Artwork sits under the barcode

KDP prints a barcode in a 2" x 1.2" area at the bottom right of the back cover. Anything there will be covered.

What to do

1. Keep text and logos out of that area. A background image may run through it, but nothing that must stay readable.
2. The cover builder draws the barcode zone over your artwork so you can see what it will hide.

Get the barcode zone, free — no account needed, no upload, the answer in the page.Or see the barcode zone in the workspace to save it against a book.

Related

• Fonts are not embedded
• Text runs into the margins or the binding
• Page count is out of range
• Pages are not all the same size