UPDATE: I got the 2nd book's proof delivered today, and while the paper does have some very mild wave/ripple to it, it's not as bad at all! Hopefully this won't be a problem in the future.
Question: What kind of rights does one still hold after publishing to Kindle Direct? Would I loose any right to the content? And if not, would I loose rights with their exclusivity deal? And if so, how does that all differ in terms of physical print, verses eBook? --- I've tried looking into all this, but it's all difficult to understand if you haven't actually put anything on there...
This is great news. I just finished my book and wanted to go hardcover but I read earlier this year that KDP only produced paperbacks. Personally, I dislike dust jackets and prefer glossy covers anyway so that's perfect for me. Thanks for letting us know about the new Hardback option at KDP and best of luck with your books!
I was SO excited to see this as an option the other day and cannot wait to get my books in hardcover. The rippled pages are a bit rubbish but overall I think it looks quite good! In my wishlist would be sprayed edges on the pages!!! X
Yeah that was a little disappointing to see when it got here, but I hope that's a one off issue. I'll update in the comments here when I get another proof. Sprayed edges would be AMAZING! And embossing, too, though that would have much higher technical requirements, I'm sure.
Thank you very much for quickly uploading the video about the KDP hardcover review. Your description was very thorough and showing us the actual hardcover they created and comparing it with the paperback really helps me decide which one I should go with. The quality of the hardcover looks great but since it just came out, let's hope that all hardcover books are as good as yours. I once got a 1 star review from a customer for my paperback book and she said that the pages kept falling. I told the customer that it was the KDP factory that made the book and requested to remove the review but she kept the review. I contacted KDP and requested to remove it as it was not about the content of the book but the physical quality of the book. They responded and said there was nothing they could do:( Anyway, good luck on your book sales! I would also love to see more TH-cam videos of yours. You explained very well.
Thank you so much! That's really unfortunate, and how frustrating that must have been! I've had a similar issue with a KDP paperback in the past, but thankfully it was only with a proof copy. I have lots of videos planned for the near future, both on publishing and writing.
Thanks for the review Sydney. I recently saw the hardcover and wanted to see an example and the quality level. Great video! I have decided to go that way instead of traditional publishers who are missing out on a fortune.
Thank you for this Sydney! I was just as surprised when I found out there was a hardcover button next to the beta. It was such weird timing because they have sent an option of comments of what we would like to see added to KDP and I said to bring in hardcovers. I think they finally decided to do it and I'm SO GLAD they did! Your books look so good! Great job girl. I've been working on bettering my covers over time and I sincerely appreciate your tips when creating the covers and interior. 👏🏻🤓
You're so welcome! Glad it was helpful. I am still so excited about these hardcovers, I can't wait to see what other features and options they come out with soon! And thank you, I'm really happy with how it turned out!
New Subscriber here 👋🏾😊 also just read The Legend of Mendi 👌🏾⚡️ really enjoyed the dynamic character of Liial as well as the metamorphosis of Ekora. Wishing you much success in your writing. You're a great story teller! Love from South Africa 🤎
Could you tell me what sizes the books are at the end of your video? I couldn't understand the language well, thank you in advance, great content. Is the price more expensive for hardcovers?
I keep forgetting that KDP was only Paper Back, well until now. Good to know when I have a book to publish. Side note, in the KDP Requirements I think your audio was slightly out of sync with the video. The rest of the video was fine. Great video. Keep it up.
How come you don't ever show the back of the book? Do you put a description on the back of the hardcovers the same way you do with the paperbacks? I wish you'd showed the back as well as the front in this video!
Sydney! Thanks for this awesome review. My latest book runs around 360 pages in paperback so I might consider the Hardcover as an option (even just to have one for myself). Very useful data and thanks for making this video!
@@SydneyFaithAuthor I'm sure it will. I'll get a few copies and see. Question for you: How are you thinking of pricing your Hardcovers? I know Paperbacks can be priced pretty conservatively and still make some profit, but i'm not really sure what the scale is for Hardcover books. Let me know your thoughts
I think it totally depends on the author and their market/readers. The large majority of my readers prefer ebook, so I've chosen as of now to price the hardcovers low, as they were mainly for me anyway lol. I think if KDP ever offers more premium options for hardcovers (clothbound, stamping, foils, dustjackets) then I'd consider raising the prices because it's more of a premium product, and I'd spend a lot more time and money to create something like that, but for me, making the hardcovers wasn't much more work than making a paperback, so that's what I based my price on.
