I hate formatting, but Pages has really helped with a lot of projects.įor this one, I was actually able to use Word WITHOUT headaches because of Draft2Digital’s total free book formatter. You can create beautiful graphic PDFs and also text-based books and export as. I love love LOVE to use Pages on Mac for creating PDFs and ebooks. LISTEN TO EPISODE 118 – THE BEST TOOLS FOR KINDLE SELF PUBLISHINGĭisclosure: This post contains affiliate links, which means at no extra cost to you, purchasing products will give me a commission for referring you! The Best Tools for Kindle Self Publishing (I had previously just sold it as a PDF on my site.) I want to share the tools that I used to streamline the process and make more sales with my self published books. (See them all here!) With Creative Collaborations, I feel like I finally got into a self-publishing groove and even put up another book on Amazon for sale that same week. Now that I have five books for sale, I’ve got more of a streamlined writing and self publishing process for Kindle. (You know, where you can click on a chapter and immediately be taken to that part of the book.) I also had weird characters in between words that I couldn’t see in Word, but appeared in the Kindle reader. No matter what I gleaned from Amazon’s instructions or tried to do in Word, I could not get my Table of Contents to be clickable. When I dove into Kindle self publishing with my first book ( Make Him Room, an advent devotional), the big thing I remember was staying up ’til 4am crying, cussing, and generally wanting to kill someone over…the TABLE OF CONTENTS. Plus some great tools for choosing categories and keywords on Amazon! Apple’s iBooks Author tool tries to convince educators to go digital-first, while Amazon’s says bring whatever you’ve already got to the table to help us expand our education market reach.I self published my first book in 2012 and so much has changed! This post will share the best tools for Kindle Self Publishing, from the formatting to the cover. For now, it’s a concession to the legacy educational publishing industry that also seems to want to encourage more self-publishing efforts by educational professionals and authors. The EDU Textbook Creator seems fairly simple in its current form, but Amazon says it will continue to add features as time goes on, so don’t be surprised if tools for educators get a lot more sophisticated eventually. KDP EDU titles are also eligible for Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, as well as marketing features including Amazon’s free book promotions. The standard economics of KDP apply with the new EDU publishing arm, meaning authors earn royalties ranging up to 70 percent depending on options, and keep control of the rights related to their content. Books built with Amazon’s new tool offer multi-color highlighting for students, as well as built-in notebooks, flashcards for review, dictionaries, and of course multi-platform support, in addition to translating the PDF version of their document into something that works on any reader. Kindle Textbook Creator seems designed for speed, and for working with the legacy textbook publishing industry, as opposed to iBooks Author which is more designed to help educators build digital-native experiences from scratch. It’s kind of like iBooks Author for Apple and iTunes U, but it uses PDFs of existing texts as a starting point and offers over-the-top digital features for Kindle-based consumption. It’s called the Kindle Textbook Creator, and it lets authors prepare electronic textbooks for students, for publication across Fire tablets, Android devices, iPhones and iPads, Mac and PCs. Amazon has a new tool for its Kindle Direct Publishing authors, via a new KDP EDU wing of the same aimed at educators and academic institutions.
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