We get lots of question about what the correct image size is for the kindle and how to resize and make images smaller to fit on the kindle. Youll lose some capabilities with syncing progress between devices, highlights, and goodreads syncing, things like that. Upload your book cover is the for product display only. With your free canva account, you can design an excellent cover for. There are three simple steps to designing your cover. Please make sure the title, subtitle, author name, and series information on your cover match the book details you entered. I have a kindle book whose displayed cover art is just a bunch of dots. But it shows you how to insert an image into a kindle book. Before you start creating your cover, make sure you have all rights necessary for the content of your cover image and that it complies with our content guidelines.
Which means that if you have an image thats 1500 pixels wide, multiply that with 1. Choose edit ebook content or edit paperback content. I also wanted to make a visual library of all the books i. They have since updated the title on the kindle store with a picture for the cover. To reduce file size, word is set to compress images. How to change your book cover on amazon kindle kdp youtube. First select an image choose designamazon provides thousands of royalty free images to choose from or you can upload an image of your own. Complete guide to book cover sizes why do they matter. Amazons kindle or kindle app supports not only ebooks, but also pdfs. I had bought one of the classic titles which they have war and peace, which, like many of the classics, had no cover image. Drm from the kindle book, this is necessary if you want to change cover. Feb 05, 20 here i will explain how to add a cover to an epub pdf mobi book with free calibre. Locate the cover image that you can to add to the imported epub book and click the open button.
You can also stick to a 300 dpi image as most publishers would apply their own compression. When the kindle is color it would look very cool to havea virtual bookshelf with all of the covers. You can add a new format, delete an existing format and also ask calibre to set the metadata and cover for the book entry from the metadata in one of the formats. Promoting more aggressively, increasing advertising expenditure and lowering the price can all help book sales, but if the cover is the real issue, all that money and effort may be for little reward, but if you change your book cover, it costs nothing. For paper books after we choose one book we cant change the cover any more. How to change ebook cover for kindle or other ebooks ereader. I wanted to change the covers of the ebooks i bought for my kindle fire from amazon. I bought a book a week and a half ago or so and the cover has not downloaded to my voyage. Mar 24, 2011 how to insert book cover image to amazon kindle book upload. Using the new amazon cover creator3 easy steps to an. For best quality, your image would be 2820 pixels on the shortest side and 4500 pixels on the longest side.
New kindle publishing guidelines 2018 allow for 50mb cover. To provide consistency with kindle direct publishing guidance, changed the 2700 x 1688 pixels recommendation to 2560 x 1600 pixels and changed the 5mb file size limit to 50mb. Choose the option of cover to bring out the file browsing dialog. To update your cover, follow the instructions below. The reason might be that pdfs are considered documents rather than books by kindle pw2. Id like to for no good reason, really replace that graphic with one that i found at amazon for that same book. Oct 30, 2018 the ideal size of your ebook cover art is a heightwidth ratio of 1. If youre indie publishing, you probably cant afford a photo shoot. How to add a book cover to ebooks in calibre make tech easier. Okay, so i say, okay, so, a whole lot during this video. Jul 05, 20 login to your account and select your book from the bookshelf or create a new book. Oct 26, 2004 now you need to know how to prepare your book images and upload your kindle book cover to the amazon kindle direct publishing system.
Shop for kindle covers, tablet covers, kindle cases covers, kindle paperwhite covers, leather kindle covers and kindle touch covers for less at. It is not possible to change the document name of an e book directly from the kindle device, but if you download the e book to your computer, you can perform a number of file maintenance tasks using e book management software. If youre working on an image heavy book like a childrens book, use a fixedlayout file format. Typical reasons for rejecting a book image include poor quality image, corrupted. Pluck a significant element from the book that will translate into an effective image, for example, a weapon or a spray of blood would be perfect on a violent thriller just as hearts or hands would work well on a romance novel. But unlike the paper books, for ebooks its possible to change their covers. How to make a kindle ebook cover in minutes for free.
Requirements for the kindle book cover image may 10, 2012 by suzanne parrott amazon updated their recommendation 42012 for a books cover file to be 1500 to 2400 pixels with a 1. Its quite a bit overwhelming for firsttime users to navigate it with all the buttons, options and menu tabs, but once you get used to it, itll make your ebooks management easier. The main function of a kindle book cover, or indeed any book cover, is to somehow represent or sum up the story within. Create an ebook cover amazon kindle direct publishing. Kindle cover how to use the kindle cover creator how to. Login to your account and select your book from the bookshelf or create a new book.
How to insert book cover image to amazon kindle book upload. If you dont have a kindle cover for your book, you can use kdps cover creator to make one based on an image you provide or a selection from our gallery of stock images. If you have a downloaded copy of the book, and appropriately sized cover art, you can sideload it to your kindle with your chosen cover art. You can go back and forth with them to change elements of the design. Calibre is free opensource ebooks management software, which is compatible with windows, mac os x, and linux. The best file format is jpg, which is acceptable for publishing both the product and internal cover image. The best royaltyfree stock image sites for your book cover and how to avoid choosing the same one as everybody else. Hey r kindle, ive got a voyage wifi3g thats giving me a bit of trouble with book covers. Format images in your paperback amazon kindle direct.
