Done this morning. Very easy to follow. Just had to add my title page to my stack. Took about an hour to open account, add bank details and then create book. Very clear instructions as always. Showing as a separate listing to my hardback but I can hopefully fix that. Many thanks
@@EmmaRosenBooks can I ask did you make your original Lily hardback/paperback on KDP? I’m having trouble linking my Kindle with the hardback and I think it’s because my original hardback isn’t KDP. Basically the two things exist in different ecospheres!
hello.please I have few questions. so I wrote mine on Canva, so what size do I resize my book on Canva to, also when I try to upload the pdf to kindle creator , it did not accept it, please help out. thanks
Where is an option to change the actual printed book size? I have a certain size I would like to go for, and it will be a square too, but I see no option anywhere to specify the size. Any ideas what and where can I do? Thank you!
I have a paperback children book that is 2300 words. There is a full page of text on one side and an illustration on the other side. For the Ebook, Should I do a landscape view and have it the same as my paperback with text on one side and illustration on the other side… or should I do the portrait view? It seems that it would be best to have the landscape view and have both text and picture side by side…but it would be so small on a screen to read the text…but to have it in portrait view and to have it single page would seem stranger separating the text and the pictures. What do you think is best? Thank you!
@@EmmaRosenBooks thank you, but what is embedding ? I am sorry,but I am new to this kind of work,so if you can help it's Ok or you can recommend a video that explains solving this problem. Lots of thanks.
I had to add each .pdf page separately and not as a group. Thank you because without this info I would have given up for a yr or so because I was fed up. 🤷🏽♀️
Hi Emma. I went to the amazon page of your book and noticed that you have the option to play an audio sample. I would love to know how you did that. Is the audible version of the book, or is a feature you can put on the ebook version? Like in play book in google, when you can make the app read the book. I loved that! Cheers.
Hi Emma. Just watched your video, and I see that you are a FAST responder. Kudos to you. So many RU-vidrs don't respond, or take months to do it. I'll try to be interesting enough to garner a response :) Short and to the point - How much do you know about editions, under KDP rules? I did my own illustrations, I'm actually fast at drawing..slllloooowwww at writing. My physical book cover and interior images are square, and my ebook cover and images are landscaped, so that a single page fits nicely on a tablets screen. The important content, the illustrations that support the story are exactly the same for the ebook and physical book. I simply added more vegetation to the bottom, and more sky to the top for the print book. Is that unheard of? Odd? Should I look out my window for people carrying torches and pitchforks? Mature translation: Does one need to be edition 1, and the other edition 2? Or are they enough alike in what matters to be the same edition? My take, after researching is that they can be the same edition..but I don't want my wishful thinking to cloud my reasoning abilities. What do you think?
Hi Emma, I was just wondering if using the Kindle Kid's Book Creator tool means they own the rights to that version of your book? I know publishing on Kindle direct publishing, the rights belong to you, but does using their own tool/software to create a kindle version means they own those rights? I know you said it was exclusive but anymore detail in the technicality would be greatly appreciated? Thank you so much! Great video!!
Hi, they don't own the rights, but you can't use that ebook version you created with the tool through other companies- you'd have to create it a different way.
Hi Emma, Should I upload the .Mobi file created in Kindle Kids Book Creator or is it better to upload the Kindle Previewer .Mobi file? The Kindle Previewer states that "the file is created with enhanced viewing features"... Thank you :)
After viewing my book I discovered the images I used are small. I made the changes necessary, I redownload it but I don't see the changes.. Do I need to start a brand new book to see those changes?
It was recommended to me to set up my own publishing company to make it appear more legitimate. I imagine you could skip it or simply include your website address.
@@allycat8333 I'll have to look into it! Not sure I want to start another company. Definitely need to make a website for the book though, hadn't thought of that yet!
Hi Emma, Excellent video. I tried uploading my ebook manuscript (picture book) as a pdf. Didn't work out. I am considering converting to EPUB. Have you heard about Calibre software to convert a PDF to EPUB? Thank you
It needs to be e-pub or mobi depending on platform - pdf won't work. If you're going solely Kindle you can use their book creator which is quite good. I haven't used calibre.
Hi Emma, thanks for the guide. A question, in PDF my illustrations were totally fine, but when I uploaded my PDF, it got pixelated badly. Do you what might be the problem and how could I solve it?
Can you give me some advice please, I’m using Adobe illustrator to create my children’s picture book (have also tried indesign but find illustrator is my preferred weapon of choice) I’m having trouble getting images that span across 2 pages to match up when I upload to kdp. I have created facing page documents in illustrator but find that when I save as a pdf file it’s hit or miss as to whether the images matches up correctly I seem to get a bit of a repeat at the centre where the 2 pages join (gutter?) I’m new to setting up picture books for publishing, I’m not new to illustrator or setting up illustrations to be print ready, but this is really foxing me any advice would be gratefully received x
Here's a tutorial I did, but I don't talk about exporting as spreads/pages. But in case this is helpful for InDesign. It is of a text based book rather than kids. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T05RrPwVYaU.html
Can you please let me know who do you use for the illustrations? Excellent video. Very informative. We have our children’s book finished. Looking for someone to create the cover.
Hi, Emma.Very nice job! I'm struggling with sizing my illustrations in Kindle Kids' Create. For instance, I want each main image to fill one page. The opposite page will contain the text. I can't find any guidance in the software. For instance, what is the size of a Kindle Kids' Creator page left or right? Better question, does the author size the book pages? How? Mystified. Thanks so much in advance.
Hi, sorry I missed your question - probably too late - my book is formatted so the double page spread is visible at once, but I believe you can also do it so you can see one page at a time.
where can I find the dimensions I need for the page to be full on the device. I want to make a landscape book with one page on each but my illustrated page on the preview looks as it has white borders. thanks
Awesome. I’m sure you don’t want to discuss it in the open but is there a way to talk about what pricing should be? I have a friend who is an artist and she wants to illustrate my book but I’m not sure what pricing should be.
@@patrickc7619 you could get quotes to see what industry standard is - it does depend on how many illustrations, how they're done etc. . Or you can work on a royalty share if you are both happy with that. 🙂
@@EmmaRosenBooks I'm just beginning to work with an illustrator and they asked what size paper I'd be using however Kindle isn't paper. How would you suggest going about this? When published on paper I've imagined that the book itself will be an 8 x 10. Thanks so much!
I don't know if you realize how fast you talk in several places in this video. Try to keep in mind that others watching this video might never have done this process.
