How to Optimize a Book Listing for Google AI Overviews
Short answer: add an FAQ section to the book's page (outside Amazon, on your own site), with FAQPage structured data, and answer there the questions a real reader would ask before buying.
Why the Amazon listing isn't enough
Amazon doesn't allow editing HTML or adding custom structured data to its listing. That's why this AEO work happens on your own author or book page, not inside Amazon.
The elements to include
A visible FAQ section, not hidden in an accordion that's hard for a crawler to read.
FAQPage structured data (Schema.org) that matches the visible text exactly.
Direct 1-3 line answers before any further elaboration.
Schema.org's FAQPage markup helps search engines explicitly identify which text is a question and which is its corresponding answer.Schema.org documentation, 2026