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Ok, let's get started: I've tried to make this site as easy as pie for newbies Amazon's new Cover Creator beta shows great promise. While earlier versions were pretty basic, this new version can create a very professional-looking cover for your Kindle eBook. Before starting this exercise, make sure you have your manuscript preferably as a well-formatted squeaky-clean MS Word file ready, and know where it is Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.
Click Bookshelf the first of the four selections near the top of the display. The image shows my own Bookshelf with my "eBooks in work" displayed in the contents list.
Your Bookshelf will display your eBooks or will be blank if you have not started any eBooks. Click the large yellow button titled "Add New File" just above the list of titles. Type the name you want on your book cover in the "Book Name" slot near the bottom of this display. Now move down to number 4: Upload or Create a Book Cover. Choose Launch Cover Creator beta.
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It's a gray button just above the next major step number 5 in red letters. You may be tempted to try to select an option here, but this is just a Help display. Study the Cover Creator Help Display to understand how this works, then click the orange button titled Continue at the bottom right of the display. Chose the image you want to use for your Cover. For this exercise, I have elected to use a plain brownish red background.
As soon as I select my image, the Cover Creator uses my image plus the title and author name I entered earlier on this form , builds several different design ideas, and presents them to me:. Cover Creator presents a variety of different designs for you to select the one you like best. I decide to look at the one in the middle of the top row Cover Creator displays the cover I chose.
Notice buttons at the bottom of the screen to add final touches to the cover. Here is a different design. I decide I like this one best. Notice the edit box is now at the bottom left is now open. I choose fonts to see how different fonts will look. A scroll under the cover shows different fonts available. This selection shows what the font Philosopher will look like on my book cover.
I decide to ask Cover Creator to Preview it. Here is my cover with Great Vibes font for the title and the original font for the subtitle and author name.
I have used the edit box to touch up the display of the lines for sub title and author name. I decide I like this cover, so I click the orange button at the bottom of the screen, "Save and Submit". After the cover is saved, the main screen is presented again, where I go to item 4. Upload Your Book File.
When the conversion finishes, the Amazon KDP software gives me the opportunity to view my new Kindle eBook in the on-line Previewer or download a preview file to be viewed on the downloadable Kindle Previewer. Screenshot from Kindle Previewer, but it is identical to the display on actual device the Kindle Fire HD, except for name of file at top of screen on this screenshot.
Identical to actual physical device Kindle Paperwhite. Identical to actual physical device Kindle Keyboard. My computer screen does not show entire 9. Scroll through your file to be sure you have tagged all Titles that you want in the Table of Contents. When the Drop Down box appears, click Table of Contents, near the bottom of the list. Cancel the membership at any time if not satisfied 4. High speed access 5.
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