How To Self Publish A Picture Book ~ KDP Tutorial, Templates, Copyright Page, ISBN Number & More!
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- Hi everyone, this video is a KDP tutorial on how to self publish a picture book. It's all the technical info like formatting the book, creating templates, what the bleed and safe zones are. Do you need to buy your own ISBN number? What extra pages do you need in your book, like Copyright page, Endpapers, Title page. I hope you find this helpful.
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first time im here, I love it thank you for sharing.
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thanks so much, beautiful book!! going to buy it now!
I'm writing a children's book for my daughter. This video helped a lot. Thanks!
Oh how lovely 😊📚I'm sure your daughter will love it!
Do you need printing books?
Aww that so sweet
By the way, as a teacher myself, I must say you did a very good job with your presentation. Well taught.
I so appreciate this, thank you Emma. I have had no end of problems trying to get the sizing right for kdp publishing. Your illustrations are so vibrant. Quite beautiful. That alone creates interest....and I am an adult😊
Thank you Mercedes 😄glad I'm not the only adult who loves picture books! 📚
Thank you for a great tutorial. As a sidenote: when setting up your document in photoshop, don't forget to choose pixels/inch instead of cm like you mistakenly did if you want 600 dpi. It otherwise will be extremely heavy.
Huh?! What do units of measurements have to do with choosing the resolution…or weight??
Sis. Why when i raise the dpi, the trim size is changed larger too, when i uploaded manuscript and cover. How to submit manuscript or cover to 300 dpi without changed the trim size? Thx sis🙏
Hi Emma, fellow UK based illustrator and TH-camr here. That was brilliant, I've been thinking of getting one of my books on Amazon but wasn't sure how the uploading process plus ISBNs and barcodes etc would all work. Thank you for doing all the work and sharing it with us. The book turned out beautifully and I loved the bloopers at the end. It is so easy to see polished videos and think, man am I the only one who has to record a thing several times XD definitely going to subscribe, and hello from Manchester ❤
Hi Romica ☺👋aw thank you, so glad you enjoyed the video and the bloopers too! I always have plenty of material for bloopers 😆What are your books about? Hello from Wales (as of 2 weeks ago)
@@EmmaCarpenterIllustration So glad the move went well and Wales, how beautiful. I have only been to North Wales but the shots you showed in your newest video look so beautiful. I would love to see a seal one day. There are 3 different ones in dummy stage or early development - one is called “How Maud met Anne” on how Lucy Maud Montgomery got her book Anne of Green Gables published, the other one is called “Bim and the Brass Band on Silent Island” about the power of music and overcoming old conventions, and then one more about a little mouse that has wings but cannot fly due to all the things he cannot let go of called “Archimedes learns to fly” :)
@@romicajones Glad you enjoyed the Wales vlog ☺ Oh wow three books on the go! They all sound really interesting, the one about the mouse with wings sounds very sweet 🥰
I really appreciated this video as an artist myself. Having another artist share was so much more gratifying and helpful than having someone who’s looking to make quick money!
Thank you Zoe 🥰🎨 glad you found it helpful
Extremely thanks for sharing.
Thank you soo much for sharing!! I learned some really important information here. I wish you lots of success. 😊 From the United States.
In the 19 th minutes You are slicing the page and saving as TIFF .Then where we keep the pages all together to save as PDF. pls explain
Good job, Emma! I love how you covered step-by-step how submitting to KDP works and using Photoshop to make a template
You offer one of the best, if not the very best description of the process of going from the artwork to the upload to KDP. Thank you very much!
This is such a good video!! I use Clip Studio Paint so I'm not sure how well I can follow along, but this is very helpful and I understand a little better ! Thank you
How helpful was this? I am so glad I landed on your video. You covered everything so well and even though there is a lot to get through you made it very interesting. Thank you and I wish you every success with your future projects.
Thank you Ezme 🥰 so glad you found it helpful and enjoyable. Good luck to you too!
This was a beautiful video...i hope you can do more where you can share how you do illustrations
Thanks Janeen 😊 glad you enjoyed it. I have soooo many videos on my channel where I share my illustrations and my thought process. I made a special video about the whole process of illustrating this book here th-cam.com/video/ztmsFILqTOE/w-d-xo.html
This is wonderful! Thank you so much for being so generous with your information! I am a teacher and I know my students would love your book!
