How To Create Your First Low-Content Book And Publish It On Amazon KDP

1. Course Introduction: The Hi there and welcome to the course on how to create and publish your first low content book on Amazon KDB. My name is Ta, and I will be your instructor for the entire class. I will help you discover simple and easy ways to create and design attractive low content books without having to invest in any tools or hire any experts. The process of creating and publishing low content books is fairly a simple one. This course is designed for absolute beginners. It will work for you even if you've never created a book or published anything on Amazon or any other self publishing platform. You also don't necessarily need to know which type of low content book you will want to create. As we will be brainstorming some ideas and types of low content books together to help you select the type that suits you before you advance through the course. Low content books usually require less than a few hours to create. If you apply all the steps and the assignments here, by the end of the course, you should have your own book published on Amazon. I have been a self publisher on many market places, including Amazon for almost three years. At the time of recording this, I've made some mistakes and I learned from them about what works and what doesn't. This course is my way to share with you what has been working well for me. And to break down every possible step I could think of to make it as easy as it can get for you to create low content books without any previous knowledge or experience. Hopefully, you get a better kick start of your journey as a self publisher. With that being said, I want to mention that this course is a full hands on experience. You're expected to commit to the process inside the course and follow along each step and complete different assignments And work on your own book independently. And create something unique that your future customers will find some value. I've also included multiple bonuses at the end of the course to help you with your new business as a self publisher. That's it for the introduction. Thank you for watching and I look forward to seeing you inside the course. 2. A Tour Around The Course & Your Class Project: Hi there and thank you for joining my class. Before we get started, I really want to give you a quick tour around the course to help you get an idea of how the course is designed so you can plan your learning and your book production accordingly. We will get things off the ground by defining what low content books are and what they can be used for to help you brainstorm some ideas for the book that you will want to create and to continue this course with. After that, we will move to the second part which is planning your book. I will introduce a simple three step guide to planning your book. These steps will cover market research and book topic, the page, count the dimensions and the cover type, and the interior, and other details that you must think about before you go ahead and start producing the book. I will demonstrate all these steps in different tutorials. I will also show you how you can research Amazon to determine whether the book topic that you select has high potential for sales and for success. I will also show you how to use free Amazon K DB tools so you can plan your book as well. Then we move on to part three, which is creating the book interior, the content inside your book pages. I will be showing you free and beginner friendly design software that you can use to create the interior of your book. And I will be demonstrating these steps inside tutorial as well. Then we will move on to part four, which is the covered design. I will show you how to design an aesthetically pleasing cover for your book using the same free and beginner friendly design software. I will also cover the Amazon KDB guidelines for book publishing to make sure that the designs that you are creating are going to be approved when you publish the book. And to make sure that we avoid mistakes and that the work we are doing so far is going to be approved later during the publishing step. Now the book is ready, so we have the interior of the book and we also have a cover. We can move on to the fifth part where I will be showing you a step by step guide on how to publish your book on Amazon KDP. This part will also include how to create the right book description and how to use the right keywords. Your book will be ranking higher on Amazon search engines. Amazon users can actually find the book and purchase it. Everything here covers every step you need to take from start to end until your book is published and ready for sale. After that, inside this course, you will find multiple bonuses that can help you with different parts of your book publishing business. As mentioned during the introduction, the course is designed as a full hands on experience. You will find different assignments that you should be able to complete As you advance through the parts and the tutor looks, I highly recommend that you pass the course to complete the assignment before you move to the upcoming parts. You do not feel overwhelmed with the process. Also, remember to take some notes and screenshots along the way so you can save them for later use. That's it for the tour. I hope this gives you an overview of how the course is designed. Now let's go ahead and move to the first part. 3. Part (1) - What Are Low-content Books?: Hi there and welcome to part one on the definition of low content books. When we say low content books, think of paperback books that contain little to no text or images and they have a simple or artistic cover. The interiors of these books are blank or nearly blank, and they are meant for the owner, the buyer, to fill out what makes low content books ideal for beginners who want to start an online business is that you do not have to be an expert in a certain topic. Low content books usually require less than a few hours to create. They have a large market and consistent high demand, which makes them one of the best types of products to create as a beginner, as all you need is a simple interior for the book and a well designed cover, which I will show you how to create in the upcoming steps. But before we get to that, let's explore some types of low content books that you can create. The first one is classic lined notebooks, and these are used for writing and note taking. And they come in different sizes and page numbers. And they also serve multiple purposes, like for example, for studying, or journaling, or note taking, or anything else that comes to imagination. Creating a template for the interior of these books is really easy and simple, and it can be done in a few minutes as I will be showing you in the upcoming parts. The second type is journals. These can be used for multiple purposes as well, like date tracking or therapy or notes or drawing or maybe dream journaling or anything else that people want to handwrite and document. Journals come in different styles and sizes. It's up to you to decide how the interior pages are designed. Some journals are also totally blank pages, so the owner can add or draw anything that they want. The interior that you see right here is actually a dream journal that I created myself. As you can see, I added different sections for the buyer to fill out like the type of dream, the emotions felt inside the dream, and also the people that were seen in the dream and some other details. The other type is diaries. Very much like journals. Diaries are a therapeutic aid to relieve thoughts and feelings, or maybe just to keep track of what's going on in life and reflect on it. If you're planning to create and sell a diary book, you can add anything that you want as long as there is a space to write things down. You can also keep the interior of the diary that you want to sell. Very simple. Create an empty page with a place to add the date on top. Or maybe a place to add a favorite quote or anything else that comes to imagination that the readers will find appealing that they want to have. For the next one, we have planners, and these can be daily planners or weekly planners, that can be used to schedule time and keep track of progress. Whether personal or professional. These planners are a very effective way to get stuff done. And they come in different formats and include many different options like blank spaces to do lists, rule sheets, and more. Then we have Sketchbooks. These are perfect for artistic souls who only need a black canvas. Sketchbooks are among the easiest to make as low content books because they don't require any interior content at all. Then we have coloring books. Coloring books are usually low content books that can be created for kids and adults. For kids. Simple drawings like cartoon animals or characters are the way to go, while adult coloring books should have more of a mature style of drawing. Examples of graphics for adult coloring books are usually Mandela designs or abstract elements that can take focus and time to finish. While the graphics of coloring books for kids usually are more easy and simple, then we have plank notepads. These are similar to sketch books, but they come usually in smaller sizes and they can be used to writing or drawing anything. Those are made for people who do not want to follow any specific guidelines when they are documenting something and they want to use the book for different purposes. Usually you see these notebooks next to phones, or you can use them as a pocket notepad so you can write anything at any time. Then another type of low content books is recipe books, and those can be used to write down different cooking recipes and save them. You can get really creative with recipe books and add different sections inside the book, like cooking time, preparation, time, ingredients and steps. And leave the content place empty so the book owner can write down their own recipes and save them for later use. We also have trackers and this is one of my favorite types of flow content books to create something like a goal tracker or health tracker or maybe a workout tracker can be a powerful tool to enhance accountability and brokers Tracking the interior that you see right here is a goal tracker book that I designed as a simple system for goal accountability and brokers tracking. Then we have agendas. What makes agendas different than planners is that they focus primarily on providing spaces for dates and times and specific events or tasks. The purpose of having an agenda is to help you organize and plan your schedule and events and appointments, and keep track of your commitments and deadlines. The final type that I want to include here is calendar books. You might have seen or used similar calendar books. They are usually hung on a wall or maybe on a desk. These can be used to know what day it is or maybe as reminders of important appointments or dates, or work meetings or something like that. All right, so now that I have listed some examples of low content books that you can create, I really want to encourage you to think outside the box and think of something unique of your own low content book. The book that you will be selling is going to be used by others, but it is your own personal space to design the way that you like. When you think of flow content, books like diaries or journals, the sky is the limit. Let's say that you want to sell a weekly journal. You can add your own favorite quotes or drawing on the beginning of every week, or maybe add some visuals on each page. This is just on top of my head, but I really want you to use your own creativity and imagination to produce something unique and you're proud to sell. This is also going to help you later on, if you decide to market your own book, use the unique stuff at the features that you include in your book to make it more interesting