and enhance at any stage, just by telling Claude.

Every rule, threshold, form and step lives in plain files in your own repository. Tell Claude what you want changed, at any point in the process, and it edits your copy, records the change, and every later book follows it. Your system keeps improving to fit your books, your readers and the way you like to work.

You also get the system’s own updates free.

Set the interior in Literata, or propose a font for this book.
Use my own ISBN, with my imprint.
My readers are in the UK: use British spelling.
Check five competitors, not fifteen.
Add a checklist at the end of every chapter.

What Claude creates for each book

Once you approve the brief, the production project turns it into eleven deliverables you can inspect. Claude creates the drafts, the upload files, the listing and the after-launch material. You check the facts, ask for changes and approve each gate.

Deliverable 01

Blueprint and budget

Reader, promise and scope
Chapter order, with each chapter’s job
A page ceiling set at the start, proposed from the competing books: no limit but Amazon's
Page, figure and word budget per chapter, fitted to that ceiling, from calibrated settings
Research and figure needs

Your gate: approve the blueprint before any chapter is drafted.

Deliverable 02

Chapters, figures and worksheets

Chapters in your voice, one at a time, checked against the style rules
Line drawings, gated for legibility at print size
Worksheets, tick sheets, checklists and planners built to the page
Glossary, sources, index and about the author
A short review request at the back, worded within Amazon’s rules: any honest review, nothing offered in return

Your gate: check facts, usefulness and voice. Edit in Google Docs if you like.

Deliverable 03

Paperback interiors

Normal print 6 x 9, large print 7 x 10, or both
Black and white only: text, drawings, worksheets and tables in black and grey, printed at KDP’s lowest cost
On white, cream or KDP’s cheaper groundwood paper, chosen for each book, with the spine and page limit to match
Mirrored margins, contents page filled, running page numbers
Set in the supplied font, your own, or one Claude proposes, calibrated so page counts stay true
Upload PDF with every font embedded
A page count and spine width for each edition
An optional hardcover of any edition, from the same upload PDF, on any trim KDP allows for hardcovers

Your gate: look through the proof, then KDP’s previewer.

Deliverable 04

Kindle eBook

Reflowable EPUB that follows the reader’s settings
Clickable contents and navigation
Alt text on every figure
Checked by EPUBCheck and KDP’s eBook rules before delivery

Your gate: review it in KDP’s previewer.

Deliverable 05

Covers

A full paperback wrap for each edition, back, spine and front
The spine built on the previewer’s page count and your paper
Every word measured 10 mm from the edges
Kindle front, and a thumbnail check at search-result size
An optional hardcover case wrap, sized from KDP’s cover calculator, with KDP’s 16 mm hardcover margins

Your gate: approve the font, the colours and the thumbnail.

Deliverable 06

The pre-flight

One GO or NO-GO per product
Page size, fonts, page range and leftover placeholders
Cover size for the page count, margins and fonts
Title, subtitle and series identical everywhere
The hardcover and the review page checked too

Your gate: upload nothing on a NO-GO.

Deliverable 07

KDP listing pack

The description in plain text and KDP-supported HTML, checked against the style rules
Seven keyword slots, none repeating a word already in the title, subtitle or series
Three categories and three alternates, read on Amazon today, with the reasoning. Categories may differ in KDP’s picker, so you confirm each when you publish and choose the closest match
A field-by-field form sheet for every product: title, subtitle, series, edition, author, rights, territories, pricing, royalties, the ISBN (KDP’s free one or your own, with its imprint) and the AI-content disclosure
A publishing checklist, so you are not deciding what comes next with a form open
Series set up the way KDP expects: ordered or unordered, with large print as related content

Your gate: answer the questions only you can answer (name, price, ISBN, territories, enrolment), then check every field against KDP’s current form.

Deliverable 08

Amazon A+ Content pack

A module-by-module layout for the book’s detail page
Ready-to-paste headlines, body copy and captions
Module images at the exact sizes Amazon asks for, with alt text
A comparison chart of your own books, once you have more than one
Built after the book is live, because A+ attaches to its Amazon listing

Your gate: verify every claim and image before submitting it in KDP’s A+ Content Manager.

Deliverable 09

After-launch pack

A weekly check of each live page against what you set: series, description, price and page count, plus rank and ratings. Runs as a scheduled task in Chrome
An Amazon Ads starter pack: break-even per edition, keyword and product targets, three campaigns and a clear rule for judging them
A Kindle promotions plan: Countdown Deals and free days on real dates, inside KDP Select’s rules, with the dates the price must not change
A keyword and category refresh at 60 to 90 days, changing no more than two things at a time
Reviews tallied into themes, a second-edition fix list and readers’ own words, paraphrased
A shelf of all your books and what is due on each

Your gate: you make every change in KDP and Amazon Ads yourself, and you set the ad budget.