@@SydneyFaithAuthor interesting. I was wondering myself what the real “pull” was when compared to paperbacks, which are pretty good quality. For now I think the main marketing strategy that might work is if you have a physical launch and can have hardcovers available to sign etc since a super fan would like that. For now though, I’d really have to be a marquee author to charge Hardcover rates plus paperback and ebook. So I’ll most likely be like you, getting all superfan on myself with my own hardcovers lol
Yeah I can see if you had a big physical launch you'd want hardcovers available for sure! Lol, yes, and it's just cool to get a hardcover of your own book, at least to me.
This is pretty useful as you get to see both what the hardback llos like and how it compares to the paperback, which is all I cared about when looking for a video like this.
Really nice comparison and guide. Cleared up a lot of things. One question I have about the Paper type, is the cream paper smooth like the white one or is it of the porous, rough textured kind like we get on a lot of self-help books, if you know what I mean?
Just discovered you and loved this video! Great quality and super informative. I published my first book in June through KDP and am so excited for the hardbacks! My only dilemma is I can't decide if I want the hardback to be matte or glossy. Do you think the matte will make the colors more muted looking?
Awesome, love to see new faces around here! I believe it will be the same matte finish as their paperbacks. I don't think it will make the colors muted, exactly, it's just that the darks will be richer with the glossy option. The matte on their paperbacks look good to me, and the colors are pretty much accurate to the image files (though with printing there will always be minor discrepancies.)
Thank you! I use a Samson Q2U microphone, recording to Streamlabs OBS software on my laptop, and I do a bit of post-production work on the audio after recording in the editing program DaVinci Resolve.
Hi Sydney. This is a great little video about the kdp hardcovers. Can you please tell me which size books you have there in the video? The journal I plan to publish is about 670 pages of 6 x 8 in the paperback and you gave me hope that I could possibly get the pages down to 550 since the hardback pages are slightly bigger. Also is that cream paper? One final question for you... is the binding different on the hardcover? I've just created a manifesting journal where you write your notes in the book. I've just received my first ever proof copy of a book I've written (Whoop! Whoop!) and the binding of the paperback doesn't allow the book to open flat on each page. I'm wondering if the hardback binding would allow that. Many thanks! (Oh and I'm a complete novice with youtube message. Should I get notified when you reply to me? )
Hey Dawn! No problem. The hardcovers are 6x9, and yes it's cream paper. The hardcovers don't lay flat out of the box, unfortunately, but I think you could journal in them pretty easily. They are a bit more rigid than the paperbacks due to the hardcover, but the assembly method of the pages seems about the same to me.
Does my 350-page novel count as a low-content book on kdp. I wanted to schedule a release for it but kdp won't let me since it's a low-content book. I was honestly gonna try and cheat the system and set my book as a large print that way I could set a release date. What should I do?
Thank you dear for the lovely review! 🌻 Your covers look quite nice and vibrant in color. Did you use sRGB or CMYK for designing them and in what software? I've just created my first journal and about to order proof copies however it looks more subdued (muddier) in color in the shopping cart 🤨. Re warping - I wonder what happens if someone decides to return or exchange a book? Would a creator have to pay for it anyhow or not? It can affect reviews also.
No problem! And thanks! I designed them in CMYK, as that's KDP's recommendation. From my experience, the previews can be a bit different from the actual product, and the printed covers can come off a bit darker than expected.
I have to charge $24.99 for a hardcover to make the same amount at a $9.99 ebook. It's nice to be able to offer it, but the cost is definitely a turnoff for customers.
$25 for a hardcover is pretty usual for a retail price. I wouldn't say the price is a turnoff for customers, but most would likely opt for the paperback for the lower cost if given the choice. But many still like the hardcover option, and it is often considered more of a collector option.
Ya I went with Ingram cause others sorta nudged me and the paperbacks were fine but the hard covers… out of a box of 20 books 8 of them had too much glue on the cover so it stuck to the first page. One had a odd long piece of paper that stuck out. And two of them the covers were covered in glue. I hope it is better when my companion novel is ready. Do you know if you can change printing companies?
