After all the searching, confused authors, and "pay first" scams. Finally someone made it clear and easy. Thanks for clarifying the most frustratingly difficult portion of book publishing for us. Subbed and thumbs up!
settings for windows 10 are easy to obtain but windows 11, the settings are secret, and i cant get a strait answere from any videos. So depressed, after weeks of work. It puts me on the verge of tears every time i repeat the search and fail.
I have tried publishing this book three times, My wishes are that now that i have downloaded your templates for pages, I wont have any issues and i can publish my first childrens book, Thank you so much you taught me so much today, I appreciate you
After struggling so long with printing my book the right size I finally found a video that told how to do it correctly with no gimmicks in the video. Thank you so much for this🤗
I'll say again, I love your videos because of the content and because I can follow along. Your voice is perfect for these videos. I am a bit deaf and can't hear half of these people who talk fast and softly. Thanks so much, Paul.
Thanks Captain. I learned the hard way last week. I made 5 books then I decided to upload them all. When I was uploading the first one, I ran into the dreaded margin problems. I had to redo all the books! I spent the entire day fixing them and reloading them again and they went through ok it seems. Still waiting to see if they allow them to go live. Keeping my fingers crossed. I'll save this video to my playlist to refer to it in the future. Thanks again for your extremely helpful content. It's really appreciated.
I suffered that too. 141pages with 141affirmations for each page. I was lost. Kept editing kept getting the error thing. I finally decided to just click with bleed and approved. By tomorrow 27th DEC. 2021 I will know if they let it through by God's grace. I will keep this video too
I have always wanted to create my own journals and poetry books and your videos have been absolutely amazing sir! I've run into a few problems so I am SO thankful you have videos that cover absolutely everything!
Hello, I learn from all your videos, you are the BEST, you explained things so clearly. I fully understand about bleed and no bleed and the book cover and interior, because I was struggling so much until I listen to your the video, Keep Up The Good Work.
Thanks Heaps! This was absolutely doing my head in. Finally worked it out and have just had my first two books approved and super excited to get some more books up. Love your videos.
This was one of the most useful tutorial video I have ever seen regarding setting up bleeds and margins. I was stuck for past few days with the same. Your graphic representation was more useful.
Thanks Paul. I was muscling through many trial and errors until your video and that template. Success publishing two more books this evening without errors! When I saw the "Approve" buttons available I nearly fell off my chair. You ROCK!
Paul, thank you so much for all the information you put out. I'm 4 weeks down the rabbit hole after hearing about KDP for the first time and your advice and knowledge has been fantastic! I've even managed 1 sale after only having had books up for 2 weeks and got on a best seller page 😆 I'm so keen to keep going and learn more from you. As an Aussie I also love your constant references to Australia :)
Thank you so much for this video series. I keep checking out other KDP content creators, but always end up clicking out of the video and heading back to one of your videos. A few I’ve watched more than once. I love that you don’t go off on random tangents. You’re very clear and concise.
I've spent too much money feeling my way along and I've painfully created 5 books. I should have watched EVERYTHING on your videos first. :o) So, I'll follow your clear and concise directions from now on. Thank you for throwing me a life preserver.
Certainly appreciate this tutorial ! Thank you! I’m dealing with adobe acrobat pro for all of this and learning as I go . Trying to format an 8:50 x 11.00 .
I got tonnes of value and info from this video than I ever got from videos on kdp, thank you so much. Well, the link to the amazon help article on bleeds seems not to be in the description of the video.
Thank you, Paul. This is just the info I've been searching for. I'm on round 4 or 5 of KDP rejections for my coloring book. I fully expect round 6 to come in by tomorrow and hopefully I can use this info to finally clear the process.😊
Paul can you do a video about the workflow you used when you first started to reduce friction. Motivation is nice and all but after a while it’s the discipline and the system that keeps us going. Stuff like your morning routine, how many hours you worked on covers on average etc
I just watched a million of these and yours was actually the best. Way to go! You explained actual info, gave very helpful links and instructions and you're very comfortable talking to the camera. THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Hi, Paul, I got confused at 7:35 in your video. Shouldn't the total page size be 6.25 x 9.125 if we're increasing the size by 1.25 on the top, bottom, and one side? Thanks.