Deliverable 10

Author Central kit

Your author biography, long and short
From the Author, About the Author and From the Back Cover, ready to paste
Checked like the description: no prices, links or claims
How to claim the book and keep the author name matching

Your gate: you paste it into Author Central yourself.

Deliverable 11

Second-edition workflow

KDP’s own rule applied to every format: an update of the same edition, or a new edition
The page counts compared with the published ones, and every core change named
For a new edition: the edition number, “Second edition” on the copyright page, the old ISBNs kept on record
A checklist that starts with the fixes your readers raised in their reviews

Your gate: you decide what changes, and publish the update or new edition in KDP.

Deliverable 12

The paper spreadsheet

A downloadable spreadsheet, KDP-Paper-Comparison.xlsx: white, cream and KDP’s newer, cheaper groundwood paper compared side by side
A calculator: pick the Amazon store, the trim, the page count and the price, and it works out the printing cost, your royalty and the spine width on each paper
KDP’s page limit for each paper and trim, and what groundwood saves per copy and per hundred copies
The same figures the system uses when it suggests a paper for each book, for nonfiction and fiction

Your gate: you choose the paper, and pick it on KDP’s paperback form.

Deliverable 13

Bonus: the Nonfiction Author Toolkit

The KDP Quick Reference: trims, margins, bleed, spine widths, page limits, cover sizes, printing costs and royalty rules, on six large-type pages
The Price and Royalty Planner: the paperback in eight Amazon stores, the hardcover and the Kindle eBook, with the 60% line, the 70% band and the 20% rule worked out for you
The Reader and Promise Worksheet: who the book is for and what it promises, settled before a word is written
Five more: a chapter planner, a fact-check log, a permissions log, a month-by-month book business tracker and a plain-English publishing glossary
A step-by-step Installation and Setup Guide, with a tick box for every step from your download to a working system
The finished example book as PDFs: both editions’ pages and covers, exactly as they would be uploaded to KDP
Large type throughout; PDFs you can type into or print; every KDP fact dated, with its source

Your gate: before a figure decides a price, check it against KDP’s page, which the toolkit names.

Where Claude stops: Claude never works inside your KDP account or your Amazon Ads account. You upload the files, fill in the forms, set prices and budgets, and submit A+ Content for Amazon’s review. Publication and display remain subject to Amazon’s current guidelines and approval.

The numbers, approximately

Nonfiction is a large, lasting market, and most adults read books.

What US readers spend on nonfiction, where the growth is, and how people read.

Market$6.0 billion

US publishers’ revenue from adult nonfiction in 2025.

Source [1]

Demand500+

book subjects growing in US print sales in early 2025, against about 400 a year before. Self-help and crafts & hobbies were among the gainers.

Source [2]

Readers75%

of US adults read all or part of at least one book in the past 12 months.

Source [3]

Format64% / 31%

of US adults read a print book / an eBook in the past year. The system makes both: the paperback and the Kindle edition.

Source [3]

All figures are approximate: US figures from the sources below, read on 29 September 2026. They describe the market, not what any one book will earn.

Not another book generator

The market is flooding with books made in minutes. Yours will be built to stand out.

Many AI book tools turn a keyword into a manuscript and leave the rest to you. Readers notice, and so do reviews. This system puts the work where quality comes from: research before writing, checks at every stage, and files ready for KDP.

Where it counts	Typical AI book generators	This system
Research	Starts from a keyword or a guess. Market figures, if any, come from memory.	Amazon read live in the Chrome sidebar, thirty to fifty ideas screened through knockout gates, competitors' reviews counted, and the economics worked out before a word is written.
Evergreen	No check on whether the demand will outlast this month's trend.	Looks for evergreen choices: every idea rated evergreen, seasonal or trend-led from five years of search data, and for how long its content stays accurate, then scored, so you can choose a book with lasting demand rather than a passing trend.
The book	One-shot text in the same generic voice as every other AI book.	Your own voice profile, a locked glossary, chapters checked against countable style rules, and a compliance gate for other authors' material and unsupported claims.
Length	Metered by the plan: a few chapters a month, credits for every page, or a fixed size per book. What comes out is padded to a word count, or cut short.	No page limit but Amazon's, and nothing metered. A page ceiling is set at the start, proposed from the competing books and agreed with you, and every chapter is written to fit it.
Your control	Press a button and hope.	An approval gate at every stage: you decide what is true, useful and ready.
Production	A text file you still have to format, a cover you still have to design, a listing you still have to write.	Upload-ready paperback interiors, a validated Kindle eBook, covers sized to the exact page count, the complete listing, and one pre-flight before you upload.
After launch	Nothing.	A weekly check of your live pages, an ads starter pack, a promotions plan, and reviews turned into a better second edition.

