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Make a Kindle ebook

Once your manuscript is in ColorCraft, one button makes a Kindle ebook of it: an EPUB file with your chapters, title page and table of contents, and the cover picture KDP asks for. It’s the same book as your paperback, word for word.

The ebook is for books you brought as a manuscript. If you haven’t imported yours yet, start with Publish your manuscript.

What you get

  • An EPUB file. The text reflows to fit any Kindle, phone or tablet, and readers can change the font and the text size.
  • A cover picture, 1600 × 2560 pixels, made from the front of your cover. The whole front is kept; nothing is cropped.
  • A table of contents readers can open from the Kindle menu, with a link to every chapter.
  • Your title page, copyright page, dedication and epigraph, in the same order as the paperback.
  • Your italics, bold, block quotations and scene breaks.

Step by step

  1. 1

    Set the language

    On the Details step, under About the book, pick the language your book is written in: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Dutch. The ebook is marked with it, and KDP asks you for the same language.

  2. 2

    Make the cover first, if you want one in the ebook

    The ebook uses the front of the cover you made on the Cover step. Without a saved cover you still get the EPUB, but no cover picture, so make the cover first.

  3. 3

    Make the ebook

    On the Download step, choose Make my ebook. It takes a few seconds. ColorCraft checks every chapter and every word made it into the file, then gives you two downloads: Download EPUB and Download Kindle cover.

  4. 4

    Upload to KDP

    In KDP, create a Kindle eBook. Choose your book’s language, upload the EPUB as the manuscript and the cover picture as the Kindle eBook cover. If KDP asks about the layout, choose reflowable. Open KDP’s previewer to page through the book before you publish.

Changed your book? Make the ebook again

The ebook is a copy of your book at the moment you make it. After fixing a typo or changing a chapter, choose Make my ebook again and upload the new file to KDP. The download links work for an hour.

Paperback and ebook together

Both come from the same manuscript, so you can publish them side by side. The paperback needs the interior PDF and the full cover (front, spine and back); the ebook needs the EPUB and the front cover picture. On KDP they are two formats of one book; when the title and author match, KDP links them on one Amazon page.

Plans and the free trial

  • Every plan. Formatting a manuscript uses no pages; a picture cover uses pages like any cover, and a type-only cover is free. Making the ebook uses no pages either.
  • On a free trial you can import, design and preview the whole book; downloading the PDF and the ebook needs a plan.
  • See every plan.

Not yet included

  • Ebooks of coloring books, storybooks, comics and puzzle books: the ebook is for manuscript books.
  • Pictures, tables and footnotes inside the text.
  • Fixed-layout ebooks and books written right to left.

Make your Kindle ebook

Import your manuscript, then download the paperback PDF and the ebook.

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