Timestamps: 0:44 - The Pros and Cons of Kindle Create 1:25 - An Overview of The Formatting Options At Your Disposal 2:55 - The Steps You need to Go Through to Create Your Print Book with KC 4:08 - Making the Necessary Edits Inside of MS Word 6:05 - Part 2: Working inside of Kindle Create 9:44 - Uploading Your .KPF file to KDP
You were excellent nobody can beat your teaching. You did well especially for slow learners. I was typing everything yo help me lol. Format for dummies. I'm glad I found you, I'm happy now that's your the greatest help. Your a great teacher. You took your time you didn't rush. Plus I can see your screen, other I could not see what they were clicking, but I saw what you were clicking. You spoke clear and slow for me. Love you and thank you so much Dan. GOD BLESS YOU
Very helpful -- was approaching this project with some trepidation and now I feel pretty confident. I appreciate your straightforward style in presentation. Many thanks.
If you upload your print book file made from kindle create to kdp and use the previewer wouldn't that give you page count to give to cover designer? Since trim and paper type is already selected at this point. Then come back to upload the cover. Can it be done this way?
I’m frustrated that Kindle Create doesn’t let me see how many pages the book is until I post it onto the website to see the preview of the paperback but I can’t see the preview until I’ve uploaded the cover but I can’t upload the cover until I know how many pages it is
hi! upload a file of any size, generate your preview and then look at the error message on the left... it will tell you exactly what size cover file you have to put
Thank you soooooo much for this fantastic video, I really appreciate all the time you've saved me as I didn't know you could upload the KPF file for print - cheers, bud :D
Question: How can I arbitrarily choose where page numbering starts? I want to number the front matter: I, II, III, etc, and start the front matter at 1, 2, 3, etc.
This is exactly what I needed to know, thank you! One little thing. When doing a book cover it wants to know how many pages you have to determine the spine. How do you know this before uploading the Kindle Create document?
You skip over the detail, which is not helpful. I'm trying to discover how to set indents, which are impossible to find out even on kIndle tutorials since they talk about Home buttons and so on, when I don't know where or what the home button is so get nowhere.
One quick question plz, so my ebook is live in kindle addition , now I want published the same book in paperback also ? What should I do , I mean what will be process to publish the same book in paperback??
Hi. I'm a little confused so I hope you can help. I just submitted everything to Amazon for my ebook. I did use Kindle Create. I'm now trying to turn the ebook into paperback. I've tried to change the TOC page as you have here but I don't see a file that saved as ebook MS file. I have the kindle create file kpf but my Microsoft Word will not open that file at all. What am I doing wrong?
Hi Debbie, did you write your ebook in Kindle Create instead of MS Word? If not, just go back to your original MS Word file and continue from there. If yes, then you won't really be able to convert it to Word in an easy way. The best bet is too copy/paste it into word, re-do the formatting that's been lost, and adjust the TOC as needed. A downfall of KC is that it's a very 'young' software so it's still limited in many ways.
@@BookBeam I did do the original writing in MS Word. I will go there and work on it. Maybe the templates kdp offers would be best. I'm not sure. This is my first book with KDP and I'm probably making it harder than it has to be.
I have ALWAYS found trying to get the Header and Footer part in book formatting extremely tricky. I can never get the first few pages - Contents etc. - to be completely free of headers and footers. I also have the same problem with each new chapter page in terms of trying to remove the header.
Hi, it seems that you forgot about the table of contents that you did in words... Where did it disappear? And why did you publish your book with those hyperlinks? It seems that you published an e-book... I'm really confused
Hi! Great stuff! Clear and with out bla bla... Thanks for that. I have a question, I'm trying to upload a poem book on Kindle, the problem is that some poems are long an overflow into other pages... I have already publish this book via a classic publisher and the long poems fit just right in the size selected... even with # 12 font. Is there a way to do the same in Kindle?
I used Kindle Create & 8.5 x 11. When I tried to turn it into a paperback on Amazon, it said the dimensions were too big & it was bleeding into the margins. Well, it's just blank, white space. The book is way too big to resize every page manually. Is there a way to make the pages slightly smaller? I was looking at Kindle Create to see if there was a "trim" or "resize" option.
Hi there, do KDP print books hyphenate? I created my document on Word, with line hyphenation, but in the KDP print book preview, there is no hyphenation and this is affecting the overall formatting, so now the page numbers don't match with the table of contents. thanks for your help.
