![]() ![]() One I have just picked up in the last 48 hours or so is Activity Book Generator. Switch between hardcover and paperback with one click! You are going to love how quick and easy you can create both paperback and hardcover covers! This example uses a background image, with transparent png files added for the front and back cover. UPDATE 13/11 (taken from Cindy’s Instagram) : ‘Create covers for hardcover books with our cover creator! You can upload an image for the entire cover, and/or images for the front and back cover. She has lots of tutorials if you need some help getting started. If you want to give this one a wee three-day spin – then use this Aududu book creator link and give it a try. It’s how I’ve made my Totally Scottish and Totally ’80s Word Searchbooks. To be honest, it took me a few months to actually use it, but when I did, I fell in love with it. ![]() I’d heard of her software even before I met her, but after having a few good conversations with her, I went and forked the money for a year’s subscription. Now if you’re interested I have a special link that can get you a wee discount if you want to join BookBolt– just use the code ‘ podinscot‘ and that should give you a little something off….Įarlier this year I “met” Aududu’s founder Cindy Minear on Clubhouse. They have a variety of other features like ‘Book Scout”, KDP Spy and the BookBolt Lister which uses a Chrome Extension. It has a “Cloud” feature which is quite useful. While I do less of that, I have started to use Book Bolt a fair bit but more for research than anything else. You can create covers and interiors in Book Bolt. (It’s very handy for re-sizing book covers and manuscripts!) ![]() If you do want to test drive Canva Pro, I can offer you a 45 day FREE Canva Pro trial. Canva just updated its licensing page this week. Having a Pro version is highly recommended too, but not wholly necessary. If you use Canva to create books, I tend to recommend that you stick to all the FREE elements to stay safe legally. You can create an entire book – inside and out for FREE in Canva and upload it to Amazon also for FREE. I also use it to add graphics to things like journals and planners. (Cover dimensions are very different though!)įinally, I posted a similar post about Print on Demand but I’ve picked up a new tool or two since I wrote that post so updating that here today.Īs an official brand ambassador, of course I am going to say Canva is the tool that I use every day for creating book interior and book covers alike. It’s a fairly straightforward to create a hardback from and existing paperback. We recently have been given access to creating hardback* books on Amazon. Free vs Fee – Paperback vs Hardbackīefore we start, please note that some of these self-publishing tools are free (like Canva) and some of them are not. This post will contain sone affiliate links. We’ll focus on the ones I actually use and would recommend most. I’ve also bought software I’ve still not used. Over the last three or four years or so, I’ve tried a variety of tools to create paperback* books to sell on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform. Today I thought I’d do a fairly quick post about the main tools I use to create books for Amazon KDP.
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