Sounds like a major headache, but if that was a while ago, I think I've heard it's gotten better lately, so there's hope. As far as legally, I have no idea, I've never researched that. As for technically, I've never formatted anything for Ingram before so I couldn't say if you can use the exact same files from one printing company to another, but I'd imagine that it's pretty similar and wouldn't be that bad to adjust the formatting for somewhere else.
Hi, just a question: are those books printed in cream paper or white? I really like the color of the sheets (of course one can tell you did a great job formating the book)
@@SydneyFaithAuthor I'm so glad I made your day! I'm a author as well, and just checked out your channel! I'm thinking of starting a channel as well, but we will see where time takes me, lol. God bless!! It's so great to see and meet another author!
Hi, thanks for the great content! Question, once you've published your hardcover, what are the print/ship times for your book when purchased by the consumer? My book just got approved today and it's showing "delivered within 2-3 weeks" .....
Well damn, I just checked yours.. it says 2-3 weeks! Ugh, what a bummer. That's so discouraging. Who wants to wait 2-3 weeks for a book!! Back to the drawing board.
Same :/ Who would want that? Especially since mine are mainly educational notebooks. No one is going to order a notebook that they need with a 2-3 week wait time
@@LivingListed I reached out to KDP on this and was told as your sales gradually increase, the ship time will gradually decrease. All of my books said "usually ships within 10 days" up until this week. Now it's back to 2-3 weeks, probably because the presses are busy during this time of year. What's frustrating is that even author copies now take 2-3 weeks.. that's troubling when you need to fill consignment stores. I'm moving towards building my own online store, then ordering author copies in bulk. Do you publish hard cover or paperback?
@@kyleb4327 oh okay. Thanks for the informative comment! That’s so sad that it’s back to 2-3 weeks. That’s no good. Like, that is jipp. How can we expect to earn money? I saw someone’s author copy on TH-cam, and it had a big grey horizontal stripe that said “Not for resale.” I do the low content books (I literally just started after this video, and it too a few days for my books to get approved. So, I didn’t know it would take that long until I posted my comment.). I have mostly paperback with one of the same books as paperback. That’s smart that your doing something like that, but also with the author copies, I don’t know how that will go. Do they have a limit on how many author copies you can get?
@@kyleb4327 low content books such a journals, basic composition notebooks (for school, just as science notebooks with graph paper, regular ruled notebooks, etc)
@@SydneyFaithAuthor you got me interested in your series I stumbled upon your channel by mere chance and saw you promoting your books hard cover appearance this exact video I actually just ordered your book because of the video, I look forward to the read
The proof process is deceiving. It was easy for me to have my cover accepted for a proof, but when trying to publish for shoppers I get error after error saying the cover doesn't line up with trim, etc. It's been very trying.
@@SydneyFaithAuthor So I have a 2020 MacBook with no additional programs. Is there any program that comes with it that can be used for that? I am not very familiar. Can it be done in Pages (Mac version of MS Word)?
Can KDP hardcover feature automatically templates the manuscript and makes automatic margins and dimensions like the paperback one instead of you write the dimension?
Yes, the same KDP tool can be used for the hardcover interior as the paperback. The process is basically the same for the interior, and the cover is also quite similar with only slight differences.
I've heard KDP's matte hardcovers are just like their paperback hardcovers, but I haven't seen them in person. As for personal preference, I like matte book covers more than glossy. But the KDP matte isn't my favorite, and like I said in the video, I have a lot of dark colors on my covers, and those usually turn out better with a glossy finish, so that's why I went with glossy this time.
@Sydney Faith Author Thanks for the fast reply! I've heard the same things about Matte, I just wasn't sure if the hardcover improved things at all. I think I'll stick with glossy.
I made my first hardcover with KDP recently and I noticed that it smells really bad. Like, the glue or something is so off-putting. Is anyone else having this issue? It smells like Tequila I feel like lol
Oh weird! I haven't noticed that and I have quite a few copies now. I wonder if the different manufacturing locations makes a difference? I would think they all use the same glue, though. 🤷♀️
UPDATE: I got the 2nd book's proof delivered today, and while the paper does have some very mild wave/ripple to it, it's not as bad at all! Hopefully this won't be a problem in the future.
only available to some authors?
dang now i feel special!
I just got my first hardcover proof and having this same issue with the cover. Has it continued to improve?
