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How do I prepare a book for printing?
The 5 Things You Need to Print Your Book
- Get a Print-Ready Book Cover. Print book covers are different than ebook covers, so if you have an ebook cover, you’re not done yet.
- Format Your Interior File.
- Decide on the Book’s Trim Size.
- Make Aesthetic Decisions.
- Determine Your Book’s Page Count.
What is print-ready format?
Print-Ready is a term used to describe a file that has all the specifications necessary to produce high-resolution printed output, without requiring any additional alteration or intervention. In other words, a commercial printer can use the file “as submitted” to successfully create the desired print materials.
Is my PDF print-Ready?
What is a print-ready PDF?
- Document sized incorrectly.
- Colors set to RGB instead of CMYK.
- Spot colors not properly defined.
- Not allowing ample margins (putting information or borders closer than 1/4” from any trimmed edge).
- Image resolution not high enough (should be minimum 300 dpi at 100% size).
What’s the easiest way to print a book on Amazon?
The easiest for indie authors to use is KDP Print, Amazon’s long-standing print-on-demand arm (it used to be called CreateSpace, but Amazon shut down CreateSpace in 2018 and moved all their printing services over to KDP). KDP allows you to upload a formatted manuscript to create a print book.
Do you start on a new page in a print book?
In a professional print book, chapters start on a new page, and there are other times when you’ll want to start a new part of the book on a clean page, so to speak. Not using section breaks is where many authors go badly wrong with their print formatting.
Can you publish a print book with KDP Select?
Being in KDP Select doesn’t limit you here; that exclusivity contract only applies to digital ebooks. You can sell your print books wherever you like while using KDP Print on Demand (POD) publishing. In the past, self-publishing a print book was expensive and risky.
Can a print book be formatted in Microsoft Word?
Formatting a print book for KDP can be learned quite quickly, and you can do everything in Microsoft Word, or InDesign if you want to make it extra professional. It does involve jumping a few hurdles, though, and those hurdles are the reason that so many self-published authors don’t have print versions of their books.