and appealing to others to buy. 5. Part (2) - The Three Step Process To Planning Your Book: Welcome to the second part of this course on planning your book and three steps. I will start right now with introducing the three step process to plan your book, and then I will demonstrate all the steps that I will mention to you in the upcoming video tutorials. The first step is to research and select the book type. In the previous assignment, you have wrote down some ideas for the low content book that you want to create inside this course. But before you settle on the final idea, it's highly recommended that you research the book on Amazon and evaluate the performance of the type. You will find other sellers who have created similar books. Some of these sellers are doing well and some aren't. By the way, do not be intimidated by the high numbers that you might see. If there are too many competitors or there are too many books that are being sold in large quantities. It really just means that there is a high demand for the book that you will be publishing as well. You will just have to put in the effort to create something appealing and unique, and attractive for buyers. Researching the book type before selecting it is also a good way to collect some ideas and inspiration for the interior design and the cover design that you will be creating. As long as you make sure that you do not copy anybody's work, the book that you will be creating is unique and nothing is copied or duplicated from anybody else's work. The second step is to select the page count and the book dimensions and the cover type. For this step, I will show you how to use the Amazon cover calculator. You end up having a set of numbers that you can use for the interior, the inside pages of the book, as well as the cover size that you will be creating later. It's worth mentioning here that the page count depends on the type of book that you want to create. For example, calendars or weekly planners should have a specific number of pages depends on the year. While for coloring books or line notebooks, it's really up to you to decide how many pages you want to include. But do not worry about this for right now, because once I demonstrate this step in the upcoming videos, you will be able to follow along and plan your book accordingly. The last step to plan your book is to plan the interior content. If you're planning to create a sketchbook or applying notepad, then you can skept this step because you don't really have any content to add inside the pages. But for example, if you create a recipe book, or planners or agendas or something else, then some content is involved. It's up to you to decide the look and the feel of the book and design these pages. Moving on with this course, I will be demonstrating these steps to create different low content books. Because I really want to show you different ways to plan the interior and design the pages inside using these same steps. 6. P2 - Step (1) - Researching & Selecting The Book Type: Hi there. In this video, I will take you through the three step process to planning your book. And I will start with the first step, which is researching and selecting the book topic. What you want to do right now is to have the list of potential low content books that you have created in assignment number one in front of you. And you will want to research each book individually so you can see how each category or each type of low content book is performing on Amazon. To do this research, I'm going to use Amazon.com and I suggest that you do the same. It's recommended to publish your books on Amazon.com because it is the largest market on Amazon. And publishing books on Amazon.com means that you have a higher opportunity of generating more sales. However, if you plan to publish on a different Amazon market, like for example, Amazon Dot and L or the DE, based on your own geographical location, then feel free to do that. It is a personal preference. However, for this research, I'm going to stick to the Amazon.com market. Right now, I am on the Amazon website to research a type of low content book. All you have to do is click here on the search bar and type the low content book that you want to research. Let's say for example that I have a list in mind that I want to research. One of the books that I want to see how they're performing is a goal tracker. What we need to do is to type tracker. Instead of looking here on all the different types of products, What you want to do is change from all departments to books. Because when you search on all departments, you don't only see the books that are fulfilled by Amazon. You will see all different types of products, including those that have created their own product and they shipped it to Amazon. Not all these products are fulfilled by Amazon. Selling on Amazon this way sometimes requires a large capital. You will have to invest your own money in creating the products outside the Amazon warehouses and then shipping it to Amazon and then Amazon sells them for you. And that's not the way that we want to do it. The guide that I'm creating for you inside this course is totally free. You do not have to invest any money beforehand. Amazon will take care of everything from printing the book to shipping it to the customers. And all you have to do is just create the book within the KDBllright. Let's go ahead and click on books and then see how others are doing. I can see right here that this one seems to be doing somehow, Okay. This one isn't. Some of these are doing okay as well. This does not look like it's a book. This one is selling a little bit. This one does not look like it's a book, but it seems to be doing okay as well. This is how you do the research. Just take a look at how others are doing. Conduct a competition analysis. See what they seem to be doing right and what they seem to be doing wrong. You get an idea of what are the steps that you must take, whether it's related to the description or whether it's related to the design of the book. All right, so let's say that I have a different low content book on my list and I want to see how they're performing. For example, recipe book. Let's add journal to it as well. Because I want to research the empty ones, not the ones that have recipes inside of them. This one right here, blank recipe book, right? This is selling well, and this is selling actually better. This one is selling a lot more as well. This one isn't. But it seems that the competition is a lot higher for blank recipe books than it is for gold trackers. This is a good indication that in case I want to create a recipe book, I might not have a chance of ranking high on these first few books. I'm going to take a look at something else. Maybe this one right here. Okay, This is a nice interior. I like the visuals they added and how it's divided into different sections for recipes. And then there's some guides here on how to add the measurements for ingredients. This is really nice. This is something I can get inspired by when I'm creating my own recipe book. Another example I want to research is coloring book for kids. Let's take a look at this one right here. It seems to be doing really well. I like how simple the designs are. This is also a really good way to see that in case you want to create a coloring book for kids, then how simple the drawings should be. Because when you create a coloring book for adults, then it should be more complicated. But if you decide on the age of the kids that these books are created for, then you can also do your own research and maybe just make sure that the drawings that you're including are suitable for the age. You can market the book explaining that this is fit for the age three to six, or 6-10 or the like. You'll have to do your own homework when you're creating that so you can make sure that the book is customized for the correct target market. I hope you get the idea of how you do the research. Just add the keywords of the books that you have in mind that you have on your own list. Research each one of them individually, see how others are doing, how many sellers they are, and what they seem to be doing right, and what they seem to be doing wrong. And maybe just collect some inspiration for the interiors and the cover designs. As I said before, it's really important that you do not copy anybody's work in any way. But collecting inspiration is just a different thing. However, I do not want to make this step too long for you. So I'm going to go ahead and move to the second one. But I hope you take your time with researching the books that you have in mind and eventually end up with one low content book that you want to move on with this course with. 7. P2 - Step (2) - Selecting Page Count, Book Dimensions & Cover Type : All right, so now that we have a book topic ready, we're going to move on to the next step, which is selecting the page, count the book dimensions, and the cover type. For this step, we will be using the Amazon cover calculator. Using this tool is an essential step before moving forward to create the book because it will provide you with the size and the dimensions needed for the book. And also make sure that the book that you'll be creating right now is going to be accepted when you start publishing the book on Amazon. To access the Amazon cover calculator, you just have to go to Db.amazon.com slash cover calculator. You will also find the link for this cover calculator in the assignments PDF that I attached for you for this course. Once you click on it, you will line on a page that looks like this one. As you can see, the first thing that you must select is the binding type. This is the cover type. When you publish books that are fulfilled by Amazon, there are only two cover types. There's the Hardcover and the paperback. It's worth mentioning that the hardcover is more expensive than the paperback for Amazon to print. If you want to create the hardcover book, you should expect that your customers will be charged extra because of the printing costs. But if you want to sell something cheap, like around $10 or euros, then I recommend to go with paperback. Because it will be cheaper to sell the book and you will be able to sell larger quantities. But this is, again, a personal preference. It's up to you to create either one of them or both. And then your customers will decide if they want to have the hardcover or the paper pack, and then they can pay the amount that they prefer. But for this example, I'm going to go ahead and select the paper pack and then move to the interior type. Another thing that I want to mention to you is that every time you select something on top, the options for the second selection changes. For example, if you select Hardcover, there's only black and white, or premium colors. But if you go with the paper pack, you will see that there's black and white, premium color, and standard color. I will go ahead and select standard color for my example. Now the paper type, when you select standard color, there's only white paper available. But if you change to premium colors, for example, or maybe black and white, you will have the option to create green paper. They're black and white, but the color of the pages are cream instead of white. However, I'm going to go back to standard color and then select white paper. Then regarding the page turn direction, this is in case you're creating something in a different language than the Latin ones. Because all Latin languages should be from left to right. But in case you're creating a book in Ebro or Arabic, for example, then you should select right to left. I'm going to keep it left to right now, and then move to the measurement units. I use the meters measurement unit. I'm going to go ahead and select that. But if you're more comfortable with inches, then feel free to select that. It's not going to change a lot besides the numbers that