Can i change the cover of a mobiepub book so that in kindle or aldiko reader software, the book cover is shown as my own customized cover. Amazon kindle ebook cover specifications height and width. How to add a cover to an epub pdf mobi book ebook converter. If you set out to design your cover by yourself, you can either use a picture editor software, like photoshop or its free alternative, gimp, or go online and try a book cover designer app, like canva. Click the ellipsis button under kindle ebook actions or paperback actions next to the book you want to update. On the get images for your cover window, select from my computer and upload your jpeg cover file and click next. When using amazons kindle direct publishing program, it asks for you to upload your book cover. So, as a brief public service, as of may, 2012, here are the amazon kindle ebook cover height and width specifications, courtesy of the amazon kdp book publication website. Dec 04, 2014 for paper books after we choose one book we cant change the cover any more. To learn about adding a cover image or any image within your kindle book, please see our image formatting help page. Uploading a catalog cover image in kdp will not automatically add it to the inside of the kindle book.
The polish books feature can update the cover in the book using the cover from calibres metadata. It has preset kindle cover samples with the dimensions of 1410. How to change your amazon kindles screensaver cnet. And you get the original image file so that you can make modifications yourself in the future. Covers for hardcover books are slightly larger than the interior pages. Under advanced, find the image size and quality section. If you dont know if your images are high resolution, check the image details and calculate the dpi. Depending on your needs, they can provide you with a few designs to choose from. The cover image you upload will appear on your amazon detail page. Hey rkindle, ive got a voyage wifi3g thats giving me a bit of trouble with book covers.
This means that for every 1,000 pixels in width, the image should be 1,600 pixels in height. As you can see from this new image, amazon now has a link to their product image guidelines page, which now shows this same information. It also includes filler text, which you will remove next. Kindle create is a free standalone application that can help you insert and edit the size and alignment of your images with preset options based on professional book layouts. But reading pdfs on a kindle requires a little help. Make sure your paperback, including your manuscript and cover, looks how you want it to. Sep 20, 2014 kindle cover size you must choose both the size and the shape of your kindle book cover. When you change the resolution to a webfriendly 96ppi, it will resize automagically to 600px by 800px, which is perfect for the inside kindle cover. Scroll down to book cover and click launch cover creator. I would like to update the title on my device so that it shows the cover art. I use calibre to convert books and set covers, but it does not help with pdfs. Here are several different ways to convert and read pdfs on a. How to change kindle ebook covers andor make a visual library. In the available formats section of the edit metadata dialog, you can manage these formats.
Probably there are some people like to change epub cover calibre, but if you are not so professional at computer, this recommended program ultimate converter maybe your type. Please upload the image again after correcting the following problems. If you want to keep the same width to height ratio for the product image and the kindle cover, make the original image 938px wide by 1250px high, at 150ppi, a good size for the product image. And here is a guide post focus on change kindle books cover image. Change your book cover is an old book marketing tool.
Then, you can adjust the image size in order to fit it to the size of your epub file. How to change a document name on kindle your business. Fortunately or unfortunately, these days major publishing houses cant either, which means everybody is. Format images in your ebook amazon kindle direct publishing. Aspect ratio you might think that the aspect ratio depends on the device. Go to kindle directory on your device and delete the original file and paste copied file in that location. Choose the second design from the left on the top row. When you publish or republish your ebook, well automatically add your cover image to the inside. How to choose the right book cover dimensions in 3 simple steps. However, this upload does not put the book cover into the book.
How to add a cover image to epub and kindle ebooks stepbystep. Youre ready to create a cover for your brilliant new ebook. All properly formatted ebooks whether theyre on kindle or ibooks or nook or others will open the first time to a page that. Jun, 2018 amazons kindle or kindle app supports not only ebooks, but also pdfs. Here i will explain how to add a cover to an epub pdf mobi book with free calibre. I have no book cover design skills at all, but with canva, i always get a great result. The ideal size of your ebook cover art is a heightwidth ratio of 1.
Recommended book cover image dimensions lulu community. According the amazons guidelines, a the ideal size for an amazon kindle cover image is as follows. Jun 07, 2012 how to change your amazon kindle s screensaver. Jul 02, 2011 when using amazons kindle direct publishing program, it asks for you to upload your book cover. With your free canva account, you can design an excellent cover for your kindle ebooks in just a few minutes. I wish they would add this feature to the kindle natively, so you can choose 1 or more covers associated to a book. To ensure the best quality for your image, particularly on high definition devices, the height of the image should be at least 2,500 pixels. How do i set a custom cover image on a pdf downloaded on kindle paperwhite 2 ps1. I have used canva for a long time as an ebook cover creator and to design cover mockups.
All properly formatted ebooks whether theyre on kindle or ibooks or nook or others will open the first time to a page that the book formatter specified. The best royaltyfree stock image sites for your book cover. Browse the topics below to learn about creating an ebook cover. It is not possible to change the document name of an ebook directly from the kindle device, but if you download the ebook to your computer, you can perform a number of file maintenance tasks using ebook management software.
Click the ellipsis button under kindle ebook actions or paperback actions next. Aug 11, 2018 so, as a brief public service, as of may, 2012, here are the amazon kindle ebook cover height and width specifications, courtesy of the amazon kdp book publication website. Customize your cover with a variety of layouts and font options. Jan 28, 2019 if you set out to design your cover by yourself, you can either use a picture editor software, like photoshop or its free alternative, gimp, or go online and try a book cover designer app, like canva. Youll see a button next to an image of a book cover. The howto guide about changing your kindle books cover. At least 500 pixels horizontally and 800 pixels vertically. There are as many as 1520 covers out there for some books, from the various publishers over the years. Amazon wont let you to change the screensaver images on its kindles so follow this guide if youre fed up of the preinstalled gallery. The statement under book cover image status will change to your recent image submission was rejected. Change kindle book cover to beautify your bookshelf. Here are several different ways to convert and read pdfs on a kindle. If we reject an image, we will provide a reason, if possible.