You are so welcome Maria! 😄 Aw thank you
What a beautiful book you created! Thank you for the tutorial. Curious if it did well (as far as sales). Would love to know. Thank you!
So thankful!!!! My book is ready- I'm just now creating my template to finish up the pages- it's a full 28 painting children's book.
Thanks for watching 🥰📚 Good luck with your book
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Great video! Thank you for sharing! I have a question. I first published through Amazon, but I have revised my first book and bought my own ISBN number, so I am not sure how to word the copyright page. Do I put 1st published Amazon 2024
and 2nd edition with my own publishing? I want to still use KDP but with my own ISBN Hope my question made sense
Hi Emma, Good tutorial. After reading all about what expanded publisher means. My question is, if I were to choose that expanded option, at the lesser royalties rate of 40%, would I receive royalties from publishers behind the expanded publishers, like libraries and unis, etc., if they choose to buy...AND royalties from Amazon KDP sales and the 60% rate from their sales of my book?
WOW! Is not clear as mud?
Thank you! I have a question. Printing through Amazon, wouldn’t make an Amazon as a publisher? If not then what would you put because if someone wants to reference your book in their writing, they need this information. And what name for Amazon exactly do I put. Because Amazon kdp registers their free ISBN with Bowker (it says on kdp website), in Bowker’s field for publisher kdp writes “Independently published” and not “Amazon kdp”. Where is if you get free ISBN from Barns & Noble Press in the box for publisher they put their name “Barnes & Noble Press”.
Also, from what I have learned (and from creating books on KDP) you really do want to buy your own ISBN's for maximum market coverage. Limiting it to just Amazon - albeit free - limits how much your book gets seen.
Do u have to buy one per copy ? I’m confused by that.
@@Hunterbunter69 A different ISBN per format: kindle, hardcover, softcover, audiobook
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I really hope you will reply to me! Could you please tell me which CMYK profile you are using?
The way your cover looks in the graphic editor is almost identical to how it looks in the Amazon print previewer. However, my cover's appearance is very different. I am trying different profiles and constantly getting different results, but I haven't yet achieved a version where the editor's version almost matches the previewer version.
Please help 🙏🏻
these books look amazing, but wouldn't they be really expensive, with color and special size?
Hello. For already vectorized images , would you recommend Photoshop or Illustrator?
This was wonderful. Thank you for taking so much time to explain this. Love your art style as well!
You are so welcome! 😄 Glad you enjoyed it
your book is awesome and I appreciate all the work you put in because I'm trying to publish my high content horse journal , its a lot of work and I'm just learning the computer stuff, I'm an illustrator but have no idea how to scan in high quality pictures of my work. so its a long journey for me.
Thank you for your kind comment 😊When you're scanning your artwork change the resolution to at least 300 dpi (I scan at 600dpi) DPI stands for dots per inch, so the higher the number the better the resolution. There's lots of videos on TH-cam on the topic of digitising your artwork. @harmonyhardinillustration made a video here th-cam.com/video/AvnxdsoNaPU/w-d-xo.html
hello, I'll check around your channel, but.. which CMYK color profile did you have to use ?
I noticed that your book have sharp corners instead of rounded corners. Can amazon print picture books with rounded corners for safety? Specially if you want a hardcover.
Very helpful video! These are what other videos didn't explain enough. ☺
However I have a question regarding the author name. Is it mandatory to use our real name in cover and other pages? I am a bit insecure about publishing a book under my name, since people can search it on the internet etc. Especially because my name is not very western-ish (I'm from Indonesia)
Glad you found it helpful ☺️ You don’t have to use your real name, lots of authors use pen names. Good luck with your book 📚
@@EmmaCarpenterIllustration thank you! I'll make sure to subscribe for your future videos ☺️
Hi,
Can you publish a book that's already uploaded on KDP?
Also, will publishing houses help?
i’m having issues making a paperback where amazon says i need 75 pages (originally it said 24 so i have 24!) , and they won’t upload my cover or manuscript.
Hi Emma! Thanks for your detailed instructions! I purchased your book, and it is lovely.
Thanks Danielle 🥰 have a lovely day!