Paul, thanks for this video. Something you didn't mention, that I wanted to ask. Say I publish a book at 8.5"x8.5". To this, I add the bleed as instructed. The margin would be inside if I understood correctly. Here's my question. Do we need margins at all if our book extends edge to edge on every page?
@@paulmarles I ended with 9 for today !!!! Thank you for this video I hated Amazon it always took me a hole day to upload one book 🤕 the only thing I need to learn now is advertising because I tried to signup for amazon adds and they told me I don't qualify 🙈
After looking for videos, to learn the KDP process, I thankfully found yours! I appreciate you getting to the point vs having a lot of "fluff" in between. I am not looking any more and I'll be sharing your channel with friends!
I watched about 10 videos on the topic and just got more and more confused about the interior layout. After watching this it's finally clear! Thanks! One thing though, someone in some other video mentioned that you don't have to input the bleed amount when uploading it to Amazon, you just choose a bleed page size from their bleed vs no bleed page size list. Is that true?
Hi Paul, love your videos, so helpful, thankyou! Just wondering if you would be keen to make a tutorial video on how to self publish a book with BookVault? This would be really helpful. Cheers, Teresa
OMG... I have been struggling with how to learn about bleed, margins, and gutters. This has helped me so much and was very easy and straightforward to follow. Ok, so hearing another brits voice helped too, but its all very logical when explained. Thank you!
Im glad there are people helping, but i am still struggling, i increased the trim size, but it still gets rejected. And says i need to add the extra size to my novel (which i already did)
Hi !! I came across your videos only yesterday and following your tutorial i was able to upload 3 low content KDP today and it was amazing first of all that was thanks to your very neat instructions and also because i think i did a pretty decent design work !!! So thanks again ♡
Excellent visual explanation! But still confuses me, in a journal with dotted background, using bleed, do I need to keep de background inside the margins?
Paul yours is the clearest and easiest to understand explanation that I've found but I still don't get it. At 10:20 you say that "as long as the content is within that box we're all good to go. My question is, if my full page image has to be within that box how will it reach to the page edge ? Great vid I got my key words watching them, thanks.
@@paulmarles Please help : shall I understand that is more convenient to choose bleed format during designing of interior? Could I design a color book in both format: bleed or not bleed ?
@@paulmarles just to be clear and make sure I understand....if there is no bleed content, I need to alternate the inside margin odd/even pages? Also, will page 1 have the left inside margin or do they leave that blank (like a title page) and start with the turned page as page 1 with inside margin on the right side? Does this make any sense? I'm working on my 1st no/low content books. I love designing these!
Thank you...such this is such a timely video! I feel like I've been dragging through the mud this week, making the slowest inch of progress daily! My problem has been the frustrating interior pages and finally today I figured out what margins I have to use and how I'll go about fixing my interior pages. Your video confirmed what I've done and I hope I get it right tomorrow! *Crosses fingers! *
@@paulmarles5735 Aw you're so kind - Thanks :) I'll let you know if I am still running into sticklers after this! I'm stubborn, though, and hope I can get it working myself!
@@paulmarles Oh geez. I'm glad I didn't call it. I don't have Whatsapp anyway. Anyhoooo....I sent my first journal to be published today!!! Between your video and another that showed how to set my margins on Canva, I got it done. IT WAS SHEER HAPPINESS to see everything fitting in the lines :DDD
I love everything you teach and share in your channel. You're so gracious! I'm wondering if you might do a tutorial on how to do an inspirational journal. I'd like to create something with some of the lines removed for inspirational quotes added to the pages or could you possibly point me in the direction where I might find how to do this? I've already learned so much just from watching your videos. Thank you for your generosity and thoroughness of everything you teach.
@@paulmarles have you managed to create this one yet Paul? Your videos are fab - so clear and easy to follow. I am in the middle of creating journals with the interior having a bit more content.
Hi! When you say at 7:11, in regards to bleeds, that we put an extra amount on the top etc. do you mean on our Word page layout where our margins are? There is no bleed option there. Please explain, thanks.