Question: What kind of rights does one still hold after publishing to Kindle Direct? Would I loose any right to the content? And if not, would I loose rights with their exclusivity deal? And if so, how does that all differ in terms of physical print, verses eBook? --- I've tried looking into all this, but it's all difficult to understand if you haven't actually put anything on there...
This is great news. I just finished my book and wanted to go hardcover but I read earlier this year that KDP only produced paperbacks. Personally, I dislike dust jackets and prefer glossy covers anyway so that's perfect for me. Thanks for letting us know about the new Hardback option at KDP and best of luck with your books!
No problem. Thanks, and the same to you!
I was SO excited to see this as an option the other day and cannot wait to get my books in hardcover. The rippled pages are a bit rubbish but overall I think it looks quite good! In my wishlist would be sprayed edges on the pages!!! X
Yeah that was a little disappointing to see when it got here, but I hope that's a one off issue. I'll update in the comments here when I get another proof. Sprayed edges would be AMAZING! And embossing, too, though that would have much higher technical requirements, I'm sure.
Where would we get sprayed edges for our indie books? Like do you know what company does that?
None of the publishing places currently do that, that I'm aware of.
Thank you very much for quickly uploading the video about the KDP hardcover review. Your description was very thorough and showing us the actual hardcover they created and comparing it with the paperback really helps me decide which one I should go with. The quality of the hardcover looks great but since it just came out, let's hope that all hardcover books are as good as yours. I once got a 1 star review from a customer for my paperback book and she said that the pages kept falling. I told the customer that it was the KDP factory that made the book and requested to remove the review but she kept the review. I contacted KDP and requested to remove it as it was not about the content of the book but the physical quality of the book. They responded and said there was nothing they could do:( Anyway, good luck on your book sales! I would also love to see more TH-cam videos of yours. You explained very well.
Thank you so much! That's really unfortunate, and how frustrating that must have been! I've had a similar issue with a KDP paperback in the past, but thankfully it was only with a proof copy. I have lots of videos planned for the near future, both on publishing and writing.
I really love the light graphics on your chapters pages throughout the book. Nice touch!
Thank you so much!
How do you have so little subscribers 😭 this is such a high quality video! Manifesting at least 1K for u 😭 Im subscribed now
😂 Thank you so much!!
Thanks for the review Sydney. I recently saw the hardcover and wanted to see an example and the quality level. Great video! I have decided to go that way instead of traditional publishers who are missing out on a fortune.
Glad it was helpful! There are so many benefits to indie publishing!
Thank you for this Sydney! I was just as surprised when I found out there was a hardcover button next to the beta. It was such weird timing because they have sent an option of comments of what we would like to see added to KDP and I said to bring in hardcovers. I think they finally decided to do it and I'm SO GLAD they did!
Your books look so good! Great job girl. I've been working on bettering my covers over time and I sincerely appreciate your tips when creating the covers and interior. 👏🏻🤓
You're so welcome! Glad it was helpful. I am still so excited about these hardcovers, I can't wait to see what other features and options they come out with soon! And thank you, I'm really happy with how it turned out!
New Subscriber here 👋🏾😊 also just read The Legend of Mendi 👌🏾⚡️ really enjoyed the dynamic character of Liial as well as the metamorphosis of Ekora.
Wishing you much success in your writing. You're a great story teller!
Love from South Africa 🤎
Thank you so much! Glad to hear you enjoyed it.
Thanks for your review. Answered all my questions. Cheers from Australia.
No problem 👍 Cheers!
Could you tell me what sizes the books are at the end of your video? I couldn't understand the language well, thank you in advance, great content. Is the price more expensive for hardcovers?
I keep forgetting that KDP was only Paper Back, well until now. Good to know when I have a book to publish. Side note, in the KDP Requirements I think your audio was slightly out of sync with the video. The rest of the video was fine. Great video. Keep it up.
Ah yeah, it was, I had some technical issues with the audio this week, lol. Sorry about that!
Great review! Thanks for taking the time to do this! I'm excited to look into your novels.
Happy to hear you enjoyed it! I'm so excited to see what they come out with next for hardcovers. Thank you so much for checking out my work ☺️
How come you don't ever show the back of the book? Do you put a description on the back of the hardcovers the same way you do with the paperbacks? I wish you'd showed the back as well as the front in this video!