Awesome video. I followed it to try to create my first picture book. But I must have done something wrong. When I brought up the tiff to convert to pdf in Bridge, the text is blurry. I'm not sure what I need to do to fix that. Any suggestions?
I have problem . All my interior pages prints are over saturated. Especialy blue colors. In photoshop i tried to reproduce in color proof the same print result. Nothing goes close to it. What are the exact parameters in color proof custom setup for kdp ?
Hi what a beautifully illustrated book, did you purchase anything in terms of copyrighting or is the wording inside enough. Thank you
Great video! Very helpful. How can you set up your account so BOTH the author and illustrator receive payments?
I am from Japan. Thank you very much for step by step instructions with necessary details. Brilliant job! One question I have is do you need 600 dpi? Isn't 300 dpi enough even for a printed paperback?
Hi Miya, glad you enjoyed the video ☺ 300dpi is probably enough, I always like to go larger if I can for future use, for example if I wanted to make large art prints.
Incredibly helpful, thank you :)
Did you find a way to have a spine with text on KDP? thanks! wonderful illustrations!
I am trying to get my children’s book to be full page with the illustrations but kdp keeps denying it. Can you help me with why this is happening?
How do you spread 1 image over 2 pages, left and right with bleed in gutter? Will the print demand cut t randomly cut the image?he image
Fantastic tutorial!!!
Do I need a different ISNB if I translate the book in another language?
Front cover and back cover need to be created as one on Photoshop and uploaded as one or separate?
This video has helped me self-publish my own art books. Thank you, Emma.
Your book is great! One question; I'm tryingbto upload a book of 40 pgs (80 illustrations) at 300dpi for an 8.5 x 11" format, but I can't build a PDF that size, and the site won't let me upload multiple files. Any suggestions? How many pages is yours?
Hello, Were you able to figure out this problem? I think I may run into the same situation.
For illustrations, can we draw on a computer paper and copy it into the computer for a children's picture book? Or how does that work? 🤔💕
What I find very odd is that they only give you one size for a landscape. When I wrote my book, I was hoping it was going to be a little bigger but because the only size I could choose in landscape form was a 6 by 8. Or somewhere close to that. I wish they would give us more choices for landscape style books.
Thank you for the video. I’ve been watching a lot and yours had some additional information that is useful.
Hello what kind of scanner did you use? your illustration is sharp
This is beautiful, does it actually sells well? Or do you need to promote it?
Shouldn't you do an 1/8th inch bleed for the gutter?
Thanks so.much Emma, delighted to discover your channel, this video has been answered.the fear I have with thefts on the amount of channels teach you how, even books A.I is eating them ,and e books and on utube channel teach how to copy and paste, get them for free., now I have been researching for my books to be safe from stealing, God bless you for your expertise knowledge so.much more
Glad it was helpful! Good luck with your book! 📚
I enjoyed just looking at your incredible book! Wow! That is sure to capture a child's imagination. Great work! I love the Ocean King.
Thank you so much Andrew! 👑🌊Glad you liked the Ocean King too.
Thank you! excelente video. Thank you Valentina Urdaneta for recommending this video.
You're welcome 😊😊 glad you found it helpful!
Absolutely the most help I've found out of a dozen or more I've watched! Thank you! Your illustrations are terrific!
Thanks so much Joyce! 😊 glad you found it helpful, good luck with your book!
Can you use a your made up publisher name even if it’s not yet registered?
Please, you all over the place rather than come to the point 👉
It will be great if you zoom in just more closer so that we can see where you are going into to set the margins etc. it is to small too see and you don't really mention where you are going in 😊
Where in KDP I can select landscape or portrait ?
Great video! Thanks for sharing…. I’m getting error for my book. It’s only 29 page but it’s asking for 72 pages.
I think you need to select premium color ink as standard color in is for minimum 72 pages
Named some free application for create and design book
Hello, Thanks for the video was very helpful.
I just wish to know, were your pictures hand painted or digitally created?
A mixture of traditional pencil & digital. 😄 I've made another video sharing the journey of creating the illustrations here th-cam.com/video/ztmsFILqTOE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=bltCkCvFokBeJZGc
Hi Emma, what program are you using?