Can you please do a tutorial video for publishing large book 8.5 x 11? I wanna see exactly how you do the margins for large book because it seems complicated for me. I only see 6x9 most of the time
Hi Paul, GREAT video, clear and easy to follow, thank you! Just something you may have expert advice on. I also use AFFINITY PHOTO and each time I resize my document to 6.125 in X 9.25 in, click enter and OK, all seems hunky-dory until I reopen the document and the size keeps reverting to 6.127 in X 9.25 in. Why won't it keep the number I have entered?
I don’t know the answer to that one I’m afraid. On a side note you say Affinity Photo. Do you mean Affinity Designer? That’s the software you should be using.
@@paulmarles Yes, I am using Affinity Photo as it's been a great tool so far 👍 I think Affinity Designer is a good call and I'm going to purchase it soon. Thanks again for the great tutorial ❤
Hello Paul, why there should be an outside margin for the books with bleed = 0,125 in (7:32) while on the amazon help page it says that the outside margins (with bleed) should be at least 0.375 in (9.6 mm). Please help.
Here's a newbie question: I have ruled paper that has some text written on the left to fill in some form fields. Would that interior be no bleed -so text would not be cut off? Another words, it's not just ruled notebook paper that goes to edge. It has text. Thanks for great videos. 100% newbie here.
I am pretty sure anything that goes to the edge whether It is lines or text or pictures is considered bleed. Even if only on one page in the whole book, it has to be set at bleed.
Hi Paul. Thank you so much for this video. Everything is really clear on this information. Anyway, as I upload into KDP my notebooks and journal I found out that the margins are different whether it's even pages or odd pages, because on even pages you have the right margin with one size and on odd pages you have the right margin into the gutter margin with another size. So how can we do it so that we can make one page with opposite margin from the previous one? Thank you so much for your help.
Hi, thank you so much for this video and playlist. It has been super helpful creating my journals. Although, I'm not sure how you are calculating a book with bleed. I want my journal to be 5.5x8.5 with bleed because of pictures so I know I have to add 0.125. I see how for a 6x9 book: 6 + 0.125= 6.125 but I'm not sure how you got 9 + 0.125 to equal 9.25 instead of 9.125? Also, would I still use 0.125 for a 5.5x8.5 book? Thank you so much!
).125 at the top and 0.125 a the bottom. Add those together = 0.25. As for your bleed it should be the same - but I would advise checkeing on the bleed formatting halp eage on KDP.
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much Paul for making this video. It's extremely helpful and thank you for making it so comprehensive and visually pleasing. Thank you for all that you do! We appreciate it!!!
Thank you paul, that has been a big help in me grasping issues re margins, bleed and no bleed. Ive seen other videos of yours and together I think I have a better understanding. Thank you really appreciate this. cheers
Really clear, thanks - the email from kdp was so confusing! However, if the inner margin is different to the outer margin, this would mean different margins depending if the page is on the left or right? Am I overthinking this?!
This video is amazing. I'm finding it impossible finding information on publishing a KDP in a landscape format. I make classroom instructional material and landscape works best for me. Is there any way to publish in landscape? I've tried loading in pdf and word, but the pages still come out squished into portrait mode.
Great video ive subscribed iam working on my first book ive written it but when I load it up to amazon for some reason my pages flip around everytime I load the book the pages are on their side instead of right side up its driving me nuts 😳
Can you possibly explain the guides in the KDP Previewer? I am trying to ensure parts of my images don't get cut off in the bleed trim. I can't seem to find any templates that include the measurements or safety guides that I can use to preview my images. Example, I have images of people and when increasing the image the previewer on KDP shows the very tops of their heads being cut off. I need to prevent this. Going back to Canva and dragging the image down a bit would work, but I need to know how far to pull it down. 🧐
You would have to keep the images within the page margins in order to not get cut off. Here is a link to some free margin templates I created which you can use in Canva which may help: paulmarles.gumroad.com/l/RaWRi
I created a book with bleed and use the dimensions of 8.625×11.125 inches for the interior , but I emailed by amazon with "Add 0.125" (3.2 mm) to your book's page width and 0.25" (6.4 mm) to the page height to ensure that the images in your manuscript extend beyond the edge of the page. Once you have added the size, extend any images or backgrounds that you want to reach all the way to the edge of the page 0.125” (3.2 mm) beyond the trim line. This prevents manufacturing issues when the file is trimmed to size". How do I fix this on canva?? Thanks
same....I'm getting this message 'Increase your outside margins so that content isn't trimmed when your book is printed. The outside, top, and bottom margin requirements are 0.25" (6.35mm) for books without bleed and 0.375" (9.52mm) for books with bleed.' I'm using 8.625x11.125 for the interior with bleed. Set Bleed in KDP options, Launch Previewer, no errors, accept, get the above message. I'm so confused! Is there an easy fix in Canva or do I need to reformat my entire document in Word? BTW it's a Word Search Puzzle Book and I definitely want Bleed for the graphic borders. @godswillideh did you ever figure it out?
