4-in-1 Boxed set includes both volumes and moreįollow me at WordPress, find my author page on Facebook, or connect with me through Twitter.Volume 2 on marketability and marketing.Neither is suitable for a book like a novel, that mostly consists of text.Ĭhris McMullen, Author of A Detailed Guide to Self-Publishing with Amazon and Other Online BooksellersĬlick here to view my Goodreads author page.(PDF ordinarily doesn’t convert well to Kindle, but these two tools are an exception to the rule.) The text usually comes out crisp with the Kindle Textbook Creator. Both are convenient because you can upload a PDF.The Kindle Textbook Creator generally produces much smaller files, saving you on the delivery fee. ![]() ![]() Update: The latest version of the Kindle Textbook Creator now supports hyperlinks (provided that you upload a PDF with fully functional hyperlinks). You can’t edit the HTML or add links at all. It doesn’t allow for pop-up text (nor for two-page spreads). The Kindle Textbook Creator is designed for pinch-and-zoom.It is possible to edit the HTML, if you know what you’re doing, e.g. The Kindle Kids’ Book Creator allows for pop-up text, which is nice for most illustrated children’s books.Here is the basic difference between these two free Amazon tools: (Carolyn Kivett also has a teen word scramble book in print, with many more puzzles, which can be found here and she has also published several other word scramble books, both in print and for Kindle.)īasic Astronomy Concepts Everyone Should Know by Chris McMullen, Ph.D. The following e-book (which is presently 99 cents) illustrates that a Look Inside can automatically generate for e-books published using the Kindle Textbook Creator. However, I included the examples in case you’re curious about the Look Inside or how these tools work, not because I thought you might be shopping for e-books at the moment.) (All of the following e-books are available with Kindle Unlimited, Amazon Prime, and of course good old-fashioned sales. Here are a few sample e-books illustrating the Kindle Textbook Creator. Kindle Textbook Creator Pros & Cons (and Tutorial for how to Optimize it).You can find a discussion of the pros and cons of using this tool, and tutorials for how to use the Kindle Textbook Creator and the Kindle Kids’ Book Creator (both are free tools available straight from Amazon) at the following links (to my detailed free “how to” articles): The Kindle Textbook Creator isn’t ideal for “all” types of e-books. It might help to provide the ASIN of an e-book showing an example where there is clearly a Look Inside of the Kindle edition of an e-book that was definitely published using the same tool as you used, either the Kindle Textbook Creator or the Kindle Kids’ Book Creator. Secondly, if it doesn’t generate in a couple of weeks, you can place a request through support. First of all, there can be delays of weeks in generating a Look Inside regardless of how you publish there is some luck involved in the timing. Just because it can be done and it has be done, doesn’t mean it automatically will be done. Let me emphasize the word “can,” and this word may also apply for the Kindle Textbook Creator. I’ve heard reports from authors who use the Kindle Kids’ Book Creator that a Look Inside can now generate for those, too. Most of my older e-books published using the Kindle Textbook Creator still don’t show a Look Inside for the Kindle edition, but I expect this feature to roll out over the course of the coming weeks. (This book doesn’t have a print edition, nor does it have an ISBN-it just has the free ASIN assigned by Amazon.) ![]() However, the e-book I published yesterday generated its own Kindle Look Inside automatically. (Though it was always possible to place a request so that the print Look Inside would show in its place.) In the past, I’ve always been informed by KDP that e-books produced using the Kindle Textbook Creator won’t generate a Look Inside.
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