Thank you so much! I always used LULU but their new formatting is doing my head in (it used to be so simple, just use a WORD Doc template and upload!). I'm looking at trying KDP Print instead and was trying to find a step-by-step tutorial. It looks a lot easier. Now.I don't suppose you've done a tutorial for dummies like me on how to do a book cover PDF to upload? That used to be so easy, too (def easy in ebook LOL)!!!!
Thank you for this video, very helpful! I have a question about the table of contents, when I upload the paperback on the platform of Kindle direct publishing, the page numbers of the chapters are not listed on the table of contents page of my book, is it right that it's not being showed?
It (KDP) does the pages for you based on the trim size you select (assuming you did select “page numbers” in the settings (in KC)). The trim size is selected in KDP and is your choice; a bigger trim size gives you less pages, as you can imagine.
At this point, KDP will not let me upload the file format as shown in this video. I'm not sure why I am watching the person on the video do it, but mine is giving me an error that it's not an acceptable file format.
Thank you for this video, but the Table of Contents creation does not work. Each time that I follow the steps that you detail, I just keep getting the same Kindle-type Contents page or a Table of Contents without page numbers. It is very frustrating that I cannot create a book-form Table of Contents for my paperback through Kindle Create. If there are other methods to get this done, please let me know. I would very much like to turn my Kindle edition book into a paperback version.
It did NOT let you put your TOC with page numbers atrached. That's the problem with Kindle Create. Whats the use of a paperback TOC with no page numbers???
Yes, turns out it actually adds the numbers during the conversion inside the KDP upload process. So no need for the numbers, just any kind of TOC will do.
I was having trouble figuring out how to change the TOC without Word (my manuscript was written in Google Docs), but when I looked up Amazon's KC tutorial web page, it says that if it's a kpf file, when you upload the formatted ebook kpf, their software will automatically change the hyperlinked TOC to a page-numbered one! :)
Does Number of paperback book words decide to cover image size? Kindly suggest a cover image size for a paperback with more than 20,000 words ? so, i can give the specification to the graphic designer. Most of the people have problems in uploading cover image. Thanks in advance. It's an interesting video.
Yes, the page count of your book will impact the size of the spine of your cover (the part between the front cover and the back cover). You can just ask your designer to use the kdp cover template: kdp.amazon.com/en_US/cover-templates
@@ravikant1793 I found a way to get paperback page count to give to your cover designer. Its easy just do this, upload the kindle create paperback file on kdp. Then launch the kindle cover creator. Make a dummy/test cover from any cover you see. Then save the cover. All you have to do then is open print previewer and at the bottom will be page count for cover designer. Last step upload your real pdf cover over the dummy cover when you receive it from your designer. Real easy steps! Be mindful after your real pdf cover is finished, if you go back and change book trim size the page count will change. Make sure ya stay with Same trim size and all setting you used to see the page count in print previewer.
Hello, I've done all you recommended and am having problems getting blank filler pages in my front matter. Do you have guidance on how best to achieve this? Thank you, Sara
Same problem; need some blank pages (before the chapters especially) for a correct layout... Can't find any tips to do this... if anyone knows! thanks to him...
When you upload your exported kindle create file during your paperback set up on Amazon KDP, that's when Amazon will automatically create a paperback book out of the KC file.
Yup, I just did my wife’s first book with Kindle Create for the internals and Canva for the cover. Both uploaded to KDP and they sent me a proof copy in the post in two days; wonderful! Thanks Tomass!
Yes, as easy as that :) That's the beauty of it. No customer service, no investment for inventory, no dealing with infrastructure - none of it. You can focus solely on the creative aspects - producing and marketing.
Hi David, for that you need to work on creating something called an "author platform". It's basically an authors audience across 1) social media (FB, Twitter, TH-cam etc.), 2) Email list 3) your website, and similar. Not easy or fast to create but it's something that pays off in the longterm. Alongside that you should also leverage the opportunities for traffic and sales within Amazon's system: keyword optimization (in the title, 7 meta keywords etc.), countdown deals (if you enroll in KDP Select), Amazon ads.
I'd generally say Google ads more than likely will not be effective, they are too expensive at this point for advertising and selling books, if you're attempting to recoup ad cost only from book sales. Amazon ads have a much better chance at being effective for you since the people on the platform have a high intent to purchase, and they still not as expensive as Google ads.
