COMPLETE Amazon KDP for Beginners FREE Canva: Step by Step Tutorial (2024)

[@ShannonIngraham]

00:00 Introduction 02:14 Productor for Merch by Amazon Research Tool 02:27 Find Book Ideas 05:18 KDP Interior Templates 05:53 Create Book in Canva 06:22 Create Interior 07:59 Create Cover 12:47 Listing on Amazon

[@정은영-x7s]

Very informative! I just want to know if it's okay to change the subtitle not the title to upgrade my previous version.

[@ShannonIngraham]

Thanks! You can't change any part of the title but you should put that your new version is the latest version in your new listing title.

[@Fizzzz1000]

Hey Shannon, I'm Eugene, thank you for sharing your content and experience with us, appreciate it! I'd definitely like to see your working process of other low-content or middle-content books (how do you find a proper niche, what tools and fonts do you use, how the overall process looks from scratch, etc.) this would be very helpful for me. I'm a beginner in this field and haven't published any book yet, just gathering some information. How do you think, would it be OK, if I start making low-content books at first and then try to "raise the ante" to make middle-content books, if everything goes more or less well? Liked and subscribed. Wish you thousands of followers😎 Cheers from Ukraine!🇺🇦

[@ShannonIngraham]

Hi Eugene! You can definitely start with low content and I will post a video specifically for that. If you want to do a journal, notebook or workbook for low content the majority of the work will have to go into a niche or trendy cover. Niche will give you evergreen and trendy might give me a bunch of sales that will eventually slow. I will work on a video this week talking pros and cons and then walking through designing a low content book for free using canva and a free trial of boltbook. Thanks for subscribing! Stay well!

[@Fizzzz1000]

@@ShannonIngraham thank you for the answer!

[@annaintili1777]

Great video. My problem is the formating dimensions for cover & interior.

[@Fizzzz1000]

@annaintili1777 hope, it's just a matter of time. It's always hard in the beginning but you'll master it if you make it a bunch of times, everything's going to be allright😎

[@ShannonIngraham]

download the cover based on number of pages, bleed or no bleed, color, and size you want. on that download it tells you the dimensions to create your canva document. then pull over the template you downloaded to make sure your graphics and text fit. if you chose bleed then non text graphics can go to the edge of the page. Text has to stay inside the trim lines (red highlight dots). Interior download the size from gumroad and open a canva with the size indicated on the gumroad template. Text stays inside trim lines (red highlighted dots) and if you chose bleed the graphics can go to the edge. If you chose no bleed everything has to stay inside the trim lines. Thanks for watching and let me know if you want a video on just this info.

[@monalisamclean4418]

Thank you so much ☺️ for this video it helped me, I was hitting a wall when it comes to choosing categories. I’m about to publish my first journal. Thanks a lot for a very informative video.

[@ShannonIngraham]

Congratulations! I am so happy I could help! Maybe I will do a weekly niche video to keep ideas flowing!

[@adilphoneixx-pj8gg]

nice video, your fan from morocco

[@ShannonIngraham]

Thanks! 😀 Let me know what other passive income streams or KDP tips you'd like me to dive into!

[@seefinish_]

Nice 👏👏👏 well done

[@ShannonIngraham]

Thank you so much!

[@TMVVisualMedia]

🤔 I like this idea.

[@ShannonIngraham]

Thanks! I love finding new niches for KDP. Let me know if you want a video of just niches.

[@ShannonIngraham]

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[@LoriAnneBrown]

I have heard amazon is not allowing low content books any more - is this true? I just finished my first coloring book (waiting for it to go live), so am excited to do more, but also have several journal ideas that will be low/medium content.

[@ShannonIngraham]

Congratulations! Low Content is definitely allowed but I have noticed Amazon scaling back resources (ie not giving free ASIN's to low content books). I get that given the increase in low content books that flooded the market. I would just try to make something more unique. If you are going to do journals and medium content I would focus on a nice and niche cover and you should get sales.

[@maryjoglenn1731]

Will definitely need a second watch through as it went very fast

[@ShannonIngraham]

Sorry about that! I am planning on make a mult video KDP course so I can focus on each step slower and even more thoroughly. Keep a look out and let me know what step interests you most: research, creating, or listing.