I made my first book April 11th, 2021 and for my next book I have absolutely got to make it in hardcover. This video was very helpful. Thanks!
Sydney! Thanks for this awesome review. My latest book runs around 360 pages in paperback so I might consider the Hardcover as an option (even just to have one for myself). Very useful data and thanks for making this video!
No problem! Yeah, especially if they're just for yourself, I think the KDP hardcovers are a great option. Hope it turns out good!
@@SydneyFaithAuthor I'm sure it will. I'll get a few copies and see. Question for you: How are you thinking of pricing your Hardcovers? I know Paperbacks can be priced pretty conservatively and still make some profit, but i'm not really sure what the scale is for Hardcover books. Let me know your thoughts
I think it totally depends on the author and their market/readers. The large majority of my readers prefer ebook, so I've chosen as of now to price the hardcovers low, as they were mainly for me anyway lol.
I think if KDP ever offers more premium options for hardcovers (clothbound, stamping, foils, dustjackets) then I'd consider raising the prices because it's more of a premium product, and I'd spend a lot more time and money to create something like that, but for me, making the hardcovers wasn't much more work than making a paperback, so that's what I based my price on.
@@SydneyFaithAuthor interesting. I was wondering myself what the real “pull” was when compared to paperbacks, which are pretty good quality. For now I think the main marketing strategy that might work is if you have a physical launch and can have hardcovers available to sign etc since a super fan would like that. For now though, I’d really have to be a marquee author to charge Hardcover rates plus paperback and ebook. So I’ll most likely be like you, getting all superfan on myself with my own hardcovers lol
Yeah I can see if you had a big physical launch you'd want hardcovers available for sure! Lol, yes, and it's just cool to get a hardcover of your own book, at least to me.
This is pretty useful as you get to see both what the hardback llos like and how it compares to the paperback, which is all I cared about when looking for a video like this.
I don't suppose you have a Fiverr account for book cover creation? I'd rather write and hire someone else to do the rest.
Really nice comparison and guide. Cleared up a lot of things. One question I have about the Paper type, is the cream paper smooth like the white one or is it of the porous, rough textured kind like we get on a lot of self-help books, if you know what I mean?
KDP has hardcovers now??????
Yes they do! It's still a beta feature, so I'm not sure it everyone has access or not, but it's very cool nonetheless.
Very cool news isn't it?!
Thanks for the info! I might offer my next book in hardcover and see how it comes out.
No problem! Sounds fun! It's super exciting to see your own book as a hardcover.
Thanks for the review! What size was the hardback that you show in this video and the size of the paperback? Thanks!
Thanks for the info! really well presented!
Any tips on how you can make your cover fit that your title sits in the center?
Thanks for the review. Question: do libraries order many KDP hardbacks? That would be my main reason for making them available. Thank you.
Just discovered you and loved this video! Great quality and super informative. I published my first book in June through KDP and am so excited for the hardbacks! My only dilemma is I can't decide if I want the hardback to be matte or glossy. Do you think the matte will make the colors more muted looking?
Awesome, love to see new faces around here! I believe it will be the same matte finish as their paperbacks. I don't think it will make the colors muted, exactly, it's just that the darks will be richer with the glossy option. The matte on their paperbacks look good to me, and the colors are pretty much accurate to the image files (though with printing there will always be minor discrepancies.)
@@SydneyFaithAuthor Ok, thank you! I have matte for my paperback and love it, I just wasn't sure if it would be different on the hardback.
First class review with LOTS of very useful info (especially the 'wraparound' factor).
Great job.
Best explanation 👏
Excellent review. Just what I needed, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the detailed info. I think it’s looks good, excited to try it out 👍🏾
Absolutely! I'm pretty happy with it so far.
Your books look amazing! I'm curious, how did you get a background design on the first page of each chapter, and what program did you use for the map?
Thanks for the review, Sydney. I'd also like to see them offer sewn binding.
Thanks for this. ❤
Great review, thank you
Great video! What is your audio recording setup like? Your audio is so clear, it almost sounds like a voice over haha
Thank you! I use a Samson Q2U microphone, recording to Streamlabs OBS software on my laptop, and I do a bit of post-production work on the audio after recording in the editing program DaVinci Resolve.
@@SydneyFaithAuthor Nice! You do a great job.
so beautiful!!!!