No page limit

Write the book your readers expect, at the length it needs

Many quick book tools ration length: a few chapters a month, credits for every page, or a fixed size per book. A longer book costs more, or stops short. This system does not ration length at all.

No page limit but Amazon's. Up to 776 pages for a paperback on cream paper or 828 on white, 75 to 550 for a hardcover, and no limit at all for a Kindle eBook.
No credits per page, no chapter allowance, no word cap. A 300-page handbook goes through the same steps as a 60-page guide.
A page ceiling set at the start, proposed from the page counts of the books you will compete with and agreed with you, so your book is as long as readers of your topic expect: not padded, not cut short.
Every chapter written to fit it, with a page check that warns you before the book runs over, and a check again before you upload.

How much Claude writes for you in a day depends on your own Claude plan; the system itself never limits the length of your book.

Books made this way are researched, checked and built to deserve good reviews, and each one you publish adds to your catalog.

Made this way

Real books, on Amazon today.

“The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” So here is the pudding.

J.E. Minnie is the creator of this Claude-powered Book Publishing System. He designed it, built it, and then put it to work on his own books. Here are two examples of the books he created and published with it: the market checked first, a brief and outline approved, every chapter drafted and checked, and the book taken all the way to Amazon. Open them on Amazon and look inside.

✓ Every Amazon check passed first time. With the system doing the preparation, publishing both books went flawlessly:

the print interiors, the covers and the Kindle eBooks passed KDP’s file checks on the first upload;
the listings, descriptions and details passed Amazon’s review first time;
both books went live on Amazon with nothing sent back to fix.

What Will Grow Here

Container Gardening: How to Grow Food and Flowers in Pots on a Balcony, Patio or Windowsill

Large-print paperback, 7 x 10 in, 416 pages. Also on Kindle.

See it on Amazon

Dwarf Fruit Trees in Containers

A Complete Beginner's Guide to Planting, Pruning, Pollinating, and Harvesting in Small Spaces

Paperback, 6 x 9 in, 183 pages. Also in large print and on Kindle.

See it on Amazon

Shown as examples of finished books, not of earnings.

Your time back

Hand the slow, fiddly work to the system. Keep your time for the decisions only you can make.

Doing everything yourself means learning KDP's rules, formatting, cover maths and marketing from scratch, then doing it all again for every book. The system does that work for you, the same careful way every time.

Staring at a blank page with writer's block, unsure what the next chapter should say.

Claude helps you past writer's block: every chapter starts from your approved outline and its job, Claude drafts it in your own voice, and you improve a draft instead of facing an empty page.

Reading competitor listings and reviews one by one, copying figures into a spreadsheet.

Claude reads them in the Chrome sidebar and fills the research workbook, every figure dated.

Working out keywords, categories, royalties and break-even.

Seven keyword slots, category depth and your break-even, calculated from KDP's current rates.

Keeping a long manuscript consistent across weeks of writing.

The brief, glossary, voice and status file travel with every chapter, so nothing is decided twice.

Formatting an interior in Word: margins, contents, page numbers, fonts.

A typeset upload PDF with the contents filled in and every font embedded.

Measuring the spine and sizing the cover canvas.

The cover wrap built to the exact page count and paper.

Checking KDP's specifications and hoping nothing is rejected.

One pre-flight: a single GO or NO-GO before you upload.

Checking your live pages and planning promotions by hand.

A weekly check, an ads starter pack and a promotions plan on real dates.

Set it up once and every book after that runs through the same tested steps. The more books you publish, the more time it gives back.

What you receive

A working system, not a loose bag of prompts.

Follow the manual and the tick-box setup guide to set it up once. Every later book uses the same system.

The manual

PDF and editable Word editions: installing, setting up GitHub, Drive and Chrome, both projects stage by stage, typesetting, covers, uploading, after launch and troubleshooting.

The research project

Instructions to paste into a Claude project, and a research workbook with the formulas built in: the funnel, the gates, the competitor log, the economics and the scorecard.

The production project

Instructions for the second project, and the folder for your GitHub repository: the engine of scripts, templates, calibrated page settings, fonts and house style.

