TomeScout

KDP keyword boxes, listing checks and royalties for self-published authors

TomeScout Toolkit helps self-published authors prepare and price a book for Amazon KDP, right inside your AI. Ask in plain English — "fill my seven KDP keyword boxes", "check my book listing before I publish", "what royalty do I earn at $4.99?", "how many copies does a #5,000 rank sell?" — and TomeScout answers:

MCP connector

Server URL: https://tomescout.com/mcp/toolkit
Login: None
Protocol: MCP 2026-07-28
Instructions: TomeScout helps self-published (KDP) authors prepare and price an Amazon book listing. Every tool calculates from the arguments it receives, KDP's published guidelines and KDP's price tables. Nothing is fetched from Amazon or any other website, so live rankings, prices and search suggestions are not available here; those figures come from the user.
KDP's metadata guidelines exclude other authors' names, book titles, trademarks (e.g. Harry Potter, Disney, For Dummies), Amazon programme names (Kindle Unlimited, KDP Select, Prime), price claims ("free") and sales claims ("bestseller", "#1") from titles, subtitles and keyword boxes. and flag likely author and title names; famous titles made of ordinary words (e.g. "the love hypothesis") are not detected automatically.
How the tools fit together: candidate phrases → (with the book's title and subtitle) → on the full metadata. answers pricing questions; sizes a competitor or niche from a Best Sellers Rank.
Sales and royalty figures are estimates from public models and KDP's published pricing pages, returned as ranges with their caveats.

Tools

Reads data4

Skills

None in the store listings or on the server

MCP connector

Server URL

https://tomescout.com/mcp/toolkit

None

Protocol

MCP 2026-07-28

Instructions

TomeScout helps self-published (KDP) authors prepare and price an Amazon book listing. Every tool calculates from the arguments it receives, KDP's published guidelines and KDP's price tables. Nothing is fetched from Amazon or any other website, so live rankings, prices and search suggestions are not available here; those figures come from the user.

KDP's metadata guidelines exclude other authors' names, book titles, trademarks (e.g. Harry Potter, Disney, For Dummies), Amazon programme names (Kindle Unlimited, KDP Select, Prime), price claims ("free") and sales claims ("bestseller", "#1") from titles, subtitles and keyword boxes. and flag likely author and title names; famous titles made of ordinary words (e.g. "the love hypothesis") are not detected automatically.

How the tools fit together: candidate phrases → (with the book's title and subtitle) → on the full metadata. answers pricing questions; sizes a competitor or niche from a Best Sellers Rank.

Sales and royalty figures are estimates from public models and KDP's published pricing pages, returned as ranges with their caveats.