- #PAGE NUMBERS ARE OFF IN KINDLE PREVIEWER HOW TO#
- #PAGE NUMBERS ARE OFF IN KINDLE PREVIEWER WINDOWS 7#
I commonly create the product cover from the internal cover I designed at 600 x 800 600 x 900 or 6 x 9-inches. It must be 72 dpi and I recommend a JPG file. The product display cover is the image that resides on the virtual bookshelf in the Amazon Kindle Store. Otherwise, remember that images on Kindle (with the exception of the Fire) are displayed in 16 shades of gray for great contrast and clarity.
#PAGE NUMBERS ARE OFF IN KINDLE PREVIEWER WINDOWS 7#
If your book has a lot of images, it can be viewed in color by the Kindle Fire or by readers using our free Kindle apps for PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android, and Windows 7 devices. For instance, larger images may resize or rotate when previewed. Note: Images do not display accurately when you preview an uploaded file. This process converts each image to a separate image file, which becomes a part of your content’s publication package (MOBI). If you choose to upload your Word (.doc) file, and you have embedded images in your content, Kindle Direct Publishing automatically extracts images from the content and replaces them with an HTML tag. HOWEVER once the reader has purchased your e-book, the Internal ebook cover is a moot point - they may go and look at your e-book cover, but most do not. It will also reduce the chance of encountering difficulties in conversion due to large file size.” Optimizing your images to fit these requirements before uploading to KDP will help decrease the size of your uploaded file. Images that are in other formats supported for upload to KDP (such as BMP or PNG), or that exceed this file size requirement, will be automatically recompressed as JPEG files during the conversion process. Inside your book file, the Kindle book format supports JPEG and GIF images up to 127KB in size. “The largest element of almost any Kindle book will be the image content. *Amazon recommends a 127K size for book covers. But you also don’t want the e-book file size to become too large. This will provide enough clarity for images, particularly for large images, or content with gradient patterns. The best formats to use for the internal Kindle e-book cover is a JPG or GIF image, 127 KB* size at 300 dpi. All other Kindle devices will display black and white.
NOTE: Images will appear in color ONLY on the Kindle Fire device. Kindle Direct Publishing can process your book covers in the following formats: Kindle Direct Publishing will convert your images and text for upload to the Amazon Kindle Store as well as display on Kindles and other supported devices. (not book covers for print)įormatting Images Inside Your Kindle Book NOTE: I will be talking about the Product display and internal cover only. ONLINE Book Cover Creator: I have not personally tried this site by it may be of interest to some of you:
The best file format is JPG, which is acceptable for publishing both the product and internal cover image. There are two covers you will need: the Product Cover and the Internal eBook Cover.
#PAGE NUMBERS ARE OFF IN KINDLE PREVIEWER HOW TO#
Now you need to know how to prepare your book images and upload your Kindle book cover to the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing system. You have prepared your manuscript and are ready to e-publish. **Though Amazon recommends 600 x 800 for the book cover (which is more squarish), I prefer to use the 600 x 900, or 6×9, as in a traditional book. *Samples located in right navigation of page
The page size ratio for the sample documents* Kindle offers is more like 1.2 to 1.3:Ĭhildrens Book: 452 px by 600 px, ratio is 1.327 I prefer to retain the 6 x 9 inch (typical book) ratio. At 2400 for the long side, this calculates to 5 inches by 8 inches at 300 dpi. Amazon updated their recommendation (4/2012) for a book’s cover file to be 1500 to 2400 pixels with a 1.6 ratio to the short side.
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