you see in front of you. Then we can move on to the interior trim size. As you can see, all these numbers right here are the default numbers for the trim size on Amazon. But if you do not find the numbers here that suit you, then what you can do is click on custom trim size. You can add the numbers that you want. I usually do a little bit of research to select the most suitable term size for the book that I'm publishing. For example, if I want to create a sketch book, I would want it to be a lot bigger than a planner, for example. But this is up to you to decide how big you want the book to be. Let's say for example, that I'm creating here a recipe book. I do not want to be very big. I can go with something like 188.98 and then 246.13 You can also go with something smaller if you want, like for example, let's say that you're creating a small notepad. Then you can create something very small, like one of these numbers right here. Again, it's a good idea here to research and see what are the most suitable sizes for the type of book that you're creating and then selected. I'm going to go ahead and select the 155.96. And then 233.93. The last thing to select is the page count. When you select the page count for your book, it's really important to keep in mind the type of book that you're creating. For example, let's say that you're creating a yearly calendar. Then you have to stick to the numbers of the year that you're creating the calendar for. But if you're creating a daily planner or a recipe book, or just simply an empty notepad, then it's up to you to decide how many pages you want to include in your book. The same thing applies if you are creating a weekly planner. For example, you need to decide how many weeks your calendar will have. Let's say it will have 20 weeks of planning. Then you've got to multiply seven with 20 and then you will have 140. That is, of course, if you want to include only 20 weeks, you change that to 30. For example, to have more pages, 210. I'm going to stick to 210 for now and then click on Calculate Dimensions. All right. These are the numbers that the Amazon cover calculator gives you. And these are the numbers that you got to use. When we move on to the production step, the first thing to do is to take a screenshot of this and save it so we can use it when we move to the production step. If you also want to get a better understanding of the numbers that you're seeing in front of you, just take a look at the sketch right here and also the numbers 123 until nine. Number one is the full cover, so you can see that number one is right here. And then number three, the safe area. This means it's the area that you can add any content that it's not going to be cut during the printing process. There's the spine right here. Number six. This is the area that Amazon decides based on the amount of pages that you included in your book. Right now, it's 12.01 millimeters, but let's say that I think that the book right now will be very thick so I can change the page count, let's say to 200 and then see what it gives me. You can see that it was reduced from 12.01 to 11.44 After you see these numbers, just make sure that you're satisfied with them. Try to use a measuring unit at home to see how the book will look like. And if you're satisfied with the size, maybe compared to a few books that you have at home. And then see which one you feel like it's most suitable for the book that you're creating. Then just make sure to take a screenshot when you reach a final decision so you can move on to the next step. 8. P2 - Step (3) - Planning The Interior Content & Using ChatGPT: All right, so now that we have the book type ready, the book dimensions, the cover type, and also the paper count, we can move to the final step, which is planning the interior content. If you are creating a classic client notebook, or a plan page notebook, or maybe a sketch book, then you can skip this step because it's irrelevant for you. But if you're working on a, an agenda or maybe a recipe book, then planning what you want to include inside the pages is going to help you create them faster. Planning the interior content is a very simple process. All you need to do right now is just to write down some ideas for what you want to include. I'm going to go ahead and use my notion. I'm going to create a page and I'm going to name it my low content book. Of course, you don't have to use notion to plan your low content book. This is just what I'm comfortable using. Go ahead and select any preferred software on your computer to write some notes or maybe just use a paper and pen. Now for the example of my book, let's say that I am creating a daily planner and I want to include some sections inside the pages. This is the place where I decide these sections if you're not getting inspired easily and you're not really sure yet what to include in the pages of your low content book, then maybe start by collecting some inspiration, again, either by Amazon or by interest. I'm going to go ahead and do that and we can start by typing here. Daily Planner Interior let's see this one right here. I'm just trying to make the picture a little bit bigger. We have schedule priorities, move to tomorrow and to do list the main focus of the day. Then there's a memo affirmation I'm grateful for. Woke up at our, this one looks really appealing. Each day has two pages. I like that. Let's take a look at something simpler, maybe something like this. This one looks very easy. I like it, however I want to go with something a little bit different. Maybe this one right here. I usually like to use more colors in the interior, but this is also very simple and easy to create. But let's go ahead and start collecting some inspiration on my notion. The first thing I want to add is D, top three priorities. I also want to include some daily reminders. Move to tomorrow. Maybe on top of my head, I'm thinking that I also want to add some daily notes. These sections will be included in the inside pages of my own daily planner. I'm just going to go ahead and name it first, and then let's take a look at something else. Those are a little bit small, so I'm going to look for a final thing. This is a little bit too complicated to be honest, so I'm just going to find something better. Maybe I'm just going to go ahead and use like daily affirmations or maybe a checklist like this one right here, right? I'm also going to add a schedule. I think this is enough for now. I'm going to use these when I start creating the interior of my low content book for the Daily Planner. Maybe I will end up deleting something, or maybe adding something else. But just before I get started on the production of them, it's a good idea to collect some inspiration and to write down a list of what you actually want to produce. Now another example I want to use is a different type of low content book. Let's say that I want to create a recipe book. I'm just going to go ahead and make that a headline and then do the same. I'm interested in creating a recipe book and I want to include something unique about the book that I create. So I'm just going to add some basic fields for like normal recipe cards, like the ingredients, maybe the servings, kitchen equipment, and cooking instructions. So those are the basic ones. I want to maybe include something related to the difficulty of the recipe. Also recipe rating so far, this is what I want to include. But let's say that you're actually not really feeling inspired. You did do a little bit of research on interest and you could not find anything that you actually like. You want to find something a little bit outside the box. What you do in this case is maybe using GBT. Let's ask them a question and see if we get some unique answers. Let's say that I'm creating a low content book about recipes. I need ideas for sections to include inside the recipe cards. Please suggest up to ten ideas. I'm just going to add unique ideas. Let's see what they give us, cooking tips and tricks. I like that and make a head tips. I can also see myself including that in my recipe book. The History of This is going to take a lot of space on the pages. I'm not sure I want to include that. However, what I can include is maybe the cuisine. I'm going to add the cuisine here. And I already added the equipment. Or maybe wine or beverage preparing. I like that as well, so I'm just going to copy it. All right. This is my way of showing you how you plan the interior of the low content book before you start producing it. Of course, you might run into some changes when you move to the production step, But it's a good idea to be prepared and to get a sense of how you want the page to look like and what are the sections to include. Of course, if you're not already inspired of what you want to include, then researching either on Pinterest, on Amazon again, or maybe using TBT is a good way to find something unique and create a book that you actually like. 10. Part (3) - Designing The Interior Pages & Creating The Interior PDF: Hi there and welcome to the third part on creating the book interior. In this video, I'll show you how we can sketch the interior of your low content book using a design software called Canva. If you've never heard of Canva before, it is one of the most popular design software and it's available for free. It's also web based. This means that you can create the design on the Canva website and then you can download it once it's ready to create a free account on Canvas, simply visit Canva.com and then you can create an account using your name and your e mail and some other information. Then you will access a dashboard that looks like this one right here. Then to create a design, you just simply have to click on this button right here. Create a design. Then you want to go to Custom Size. The size that you want to add here is the size that you picked when you use the KDP covered calculator. Let's go back to the screenshot that I took. You're going to have to use this interior trim sites, in my case it is millimeters, so I'm going to change that first. Then here I'm going to add first the 155.96, then again, 233.93 And then click on Create New Design. This is the size of the pages inside of the low content book that I'm creating. I'm going to go ahead and name it. Then I'm going to get started with sketching the interior. The first thing to do is just to add some text. There's a left menu here. I'm going to go ahead and start with the Daily Planner. So the first thing I want to type is Daily Planner. I think it's a little bit too big. I will worry about the funds later. I also want to add the three top priorities. I'm going to make the font a little bit smaller and then add this one up right here. I'm going to make some changes later once I'm done adding the content. But right now I'm just trying to decide where everything goes inside the pages. Then I'm going to add the schedule here, so the hourly schedule then maybe focus of the day goes here. Just in case you're wondering where I'm getting this from. I am using the previous step of planning the interior. I'm taking the things that I have collected when I researched Pinterest, and I also asked GBT on what can I include inside the pages of a daily planner. When you reach this step and start designing the interior, just make sure to keep your notes open in front of you so you can take whatever you wrote down and start adding it inside the pages. So I'm going to go ahead and add a to do list. And then I think I want a place for notes. I think I also want to add something unique. Maybe I want to add something related to meals of the day and how much water I'm drinking. Maybe meal plan goes here. I'm just going to go ahead and keep it meal. But I think I have to do some changes right now because my schedule is going to be a long section. I think I'm going to go ahead and move the focus of the day here. And then keep my