Timestamps:
0:44 - The Pros and Cons of Kindle Create
1:25 - An Overview of The Formatting Options At Your Disposal
2:55 - The Steps You need to Go Through to Create Your Print Book with KC
4:08 - Making the Necessary Edits Inside of MS Word
6:05 - Part 2: Working inside of Kindle Create
9:44 - Uploading Your .KPF file to KDP
You were excellent nobody can beat your teaching. You did well especially for slow learners. I was typing everything yo help me lol. Format for dummies. I'm glad I found you, I'm happy now that's your the greatest help. Your a great teacher. You took your time you didn't rush. Plus I can see your screen, other I could not see what they were clicking, but I saw what you were clicking. You spoke clear and slow for me. Love you and thank you so much Dan. GOD BLESS YOU
Great to hear that, thank you for your comment :-)
Thank you!! V helpful information. Was giving myself a headache trying to format my novel with Microsoft Word. Kindle Create is awesome.
Great video! I cheated though: I played it back at 1/2 speed 🤣 You removed the procrastination born from fear!!! For that, I thank you!
Very helpful -- was approaching this project with some trepidation and now I feel pretty confident. I appreciate your straightforward style in presentation. Many thanks.
Happy to hear this, thanks!
Thanks a lot
dear for giving such helpful info.
Great presentation. Efficiently organized and articulately voiced.
Thanks Rudy!
Very helpful. Thank you.
If you upload your print book file made from kindle create to kdp and use the previewer wouldn't that give you page count to give to cover designer? Since trim and paper type is already selected at this point. Then come back to upload the cover. Can it be done this way?
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Thanks very helpful, it's been a while since I've used these tools. I'll soon be uploading an audio book and re-energies my paperback book.
You were the best one on here. I'm a slow learner you did great thanks, understood.
Excellent Tomas, thank you
I’m frustrated that Kindle Create doesn’t let me see how many pages the book is until I post it onto the website to see the preview of the paperback but I can’t see the preview until I’ve uploaded the cover but I can’t upload the cover until I know how many pages it is
hi! upload a file of any size, generate your preview and then look at the error message on the left... it will tell you exactly what size cover file you have to put
Thanks 😊
Thank you soooooo much for this fantastic video, I really appreciate all the time you've saved me as I didn't know you could upload the KPF file for print - cheers, bud :D
Thank you
Question: How can I arbitrarily choose where page numbering starts? I want to number the front matter: I, II, III, etc, and start the front matter at 1, 2, 3, etc.
This is exactly what I needed to know, thank you! One little thing. When doing a book cover it wants to know how many pages you have to determine the spine. How do you know this before uploading the Kindle Create document?
You skip over the detail, which is not helpful. I'm trying to discover how to set indents, which are impossible to find out even on kIndle tutorials since they talk about Home buttons and so on, when I don't know where or what the home button is so get nowhere.
Thank you .... very well explained!
Thank you for sharing! Very helpful
Great video, now I want to write my book!
How have you opened your ebook in word?! Did you not format it in kdp -- which will only save as a kpf file? I'm confused please help haha
Very helpful. I've watched your video several times to retrieve the exact info needed for my book. Thank you!
I'm happy to hear that, thanks for watching!
Great advice Great video TY
One quick question plz, so my ebook is live in kindle addition , now I want published the same book in paperback also ? What should I do , I mean what will be process to publish the same book in paperback??
Where ado you go fix the issue of some of the new chapters starting on even pages?
Hi. Is there a way to increase page size, meaning wider, because the latest version is having a narrow look? I tried hard, but found nothing> Thanks
Hi. I'm a little confused so I hope you can help. I just submitted everything to Amazon for my ebook. I did use Kindle Create. I'm now trying to turn the ebook into paperback. I've tried to change the TOC page as you have here but I don't see a file that saved as ebook MS file. I have the kindle create file kpf but my Microsoft Word will not open that file at all. What am I doing wrong?
Hi Debbie, did you write your ebook in Kindle Create instead of MS Word? If not, just go back to your original MS Word file and continue from there. If yes, then you won't really be able to convert it to Word in an easy way. The best bet is too copy/paste it into word, re-do the formatting that's been lost, and adjust the TOC as needed.
A downfall of KC is that it's a very 'young' software so it's still limited in many ways.
@@BookBeam I did do the original writing in MS Word. I will go there and work on it. Maybe the templates kdp offers would be best. I'm not sure. This is my first book with KDP and I'm probably making it harder than it has to be.
