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How to convert books to Kindle format

Kindle book design: Now Kindle is the trending way of reading. Especially children, youth and all ages who are very interested in ebook reading. Kindle allows them read in their comfort by changing font style,size. Also the size and line spacing. You can zoom out images for a clarity. In this blog we learn how to modify your book to support Kindle publishing. We discuss the basic method using word document. Basic formatting instructions: While formatting an existing or designing a new Kindle book, make sure you choose page size Letter or A4. Other sizes may give a different look in Kindle. Define paragraph indentation, text to justified style. Always use paragraph style on to check for extra spaces. The most important thing is to define TOC in order to navigate easily to chapters in Kindle. Also page breaks play a key role in Kindle formats. You need your Chapters start on a new page and end properly with a page break. Header and footer not allowed in Kin

How to create a book cover with spine

Hardcover Design       Designing a book cover is an art. You might be finding a lot of YouTube videos. But here you can find the steps to achieve it. We can design book covers using Adobe InDesign, illustrator and Photoshop. Using Photoshop: Requirements for a hard cover: You should know the dimensions of the book for which you are going to design a cover. Book dimensions define your cover dimensions. Spine width calculations for a hard cover  To calculate spine width, you should know the number of pages inside the book. Bleed for printing. Usually people go for 25mm bleed for hard cover. And 3mm bleed for inside of the book. Once we have all the calculations, we start designing the cover in Photoshop in next blog post. -evv2017