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Book Metadata

Book metadata is the structured information that describes your book to retailers — title, subtitle, author, description, keywords, categories, ISBN, price, series info, and more. It's how readers find your book via Amazon search, Google, and Apple Books discovery. Good metadata drives discoverability; bad metadata is why 95% of self-published books never get seen.

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