schedule on the right side. Again, I will just want to add something small, maybe just the date of the day. I'm just going to make the font a little bit smaller. All right, right now I want to add some visuals. I think I want to add some rectangles inside the page. I'm just going to go ahead to elements right here and add this one. I'm going to start with the top priorities. I hope it's easy for you to follow along the steps in case you are using Campa. As you can see, the software is very straightforward and simple to use. If you are a first timer, you might need to take some time just to get used to it. But once you get the ball rolling, it's going to be a very easy process. As you can see, everything is just so easy to change. And there are so many other options that I will be introducing to you as I plan the interior of this book right here. What I want to do right now is to change this rectangle. First, I want to add a border to it. Just going to make it smaller so the border weight is maybe one. This is better. And then I want to make it white from the inside, or maybe no color. All right, this is better. Then I want to make the corners a little bit round, maybe five. Then just to make sure that it's in the middle, you see this purple line you see right here. It's Campa showing you that you have reached the middle of the design, that you have the middle of the page. Then I think I should make this one smaller. Then I want the other fonts to be the same size as well. I'm just going to hover over all of them. I'm just going to do it until I reach 12. All right, so I'm just going to zoom until 100% because this is going to be the physical size, just to see if everything is still visible. All right, I like this size. I'm going to move this one a little bit down, then I'm going to go ahead and copy the rectangle right here. And then just create another one for my schedule. If you click here in the middle, you can extend it, I think just a little bit on top, right here. All right, the schedule now is ready. I just need to change the position to backwards for the rectangle so I can move the text right here. Then I'm going to create another one for the focus of the day, I'm just going to duplicate this one. And then another one for the meal. I think my to do list will be a short one because there isn't a lot of space unless I decide to move something like, for example, the focus of the day or maybe to do list or the nodes. But I really want to keep all of them so I'm going to find a way later to organize the page. As for right now, I'm just trying to fill it with content. Then there's going to be a small section for nodes. I also want to add a line next to the date. So I'm just going to click on line, actually this one. I'm just going to go back and pick this one from Shapes because I can customize it more. So I'm just going to make this one weight one and just rotated to zero. All right, Right now I want to take a look at the funds. I can pick a fund for my book. I think I want to keep these two indifferent funds just to add some design to the page daily will have a fund and Planner will have another. I usually like to do that on the headers of the designs. I want Planner to be something handwritten. As you can see inside Canva, there are plenty of funds. If you're using Canva for free, then you will not be able to use these funds that have this ground simple right next to them because you will have to pay for the pro version. But don't worry about that because you will find plenty of funds to use. Let's see, this one. Yeah, I like this one right here. Let's go ahead and select a fund now for the others. Maybe this one is good. Yeah, I think you guys stick to this fund. I also don't want this tutorial to be too long for you, but of course, take your time when you're creating your own pages and look at all the funds that you want to look at before you settle on one. I'm just making sure that everything aligns, then the date will look a little bit smaller. Then I'm just going to drag these lines right here just to make sure that it's correct. Just bacterial rotating on zero. Then I also want to add the days of the week, maybe just the first letter we have, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I'm just going to expand them a little bit. All right. My assumption that the user of this daily planner would just simply write the day here or the date here, and then just circle over which day of the week it is. There's going to be a little bit of an empty space right here so I can fill it up later. Go ahead and move to another part, the top three priorities. I want to change the design a little bit. I want to add the text right over the line right here, because this will give me some more space inside. I'm going to show you right now how to fix this. You still can read without the line going through the text, but just for right now, I'm going to just change the location I really like about cam vaders showing me all these purple lines to see if I'm actually adding the text in the correct place. As you can see right now, it is in the middle. All right, about the meal planning, I'm going to divide it into four sections. So I'm just going to take this line right here and then duplicate it. And then I'm going to rotate this one to 90 degrees and then just add maybe breakfast. And then duplicate this one to lunch. I just want to make sure that this is in the middle first. Yes. And then dinner. And I'm going to add snacks right here. All right. I think I just have to make you sign a little bit shorter because that will look more visually appealing. All right, about do list. I think I need to make it a little bit bigger. I'm going to drag this one to the top. The same for the meal section, and then to do List this one. And then just click on this field and then just extend it. I'm going to have to do something about the spaces in between, but I will worry about that later. All right. I want to add some bullet points here and maybe also some lines. What I'm trying to show you is that this is really your personal space to add what you want. I'm really just thinking as I go and deciding how everything will look like. Of course, you're free to go with something very simple without adding all these details. But what I really like to do and I enjoy doing is really designing these things. Go ahead and spend some time on it if you want to. Otherwise you can just give it and create something very basic. I'm just going to add circle. Then I have three things on my to do list. I can also add four. There's a little bit of space right here. And then about the schedule, I'm going to have some hours right here just to make sure that this position is the backwards. All right, right now I'm going to take this text and add it right here, 06:00 A.M. then seven. And then just continue until I have enough hours of my schedule. All right, I have enough hours right here. Now I will just have to extend them so they can fill this entire rectangle right here. I'm just going to go ahead and move the rectangle a little bit until I'm done with designing the hours. So the first thing to do is to extend them. And now I'm going to change the size again to maybe ten or maybe eight. Right now, I'll just have to do another adjustment which is to basically slide the hours a little bit to the left. I have enough space to write inside the field. All right. I think I also want to add some lines in the middle. So I'm just going to go ahead and duplicate this one. Maybe just change the size a little bit and make it bigger. All right, And now we have a schedule, main focus of the day. I think I'm going to keep it empty. But for the priorities, I want to add some lines as well. I'm just going to duplicate this one and then add two more. I think I want to add some numbers over here. I'm going to duplicate this. And then priority number three. All right, so it's starting to come together. I just want to do something about the fact that the line is going over the text right here. I'm going to slight shave. I'm just going to go ahead and slide it right here so I can make some adjustments. I'm going to corner it a little bit, then I'll keep it without orders, but I will make it a little bit transparent or actually change the transparency to 100% because then the line will disappear. I'll just have to change the color to something I like and then just add it everywhere else. I just can't change the position to backwards. All right, So I'm starting to like how it looks right now. I think I just want to do something about the colors. I think those lines are a little bit too dark, so maybe I want to change the colors to maybe gray, and I think I like the rest. Once you're done and you're satisfied with how the page looks like, simply what you need to do is just to click here and duplicate the page until you have the pages that you have included when you created or when you used the Amazon cover calculator. In my case, I don't only need 210 pages, I actually need 210 pages multiplied by two because every one page as a hard copy is actually two pages on your BDF file. Because each page will have the front and back for 210 pages. I actually need 420 pages on my BDF. I'm going to go ahead and skip until I multiply the pages to have enough for my DF file. Campa is going to take some time until they're done with multiplying and having the file ready for me to download. In the meantime, let's go ahead and design something else. All right, let's go back to Canva to create another design. And this time it's going to be the recipe book. I will be using the same trim size, so I'm just going to keep the width and the height the same and then just create a new design. I'm going to name this one recipe book. Then just simply apply the same steps as before. I'm just going to go ahead and add a text. Then I want to add the course. Is it breakfast, lunch, or dinner? I'm going to make this a little bit smaller, then I'm going to add the cuisine and then I'm going to add the servings. I'm just going to add the alignment of the text. Then click here in position. All right. I'm just going to copy these three and then write preparation time, cooking time, and total. Again, just like the previous step. Follow along with the plan that you have created for your low content book, for the interior, Whatever you researched on Pinterest or as a GBT. Just keep the notes right in front of you so you can add the text and start designing the interior pages. I'm going to include some kitchen equipment and then the difficulty of the recipe, and then a rating and maybe some notes. All right, now we need some spaces here on the right for ingredients. The instructions should go right here, because I want to keep enough space for the ingredients. All right, so this is good enough to start with. I'm going to go ahead and change the fonts. I want to keep it simple, so maybe something like this. I don't like the read of this one, so All right, this one seems to be a safe font to use. I'm just going to make some adjustments for the basis. All right, so I want to add lines instead of boxes this time. So I'm just going to go ahead to elements. I'm just going to change the way to one and make it a dot line. I'm just going to make sure that rotating is zero and then just multiply this one. I like to click on Teddy up every now and then just to make sure that the spaces are correct. All right. Then I will copy these and then add them on instructions. All right. I think this is too big for instructions, but I will make some adjustments. Once I'm done filling up the page with more content. What I want to do is add some visuals. As I said, I'm going to go ahead to elements and maybe search for some keywords like cooking, maybe this is good for equipment. I'm going to go to graphics. And this one instructions, I can actually add more than 112. I'm really just trying to show you how you