Hi Sydney. This is a great little video about the kdp hardcovers. Can you please tell me which size books you have there in the video? The journal I plan to publish is about 670 pages of 6 x 8 in the paperback and you gave me hope that I could possibly get the pages down to 550 since the hardback pages are slightly bigger.
Also is that cream paper? One final question for you... is the binding different on the hardcover? I've just created a manifesting journal where you write your notes in the book. I've just received my first ever proof copy of a book I've written (Whoop! Whoop!) and the binding of the paperback doesn't allow the book to open flat on each page.
I'm wondering if the hardback binding would allow that.
Many thanks!
(Oh and I'm a complete novice with youtube message. Should I get notified when you reply to me? )
Hey Dawn! No problem. The hardcovers are 6x9, and yes it's cream paper. The hardcovers don't lay flat out of the box, unfortunately, but I think you could journal in them pretty easily. They are a bit more rigid than the paperbacks due to the hardcover, but the assembly method of the pages seems about the same to me.
Does my 350-page novel count as a low-content book on kdp. I wanted to schedule a release for it but kdp won't let me since it's a low-content book. I was honestly gonna try and cheat the system and set my book as a large print that way I could set a release date. What should I do?
Thank you dear for the lovely review! 🌻 Your covers look quite nice and vibrant in color. Did you use sRGB or CMYK for designing them and in what software?
I've just created my first journal and about to order proof copies however it looks more subdued (muddier) in color in the shopping cart 🤨.
Re warping - I wonder what happens if someone decides to return or exchange a book? Would a creator have to pay for it anyhow or not? It can affect reviews also.
No problem! And thanks! I designed them in CMYK, as that's KDP's recommendation. From my experience, the previews can be a bit different from the actual product, and the printed covers can come off a bit darker than expected.
I have to charge $24.99 for a hardcover to make the same amount at a $9.99 ebook. It's nice to be able to offer it, but the cost is definitely a turnoff for customers.
Yeah, the price is the biggest downside to the KDP hardcovers in my opinion. (And the lack of clothbound and dust jackets!)
$25 for a hardcover is pretty usual for a retail price. I wouldn't say the price is a turnoff for customers, but most would likely opt for the paperback for the lower cost if given the choice. But many still like the hardcover option, and it is often considered more of a collector option.
Ya I went with Ingram cause others sorta nudged me and the paperbacks were fine but the hard covers… out of a box of 20 books 8 of them had too much glue on the cover so it stuck to the first page. One had a odd long piece of paper that stuck out. And two of them the covers were covered in glue. I hope it is better when my companion novel is ready. Do you know if you can change printing companies?
Sounds like a major headache, but if that was a while ago, I think I've heard it's gotten better lately, so there's hope. As far as legally, I have no idea, I've never researched that. As for technically, I've never formatted anything for Ingram before so I couldn't say if you can use the exact same files from one printing company to another, but I'd imagine that it's pretty similar and wouldn't be that bad to adjust the formatting for somewhere else.
Hi, just a question: are those books printed in cream paper or white? I really like the color of the sheets (of course one can tell you did a great job formating the book)
They are printed on cream paper, with black-and-white interior for the ink. Thank you!
Thanks for the vid! What sizes are each? Thanks
Hello, pardon my question:
Which book software did you use to write you book? Because I like the books format and the first chapter the watermark.
No problem! I write in a program called Scrivener, but I format the books in Microsoft Word.
Good video. I am working on my hardcover.
Good luck!
Thank you for this review. I will try it!
Good luck!
the author copies come with a no resale logo on top or did you put it on there? thanks
KDP automatically puts the "not for resale" bar on proof copies. Author copies don't have the banner as they're meant for resale by the author.
I subscribed. Must admit, I did it to changed your subscribe number from 6*6 to 667.
Hollie you are amazing, that totally made my day! 😂💕
@@SydneyFaithAuthor I'm so glad I made your day! I'm a author as well, and just checked out your channel! I'm thinking of starting a channel as well, but we will see where time takes me, lol. God bless!! It's so great to see and meet another author!
Hi, thanks for the great content! Question, once you've published your hardcover, what are the print/ship times for your book when purchased by the consumer? My book just got approved today and it's showing "delivered within 2-3 weeks" .....
