Publishing a Picture Book as a Kindle - by Susan Price
Three Billy Goats Gruff, £2-31 Last month I blogged about how to publish a picture book with Createspace. This month, I'll tell you how we also published the book as a Kindle ebook. Once again, we found How To Format Your Picturebook For Createspace Without The Frustration by A. Olsen extremely useful. Illustrator Andrew Price had already used a graphics programme to produce all the pages, with the text embedded in the images. He had saved all these pages several times over, in different folders. Once as huge graphics programmes, with all their layers, at four times the size they needed to be. Secondly, as equally huge jpegs, and finally as jpegs resized to fit our Createspace paperback. You can read about this here. To turn these pictures into an e-book, we had to decide between two programmes: Download here Kindle Kids' Book Creator... Download here Or Kindle's Comic Creator. They are both free programmes which yo...