At last, someone who understands the problem. I loved it. Excellent. However, would it not be better for your viewers if rather than switching between bleed and no bleed, you did a separate video for each one. Less confusing.
QUESTION: I want to know if it’s possible to format my children’s book in free programs? For example in Pages (Mac)? You use Affinity Designer and suggest Canva or Photoshop. I have made my drawings on a Wacom Cintiq 16 drawing tablet and I save my drawings in .jpeg I would very much appreciate your help.
I would avoid Pages or Word as they add formatting code that can cause issues whn you upload the interior to KDP. The easiest options for putting the interior together are Powerpoint, Keynote and Canva.
I think that without your videos I wouldn´t even try anything! So, if I understood, if I have 6x9" and no bleed, I put in Canva dim 6.125"x9.25" and then in the document I set up margins as you showed? So, all of my content should be inside that margins, no matter if I have a bleed option? Thanks for everything!
hey Paul! Love your work!!! i just uploaded my first journal but don't know how to add pics showing whats inside the book at the side!!! how does one do that????
I'm publishing my first log book today for chicken homesteaders. It's absolutely beautiful! But the page numbers are below the line... of the bleed... Think it will be cut off?? lol
hey paul ive made a coloring book with references on corners . i have used 5.333*8.333 inches in canva. for trim size i should use the same and bleed option or increase trim size on kdp to prevent printing issue
Thank you for your help, but I've encountered another problem. After applying the recommendations, I've found that the text on the final page of every chapter has been haphazardly pushed to the center (including the page number that's supposed to be in the corner). Does anyone have any advice for how to fix this?
I really appreciate the time you spent making these three videos, but even after this one I have no idea what I did wrong. I followed your first video to the letter just so that I could practice. I made almost the same notebook with the same dimensions so I am no idea what I did wrong
After all the searching, confused authors, and "pay first" scams. Finally someone made it clear and easy. Thanks for clarifying the most frustratingly difficult portion of book publishing for us. Subbed and thumbs up!
You're welcome and thank you too for subscribing.
Amen :).....trying to get the info in one spot has been a challenge in understanding it and why etc.
settings for windows 10 are easy to obtain but windows 11, the settings are secret, and i cant get a strait answere from any videos. So depressed, after weeks of work. It puts me on the verge of tears every time i repeat the search and fail.
I have tried publishing this book three times, My wishes are that now that i have downloaded your templates for pages, I wont have any issues and i can publish my first childrens book, Thank you so much you taught me so much today, I appreciate you
Finally, someone who made a tutorial that is CLEAR. Thanks. I needed this tutorial.
Glad you found it useful. 👍
After struggling so long with printing my book the right size I finally found a video that told how to do it correctly with no gimmicks in the video.
Thank you so much for this🤗
You’re welcome. Glad you found it helpful. 👍
I'll say again, I love your videos because of the content and because I can follow along. Your voice is perfect for these videos. I am a bit deaf and can't hear half of these people who talk fast and softly. Thanks so much, Paul.
That's great to know. Thank you for watching. Glad you find them useful.
Thanks Captain. I learned the hard way last week. I made 5 books then I decided to upload them all. When I was uploading the first one, I ran into the dreaded margin problems. I had to redo all the books! I spent the entire day fixing them and reloading them again and they went through ok it seems. Still waiting to see if they allow them to go live. Keeping my fingers crossed. I'll save this video to my playlist to refer to it in the future. Thanks again for your extremely helpful content. It's really appreciated.