find some visual elements to encode in case you want the interior of your low content book have some of these small visuals on the side. They shouldn't be too big because the space should be filled by the owner of the book. But I really like to add some of these visuals. They make the book unique. And you can also show these pictures on the sales page of your low content book as a way to promote it better. And make it more unique than just simply text and lines inside the interior of the book. Ingredients, I'm trying to find something that is something like this. It's food, so I can add it next to ingredients. Then here for a difficulty, I think I just want to add a small text right underneath, easy, moderate, and hard. Then I'm going to add some circles. It shouldn't be white. So I will look for something else. I just need a simple one with a black line. It's weird that I can't see that. I'm just going to go and look for one I used before. Basically, the owner of the book will just fill these circles, depends on how they ate, the difficulty of the recipe. Then for the rating, I'm going to use some stars. But I actually want to add an empty star. Let's see if there's a one with just line on the outside like this one. Let's see if I can change the color. Alright, this is perfect. I'm just going to change it. I'm just going to add five stars as well. The owner can just fill up the stars that they want to give to this recipe. Then I'm going to move them up a little bit so I can have some space for the notes. All right. So for kitchen equipment, I'm also going to add some lines, but I think I should make these lines a little bit shorter then I'm going to copy them. And then I also want to add some lines right in front of these ones. Okay, so far it looks okay. I do believe that I must do more updates to it, so it looks more professional, the spaces between the lines and the like. But I really do not want to make this tutorial too long for you. I want you to get started on designing your own. I just want to show you how the foundation of designing the interior looks like. What I also want to tell you is that in case you want to create something with colors inside. Like for example, when we selected the interior type here, I added that I want something with standard color. In this case, Amazon can print the interior for us in colors. This means that you can give these some colors before just maybe take some time on deciding what colors you want to add. Maybe give these colors. If you add any visuals like I did, we can add some colors to them and the book will be printed in the colors that you selected. There's something that I also want to mention regarding the BDF file that you're creating. As I said, when you have selected a specific amount of pages for your page count, you have to double it here on the BDF file so you have enough content on the BDF to be printed on the face and the back of each page on your physical book. It's worth mentioning here that when Amazon prints a very large amount of pages on your book, the book gets more expensive because your customers will be charged for the costs of printing the book to them. And they will also be charged for the royalties that Amazon is paying to you. Meaning that the book will get more expensive in case you are planning to sell a very big book for the recipe book that I want to create and publish. I actually want to reduce the number of pages from 210 into maybe 100 pages and just simply have a 200 page BDF uploaded instead of 420. It's important for me to mention this to you, because later on you will find that charging very high for your customers will reduce the amount of sales that you will have on Amazon. So keep that in mind when you're deciding the amount of pages. I'm going to go ahead and duplicate these pages until I have 200 pages. And then I will have my BDF ready to be uploaded. All right, so I have 200 pages ready on my Canva. And once you're done doing the same, then all you have to do is just click here on Share, and then you will want to click on Download. And then you got to select BDF. It's up to you to select Standard or I highly recommend to go with print in case you went for the premium colors for printing when you selected your book type on the Amazon cover calculator because the colors will look a lot better. However, the BDS standard is good enough as well. I'm going to go ahead and select BDF standard. And then just click here and download. And then I have the PDF file on my computer ready. I can upload it to Amazon once we move on to the publishing step. 12. Part (4) - Designing The Book Cover: All right, so let's go ahead and start designing some book covers to design covers in this course, I'm also going to use Canva and I'm going to need the dimensions that Amazon KTB cover calculator provided me when I decided on the dimensions of the book. I'm going to go ahead and open the screenshot. What you want to take is the full cover size. These are the numbers that I'm going to add when I create a design on Canva. First create a design and then custom size. And then I'm going to change this. First I have 330.27 and then for the hide I have 24028. All right, then click on Create New Design. As you can see here, this design is for the back and the front of the book. There's going to be some space right here for the spine and other details that are mentioned right here. You need to make sure that the design that you are creating for the front is going to be filling this area right here. And the back is filling this area right here. And also making sure that there is a space for the barcode as mentioned in here, number nine. All right, so let's take some measurements as well for the front cover, so we can make sure that the design that we are creating is going to be looking good later on. The front cover is this one right here, and it's 155.96 it's number two. And then we have the 233.39. It's this one right here for the height, the 233.93 is the height. All right. I'm just actually going to include the width only because that's the one I care about the most. The height is going to remain the same. It's important to mention here that when they included a number four, the bleed is a place that you do not want to add any text on it because there's going to be a chance that it's going to be cut during the printing process. This is what Amazon is giving you to make sure that even though the bleed might disappear from the design. It is your job to make sure that the book still looks good. My advice is to keep the areas all around somehow empty or just make sure that even if the margin area or the bleed area is going to be cut, then the design still looks good. Just avoid any texts on the sides of the design and also maybe some important visuals. All right, so let's go ahead and take the width of the front covers 155. I'm just going to go ahead and create a line right here, 155. If I remember correctly, it was almost 156. So I'm just going to extend it a little bit, something like this, just to make sure the space between the full cover and the front cover is not so big. Number two, which is the full cover and then I have the bleed area, it's supposed to be 3.17 If I just click on this one and then add position, then just try to make it closer. I was hoping these numbers will show me how far is it from this side right here. But they're not. What I can do in this case is create another one and make it very small at 3.5 or actually 3.1 or two. I'm just going in a little bit. All right. This is the space that I will not be including anything from the sides. You don't really have to include these. I'm just showing you in case you want to make sure that you do already have a full idea of how the book will look like and the cover will look like before it is printed. But these steps are not essential As long as you make sure that you do create something that is going to be approved later. You do not include any texts because Amazon will give you a sign that we do not think that this cover looks okay because the details that you added of the design are going to be cut. All right. The next thing I want you to do is to collect some inspiration from within Canva. What you have to do is just click here on Design and add something like Recipe For Cover. Let's try to remove the cover. Maybe, something like this. What you need to think about is that there's going to be a front line. I think I made a little bit of a mistake because I added the design on top of my old one. So I lost this. So I'm just going to create another one and then just add it here. All right. What you need to think about as I was saying is that there's going to be an area here for the spine. It's around 1.59 It's going to be here in the middle. And then this is going to be the front, and this is going to be the back. This is not good. If you decide to go with something quick and you want to design a book cover quickly, you just want to copy base something and change it. You still have to make some adjustments. Like for example, changing this and adding it here in the middle of the front page. And then do something about the other details. But for those who want to start something from scratch, which is something that I will be doing, then maybe just collect some inspiration first and then go ahead and create something of your own. I'm also going to take a look at something else, maybe this one. Usually I go for minimal designs. I really like to do that. I like minimal images as well. It's a good way to collect some inspiration from designs already available on Campa. A lot of them are already free, Like this one is free to use. This one is a pro version, so you'll have to pay to use it, but that's really not necessary. Let's see how this one looks like. This one is actually really nice if we move these details right here for the back cover and then change this into something like my own recipes. I'm just going to move this to the middle a little bit, maybe make it a little bit smaller. I'm just going to move the extra details and maybe change the color right here. Maybe also the fat, maybe this one. It's not so unique, but I think it fits anyways. Again, not to make an editorial too long for you, I'm not going to just look for everything until I find something I like. But I'm just trying to show you how to design your own very quickly in case you want to just find an inspiration available on Cava and then just make some adjustments until you like it. Let's see if we change the background from dark to light and then change the text to black. Maybe give it some effects. I think maybe just this one right here. Then I might also move this one to the other side. The back cover still have some visuals on it. This is a cover that is done in a few minutes. For those who really want to just get something done quickly, then there's a way to do it. But let's go ahead and create a cover from scratch. In case you want to create something from scratch, It's really up to you to add anything that you want. I'm going to go ahead and create two different ones because I want to use some different elements available on Canvas so I can show you how to use them. I'm going to go ahead first and start finding some design elements to include in my book. Let's say that I want to include some different foods. Let's go to elements here and type the keyword food and see what the tool gives us. This one has a dark background, this one is in black. But maybe I can change the color. And then I will just have to add a text right here. I'm not really happy about the design. Of course, this is something very basic. I'm just trying to show you how you can start collecting some elements from within Mva just by typing the keyword and finding something that is visually appealing to you. And you want to include it inside your own book cover. I actually have something in mind that I want to create. Now that