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Amazon kindle account for kids9/3/2023 ![]() For an eBook to be competitive, the price has to substantially lower than the print book, a strategy that is difficult to implement with high delivery costs. This makes it difficult to price illustrated eBooks at the lower end of the spectrum since a well-illustrated eBook tends to have a larger file size. Another major problem on Amazon is the delivery cost, a fee that is based on the file size of the eBook.The images are auto-resized without input and so it is not possible to select your own image resolution. The text interactivity (pop-ups) is very basic and auto orientation is not available (locked to portrait and landscape mode). There is some disappointment about the limited layout and formatting tools.After all the efforts a children’s writer puts into creating an e-book, the end-product is limited to a single platform which is a bit of a let-down by Amazon. This restricts the upload of the book to KDP, the Amazon platform and excludes it from the other popular platforms like iBook, Nook, Smashwords that require an ePUB file. The only output possible with this software is a. A Single Platform Product is the greatest drawback of Amazon’s Kindle Kids’ Book Creator.And there is some feedback about some of the less user-friendly features. It will definitely save me time and money when I publish my future books.”īut there are also many cautionary voices amidst the children’s authors. ![]() ![]() I have plans to upgrade my existing children’s books with this new tool, and to use it with future books.”Ĭhildren’s author and illustrator Michele Lynn Seigfried says: “As a self-published author, doing all the work myself and being no technical expert, I found this so easy to use. I was able to create fun pop-ups with ease. There is near unanimity about the software having an easy, hassle-free design which makes for a quick and simple learning curve.Īmong the early birds is children’s author Niki Alling who recommends it highly, “The new Kindle Kids’ Book Creator is exactly what I’ve been looking for. It’s still early days but there are plenty of children’s authors out there who have given the Kindle Kids Book Creator the thumbs up. The use of text pop-ups allows for interesting additions to the content and makes for a comfortable reading experience even on small devices. This option is extremely convenient if you have created a book with double page spread illustrations. The software gives you the option of creating in landscape mode for traditional picture books and portrait mode for other categories of children’s books (easy readers, middle grade and young adult). Amazon makes money on the sale of the created e-books, not on the e-book creation process. Since Kindle Kids Book creator is free and easy to use software, it increases the avenues available to self-publishing children’s writers. It gives the author access to Amazon’s powerful marketing system.It ensures book access on all popular devices including computers, tablets and smartphones.It allows for book preview on Kindle devices before publishing.It allows for use of category, age and grade filters that allows you to target the right audience.It has interesting features for the content, including Kindle text pop-ups.It allows for import of artwork from popular formats, including jpg, pdf, tiff, png, ppm.It is free and easy to use upload a PDF file and the output is a standard Kindle file (.mobi file).The big question for all children’s writers and authors is this – What’s in it for me? Well, these are some of the interesting features of the newly launched publishing software. Previously Amazon had launched their Kindle Comic Creator application for the indie author community and Kindle Kids’ Book Creator is seen as a companion to that publishing tool.ĭecoding Amazon’s Kindle Kids’ Book Creator Amazon hopes to reach out to the authors of children’s books and bring them within the ambit of Amazon publishing industry. This new self-publishing tool is a part of Amazon strategy to maintain its dominant control over the indie author market. Kindle Kids’ Book Creator makes it easy.” said Russ Grandinetti, Senior Vice President, Kindle. No one should have to be a computer programmer to create a beautiful, illustrated Kindle book for kids. “Authors want to focus on telling great stories and we want to help them do that. Amazon’s new release is a free tool that is designed to help children’s writers create, publish and market illustrated and chapter books in Kindle Stores worldwide. Amazon launched Kindle Kids’ Book Creator, which is positioned as a true game changer for children’s writers across the world. Amazon’s big announcement in September created quite a splash in the world of children’s writers.
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