Nov 08, 2014 get a head start with one of our interior templates. This you can now load into photoshop and indesign to use as the base layer for your book cover, the great thing with this book cover template is that it gives you the margins, bleed, fold lines and trim marks however, i would always strongly recommend that you. The book manuscript template will help but has no design to it whatsoever. If you will make your book available for sale online, youll most likely want to create a custom book cover design if you are selfpublishing a book and using print on demand, the first step will be to use the.
When youre ready, youll simply export a pdf and have a printready file. The templates with sample content include formatted front matter e. A stepbystep guide to publishing with createspace by lyn. There are many free pdf conversion programs, but i have found this one works well. Kdp print offers templates for the interior downloadable in word and cover templates. I also discuss how to merge pdf documents to make a unique interior.
In order to sell your book as an ebook, you must first convert your document to a format that can be read by ereaders. If you have an editing, cover or interior layout design, or ebook conversion project underway with createspace, they will continue to work with you until april 20, 2018. The page size and margins for each template already meet our submission specifications. I will convert doc, docx, pdf, html files into pdf, mobi, epub and vice versa. How to export your pdf from adobe indesign bookbaby. Formatting your print book in ms word for kdp print. Mar 09, 2017 covers created with older createspace templates may trigger errors, and will need to be reformatted to remove the whitespace at the borders. Then copy and paste into a createspace template, tinkering around as. The easiest way to format your book is to use one of the templates provided by createspace. Youll want a wider margin for longer thicker books. If you have an editing, cover or interior layout design, or ebook conversion project underway with createspace, they will continue to. Do kindle ebook, paperback, children book formatting.
To design the template you can use any desktop application that generates documents that can be converted to pdf. Amazon kdp formerly createspace and ingramspark printon. What not to do on createspace celebrating independent. Createspace books that arent available for sale on amazon. In that case, i am giving here a complete example for using latex to create a. The bookbaby ebook publishing package includes bookpromo, a set of marketing tools you need to build a buzz for your book, and bookshop, your own webpage where you can sell your ebook direct to your readers. To help you format your manuscript, we created templates in microsoft word into which you can. I have played with the online templates, and they did not impress me. The resources article creating a pdf for print should assist you with saving your document into a pdf. Low and zero content book templates how to merge a pdf. Keep in mind that for paperback books you probably want to convert the links from underlined words to the actual address e. If one of their many templates doesnt meet your needs, they also provide free downloadable cover templates you can use to build your own cover. Making full print covers for createspace is a little tricky, but this guide and sample templates will help.
There are a few fiction and nonfiction cover template samples to. Fixed layout ebooks utilize twopage spreads and the page turn animations in the ipad to give you the look and feel of holding a real book in your hands. Draft2digital introduces professionalquality ebook templates. Kdp print offers interior templates in word and a cover creator tool. What not to do on createspace celebrating independent authors. I am professional on kindle and createspace interior book design and formatting. Metric conversion chart templates are available in multiple formats including word format, pdf and excel for free download. Should you move from createspace to kdp paperbacks. Using createspace requires that you choose a page size and then paste the manuscript into the generic format template and save as a pdf. Paste your manuscript into this template or simply start typing. I suggest you check out my own templates for ms word. Apr 12, 2014 the book cover is the most single important aspects of book publishing. For pdf conversion, bi publisher supports any pdf conversion utility, such as adobe acrobat distiller.
The blank templates have the page size and margins set. Formatting your print book in ms word for kdp print spread. There were too many limitations, making a createspace cover stand out from the book rack as a cover created with createspace online cover creator. As always, it has been a pleasure facilitating your creativity. Dec 10, 2015 click on build template and it will download a zipped file containing two templates. You can now manage your createspace content on amazons. What file formats does amazon createspace accept for books. A stepbystep guide to publishing with createspace by lyn horner. The book cover is the most single important aspects of book publishing. Home forums epub and ebook conversion from ms word to pdf, epub, kindle tagged. There are currently two main formats in use in the industry. One problem i found with ingramspark is that they dont play nice with pdfs created in microsoft word especially for mac os. Aug 23, 2018 kdp print offers interior templates in word and a cover creator tool. He is carrying the box that holds his chess pieces.