I'm seeing these, I'm getting inspired for a lot of different foods on the side. And then the word my recipe book is in the middle. So I'm just going to go ahead and keep looking until I find something visually appealing. Let's try to use pizza, maybe. I'm just going to move these for now. What I'm trying to find right now is something that looks like it's a drawing like this one right here. This one looks like it's being created with water colors. And I actually like that. Now I'm going to go ahead and see what else is available. Maybe avocado. This one, this looks like it's water colored. This well, now I have somehow a theme for the cover of my book. Finally, I got some magic recommendations. I was hoping to get that because I clicked on this one. Now there are different elements created maybe by the same artist on Canva. That's great now because I can just pick some of them. I do not want to add a lot of fruit. I want to add more meals like the pizza. I'm going to change this to maybe garlic. I think this one works. I know that you might be thinking that I'm adding a lot of designs on the edges right here, but I really don't mind if these are cut. I'm still going to get a good picture just like I'm sliding this one and the right part of it is gone. That's still okay. That's why Amazon was giving us the numbers to make sure that even though the bleed area here will be gone, we make sure that the design looks good. In my case it do I don't mind it looking the way it is. As long as I make sure that I do not add any text in these areas. Now, I'll just have to make these a lot smaller because the pizza is just looking too small compared to the fruit. Now I want to change the font. Maybe this one I'm going to change the line spacing and maybe change this to my recipe book instead. All right, so let's keep looking a little bit of ginger on the side, those are looking good. And also the onions, so I'm just going to go ahead and collect them and then adjust the spaces later. All right, let's just make them all smaller first, separate them first, and then resize whatever needs to be resized then. This is basically is going to be the front cover. It's up to me if I want to find more veggies and fruits and add them all the way around here without having to add any text. But to be honest, I do not feel like the pizza is very suitable in this place because everything else here is just ingredients. And then we have a big meal. So I'm going to go ahead and delete that then just go back to maybe the ones I've used before just so I can see more magic recommendations. Maybe some onions and maybe some paper. Okay, I think I have enough right now. I'm really sorry if this is taking too long, but usually such designs will have to take a while, especially if you want to start something from scratch. And then you keep updating it until you're happy with the end result. I'm going to go ahead and resize these, then we can move on to another design. Hopefully by now you've got the idea of how you can proceed with your own design as well. Don't try to be a professionist because the more books you create and the more designs that you create, you will get better at it for myself. I still always try to improve my way of designing the books. I'm not a professional graphic designer. I always have to find new ways to improve them. But if you compare the designs that created last year compared to now, I definitely see some improvement that I'm proud of. However, I will not try to stop myself from creating something and publishing it just because it's not 100% professional. And definitely do not recommend trying to invest in professional design services. Because you can always create something like this, something simple, and then take it from there until you improve your design skills and create something that you're really happy with. All right, so this is it for this kind of design. So imagine the book has a front, which is this one, and the back right here. I do not mind if some of these will be visible on the left side, because I believe that the middle of the page is this purple line that you see. You will see that here on the left. Some of this will be visible on the back cover. That's not a problem for me, of course. If you do not prefer that, if you want to keep this place plain white, then just make sure to keep all the designs inside the line right here. All right, this is it for this design. Let's go ahead and create a final one. Before we move on from the step of creating covers, I'm just going to go ahead and add a new page. And this time I'm going to use some images instead of design elements like these. Let's go to photos. And right, cooking, maybe, something like this. What I have in mind is to add an image in the middle and then just add a little bit of a text on top of it. We can also keep looking to find something better, maybe this image. There's a tricky part here. What you want to do right now is to make sure that the image is right in the middle, the center of the front cover. What you want to do right now is to actually copy these and paste them right here. Just going to remove this one. I'm also going to get rid of this. That one is already gone. I'm trying to add the image in the center of this line right here, because this line from this area to this area is actually the front cover. Again, Canva is actually failing me because usually it would give me this purple line in the middle to tell me that the image is actually in the middle of the line, but right now it's not showing it for some reason. However, I'm still going to try to use my naked eye to make sure that this image will appear in the middle of the page whence the book is printed. I'm still going to make it smaller. Again, I believe that it is a little bit too big. Then I'm going to add a text. Okay, now the line is showing and it looks like the image is in the middle, so this is good. Then I'm going to add something different here. Recipes, something different than my recipe book. It's really up to you what to add here. I'm just going to make the font a little bit bigger. Then maybe add another text right here in the bottom. First, I'm going to change to another font and reduce the size, this is just on top of my head. And then maybe just have a different background than white. Maybe something like this, this is too dark. Just can customize the color a little bit, right? This is almost white but not as plain. There's something else that I want to recommend right now for those who actually want to find some templates from within Canva is to click on Create Design and actually add on the keyword right here, a book cover. You will not get the correct dimensions that you need, but you will get a lot of templates for book covers. In this case, we add recipe book. There you go. There's a lot of options right here that you can, for example, copy, maybe this one as well. Let's just first take a picture and then the text. Then it will look something like this. This is something I like. I see myself using it even though it's very quick, of course, I'd like to make my own adjustments. Also, again, do not really copy any work that you see because sometimes people will notice that this is not something done by you because they also use canvas. It's not recommended to just copy base something right away. Maybe try to find more like this from the book that you just saw. You can find something similar. Maybe just flip it. Really, it's not the exact same design but it's something inspired by. For people who want to find something quick and just get a cover for the book, then this is actually better than the other two that we created because they're faster. But it is up to you to invest the time on creating something that you like. Of course, if you do not want to copy any templates and then change them, just keep working on the cover design until you're happy with the end results. And then by the end of it, all you have to do is just click here and then save the design on BDF, and it will be ready to be uploaded during the upcoming publishing step. 14. Part (5) - Publishing on Amazon KDP (Step-by-step Guide): Hi there and welcome to part five of discourse on publishing on Amazon.com Right now we have a book ready, we have the interior and we have the cover, and we're ready to start the publishing process. To publish on Amazon.com you need to visit Kdp.amazon.com and you will land on a page that looks like this one right here. Now if you've never used Amazon to shop before and you do not have an account, then what you want to do is to join KDB by clicking here and then you can fill up your information. But if you already have a customer account on Amazon, then you have to simply sign in and you will be directed to KDB for self publishing. Unfortunately, I cannot show you how you can move on with the sign in process because Amazon is very strict when it comes to one person creating two accounts. You can jeopardize your old account and you can lose all the work that you've done. However, I want to mention that it is a very easy process to sign up to KDB. You will just create an account like if you were as a customer, but then you will be directed to the self publishing platform. They will ask you for information like your e mail address and maybe your personal address and maybe your card information. It is very safe to add your details on Amazon because it is a very safe platform. So do not worry about any sensitive information that they will ask you to add. They allow you to have access to the KDB platform. Then once you're done signing up and creating an account for yourself, then simply visit Ktb, Amazon.com And then you will land on a page that looks like this one right here. What you have to do right now is click on Create. Then as you can see here, there are different types of books that you can publish on Amazon. We have Kindle, we have paper back, we have Hardcover, and then there's a series page. Do not worry about Kindle right now. This is not for low content books, this is for readers. And then we have these two options that are the paper back and the hard cover. You have to select one of these depending on the book that you have created. I'll just click here on Create Paperback. The first thing that they want us to select is the language of the book. I'm going to go ahead and keep it in English. If you have created a book in a different language, then just click here on this arrow and then choose the correct language that you have created your book with. Then the next thing to do is to write a book title. I think I'm going to publish the recipe book that I created, and in this case I'm going to add recipe book journal. What I'm writing right now is just some basic title and subtitle for the book that I created. In your case, you will have to customize these and change them so they can suit the book that you have created in case it was a coloring book for kids or it was a Daily planner. Include as much details as you want, knowing that you have a specific number of characters available for the title and the subtitle. Now you can move on to series. If you're not creating a series of books, then you can just ignore this one. We also do not have an additional number for this book. As for the author, it's important to add your own details. In my case, I'm going to add, I think this is enough for the contributors. You can leave that empty as well. It is optional. That is, in case you have worked on the book with somebody else, you can add their name here, but in this case it is irrelevant. Then we can move on to the description. This is your own space to try and sell the book as much as possible. I'm going to write some details here. All right. So this is what I have right now for the description and it should be longer. I should be able to include some more details about the book and I should be able to add some more features and some