Well damn, I just checked yours.. it says 2-3 weeks! Ugh, what a bummer. That's so discouraging. Who wants to wait 2-3 weeks for a book!! Back to the drawing board.
Same :/ Who would want that? Especially since mine are mainly educational notebooks. No one is going to order a notebook that they need with a 2-3 week wait time
@@LivingListed I reached out to KDP on this and was told as your sales gradually increase, the ship time will gradually decrease. All of my books said "usually ships within 10 days" up until this week. Now it's back to 2-3 weeks, probably because the presses are busy during this time of year. What's frustrating is that even author copies now take 2-3 weeks.. that's troubling when you need to fill consignment stores. I'm moving towards building my own online store, then ordering author copies in bulk. Do you publish hard cover or paperback?
@@kyleb4327 oh okay. Thanks for the informative comment! That’s so sad that it’s back to 2-3 weeks. That’s no good. Like, that is jipp. How can we expect to earn money? I saw someone’s author copy on TH-cam, and it had a big grey horizontal stripe that said “Not for resale.” I do the low content books (I literally just started after this video, and it too a few days for my books to get approved. So, I didn’t know it would take that long until I posted my comment.). I have mostly paperback with one of the same books as paperback. That’s smart that your doing something like that, but also with the author copies, I don’t know how that will go. Do they have a limit on how many author copies you can get?
@@kyleb4327 low content books such a journals, basic composition notebooks (for school, just as science notebooks with graph paper, regular ruled notebooks, etc)
You got a subscriber 🔥
Thank you for the info
You bet!
@@SydneyFaithAuthor you got me interested in your series I stumbled upon your channel by mere chance and saw you promoting your books hard cover appearance this exact video I actually just ordered your book because of the video, I look forward to the read
That is so awesome to hear, thank you so much! 💕
Can you do a tutorial on how to upload to kdp as. Hardcover?
Maybe! I'll look at my recording schedule and see what I can do ❤
The proof process is deceiving. It was easy for me to have my cover accepted for a proof, but when trying to publish for shoppers I get error after error saying the cover doesn't line up with trim, etc. It's been very trying.
That's so frustrating! Yes it does sound easier than it is in practice lol.
Good job reviewing! Thanks
Thank you! Glad it was helpful 😁
What do you use to create your cover design? MS Word as well?
Nope, I used photoshop for all 3 cover formats, just had to re-size the paperback cover for hardcover.
@@SydneyFaithAuthor So I have a 2020 MacBook with no additional programs. Is there any program that comes with it that can be used for that? I am not very familiar. Can it be done in Pages (Mac version of MS Word)?
I don't know, sorry!
Can KDP hardcover feature automatically templates the manuscript and makes automatic margins and dimensions like the paperback one instead of you write the dimension?
Yes, the same KDP tool can be used for the hardcover interior as the paperback. The process is basically the same for the interior, and the cover is also quite similar with only slight differences.
@@SydneyFaithAuthor Gratitude to you Author Sydney Faith for your help . . .
Would you recommend glossy or matte for hard cover?
I've heard KDP's matte hardcovers are just like their paperback hardcovers, but I haven't seen them in person. As for personal preference, I like matte book covers more than glossy. But the KDP matte isn't my favorite, and like I said in the video, I have a lot of dark colors on my covers, and those usually turn out better with a glossy finish, so that's why I went with glossy this time.
@Sydney Faith Author Thanks for the fast reply! I've heard the same things about Matte, I just wasn't sure if the hardcover improved things at all. I think I'll stick with glossy.
No problem! Yeah, good call if you like their glossy, it's exactly the same.
@@SydneyFaithAuthor Perfect! I'll be sure to check out your book too! I love the cover!
Thank you!
Thanks Sydney
No problem! 👍
👍thanks
Welcome 👍
Is there a company that makes actually nice hardcovers and not these 1980s-classroom-style books?
Yes. Get published for real by a real publisher, like Random House or something, and we’ll have good quality books.
@@The-CoffeeMan thanks a lot
@@Fjordavy yeah, don’t mention it.
I made my first hardcover with KDP recently and I noticed that it smells really bad. Like, the glue or something is so off-putting. Is anyone else having this issue? It smells like Tequila I feel like lol
Oh weird! I haven't noticed that and I have quite a few copies now. I wonder if the different manufacturing locations makes a difference? I would think they all use the same glue, though. 🤷♀️