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Step By Step How to Format Your Book for Amazon KDP
Use Canva to publish your book on Amazon KDP!
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Have you ever wanted to get published? It’s not as difficult as it seems with Amazon KDP! Of course, that depends on if you’re writing your own book or not too but for this instance, it’s not so bad.
If you are writing your own book it can get a little complicated, but it doesn’t have to be beyond the difficulty of writing your own book. Although, you can outsource that part of it, just like you can outsource the rest if you wanted. However, if you want to do the writing yourself, this is how can!
What size do you want your Amazon KDP book?
Depending on what kind of book you want to make, I would choose a different size for what you’re planning on making. I used the same size for both my book that I wrote, Fireflies, as well as my Gratitude Journal. If I were you I would research what the best size was for your book in your niche.
What I will show today is specifically for low content books but you can take the same applications and use them for any Amazon KDP book you want to publish. It’s important to have a Canva account for this too.
If you’re unfamiliar with Canva, take some time to get used to it before you get started. I have the free version and though there are minor limitations, it’s really an amazing tool!
Create your Amazon KDP cover.
When you’re making the cover again, use the right size for the book that you want to make. For me, with a 6 x 9-inch book, if I were doing an ebook cover it could be just that, 6 x 9. But since I’m doing only paperback, the dimensions are actually 12.485 x 9. 250 inches.
That’s because I’m making the whole cover out of one sheet of paper, that wraps around the whole book. Be sure to download it as a PDF print so that it’s high quality when it’s printed!