Emma, than you for this video it has been so helpful! You mention an app called Bridge to make the PDF of all the pages, I can't find the app, does it have another name? Do you recommend another app that can do the same? Thank you! I use Mac.
Hi Judith, thanks for watching 😊 you can also use Acrobat. You can get a free trial of that on the Adobe website. Good luck!
If i am not wrong color print = more $ .BW print less $
Friends, can someone explain to me please how can I publish ( or print like 10-20 copies)? I am a photographer, looking to create a notebook with my work, almost no text ( maybe several quotes) mostly images , and I want to be able to write in it with a pen, I don’t want to sell it , I just want to have 10 copies so I can gift it to my friends. Where do I start ? Please help
You could either get them from a print on demand company like Printful, or from a printers in your country. If you do a Google search for “custom printed notebooks” in your country I’m sure they’ll be lots of options. Good luck ☺️
Great video, thanks! I have a question about copyright. Do we need to register the copyright or can we just put the symbol and year? Thanks in advance 😊
It depends where you live, the copyright is different around the world. In the UK anything that you create whether that's music, art, photography, writing etc you automatically own the copyright. In USA I think you have to register for it, but I'm not sure. Good luck with your book and thanks for watching 😊📚
I'm wondering how many pages you made your book that you showed at the end. I can't imagine making a picture book to read to a child that is 70 something pages. That is the minimum I have seen. I almost feel like you can't actually do a short picture book for kindergarden studies. How many pages and how did you do it. ( see on amazon it's 37 pages. How did you do that on KDP?
Most picture books you buy in the shops will be about 32 pages. Yes mine is 37 including the title page & patterned end papers. It's up to you how long you want to make it, but yes 70 pages would be a bit long. Good luck 😊
I don't want a full bleed- so I don't add the extra spacing- but how can we get a hardback published if our book only has 32-36 pages? I really want a hard back option.
Yes if you don't want full bleed then you don't need to add the extra. I think Ingram Sparks offers hard covers but I've never tested them out. Here's a video someone did comparing their KDP & Ingram Sparks books. Good luck! 😊😊 th-cam.com/video/4p0j9ZBl9rc/w-d-xo.html
I loved every minute of this! Your illustrations are BEAUTIFUL! I’d love to work with you on one of my upcoming books! And your video has so many helpful tips, I’m about to publish my first picture book on KDP! Thank you so much for the lovely content!
Aww thank you Sara!! 🥰📚So glad it was helpful. I'd love to hear more about your upcoming books. You can email me at emmacarpenter.art@gmail.com
Beautiful illustrations. Really helpful video. I use clunky Canva with its limitations, Procreate too but there’s a page limit, but I’d never heard of Adobe Bridge.
Thanks Ian ☺️ glad you enjoyed it. Good luck with your book 📚
Definitely the most generously helpful video out there ❤️
Aww 🥰thank you Mary! I'm so glad you found it helpful!
What a beautiful book! Congratulations🎉 and thank you for sharing such an informative process! I was wondering what was your scanning or photographing process? Any tips? I am creating a childrens book with watercolor illustrations and that is my next step!
Thank you so much 😄 I scanned everything in at 600dpi (300dpi is the standard). Then I edit in Photoshop, brighten, contrast, up the saturation a bit. I would recommend watching Kendyll Hillegas, she has a great video on scanning & editing traditional art here th-cam.com/video/4KX9a1iMugs/w-d-xo.html Good luck with your book! 📚
Is 600 vs. 300 DPI important? Seems like 300 is sufficient, but I'm not sure.
Thanks for watching Jason, 300dpi is fine. I'm just future proofing in case I want to make really big art prints or something, I've got the option of going bigger.
Thank you for sharing. I published a paper back on Amazon kdp, but the colors were not vibrant. I chose the best option for a color printed book, and the print quality was still poor. The colors looked faded.
Sometimes the colours look faded if you were working with RGB colours. Make sure your files are in CMYK. You could then adjust the saturation to make it more vibrant. Hope that helps, and good luck 😊📚
So I guess the illustrator has to do everything in photoshop? (It's not like I can create a word document, type in the text and then send it to the illustrator to do design around it, unless I have photoshop, right?) bummer.
