<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">I have been thinking about this a lot lately because I went through the Amazon self-publishing UK process on my own about a year ago and while I eventually got there the amount of time I spent figuring things out that an experienced team could have sorted in a fraction of the time was genuinely frustrating looking back. Everything from the formatting requirements and cover dimensions to the metadata, pricing strategy and category selection took way longer than it should have and even then I was never fully confident I had done it right.