[@bob51502001]

Was way too fast, not educational. Also, the niche research extensions aren't free

[@ShannonIngraham]

@@bob51502001​​⁠hi Bob, I don’t pay for the chrome extensions used. They are free. Sorry it was too fast. I am working on another video now that is a little slower. Thanks for watching!

[@tjules7]

Great video! I noticed there was no pictures of the book in the process. I am assuming since the book is not yet published, there is no picture. How do you handle that part? Do you wait for the book to be advertised on KDP, get a copy of the book, take your own pictures, then update the listings? Please advise.

[@ShannonIngraham]

Great question. I create mockups of the book. I mainly use placeit and have some with and some without people. I do a lot of open book mockups to show off as many pages as possible. I have a video up showing how I make create the images on the listing using the kdp marketing page. Once I do that I order a copy and create a video of the book.

[@tjules7]

@@ShannonIngraham Thank you Shannon for your quick response. Can you send the link to the "Step by Step creating A+ content with Canva"? I could not find it. Thank you.

[@ShannonIngraham]

Here you go, kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJe7g4KMj7Z2rpY if there is anything that you want more clarification on let me know and I can do another video or short. Circle back around to let me know how it goes

[@tjules7]

@@ShannonIngraham Thank you Shannon. Appreciate all the help!

[@bob51502001]

thru me for a loop, u create a cover while on the template? Now im lost for sure

[@ShannonIngraham]

Oh no! What part do you want me to cover slower and more thoroughly?

[@mohamadsaleih6287]

Good morning Do you work for other ad freelence I wrote my first book,and need to be firmatted , So if you do so ,we can come to adeal

[@ShannonIngraham]

Hello! I don't but I am happy to answer any questions or point you in a video direction. Congrats on your first book! Starting is the hardest part!

[@doreengayer5723]

Are we allowed to use Pen Names or Brand Names when Publishing or not? I have a brand name & called KDP Support & they said you have to the same name you applied with when publishing. I still am confused because it states we can use Pen Names in KDP terms. Where do we put our brand name? In the Last Name area of Author?

[@ShannonIngraham]

Amazon started requiring the real name a couple years ago. I think it had to due with how many people were publishing low content books and using silly names

[@doreengayer5723]

@@ShannonIngraham So can we use pen names or not

[@ShannonIngraham]

I don't think so. I think I am still allowed to use mine since they have been established for years but I think they aren't accepting anymore pen names or brand names unless your account is under that name.

[@doreengayer5723]

@@ShannonIngraham It states pen names can be used in their terms of service

[@ingridcristina-s2y]

Good video, but this is not necessarily for beginners as you do go quite fast through explications. Would be great if you could slow down the video and actually show step by step. 😅

[@ShannonIngraham]

Thank you! I will def slow it down going forward. Thanks for letting me know!

[@ingridcristina-s2y]

Thank you for your reply! Your videos helped me a lot, I am very glad that I have discovered your channel 🤗 Could you please maybe do a video about how to go around about medium content books on kdp amazon, as I am trying to upload a cutout collage book and they make me upload it as a low content book, which is not, and this means that they do not allocate a IBSN no. Many thanks 🙏

[@ShannonIngraham]

@@ingridcristina-s2y one tip I just used was to add a small box with different quotes on each page at the bottom right. Something that would appeal to your audience. Small enough to not steal from the page but makes pages different enough to go around the low content check.

[@ShannonIngraham]

@@ingridcristina-s2y and thank you! I will definitely do a video for medium content kdp.

[@ingridcristina-s2y]

You are amazing, thank you🙏

[@simonandas5475]

This tutorial is definitely not for beginners, you are going to fast.

[@ShannonIngraham]

Sorry about that! I will do another video and go a bit slower. Thanks for letting me know!

[@simonandas5475]

​@@ShannonIngrahamI will watch it again but Ty :)

[@ShannonIngraham]

@@simonandas5475 are you looking for kdp book ideas? I’m working on a video for that right now

[@simonandas5475]

​@@ShannonIngrahamYeah, I would like to make a drawing book for children

[@ShannonIngraham]

@@simonandas5475 do you have a theme? I will add a couple drawing books to my video