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Whats The Best Way To Format A Paperback Book Cover For Amazon Kdp?
Yes and no. First off, I assume you have rights to the complete cover and whatever image is being used. Because if you paid for a cover to be made for you, the contract language is going to state whether you are allowed to use it for anything else — and that includes a print version of the book. Now that that’s out of the way. You can have the same, similar, or different cover designs. However, the print version needs to be altered in certain specific ways in order to fit the book. Whereas an eBook cover is just the front image (not always true for all platforms) and there may be several ratios available, a print cover is a single image that wraps around from the front over the spine to the back. KDP is very helpful here. You don’t have to go through any of the math yourself. If you upload the text, pick a trim size and paper type, KDP will make available a customized template for the cover art. You don’t need to put everything on this. You could just have it be blank except for the front. But assuming you want a nice-looking book, you want to write back-cover copy, and make sure you leave space for the bar code (KDP will tell you where that will be, or let you do it yourself if you have an IDSN already). And you probably want to put something on the spine as well. Lastly. KDP requires the title, subtitle, and author name be IDENTICAL across the various parts of their platform. So you can’t have anything different about those on your different covers. (Incidentally, I’m currently with a revised print cover but I haven’t gotten around to fixing the eBook cover. So t are both identical and…not identical.)
Add Page Numbers to PDF: All You Need to Know
So I'm asking you if by tomorrow your KDP template says something like this... I also use a lot of free templates because I'm lazy, and if there are things you can do to improve my book without spending any money, please do — but please don't take advantage of my laziness and ask if you can put your book onto KDP. That's why I want everyone that reads this first to make a clean copy of it, and let me know which templates I was using. There are plenty of free ones out there, and I can't speak for every author, but yours is an exception — so please don't steal that template, or I'll go to war with someone. I've written an article about KDP that should be part of your final edit, so it's up on my website, where I will post it after it's posted hear.