Book Leopard launches $49 AI marketing tool for Amazon authors
The service generates covers, listings, ads and social posts from a description or manuscript, while Amazon keeps compliance responsibility with users.
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Book Leopard has launched an AI marketing tool for Amazon-focused authors and publishers that turns a book description or manuscript upload into promotional material, including covers, listings, social posts and advertising assets. The company says the service is designed for new releases as well as titles already on sale, and supports books in any genre.
The launch is pitched at self-published authors facing the high cost of professional cover design. In its Nov. 10 announcement, Book Leopard said bestselling-caliber Amazon marketing could previously cost more than $1,000 and take more than six weeks; its core generation service carries a one-time $49 fee and produces material in seconds. New users are offered a free trial, while generated social-media posts start at $1.59 each.
Users can supply either a description or an entire manuscript. The platform says its outputs include front, paperback and audiobook covers; Amazon A+ content images; book descriptions and subtitles; categories and search keywords; and copy and targeting suggestions for Amazon advertising campaigns. It also offers a free cross-promotion feature intended to connect members with potential partners.
Ted Galdi, Book Leopard’s president, said a quality cover was necessary for a book to be noticed on Amazon, but that professional cover-design fees were beyond the means of many self-published writers. He said the service was created to give books a chance to compete regardless of marketing budget.
Book Leopard says it combines these functions in one dashboard and charges as needed rather than through a subscription. It says neither technical nor graphic-design experience is required, and identifies itself as a member of the Alliance of Independent Authors and the Independent Book Publishers Association.
Amazon KDP states that users remain responsible for verifying that AI-generated or AI-assisted content complies with its content guidelines and applicable intellectual-property rights.