Hi, can I ask how you went about illustrating please? I need an easy and free way to illustrate stick people for ebook and paperback. Thanks 😊
Really good explanation. Thank you!
I have ALWAYS found trying to get the Header and Footer part in book formatting extremely tricky. I can never get the first few pages - Contents etc. - to be completely free of headers and footers. I also have the same problem with each new chapter page in terms of trying to remove the header.
Thanks for the video. I have a question: what will happen to those spaces in MS Word once the book is published?
Great video thank you
Thank you! It was helpful.
Hi, it seems that you forgot about the table of contents that you did in words... Where did it disappear? And why did you publish your book with those hyperlinks?
It seems that you published an e-book... I'm really confused
Hi, can I ask how you went about illustrating please? I need an easy and free way to illustrate stick people for ebook and paperback. Thanks 😊
Why my table of content not clickable on kdp amazon in my ebook?
Hi! Great stuff! Clear and with out bla bla... Thanks for that. I have a question, I'm trying to upload a poem book on Kindle, the problem is that some poems are long an overflow into other pages... I have already publish this book via a classic publisher and the long poems fit just right in the size selected... even with # 12 font. Is there a way to do the same in Kindle?
Thank you!
I used Kindle Create & 8.5 x 11. When I tried to turn it into a paperback on Amazon, it said the dimensions were too big & it was bleeding into the margins. Well, it's just blank, white space. The book is way too big to resize every page manually. Is there a way to make the pages slightly smaller? I was looking at Kindle Create to see if there was a "trim" or "resize" option.
can you use kindle create and not publish/sell your book on amazon kdp?
When I transfer my Word file to Kindle Create the Table of Contents doesn't show page counting (it gets lost). Do you know why that is?
Hi there, do KDP print books hyphenate? I created my document on Word, with line hyphenation, but in the KDP print book preview, there is no hyphenation and this is affecting the overall formatting, so now the page numbers don't match with the table of contents. thanks for your help.
Thanks Tomass!!
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Thank you so much! I always used LULU but their new formatting is doing my head in (it used to be so simple, just use a WORD Doc template and upload!). I'm looking at trying KDP Print instead and was trying to find a step-by-step tutorial. It looks a lot easier. Now.I don't suppose you've done a tutorial for dummies like me on how to do a book cover PDF to upload? That used to be so easy, too (def easy in ebook LOL)!!!!
This dummy needs all of it!
@@joannebolivar3987 LOL! I feel your pain!!!
Thank you for this video, very helpful! I have a question about the table of contents, when I upload the paperback on the platform of Kindle direct publishing, the page numbers of the chapters are not listed on the table of contents page of my book, is it right that it's not being showed?
Exactly!
Thank You so much..
Thanks for watching! 🙂
Thanks
How do I know my page numbers and what size I should create my cover?
It (KDP) does the pages for you based on the trim size you select (assuming you did select “page numbers” in the settings (in KC)). The trim size is selected in KDP and is your choice; a bigger trim size gives you less pages, as you can imagine.
There's no book title element on my Kindle Create for some reason...?
When you preview and you find sub-titles that are at the bottom of a page, how do you move it to the next page?
At this point, KDP will not let me upload the file format as shown in this video. I'm not sure why I am watching the person on the video do it, but mine is giving me an error that it's not an acceptable file format.
There may be an error with the file. I had to put mine in text and the reformat in new doc
Do you have a step by step video on formatting an ebook using Microsoft Word❓
What version of Kindle Create is this? Could you et me know the download link please?
Thank you for this video, but the Table of Contents creation does not work. Each time that I follow the steps that you detail, I just keep getting the same Kindle-type Contents page or a Table of Contents without page numbers. It is very frustrating that I cannot create a book-form Table of Contents for my paperback through Kindle Create. If there are other methods to get this done, please let me know. I would very much like to turn my Kindle edition book into a paperback version.
I have the same issue. It is not addressed in this video. Confusing.
is this for amazon ebook only? I think kindle creator using only for amazon ebook making only.
Papaerback too!
Hello,thank you for the video. Please i would really like to know how to edit a math text book as in drawing graphs and other diagrams. Thanks.
Awesome 👍♨️📝❤️
It did NOT let you put your TOC with page numbers atrached. That's the problem with Kindle Create. Whats the use of a paperback TOC with no page numbers???
Yes, turns out it actually adds the numbers during the conversion inside the KDP upload process. So no need for the numbers, just any kind of TOC will do.
