Terms of Use

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using the KDP Smart Formatter website at kdpformatters.com (“the Website”), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use the Website.

We reserve the right to update these Terms at any time. Continued use of the Website after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision.

2. Description of Services

KDP Smart Formatter provides free online tools, calculators, and informational guides for authors using Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). Our services include royalty calculators, spine width calculators, bleed calculators, gutter calculators, formatting guides, and publishing strategy articles.

All tools and content are provided free of charge with no account registration required. We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue any tool or service at any time without notice.

3. Accuracy of Tool Outputs & Disclaimer

Our calculators use KDP’s published pricing formulas, which can change without notice. While we make every effort to keep our tools accurate and up to date, we make no warranty that tool outputs exactly match what KDP will calculate for your specific book.

We are not responsible for financial decisions you make based on our tool outputs. Always confirm your royalty, minimum price, and printing cost directly in the KDP Publishing platform before publishing your book.

4. Intellectual Property

4.1 Our Content

All original content on this Website — including but not limited to guides, articles, tool code, design, graphics, and layout — is owned by KDP Smart Formatter and protected by copyright law. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, or create derivative works from our content without written permission.

4.2 Permitted Use

You may:

• Use our tools freely for your personal book publishing projects
• Share links to our guides and tools on social media, forums, or your own website
• Quote brief excerpts from our guides with clear attribution and a link back to the source
• Print our guides for your own personal reference use

4.3 Prohibited Use

You may not:

• Copy, scrape, or reproduce our tool code, designs, or substantial portions of our written content
• Create a competing website that substantially replicates our tools or guides
• Remove copyright notices or attribution from any content you share
• Use our content in AI training datasets without permission
• Frame our website within another website without permission

5. Affiliate Links

This Website participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and other affiliate programs. We earn commissions when you click affiliate links and make qualifying purchases. All affiliate links are clearly disclosed. Affiliate relationships do not influence our editorial content or tool calculations.

We are not responsible for the content, availability, or policies of third-party websites linked from our site, including Amazon.com. Your use of third-party websites is governed by their own terms and policies.

6. No Affiliation With Amazon

KDP Smart Formatter is an independent website. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or in any way officially connected to Amazon.com, Inc., Amazon KDP, or any Amazon subsidiary. “KDP,” “Kindle Direct Publishing,” and “Amazon” are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc.

Our tools use publicly available KDP pricing data and are intended as supplementary calculators — they are not official Amazon tools. For official KDP information, always refer to kdp.amazon.com.

7. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, KDP Smart Formatter and its operators shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the Website, including but not limited to lost profits, lost data, publishing decisions made based on tool estimates, or reliance on any information provided on this Website.

Our total liability to you for any claims arising from use of this Website shall not exceed the amount you paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim (which, as all our services are free, is $0.00).

8. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Website, tools, and content are provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We do not warrant that the Website will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that tool outputs will be accurate for your specific book and marketplace at the time of your publishing decision.

9. User Conduct

You agree not to use the Website in any way that:

• Violates any applicable law or regulation
• Attempts to gain unauthorized access to our systems
• Introduces malware, viruses, or other harmful code
• Interferes with or disrupts the Website’s operation
• Automated scraping or crawling of our tools or content in a manner that places unreasonable load on our servers

10. Governing Law

These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with applicable law. Any disputes arising from these Terms or your use of the Website shall be resolved through good-faith negotiation before resorting to formal legal proceedings.

11. Contact

For questions about these Terms of Use, contact us at:

• Email: legal@kdpformatters.com
• Website: kdpformatters.com/contact