Thank you and fingers crossed.
Random one, I hope youre doing well and your effort pay off. Keep it up.
I suffered that too.
141pages with 141affirmations for each page.
I was lost. Kept editing kept getting the error thing. I finally decided to just click with bleed and approved. By tomorrow 27th DEC. 2021 I will know if they let it through by God's grace.
I will keep this video too
Paul, after following your many instructions I can say now that I love you! Thank you
Thank you 🙏
I have always wanted to create my own journals and poetry books and your videos have been absolutely amazing sir! I've run into a few problems so I am SO thankful you have videos that cover absolutely everything!
You're welcome. Glad you've found the videos useful.
Hello, I learn from all your videos, you are the BEST, you explained things so clearly. I fully understand about bleed and no bleed and the book cover and interior, because I was struggling so much until I listen to your the video, Keep Up The Good Work.
That's great. Glad you foound it useful.
I was really struggling and right after watching this video I got my planner published, thank you so much!!! Can’t say enough good things
Congratulations! That's great.
Thanks for posting this so fast after I and others complained about having problems with this after following your first two videos.
You’re welcome 👍
Thanks Heaps! This was absolutely doing my head in. Finally worked it out and have just had my first two books approved and super excited to get some more books up. Love your videos.
I swear to God, Marles is the real Deal, thank you sir, your video on 7 backend keyword helps alot.
This was one of the most useful tutorial video I have ever seen regarding setting up bleeds and margins. I was stuck for past few days with the same. Your graphic representation was more useful.
You’re welcome. Glad you found it useful.
Hey thanks for this. I seem to still be getting issues. I am using canva
I’m at this point now. Did you figure it out? Are you still using canvas?
Thank you
The last 3 months of head bashing and tears thank you for this video
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful. 🙂
Thanks!
You're welcome and thank you very much also.
Thanks Paul. I was muscling through many trial and errors until your video and that template. Success publishing two more books this evening without errors! When I saw the "Approve" buttons available I nearly fell off my chair. You ROCK!
I had the Full Bleed blues for too long
Congratulations! That's great to hear. Well done.
Paul, thank you so much for all the information you put out. I'm 4 weeks down the rabbit hole after hearing about KDP for the first time and your advice and knowledge has been fantastic! I've even managed 1 sale after only having had books up for 2 weeks and got on a best seller page 😆 I'm so keen to keep going and learn more from you. As an Aussie I also love your constant references to Australia :)
Congratulations on publishing your first book and making your first sale. Great to hear. 👍
Thank you so much for this video series. I keep checking out other KDP content creators, but always end up clicking out of the video and heading back to one of your videos. A few I’ve watched more than once. I love that you don’t go off on random tangents. You’re very clear and concise.
Thank you, that's very kind of you to say.
Thank you. I have been fighting with this for over 2 weeks on KDP. Your amazing!
You're welcome. Glad you found it useful.
I've spent too much money feeling my way along and I've painfully created 5 books. I should have watched EVERYTHING on your videos first. :o) So, I'll follow your clear and concise directions from now on. Thank you for throwing me a life preserver.
You're welcome. Glad you found it useful.
Certainly appreciate this tutorial ! Thank you! I’m dealing with adobe acrobat pro for all of this and learning as I go . Trying to format an 8:50 x 11.00 .
This is hands down the best video I've ever seen that explains this! You totally delivered! Thank you SO much!
The most helpful video I've watched so far.
A big THANK YOU for this knowledge and God bless you man!
Sir Your videos are so impacting. I learnt a lot. Am grateful coming across ur channel. Remain lifted.
I'm glad you've found them useful. Thank you for watching.
The training is concise and clear. Thank you, Paul. I'm really grateful. Joshua from Nigeria. (5stars)
You're welcome. And welcome from Nigeria!
I got tonnes of value and info from this video than I ever got from videos on kdp, thank you so much. Well, the link to the amazon help article on bleeds seems not to be in the description of the video.
Your welcome. Glad you found it useful.
Thanks Paul for the clear explanation! Choosing the page size with bleed/no bleed always requires some secure calculating. Thanks a lot for sharing!
You're welcome. Glad you found it useful.
As always, GOLD, Paul. Look forward to your weekly gems!
