KDP, KDP Select, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital or ACX? This tool is a decision tree over the platforms' published terms, not a quiz with weights. Set your formats, exclusivity tolerance, prices and distribution goals; it runs the per-unit maths at your numbers and shows every rule that fired, each linked to the term page it came from.
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This is a rules trace over published platform terms, not advice or a prediction. Change an answer and the same rules re-run; identical answers always produce identical output.
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Every rule in the tree reads from a published term page, fetched and verified on the dates logged in our sources file. The load-bearing ones:
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