If your graphic designer does not have or follow the correct template, createspace will not accept the book cover file for publications. Choose a template that matches the trim size you want for your book. Many aspects of the selfpublishing process can be intimidating and confusing, especially the first time you do them. How to make a pdf cover for your createspace book lit. Adding a header and page numbering converting the ms word. Amazons kdp formerly createspace is a printondemand pod service from amazon, and ingramspark is a competitive service from the industryleading distributor, ingram. For the best results, we recommend that you convert your paperback manuscript file to a pdf before uploading it to kdp. Use createspaces word templates to set up your own files. This article, written by lyn horner, guides us stepbystep through the process of publishing a book with createspace. We now offer specialized options for your different publishing needs. You can now manage your createspace content on amazons improved publishing services. What createspace wants from you establish an account this will include telling them how to pay you upload cover several free options for cover design pick one of their templates and fill it in supply front cover image and back cover image and let them do the spine submit a pdf of entire cover upload interior. All you need to do is select its html format and download the chart in an easy way. Using createspace s formatted templates the formatted interior templates provide a basic layout for your books interior.
Kay franklins products are always full of good solid advice and marketing essentials is no different. You need to create printready pdf files that work on the createspace platform. Saturn and the theoretical foundations of an emerging discipline. Converting a book cover for createspace from jpeg to pdf. A pdf is fine for your print book, but its about the most unworkable file when it comes to ebook conversion and can cause problems with text reflow, among other things. In that case, i am giving here a complete example for using latex to create a pdf file that should be acceptable to createspace.
Here are some things ive learned about createspace along the way. Createspace cover template book cover design selfpublish. After you have all of your margins, styles, images, table of contents, and headers, footers and page numbers set the way you want them for your book, proceed with converting your book to a pdf to upload to createspace. With hope, you can now focus on the nooks and crannies of your story, rather than the intricacies of a complicated program. If you are creating a book cover youll want it exciting.
The stepbystep guide to formatting your print book for kdp. See the table for what to set your inside margins to. How to make a cover using createspace template diane tibert. How to format a book for createspace and kdp print w ms word. Latex has a steep learning curve, so that you should only consider it if you are already at least somewhat familiar with the system. Login to get started with kindle direct publishing, manufacturing on demand, or print on demand for publishers. One problem i ran into was that after pasting more than 10 chapters into the createspace word template, my book has more than 10 chapters and template only goes up to 10 i found that the page numbers started over again with chapter 11.
For some reason these templates come with a lot of white space around them i suggest cropping it away to avoid straining your eyeballs. The basic conversion charts are easily available over the internet, so if you are looking for such a template, you can come across several basic metric conversion chart templates. I couldnt find save as pdf or export to pdf within gimp. Keep in mind that this template will only work when submitting a book to createspace. Latex does a very good job of handling mathematical equations. Ive converted four books to pod with createspace, and im so. You might want to bookmark this page for future reference if you plan to publish with createspace. Information for families 5 psychosis is a loss of touch with reality. The last thing you will need to do is save it as a pdf file for upload to the kdp dashboard. Edward arruns mulhorn, 2018 the author asserts his moral rights excerpt from we go blindly into the darkness 2 open and waiting. After youve achieved a result that youre happy with, choose save as in the menus, and choose photoshop pdf or just pdf as the format. If you were dependent upon createspace formatting your cover and interior before they stopped offering those services, you are now in luck.
Some templates are referto in nature, meaning that they list the conversions in a multiply by format. If you think thats ugly, you should see what createspace can do to a pdf. We recommend the following to prepare your manuscript for conversion. We need to get the text of your book into the proper format so that it looks amazing when printed. Outside margins are the page edges opposite of the binding, and the top and bottom margins. It uses the epub file format and can be sold and purchased through online ebook retail stores. Setup once youve completed the writing process, you can easily set up. Many of the cover creator templates will allow you to choose an image from.