Thank you. Glad you found the videos useful. 👍
Thank you, Paul. This is just the info I've been searching for. I'm on round 4 or 5 of KDP rejections for my coloring book. I fully expect round 6 to come in by tomorrow and hopefully I can use this info to finally clear the process.😊
I have created presets for each book size in Affinity Designer and Publisher with help from your video Paul. Many, many, thanks.
Great stuff! That’s the way to do it to streamline the process. 👍👍
Hi Paul, I am new to the KDP business and to your Chanel, thanks for the inspiration and the information you share.
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
I love your videos. They are immensely helpful. I love the way you say "Pinky coloured".
Thank you!
Paul can you do a video about the workflow you used when you first started to reduce friction. Motivation is nice and all but after a while it’s the discipline and the system that keeps us going. Stuff like your morning routine, how many hours you worked on covers on average etc
Ok, I’ll put it on my list of ideas.
@@paulmarles look forward to it 👍🏽
I just watched a million of these and yours was actually the best. Way to go! You explained actual info, gave very helpful links and instructions and you're very comfortable talking to the camera. THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Thank you. Glad you found it useful. 👍
You are amazing Paul, always learn from you, thank you for your GOOD videos, I am in the process to publish my first book. Thank you from Canada.
Thanks so much for this tutorial. You helped me solve the problem that had me scratching my head. Thanks again!
You're welcome! Glad it helped. 👍
Hi, Paul, I got confused at 7:35 in your video. Shouldn't the total page size be 6.25 x 9.125 if we're increasing the size by 1.25 on the top, bottom, and one side? Thanks.
No, because the book is 6” wide and 9” high.
@@paulmarles
top and bottom : 6 + 0.125 = 6.125
Similarly, side : 9 + 0.125 = 9.125
But, you are calculating 6.125 x 9.25.
How is that?
It is 6.125x9.25 - 6 + 0.125 and 9 + 0.125 + 0.125
Had this today, took a minute to format correctly 😀
Thank you again. This is the second time I've used your video to help format my books. 😅I took notes this time.
Un grand merci Paul pour toutes ces vidéos géniales.. En plus elles sont traduites en français, quelle chance !
Paul, thanks for this video. Something you didn't mention, that I wanted to ask. Say I publish a book at 8.5"x8.5". To this, I add the bleed as instructed. The margin would be inside if I understood correctly.
Here's my question. Do we need margins at all if our book extends edge to edge on every page?
Thank you so much I uploaded 5 books in 2 hours just after this video !!!! Whoop whoop thanks again !!!! 💯
Congratulations! Good work!
@@paulmarles I ended with 9 for today !!!! Thank you for this video I hated Amazon it always took me a hole day to upload one book 🤕 the only thing I need to learn now is advertising because I tried to signup for amazon adds and they told me I don't qualify 🙈
After looking for videos, to learn the KDP process, I thankfully found yours! I appreciate you getting to the point vs having a lot of "fluff" in between. I am not looking any more and I'll be sharing your channel with friends!
Thank you. Very much appreciated.
Wow this video really I have been wondering how to get book templates for a while now , much love
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
I watched about 10 videos on the topic and just got more and more confused about the interior layout. After watching this it's finally clear! Thanks! One thing though, someone in some other video mentioned that you don't have to input the bleed amount when uploading it to Amazon, you just choose a bleed page size from their bleed vs no bleed page size list. Is that true?
Hi Paul, love your videos, so helpful, thankyou! Just wondering if you would be keen to make a tutorial video on how to self publish a book with BookVault? This would be really helpful. Cheers, Teresa
Thank you very much Paul for the great support and explanation of the work
Clear, thorough, and straight to the point. Thank you so much!!! I love that I can find essential information in your videos without any extra fluff!
Thank you too. Glad you’ve found them helpful.
You helped me with all of my questions on bleed and margin setup! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much Paul; anytime I watch your video, I learn a lot.
You are a great guy👍👍
Thank you. I’m glad you find them helpful. 👍
Thank you paul, for the knowledge you share.
You’re welcome.
OMG... I have been struggling with how to learn about bleed, margins, and gutters. This has helped me so much and was very easy and straightforward to follow. Ok, so hearing another brits voice helped too, but its all very logical when explained. Thank you!
