Kindle Publishing Tools
- Conley Stallard
- Aug 12, 2017
- 3 min read
Overview
If you are a publisher or author, you can upload and publish your books on Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP).
When you are creating your book for Kindle Publishing, Amazon furnishes all the tools you need to create and publish your content free of charge. You create your book content off line in digital format, e.g., PDF, Word, HTML, text, etc. and then upload to Kindle Publishing.
It's free to publish your book on Kindle as there are no sign-up fees and no publishing fees. You can select Amazon's 70% royalty option where you keep 70% of the sale for qualifying titles.
Free Tools for Kindle Publishing
Depending on your technical expertise and your existing relationship with Amazon, there are several ways to make your content available.
1. Kindle Textbook Creator - This is a downloadable tool that helps you convert PDF formatted books with rich media for Kindle devices and apps. Kindle Textbook Creator helps you edit materials like textbooks, cookbooks, travel books, and other titles with rich media like these:
When your book is published with the Kindle Textbook Creator, the readers of your book can take advantage of highlighting, notebook, flash cards, dictionary look-up and more.
You can download the tool free and use it to convert your PDF version of your book to Kindle Publishing format. You can download and follow the steps in the Kindle Textbook Creator User Guide to convert your book for publishing to Kindle.
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2. Kindle Kids' Book Creator - This is a free downloadable tool that helps you create illustrated children's books for Kindle Publishing. The tool supports file types JPG, PNG, TIFF, PDF and PPM formats for import into Kindle Publishing.
Books created with this tool are compatible with Fire HD. Fire HD 8.9", Fire, Kindle for iPad app, Kindle for iPhone app and Kindle Android app.
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3. Kindle Comic Creator - The Kindle Comic Creator is a free downloadable tool that helps authors and publishers to turn their comics, graphic novels and manga into Kindle books.. This tool is recommended for anyone who wants to create Kindle Comics, graphic novels and manga out of their existing artwork. This tool supports import from PDF, JPG, TIFF, PNG and PPM formats, and is available for both PC and Mac.
The Kindle Comic Creator makes it easy for authors and publishers to import artwork, create their masterpiece and preview how their book will look on Kindle devices. When you are satisfied with your Kindle book, you can publish to Kindle and share your story with millions of Amazon customers worldwide. Kindle Comic Creator also allows you to preview how the content of your book will look across Kindle devices. With it's integrated preview feature, you can see how your book will look on Kindle Fire tablets and Kindle readers.
Amazon also has a instructional video and other resources here to help you with your Kindle Comic book development.
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4. Kindle Create - You can use Kindle Create to help you convert your book so it's ready to publish for Kindle devices and apps. It's a tool which makes it easier to go through the file conversion process, preventing the kinds of errors that can impact publishing. Free Download here.
Kindle Create helps you preview and edit your book as it will appear in Kindle format before you publish. Use Kindle Create to edit your table of contents while you style your book. You can add professionally designed themes to make your digital book look better and easier to read.
Kindle Create helps you convert it so it's ready to publish to Kindle devices and apps. Kindle Create (Beta) makes it easier to go through the file conversion process, preventing the kinds of errors that can slow down publishing.
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5. Kindle Previewer - Kindle Previewer is a Kindle Publishing tool that lets you see how your book will view on different devices and screen sizes. This view will show you how the reader will see it on tablets, smart phones, or E-readers of different sizes. Free Download here.
Kindle books with Enhanced Typesetting (features such as hyphenation, kerning, and ligatures) work the same across devices on various platforms, and they adapt to the different screen sizes.
For details on testing Kindle Books, download and check section 8.1 in the Kindle Publishing Guidelines.
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6. Kindle Publishing Forum - The Forum is the perfect place to converse with experienced authors and publishers who have created and published their Book to Kindle, who will share their advice to others who are beginning. You can visit the KDP Community here!
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