Publishers and Authors: Join our Search Inside The Book Program

If you are a publisher or author, sign up now for our Search Inside the Book program to promote and merchandise your books on Amazon for free. For more information about how to get started, please visit our Participation and Submission Guidelines.

Enrolling your titles helps sell more of your books in three primary ways:

1. Improved Search Results
2. Automated Personalization & Merchandising
3. Point-of-Sale Sampling

Improved Search Results

When customers search for books on Amazon.com, we use the actual words from inside participating books--not just the author, title, and keywords supplied by the publisher--to return the best possible selection of books. For matches inside the book, we also display a short excerpt and links to the page where the query matched.

For example, if Jane Book-Buyer hears about a book discussing "economically productive households" but can't remember the title or author, Jane can search on Amazon and discover that the phrase was made popular by Thomas Stanley in his Millionaire Mind book series and link directly to pages in the book where the phrase appears.

With this helpful search feature, customers can discover books that may never have surfaced in previous search results.

Automated Personalization & Merchandising

When you submit titles to Search Inside the Book, they are automatically eligible for personalization and merchandising features throughout Amazon. For example, if a Chris Customer views The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman and later returns to Amazon, he may see recommendations for other books that discuss the concept of "triple convergence."

Point-of-Sale Sampling

From any book detail page, customers have the opportunity to sample the book using our Look Inside reader. This includes being able to preview sample pages, view a random page or search for a specific reference or character.

All of these features combine to help customers to discover and sell more of your books.

For more information about how to get started, see our Participation and Submission Guidelines.