Your illustrations are beautiful btw
Im just starting out! Ive written and drawn my book all on a sketchpad how do I get my pictures looking good quality and on to photoshop?
Thanks for watching Juliette ☺️ scanning your artwork would be best. If you don’t have a scanner you can take photos of your work, but try to make sure the lighting isn’t too dramatic and you take the photos straight so they don’t look stretched. If you do have access to a scanner there’s a great video from Kendyll Hillegas about scanning & editing traditional art here th-cam.com/video/4KX9a1iMugs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=kmsaO4PUMeu3KYVj
Brilliant tutorial! Thank you!
Do you use a company or just a personal account? thanks
I want to join your team as story writer and story illustrator
Thankyou Emma . Your book is so beautiful!!! 🌸💮💜🌟
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you! 😊📚
Do all hardback books need to be a minimum of 75 pages ? I want to write a Childrens book for toddlers and 75 pages would be too much for a toddler. It will have illustrations.
Hi Janice, thanks for watching ☺Yes the min number of pages for hardback books on kdp is 75. I think Ingram Sparks you can do a hardback for less pages, but I haven't tried them out. Good luck with your book!
I want to tell you i enjoyed your help very much!!!! The only things I need to research outside your lesson are if i can print my art book 8.5"x11" in horizontal format since my paintings are mostly landscape format.. And how do i load all my content pages into one single pdf file. but i can research that. thanks so much for your help!!!! best wishes!!!
Hi dear sister. I'm planning to write a children's picture book and I need some advice. I would like to know if I finish can I send you a copy for your own opinion
Hi dear do you need printing books?we can help you
I didn´t know you can design a book in Photoshop. I designed all my published books with InDesign. I self publish all books locally and do not sell through Amazon. Good information anyway. Greetings from Patagonia.
Thank you very much for your in-depth process explanation of publishing your own books. I would love to invest in some your books
I really appreciate the details you included within this video, i had many questions which you have answered, really great stuff. Thanks Emma
Excellent tutorial. I've saved this to help me with publishing my first book 😊
That's great! Tell me, will your formatting tutorials suit me if I'm going to publish a book on Amazon KDP only for digital media (no printing)?
New sub here! Great tutorial!
Do you or anyone know if I can just get the ISBN # and have my book printed myself and just sell it on my amazon seller account? I've been selling used and new books on Amazon for years, and many times when the price of the book goes down, they de-activate my listing until I bring my price down to match the lowest. This worries me that they might do that with my book. Anybody know?
Can you have a pseudonym for the - text copyright and illustrations copyright?
great job! but could you please give me the link of PS app that you used to design the book?
So glad you found it helpful ☺ I've got CS5 of Photoshop which they don't sell anymore. But you might be able to find one 2nd hand on ebay. Or you can get a free trial of the latest version of Photoshop on their website. Good luck
Great video! Id like to know where to make illustrTions?
Glad you enjoyed it ☺☺ You could illustrate it yourself or you could hire an illustrator to do it. I created my illustrations with a mixture of traditional coloured pencils & digital brushes using Procreate on my iPad. Hope that helps!
Very helpful. Thanks for sharing and good luck with publishing more books in the future
I don't understand ads! No matter how many videos I watch... I just don't get it. So I figure I'm doing all that work and it will never sell..
This is so insanely helpful! Thank you so much for sharing this process. Currently working on a self-published book myself so this is such a great resource!
Helpful video, thanks for the tips in set-ups. From my understanding you don’t need to buy a barcode, though, you can generate a barcode through any number of free generators. It’s just about making the series of numbers machine-readable.
How do you do the illustrations? That is what I was hoping to learn and watch you do. But learning how to do text was neat! And everything else you talked about was very helpful. Thank you so much!
Glad you found this helpful 😊I made a separate video sharing the illustration process th-cam.com/video/ztmsFILqTOE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pOeOpTOzFvn_EINm
@@EmmaCarpenterIllustration Thank you for replying! I watched your entire video and loved seeing you color and decide everything. But I still do not understand how you do the illustrations. I understand how to color on paper but at the 7 minute mark you talk about an ipad. At 7:30 I don't understand what you are doing. Can you please explain? What is the whole process from coloring on paper to submitting digitally? What apps and stuff do you use? Thank you!