Twenty skills

One plugin: eight research skills, ten production skills and two for after launch, each doing one stage well instead of one oversized instruction.

A finished example book

Sharp Again, taken all the way through: seven checked chapters, five figures, two paperback interiors, two covers, a Kindle file, a listing pack, the review page, a promotions plan and an Author Central kit.

A tick-box setup guide

Every step from your download to a working system, in large type, with a box to tick as you go and a record of what you set up.

A quick fit check

Useful if you want a process you can inspect and repeat.

Good fit

Authors of practical, solution-focused nonfiction
Coaches, experts and solo creators with knowledge to share
Writers with no specialism yet: the research can open every subject
Anyone planning a second book, or a series
People willing to read their competitors’ reviews and verify the research

Not a fit

You want guaranteed sales or royalties
You expect one prompt to write the whole book
You do not want to review and approve the work

The complete package

Set the system up once. Use it book after book.

The plugin, the folder for your repository, both project instructions, the manual as a PDF and an editable Word edition, and a step-by-step setup guide.

Twenty skills in one plugin
Research and production project instructions
Research workbook with the formulas built in
The engine: typesetting, eBook, covers, checks and pre-flight
A finished example book
After-launch tools: weekly check, ads pack, promotions plan, Author Central kit, refresh, reviews, second editions
A hardcover option
The paper spreadsheet: white, cream and groundwood compared, with a cost and royalty calculator

Will Claude write and publish the book for me?

Claude drafts the chapters in your voice and builds the figures, worksheets, interiors, eBook, covers and listing. It does not replace your judgment and it never publishes anything: you verify the research and claims, approve the manuscript and files, and upload to KDP yourself.

Will it help with writer's block?

Yes, Claude helps prevent it. You never start from an empty page: each chapter begins from your approved brief and outline, which say what the chapter is for and what it must cover, and your voice profile keeps the draft sounding like you. Ask Claude to draft the chapter, suggest an opening, or talk the ideas through with you, then improve the draft in your own words. The judgment and the final words stay yours.

Will Claude do the Amazon research?

Yes, in the Claude sidebar in Chrome, where it searches Amazon, opens the competing books, reads their reviews and records every figure with the page address and date. You read along, judge what it found and make the decision. If your sidebar cannot run the skills, Claude gives you a short request to type on each page, or you paste the pages in.

What do I need?

A paid Claude plan (Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise), Google Chrome with the free Claude in Chrome extension, a free GitHub account for your private repository, and Google Drive with its desktop app, both free with a Google account (up to 15 GB of storage at no charge). Running the skills inside the Chrome sidebar is available on Max, Team and eligible Pro plans. You do not need Word, a design program or any typesetting software: the files are made in Claude’s own workspace.

Do I have to do the research first?

No. If you already know your book, start the production project from a blank brief with three cells filled in: title, subtitle and description.

Will my book still sell in a few years?

The research looks for evergreen choices on purpose. Every idea is rated evergreen (steady demand across five years of search data, a problem people will still have in ten years), seasonal evergreen (the same demand every year, with the launch timed six to eight weeks before it) or trend-led, and for how long its content stays accurate. The scorecard rewards the evergreen ideas, the chapters are written so they do not date, and a book whose facts do date is flagged for an accuracy review on schedule. Nobody can promise sales; an evergreen book simply has years, not months, to find its readers.

What happens after I publish?

The after-launch skill checks your live pages every week against what you set, and flags anything wrong with the one thing to fix. It also builds an Amazon Ads starter pack, plans Kindle promotions on real dates, writes your Author Central kit, refreshes keywords and categories at 60 to 90 days, turns reviews into a fix list, applies KDP’s rule on whether your changes are an update or a new edition and prepares the second edition, and keeps a shelf of all your books.

Can I publish a hardcover?

Yes, as an option for any book from 75 to 550 pages, on any trim size KDP allows for hardcovers. The hardcover uses the same interior as the paperback. KDP publishes no formula for a hardcover cover, so you read its size off KDP’s free public cover calculator, and Claude builds the case wrap to it, keeping every word 16 mm from the edges as KDP asks. A hardcover sells as a premium edition, a keepsake choice for readers who love printed books.

Does the book ask readers for reviews?

Yes, once, on a short page at the back, in the only way Amazon allows: it asks for an honest review, good or bad, names no star rating and offers nothing in return. The pre-flight checks the wording before you upload.

Is there a limit on how long my book can be?

