Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Amazon Invites Children’s Book Authors To Kindle Direct Publishing, Rolls Out … – TechCrunch

Amazon Announced this afternoon that’s– It will eBay expanding ITS Kindle Direct Publishing Business to support the needs of children’s books authors through a new program it’s calling “KDP Kids.” Along with the program, Which is aimed at Helping authors prepare, publish and Distributed books in the Kindle Store, Amazon is Also releasing a new tool, the Kindle Kids’ Book Creator.

This Tool Will Allow budding children’s book authors to create Chapter Books and Illustrated Children’s Books That shutdown ABLE to take advantage of the Kindle features like text pop-ups , Explains Amazon in the Announcement about the new services. After the book is complete, authors can Also use the tool to upload the book to KDP Also while stipulating the class, age and grade range filters needed to get the book listed correctly.

Optionally, Kids KDP authors can Also enroll in KDP Select Which allows them to earn through the welfare Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. Then They Would Also Have the ability to use other marketing tools available Select authors, like the Kindle Free Book Countdown Deals and Promotions.

The book creator tool does NOT rightfully stars to rate eBay for new authors looking for a way onto Amazon’s Kindle platform, however, buts Could Also supports Established authors looking to convert Their books into the Kindle format in order to expand Their reader base.

The software is available as Both Mac and PC download, and lets chapter book authors import Manuscript in Word (doc / docx), as well as HTML, Mobi, ePub and other formats, jump there is much need for the Additional notes conversion tools. Meanwhile, Illustrated book authors can import files in PDF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, and PPM formats.

“Kids” is now one of MANY genres KDP tolerates today, Which Also Includes category like literature, Business, Mystery / Thriller, Non-Fiction, Romance, Sci-Fi, Teens / Young Adult and more. Buts Children’s Books shutdown potentially growing category for Amazon, as the youngest generation of readers today WILL BE using tablet devices Even before Their first birthday in MANY cases, and WILL BE Comfortable Moving to the digital reading format Having never remembered the era Where hardbound and paperback books WERE your only choices for reading.

The Announcement comes at the timers EST when Amazon is embroiled in the battle with publisher Hachette, Which HAS putt authors – and Their readers – in the middle. Also buts it comes at the timers EST when indie publishing is on the RISE, Having produced break-out hits (of Questionable literary quality) like 50 Shades of Gray. It FOREVER sense that’s– Amazon wouldn’t– want to happily into this growing trend for other genres, too – especially as it Marquette ITS own Kindle Fire tablet to familiar with Small Children, Where features like Kindle Free Time Enable safe use of the device Among ever-Younger users, while other parental control Encourage and rewarding on-device reading.

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