call to action. The good thing about Amazon is that they actually allow people to use AI. So I'm going to go ahead and show you a quick way to create a good book description that you can include on the sales page of your book. As you can see here, we have over 3,500 characters to include. There's plenty of space to get created for the description, but if you want to use a resource to create a book description for your book and also a quick way to do so, then you're absolutely allowed to use AI tools for that. You just have to let Amazon know afterwards that you actually did use AI tools to create a description. Let's go ahead and use chat TBT and then ask for a book description. All right, so let's see what we have here. Introducing our recipe book journal, The Ultimate Companion for Culinary Enthusiasts and home cooks alike. I do not like the first sentence, but I'm going to try to pick up some good sentences from chat debt and maybe ask them for another answer with 200 pages dedicated to capturing the essence of your favorite recipes. I'm going to take that, I'm just going to paste it here. Then key features, I'm also going to use that instead of just features, I'm going to replace what I wrote with this one right here as well. I'm going to go ahead and skip the process of cover pasting from chat GBT to not make this tutorial too long for you. Then once I'm done, I'm going to show you the end result. All right, I'm done with adjusting the description. I have used some information from chat GBT and it helped me just create something quick. I suggest that you do the same. If you do not feel inspired to create your own description, just make sure that later on when you move to the next step, they will ask you if you have used AI tools to create some content about your book, then just make sure to click Yes. Do not worry about mentioning that you did use AI because Amazon does not have a problem with that. They're just collecting some information to figure out how many of their publishers are actually using AI tools to create anything related to the boost that they are publishing. All right, so let's move on to the publishing rights. So I'm going to click on I own the right and I hold the necessary publishing rights. This is something that I have done myself. I did not outsource it from anybody. And it's also not a public domain work. Then we have the primary audience. It's a no for here, of course. If you have created something similar to that and you have to select yes, then you will have to select the age. But in my case, this is irrelevant, then we can move on to the primary marketplace. In my case, I will be using Amazon.com As I said, it is the largest marketplace and it has the most potential for sales. But it is up to you to select the marketplace that suits your book the most. In case you have a preference, then we have categories. In this case, this is a low content book. I'm just going to go ahead and click on this one. Then you also have to select the category of the book from the categories available on Amazon. In this case, this book is a cookbook, I guess, and then choose a subcategory. Let's just go with quick and easy. And then with general, I'm going to save changes, then we can move on to keywords. Adding keywords on Amazon is really important. As you can see here, there are seven spaces for you to add different keywords. And it's really important to be careful with the keywords that you add here, because those will help your book rank higher when people are looking for a book relevant to yours. In my case, when somebody is looking for a recipe book. In this example, I must think of the keywords that they will type on the search bar on Amazon and then type these keywords right here so they're able to find my book and purchase it. Now there's a great tool to find some keywords for Amazon. It's called Keyword Tool Amazon. Then all you have to do is just type here the keyword that is related to the type of book that you're trying to publish. In my case, it's a recipe book. As you can see here, the tool is showing me some keywords related to recipe books that people are typing on the Amazon search bar when they're looking for something related to recipe books. This is a really good way to figure out what keywords to include. Here you have seven places and you have to fill seven places with different keywords. This is a great place to see, okay, somebody is looking for recipe books, easy meals, so I'm going to go ahead and add that. However, in my case, I need to specify the recipe book into journal, because I'm not selling a recipe book that is already filled with recipes, but I'm selling a journal. So I'm going to go ahead and click on Search. It seems like I made a typo here, so I'm just going to fix it. All right, Right now I can only see two key words, recipe book journal, Vintage and recipe book journal. It seems like some people are searching for these, but I cannot see how much because this tool only provides some data for free. Otherwise, you will have to pay for it to access more features. But I'm just going to go ahead and try something else. Maybe blank. There you go. Now I have some other details. Recipe book plank 8.5 and 11. " It seems like a lot of people are interested in purchasing this size. This is a great way to actually know that in case you want to create another recipe book. Maybe considering to create a book with this size is going to be really good because a lot of people seem to look for it. Then we have recipe book blank custom. This is interesting. There is a keyword with the recipe book, blank hardcover. This seems to be something that people are interested in. The one I created is paperback, so I cannot add this one then. Organizer is a good keyword, personalized is a good keyword as well. Then I'm just going to go ahead and maybe add a final search. I assume that people are searching for the word empty. It seems like some people actually type the word empty because they do not want to buy something with the recipes in them. The recipe book empty with name, it means that the cover or the interior has a place for the person to add their own name on it. This is interesting. And then there's recipe book empty cooking journal to write your favorite recipes. It seems like this is a long keyword that I actually want to copy. I'm just going to go ahead and take that. I'm also going back to blank to collect some of the other good keywords and then just check again what they added in journal. All right. It seems like this is the only one. I still need three different keywords. I'm trying to think of some good keywords to include when you're selling low content, Maybe let's add low content. Nobody seems to look for this keyword. What I can think about as well is maybe moving the word book and adding journal. Now I have some more options. It's a recipe journal, paper bag, something that actually fits my own book. And this one right here. Then I just need a final keyboard. I'm actually going to add Recipe Notebook. All right, this is how you find some good keywords. Of course, you have to type here the keyword that is relevant to the book that you have published instead of recipe book. And then see what people seem to be searching for. And then just select the most suitable keywords for your book. And then just add them here in these seven fields. All right, the publication date and the release date are going to be the same, so I'm just going to keep it as it is then. I'm just going to also release my book for sale right now. I do not want to schedule it for free and then sell it later. But I'm just going to go ahead and move to the second step. All right. Now, regarding the ISBN, recently Amazon decided that low content books do not necessarily need an ISPN. Two years ago, that was not the case. You still needed an ISPN for the book even if it's low content book. But this is, to be honest, just the easy way of publishing low content books. They do not necessarily need an ISPN. However, if you do have an ISBN somehow for your own book, then just go ahead and use your own, otherwise it's not necessary anymore. Then the print options here, you will have to go back to the details that you have selected when you use the Amazon cover calculator. In my case, I have decided to go with the standard color interior. So I'm going to go ahead and click on this one. Then I'm going to select the size, the trim size that I have selected when I created the interior for the book was this one right here. I'm just going to go ahead and select it. I always keep my books on No bleed. If you want to create a book with bleed, let's say that you're publishing a book with images on it and you do not want spaces here, then feel free to do that. I have never done that myself. Usually it's unnecessary for low content books to have bleed in them. But if you want to go ahead and work on the bled settings in case you actually want to include bleed in your book, then feel free to just click on these settings and move on with it. However, I really think that you will not really need the bled and just go ahead and keep it on. No bled. Then you've got to select between met or glossy. I personally prefer the met style, but in case you want the book to be shiny and if it has some colors in it, then you can select glossy. In my case, I'm going to keep it on met. Now it's time to move to the manuscript. This is where you upload the BDF that you have created for the interior. What you have to do is just click on Upload paper pack, manuscript. I save them here on KDP. This is it. Now, it will take some time for Amazon to do it. Usually it takes from 10 minutes to half an hour, depends on how big the file is. So I'm just going to go ahead and skip until Amazon is done uploading my file. All right. So the manuscript is uploaded. It still needs some time to process the file before I can see it, but in the meantime we can move on to the book cover. Kdb has something called the cover creator. I personally do not like it. The images there are different and also it's not as easy for me to navigate. Just like Canva, I always prefer to create my own cover and then upload it. However, if you want to figure out what the cover creator is inside KTB, then please feel free to just click here and then explore your options and the design options that they have available over there. In my case, I'm going to click here on uploading my own cover and then just click here and then just take this cover I created on Va. This again will take some time, so I'm just going to go ahead and skip to the end. Right now I have the manuscript and also the book cover. They're still processing, but in the meantime we can move on to other steps. This is where Amazon is asking if any of the content was AI generated. In my case, I did use AI to create a description. I'm just going to go ahead and click on Yes. But in your case, if you have not used AI tools, then just click on No, right here. I'm just going to select some sections and I'm going to write that it has been chat GBT that helped me. However, I only used some texts. So I'm just going to go ahead and skip images and translation. I just have to add that it's none. Now, I can just go ahead and move to the next step. Right now, I can actually see how the book looks like. There's something called the book reviewer which is only ready after you're done with uploading the cover in the manuscript. Sometimes this button right here is not very yellow, it means that it's not ready yet. But once it's ready you'll be able to click on it. All right. That actually did not take a long time. That's good news. The first thing I can see right here is that on the left, there's no red text and this means there has not been any mistakes when I was creating the book, usually if you see something here that says that maybe the book cover has the wrong dimensions or maybe there's something wrong