No, only Amazon's own: up to 776 pages for a paperback on cream paper at the usual trims, or 828 on white, 75 to 550 for a hardcover, and no page limit for a Kindle eBook. What every book does get is its own page ceiling, set at the start. Claude proposes it from the page counts of the competing books found in the research, you confirm it or choose your own number, and the outline and every chapter are then written to fit it. The book is planned to a length instead of discovered at typesetting, it is never padded to reach the ceiling, and you can raise it whenever the material needs the room.

Can I publish a series?

Yes. Each book can be standalone or part of a series, ordered or unordered. The system records it, prepares it in your listing pack and checks it on the live pages.

Can I change how the system works?

Yes, at any stage. Tell Claude what you want, such as a different font, your own ISBN, British spelling, fewer competitors to check or a new section in every chapter, and it changes your copy of the system and keeps the change for every later book. Updates to the system itself are free.

Can I use my own font or my own ISBN?

Yes. The interior can use the supplied font, any Google Fonts family, your own font files with a licence that allows embedding, or a font Claude proposes for the book. Claude checks and calibrates it so page counts stay right. For the ISBN, use KDP’s free one or buy your own from your national ISBN agency; the system records your imprint and checks it before upload.

Why black-and-white interiors?

Black and white keeps printing cost to a minimum, so more of every sale is yours. Text, line drawings, worksheets and tables are designed in black and grey from the start, so nothing is lost when printed. The cover is printed in full colour at no extra cost, and the Kindle edition shows the same figures.

Which paper will my book be printed on?

You choose, book by book: white, cream, or KDP’s newer groundwood paper, which is thinner, lighter and about 5% cheaper to print, with the warm feel of a mass-market paperback. For each nonfiction book (and each novel, with the Fiction add-on), Claude suggests the paper that suits it, with the printing cost and royalty of each, and the cover, the page limit and the pre-flight all follow your choice. Your download includes KDP-Paper-Comparison.xlsx, a spreadsheet that compares the three papers and works out the cost, royalty and spine width on each for any Amazon store, trim, page count and price.

How are the categories chosen?

Claude reads each category on Amazon’s store in the Chrome sidebar, so it can confirm the category exists today. KDP’s category picker is inside your own KDP account, where Claude never works, and Amazon changes its categories from time to time. So you get three categories and three alternates, and you confirm each in the picker when you publish, choosing the closest match where one differs.

What can a book earn?

Every book is different, so we make no income claims. What the system does is give each book its best start: a market checked before you write, a book built to be trusted, clean files and steady care after launch. A book can start earning soon after publication; how much depends on the topic, the book, its price, promotion and your persistence.

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Our promise to you

Backed by a 30-day guarantee, and by people who answer.

Try the Book Publishing System for 30 days.

Every purchase carries a 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked: if it is not right for you, email us within 30 days and you get every cent back (refund policy).

We offer it gladly, and we are convinced you will not need it. Within days you will see it at work: the research on your first idea, the checks, the files taking shape. That is when buyers discover the value of what they bought.

Claude 101 course completion badge from Claude Academy, presented to James Minnie, issued September 21, 2026

Built and supported by a certified Claude user

James Minnie (J.E. Minnie), who built this system and stands behind the helpdesk, holds the Claude 101 course completion badge from Claude Academy, issued September 2026. Verify the certificate.

A personal certificate of the seller. It is not an endorsement of this product by Anthropic.

A helpdesk

Raise a problem, ask for help, or request a change made for you.

Problems and assistance: included
Small customizations: included free
Larger customizations: quoted before any work starts
A change that adds value for everyone becomes part of a system upgrade

A forum

Buyers helping buyers: share what works, ask questions, see what others are publishing, and hear first when an upgrade is on the way.

A newsletter

System upgrades and new features, explained as they arrive, so your copy of the system keeps getting better. Optional, and every email has an unsubscribe link.

Your price today

The complete Book Publishing System

$19 one payment

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Twenty Claude skills in one plugin, for research, writing, production and after launch
The two linked Claude projects and the research workbook
The engine: typesetting, the Kindle eBook, covers, checks and the pre-flight
The paper spreadsheet: white, cream and groundwood compared, with a cost and royalty calculator
Bonus: the Nonfiction Author Toolkit, with a step-by-step Installation and Setup Guide, the KDP Quick Reference, the Price and Royalty Planner, the Reader and Promise Worksheet, five more worksheets, logs and references, and the example book as PDFs
A finished example book and the plain-English manual
Free updates, the helpdesk, the forum and the newsletter

One small payment for a system you use book after book. Backed by the 30-day money-back guarantee.

Runs on your own paid Claude plan, bought separately from Anthropic.

Create a book that can earn, build trust and grow your funnel.

Start with a viable topic. Build the book carefully. Keep improving it after launch.

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