KDP book description formatter and character counter
Type or paste your book description, add bold, italics, headings and lists, and copy clean HTML that uses only the tags KDP supports. The count includes the tags, the way KDP counts them. I write nothing for you here, and what you type stays in your browser.
Your description
Paste from Word or Google Docs if you like. Tags KDP does not support are removed when you paste, and the box below tells you which.
Clean HTML for KDP
Preview
Rules from KDP's own help page Write a Book Description, checked on 14-Nov-26: the supported tags are br, p, b, em, i, u, h4 to h6, ol, ul and li; h1, h2 and h3 are not supported; the limit is 4000 characters, and the editor counts every character used, including any HTML tags. The preview is a plain reading style, not how Amazon shows the page.
To use the HTML, open the Description field in KDP's Edit Details step and use its Source button to paste it in. KDP's editor also has its own formatting buttons, so you only need this if you want to draft the formatting here first or check the count.
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