Story — the trade look
A dark overlay hero, three interior spreads, an author block and the description. For a novel that should look trade-published.
4 of KDP's 5 allowed modules · 6 images from your book · free
Every image below is a render of the layout itself, through the same pipeline that produces the submission files. Each image slot carries a label — "Front cover", "Page 3" — naming what your own book supplies there once you link it. Nothing on this page is a screenshot of a live listing.
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1. Standard Image & Dark Text Overlay
The overlay modules put KDP's own text on top of your image, so the image has to leave room for it. A photograph with no quiet area under the text is the most common reason an overlay module comes back unreadable on a phone.
| Slot | Filled from | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Header image (image) | The book's front cover | 970×300 (1940×600 at 2×) px · KDP says |
| Body text (text) | the first sentences of the listing description — “One line that makes a reader want the first chapter.” until you link a book | 300 characters · provisional (Seller Central figure) |
| Headline (text) | the book's title — “Your Book Title” until you link a book | 70 characters · provisional (Seller Central figure) |
2. Standard Three Images & Text
Three square images, each at least 300×300. Used for the three things a reader wants confirmed before buying, not for three variations of the cover.
| Slot | Filled from | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Image 1 (image) | Interior page 1 | 300×300 (600×600 at 2×) px · KDP says |
| Image 2 (image) | Interior page 2 | 300×300 (600×600 at 2×) px · KDP says |
| Image 3 (image) | Interior page 3 | 300×300 (600×600 at 2×) px · KDP says |
| slot-1 headline (text) | the pack's own wording — “Open It Anywhere” until you link a book | 160 characters · provisional (Seller Central figure) |
| slot-2 headline (text) | the pack's own wording — “Set in Its Own World” until you link a book | 160 characters · provisional (Seller Central figure) |
| slot-3 headline (text) | the pack's own wording — “Made to Be Read Twice” until you link a book | 160 characters · provisional (Seller Central figure) |
3. Standard Single Image & Sidebar
A main image, a sidebar image and a short bulleted list. The bullets are the only place in A+ where a list reads naturally, which is why the specs live here rather than in the body copy.
| Slot | Filled from | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Main image (image) | The book's front cover | 300×400 (600×800 at 2×) px · provisional (Seller Central figure) |
| Sidebar image (image) | Interior page 4 | 350×175 (700×350 at 2×) px · provisional (Seller Central figure) |
| Body text (text) | the author name — “The author's name” until you link a book | 500 characters · provisional (Seller Central figure) |
| Headline (text) | the pack's own wording — “About the Author” until you link a book | 160 characters · provisional (Seller Central figure) |
| Sidebar headline (text) | the pack's own wording — “From the Book” until you link a book | 200 characters · provisional (Seller Central figure) |
| Sidebar text (text) | a section of the listing description — “A short passage.” until you link a book | 500 characters · provisional (Seller Central figure) |
4. Standard Product Description Text
Plain text, no image. The one module that can carry a long passage, and the one most often used to repeat the listing description word for word, which wastes it.
| Slot | Filled from | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Body text (text) | a section of the listing description — “About this book.” until you link a book | 6,000 characters · KDP says |
Using this layout
In the Book Studio A+ Content Designer this pack is one click: it adds every module, fills each plate from the book you linked, writes the starting copy from the listing, and resolves the palette above into your own brand colours. To build it by hand in A+ Content Manager instead, the tables above give you every module name, slot size and character limit — and the free template maker will export each image at the exact pixels.
The full limits table for all seventeen modules is in the character-limits guide.
Pack version 1, catalog hash 9f076623ad73, rendered 2026-09-06. A conforming file is not an approval — Amazon reviews A+ content by hand.
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