How to make a pdf cover for your createspace book lit world. Amazon is popular because it provides any publisherselfpublishers and major publishers alikeautomatic distribution to both services provide highly competitive pricing. Dpi conversion tool to check picture quality is acceptable. For other book printers, youll need to see what they offer. How to make a full print book cover in microsoft word for. Once those details have been added simply click build template and it creates a pdf and png file based around your details. Copy and paste your books content into the template by section, such as the front matter title page, acknowledgements page, etc.
You can make a full print cover that looks pretty good, but you need to get familiar with the features in ms word, and use quality fonts and images. The thumbnails on the left show how a createspace formatted template is set up. You will see that the journal has grown in many ways and i am particularly delighted to see not only an. Paperback interior design paperback manuscript templates build your. Amazon, kdp, kindle or createspace cannot be listed as the. Kdp will automatically convert these file types to pdf prior to publishingprinting.
Download the project files to follow along with the sample file, or use your own form. Aug 15, 2016 the resources article creating a pdf for print should assist you with saving your document into a pdf. For the best results, save your formatted manuscript as a pdf. You can convert numerous file types into pdf including microsoft word or excel documents, noninteractive pdfs, and even scanned paper documents. Follow the format in the example template then save the word doc as a pdf. How do i use bookbaby for my ebook conversion and distribution. Dec 10, 2015 i make all my covers using powerpoint, so ive never tried to use the downloadable template provided by createspace.
Pdf to use with print on demand pod services, such as createspace and. I also used a createspace template 5x8 within gimp. Drag the png across to the folder that youve allocated for all the elements of your cover design. To reenroll in expanded distribution, make your books available for sale on amazon. Createspace graphics primer clears the confusion and shows youwith realworld imagesthat its not difficult or expensive to create a graphic. Next, youll need to download the correct createspace cover template to send to your graphic designer. Free book formatting templates in ms word and indesign. Convert existing forms to fillable pdfs in adobe acrobat.
I also work with pdf and will give a custom price for conversion. How to upload a book to createspace serve no master. How to make a createspace book cover in photoshop andrew. Huge tangent template update createspace and kdp book building tool. I flattened the layers and used print print to file pdf to get a pdf file. They dont play well with the regular wordtopdf conversion i use adobe pro, but they do give directions for saving a.
So, the same interior pdf i used for kdp was mangled by ingramspark, and ingramspark doesnt offer technical assistance if you come to them with a pdf created by word. Fixed layout ebook conversion fixed layout for apple books. San was a bushman drawing who lived on a rock in a cave deep in the karoo. Aamir is walking to the room where his chess club meets. Apr 11, 2017 hi leila, thank you for this very helpful article. How to export your pdf from adobe indesign bookbaby self. Click on build template and it will download a zipped file containing two templates. All live text and images must have an outside margin of at least. As aamir walks by they jump out and surround aamir. Kdp helpfully provides free word templates for authors to use, which can be a good.
Createspace offers professional design, layout and copyediting services for a fee. Your book should now be correctly formatted for print with kdp. The easiest way to get this right is by using the createspace cover template calculator. Format and convert createspace, kindle, epub ebooks in few.
There were too many limitations, making a createspace cover stand out from the book rack as a cover created with createspace online cover. Tag knocks the box out of aamirs hands and scoops it up. The same websites say microsoft word cant generate a createspacecompatible pdf. Templates displaying sample formatted content include front matter, chapters, headers, page numbers, and more. Fixed layout ebook conversion fixed layout for apple. If you want help formatting the other parts, see our stepbystep guides for preparing your manuscript in word for windows and mac. Be sure to save your documents before creating your pdf so that you can edit. May 20, 2014 if you think thats ugly, you should see what createspace can do to a pdf. Find prepare form and click open to browse to the file youd like to convert to an interactive pdf form. How to create a book cover for ingram spark and createspace. Setup once youve completed the writing process, you can easily set up a new book in your createspace account. In this video, i discuss an affordable option for nocontent book interiors.
A pdf is fine for your print book, but its about the most unworkable file when it comes to ebook conversion and can cause problems with text reflow. Or, scan in an original paper document to use as the background for the template. Once you have the pdf file of your book, you will want to check it carefully before uploading to kdp. Draft2digital has always made it a priority to make ebook conversion as easy as.
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