# Planning a series release around KDP's weekly limits

How the weekly title limit affects a series, a release plan you can follow, and sequels and translations.

KDP lets you create 2 new titles per format each week, and the week resets Sunday 00:00 UTC. A series of six books with ebooks cannot all go up in one week. See [weekly title limits](https://kdpbookai.com/guides/kdp-weekly-title-limits).

## Make a release plan

1. List the books in reading order.
2. Count the formats per book: a paperback, plus a Kindle ebook for text and picture books.
3. Put at most 2 of each format into each week.

kdpbookai does this for you on the series page: it spreads the unpublished books over weeks so no format goes over the limit, and you can download the plan as a calendar file (.ics). It cannot see titles you created outside the app, so leave room for those.

## Series details on KDP

KDP's Details tab has fields for the series name and the book's number in it. The export page lists both, so they match across the series.

## Sequels and translations

- **Sequel:** starts a new book with the same type, format, style, tone and author, and the story so far in its notes. In picture books and comics the characters carry over with their looks. Starting it is free; you pay only for what is written and drawn.
- **Translation:** picture books, comics and coloring books can be copied into another KDP language. The pictures are reused, not drawn again; only the text is translated, and the AI answers for the book say translation: yes.

> Creation and submission limits are separate. Updates to submitted titles do not count; a saved draft counts when it is first submitted.

## Sources

- Source: [KDP · Create a Book](https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G202172740), checked 2026-11-07.
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Page: https://kdpbookai.com/guides/plan-a-kdp-series-release · Checked 2026-11-09

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