with the bleed or whatever, then there's something that you've got to fix. The good thing about it is that they tell you how to fix it. But luckily for my case, everything was done correctly. What I just want to do is quickly take a look at the interior as well. That is good. There's no text outside this area and the pages look okay. All right. So since all my pages look the same, I'm just going to go ahead and click on approve. And as I said, if you have seen some things on the left that KV wants you to fix, then you cannot click on approve. You just have to go ahead and fix them and then re launch the reviewer again to make sure that it has been corrected. You cannot move from that step if there's something that needs to be done and you have not done it. All right, let's see what we have here. It's going to show me right now how much it's going to cost me to print my book. The price is nine point $40 This is not cheap compared to other books available on Amazon. I have 200 pages. That's a lot of paper to print. And this makes sense because usually books could be smaller and they could be cheaper for the seller and also for the buyer. Because eventually your buyers are going to be paying this price. But you will have to give your book a higher price so you can actually earn some royalties from it. But so far this is what we have. I'm not going to go ahead and change anything. If you're unhappy with the printing costs, then the only thing you can do is to actually create a different interior and also a different cover. You will also maybe have to consider printing something in black and white because that will be cheaper. I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but hard covers are going to be maybe three times more expensive than this one. If you want to sell cheap things, then do not change paper back to Hardcover. Always stick to paper back so you can sell affordable things and generate more sales. However, let's save and continue. Now the final thing is to select the territories. In my case, I will keep it on all territories in case you want to select individual territories, like only selling the book on Amazon dot D or a different market, then please go ahead and select that. In my case, I'm going to keep it as it is. And then we will have to select the primary marketplace. We have talked about this previously, so I'm just going to keep it as Amazon.com right now. We have to think about the pricing of the book. Keep in mind that the royalty of those who sell on Amazon is really different from a place to another. In my case right now is going to be 60% If somebody buys the book on Amazon or expanded distribution, it will go down to 40% Keep that in mind when you're deciding on the price. The good thing here is that you can test some prices and see the royalties before you settle on. One thing, as you can see right here, it says that the minimum price for this book is 15.6 $7 and the maximum is 250. So let's say that you want to sell it for $16 The royalty is very small. This is how much you're going to earn if somebody buys your book. This is not something I would do. I will definitely add a few more dollar, or in my case, Euros, to increase the price and make it worth selling a book on Amazon. I will actually consider adding 18 then, even though the royalty is still small, it's still considerable thinking that I have created a 200 page book and the printing costs are expensive. However, a lot of people are interested in having this big of a book. And what I can do next is maybe create something smaller. So it will be cheaper and I'll be able to sell it maybe with the same price or for a slightly smaller price. But I will earn bigger royalties because the printing costs will not be very big. All right, so I think I'm going to settle on $18 In your case, it is really up to you how much you price your book. Of course, you have to keep in mind the suggestions for the minimum and the maximum price. And it's really up to you to sell it for an amount that you think that it's fair for your work and you think that your customers are actually willing to pay. As you can see here, Amazon is showing you some different currencies. What I can see, actually, is that I will be earning an Amazon Dot and L in case my book was actually published on this marketplace. But it is not for now because I have just decided to go with Amazon.com But this is just something to consider knowing that I will be earning higher royalties on Amazon.nl if I decide to add it on that marketplace, or maybe just keep it on Amazon.com All of this is a personal preference. It is really up to you to decide these things. In my case, I'm going to keep them as they are. Then just scroll to the bottom and then click here on publishing your paperback book. As you can see, it takes up to 72 hours for the book to be available. The quality team is going to be checking your work and making sure that it qualifies to the guidelines of publishing on Amazon. And then once the book is published, they're going to send you an e mail telling you that correct relations and your book is finally published. 16. Bonus (1) - One Interior, Multiple Low-content Books: Hi there. Now that you've created your first low content book, and you're familiar with the process of publishing books online, one of the easiest ways to double your chances of generating sales is to repurpose the work that you've done already by publishing the same interior with a different book cover. You might have come across some products on Amazon that have the same interior but are sold in different covers. The customer gets to select their favorite covered design and purchase the one that they like the most. If you decide to publish a second or even a third book with the same interior, all you need is another book cover. This way you save a lot of time on creating a whole new book from scratch. You might want to consider creating different covers with multiple styles or colors. You have a selection that suits different tastes and preferences. And luckily, Amazon allows you to publish as many books as you want with the same interior. It is up to you to decide how many books you want to create. This example right here is a recipe book with four different covers, but they all have the exact same interior. This is of course, a spiral bound book. It's not a print on demand. But you can create the same type of book as a paper back or hardcover and publish it with different covers individually. Another way to increase your income from your books is to publish the same book with the same cover but in different sizes. If you recall us using the keyword tool, we saw that someone actually researched for a specific size, for the book that they needed. This is a good opportunity to take advantage of and create multiple copies of the same book with different popular sizes that people are searching for. Maybe consider using a keyword research tool to see if somebody is looking for a specific size for the book type that you're creating. If you decide to do it this way, you will have to do a little bit of extra work to update the size of the interior and also the size of the cover. But it is very easy to change the size of your designs inside Campa. If you're using Canva for free, then all you have to do is create another design with the new trim size and copy paste your work from the old design to the new. Then do the same thing for the cover. But if you pay for Canva, you have access to the Cava Pro features, then you can just simply click on the magic resize feature right here. And then you can change the size of your design and create another copy. And then once you're done, just simply save the work in PDF format and then follow the same steps as the first time so you can publish your second book within minutes. 17. Bonus (2) - Expanding To Other Self-Publishing Platforms Beyond KDP : For someone who is creating and selling low content books. Have you considered expanding your work beyond Amazon KDB. It's true that Amazon is one of the largest markets and it's such an attractive platform to sell on because it doesn't require any upfront investments for inventory or shipping. And because they made it easy and possible for anyone to create and sell books. But this opportunity isn't only available inside KTB. There are many other platforms that you can publish low content books on for free. And expand your market and your potential of reaching more people and generating more sales. What I will introduce to you in this video are the platforms that I personally use and I've had really good experiences with. The first one is Lulu.com This is a free self publishing platform just like KDB, where you can create and sell all different types of books, including low content. I actually really like using this platform. It's very simple and it's easy to navigate. It offers a lot more printing options and features than KDB does. What I also like about it is that you can create and sell spiral bound books. It's actually quite popular because a lot of people prefer to use spiral bound books than using paperback or hardcover. Especially when it comes to using planners or agendas or diaries for example. The second platform is Gum Road. Gum Road is another free self publishing platform for all different kinds of products. They do not offer a print on demand service, but many individuals are selling principle low content books as digital downloads. The buyers download the BDF file and they printed themselves. I have actually recently launched my own gumroad store and I highly recommend that you give this platform a chance and explore its potential. I actually want to mention that I'm planning my upcoming courses right now and they're going to be around Lulu.com or Gum Road. If you want, you can let me know in the comments which platform seems to be more appealing to you and if you have any questions about it in case you're interested in learning more about these platforms and taking advantage of their unique features. 18. Bonus (3) - FREE Interior Templates Available For You!: The last bonus I have for you is free interior design templates that you can download and use for your own book. I have recently launched my own gum road store, and I'm constantly updating it with different templates and KDB resources that can be downloaded as BDF files and uploaded directly on Kindo. You will be able to find them by visiting this link on thea ellos.com Road.com I've set all resources as permitted for full commercial use so you can use them without worrying about giving any credit. I've also included options for the interior colors and the trim sizes. I will keep adding more designs to the store and updating the existing designs for more sizes and more colors as well. As you can see here, some of the designs are set for one Euro because Gumroad did not allow me to sell large files for free. I had to add a price. But if you use the code skill share student when you check out, then you should be able to download any of them and use it for free. Also, if you like one of the designs and you want it in a specific size or color, then please feel free to reach out to me with the file name and the needed size. I will be really happy to create one for you or send you the Canva link for the design where you can adjust it as you please. That's it for the bonus and this is where I end the course. I really want to thank you for joining and I hope you enjoyed it and you found it useful. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me using the discussion section. And I will be more than happy to help you further with your book. It will mean a lot to me. If you take a moment to leave a review and describe your experience with the course. I'm constantly working on improving my online content. And your honest feedback will be highly valuable to me. Thanks again, and I really hope to see you in my upcoming courses.