Kindle Vella Categorization Issues
How to identify them and get them fixed
For any writer who has tried the Kindle Vella platform on Amazon, you know there are pros and cons with the platform. One of the latest issues is stories being mis-categorized. When several of us reported the issue to Amazon, they attempted to fix the problem, only for it to keep cropping up. Here is what you can do about it.
Identifying the Wrong Categories
Even if you think your Kindle Vella has not been mis-categorized, I recommend you take these steps to make sure. When I look at my story on Kindle Vella, the categories seem correct, but that isn’t the only place our stories are categorized.
As they continue to integrate Kindle Vella into Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), they are also adding KDP categories on the back end of our Vella stories. This is a good thing, as it widens the potential audience our stories can reach by adding them into the same search results as KDP books. However, it doesn’t do us any good if our stories are appearing in the wrong…