@@BookBeam Maybe I am doing something wrong, when I preview the paperback book, there are no page numbers listed. Even after I publish it.
For a basic book, this is fine. For a book that you want to make a statement (with custom art, fonts etc) this is not the way to go.
For the print version is there art needed for the back cover and spin?
Yes, but this is done separately from the interior file.
I was having trouble figuring out how to change the TOC without Word (my manuscript was written in Google Docs), but when I looked up Amazon's KC tutorial web page, it says that if it's a kpf file, when you upload the formatted ebook kpf, their software will automatically change the hyperlinked TOC to a page-numbered one! :)
Yeah that didnt happen for me
@@SAAdams Hm. Ok. good to know.
Does Number of paperback book words decide to cover image size? Kindly suggest a cover image size for a paperback with more than 20,000 words ? so, i can give the specification to the graphic designer. Most of the people have problems in uploading cover image. Thanks in advance. It's an interesting video.
Yes, the page count of your book will impact the size of the spine of your cover (the part between the front cover and the back cover). You can just ask your designer to use the kdp cover template: kdp.amazon.com/en_US/cover-templates
@@BookBeam : Thanks for your kind gesture. ..!!
@@ravikant1793 I found a way to get paperback page count to give to your cover designer. Its easy just do this, upload the kindle create paperback file on kdp. Then launch the kindle cover creator. Make a dummy/test cover from any cover you see. Then save the cover. All you have to do then is open print previewer and at the bottom will be page count for cover designer. Last step upload your real pdf cover over the dummy cover when you receive it from your designer. Real easy steps! Be mindful after your real pdf cover is finished, if you go back and change book trim size the page count will change. Make sure ya stay with Same trim size and all setting you used to see the page count in print previewer.
Hello, I've done all you recommended and am having problems getting blank filler pages in my front matter. Do you have guidance on how best to achieve this? Thank you, Sara
Same problem; need some blank pages (before the chapters especially) for a correct layout... Can't find any tips to do this... if anyone knows! thanks to him...
how to insert the isdn number?
The file you are editing (KDP) is on my mac desktop but I cannot open it. I assume then I'm out of luck?
Can you open Kindle Create? Try to open it through the programme.
what's the process if we just want paperback version created?
When you upload your exported kindle create file during your paperback set up on Amazon KDP, that's when Amazon will automatically create a paperback book out of the KC file.
i'm doing my design based on Adobe iplustrator. should i save them to PDF file then convert it to kindle format?
What do you want to do? For a print book, a PDF will work perfectly already, so you can just upload it straight to Amazon KDP and skip KC.
@@BookBeam it's coloring page, so it must be some kind of paperback
excellent!!! thanks buddy
How do you find a supplier that makes your books into the physical product ?
Amazon does this for you, with their Print-On-Demand service. The concept being that your book only gets printed when someone orders it.
Yup, I just did my wife’s first book with Kindle Create for the internals and Canva for the cover. Both uploaded to KDP and they sent me a proof copy in the post in two days; wonderful! Thanks Tomass!
How does it work? If someone places an order on my paper book, Amazon prints it and sends to the buyer?
Yes, as easy as that :) That's the beauty of it. No customer service, no investment for inventory, no dealing with infrastructure - none of it. You can focus solely on the creative aspects - producing and marketing.
Hi, how can I sell a book on amazon that I actually want to write for the sake of it. For example something like a short story collection?
Hi David, for that you need to work on creating something called an "author platform". It's basically an authors audience across 1) social media (FB, Twitter, TH-cam etc.), 2) Email list 3) your website, and similar. Not easy or fast to create but it's something that pays off in the longterm.
Alongside that you should also leverage the opportunities for traffic and sales within Amazon's system: keyword optimization (in the title, 7 meta keywords etc.), countdown deals (if you enroll in KDP Select), Amazon ads.
@@BookBeam Awesome thanks for the advice! Do you think that google ads, amazon ads, etc. is very effective for selling fiction?
I'd generally say Google ads more than likely will not be effective, they are too expensive at this point for advertising and selling books, if you're attempting to recoup ad cost only from book sales.
Amazon ads have a much better chance at being effective for you since the people on the platform have a high intent to purchase, and they still not as expensive as Google ads.
Not sure if you noticed but your text is not completely centered
I am a 12-year-old trying to write a book but sadly I'm horrible at stuff, question! can I write my book or whatever in google docs?
Very helpful. Thank You.
Thanks