You’re welcome. Glad you found the video useful. 😊
Great information. Thank you. It's so clear to me now. Perhaps you can do a video on how to format a print or Kindle Table of Contents.
Im glad there are people helping, but i am still struggling, i increased the trim size, but it still gets rejected. And says i need to add the extra size to my novel (which i already did)
Hi !! I came across your videos only yesterday and following your tutorial i was able to upload 3 low content KDP today and it was amazing first of all that was thanks to your very neat instructions and also because i think i did a pretty decent design work !!! So thanks again ♡
That's great! Congratulations. Glad you found the videos useful.
Excellent visual explanation! But still confuses me, in a journal with dotted background, using bleed, do I need to keep de background inside the margins?
No, not unless you have writing or content you want to keep within the margins.
Have you a video for allowing the bleeding on children's picture books?
No, I don’t. Just this video on bleed and margins.
Thankyou so much!! Thought I'd never get it but you made this so simple, I am super grateful for this!!!
Paul yours is the clearest and easiest to understand explanation that I've found but I still don't get it. At 10:20 you say that "as long as the content is within that box we're all good to go. My question is, if my full page image has to be within that box how will it reach to the page edge ? Great vid I got my key words watching them, thanks.
The full page image goes to the edges of the page. It's only content that you don't want to risk being trimmed off that goes inside the margins.
@@paulmarles Thanks for your help Paul and for your reply.
I think that I've finally got it. Just hope KDP agrees.
There's also a way to make ur own trim sizes, can u pls make a video on that
Don't margins change though depending on location of page (even/odd)? How do you change the inside and outside margins from left to right?
Yes, the do. The inside margin would be on the other side.
@@paulmarles Please help : shall I understand that is more convenient to choose bleed format during designing of interior? Could I design a color book in both format: bleed or not bleed ?
@@paulmarles just to be clear and make sure I understand....if there is no bleed content, I need to alternate the inside margin odd/even pages? Also, will page 1 have the left inside margin or do they leave that blank (like a title page) and start with the turned page as page 1 with inside margin on the right side? Does this make any sense? I'm working on my 1st no/low content books. I love designing these!
Thank you...such this is such a timely video! I feel like I've been dragging through the mud this week, making the slowest inch of progress daily! My problem has been the frustrating interior pages and finally today I figured out what margins I have to use and how I'll go about fixing my interior pages. Your video confirmed what I've done and I hope I get it right tomorrow! *Crosses fingers! *
@@paulmarles5735 Aw you're so kind - Thanks :) I'll let you know if I am still running into sticklers after this! I'm stubborn, though, and hope I can get it working myself!
Hi there, the comment with the number is spam. Just ignore it. Glad you found the video useful.
@@paulmarles Oh geez. I'm glad I didn't call it. I don't have Whatsapp anyway.
Anyhoooo....I sent my first journal to be published today!!! Between your video and another that showed how to set my margins on Canva, I got it done. IT WAS SHEER HAPPINESS to see everything fitting in the lines :DDD
Thanks. Simple and straight forward instructions.
You're welcome. Glad you found it useful.
8:41 -Bookmark for Margins for no-bleed pages
I love everything you teach and share in your channel. You're so gracious! I'm wondering if you might do a tutorial on how to do an inspirational journal. I'd like to create something with some of the lines removed for inspirational quotes added to the pages or could you possibly point me in the direction where I might find how to do this? I've already learned so much just from watching your videos. Thank you for your generosity and thoroughness of everything you teach.
I’ll put it on my list 👍
@@paulmarles Thank You!!! I'm looking forward to watching it !!!!!!
@@paulmarles have you managed to create this one yet Paul? Your videos are fab - so clear and easy to follow. I am in the middle of creating journals with the interior having a bit more content.
I looked all over the web for the description of the layout for my book to no avail...until I saw your video! Thank you so much for your help!
You're welcome. Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for sharing. I'll keep you in my prayers!
great n very detailed video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge, God bless!
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
Hi! When you say at 7:11, in regards to bleeds, that we put an extra amount on the top etc. do you mean on our Word page layout where our margins are? There is no bleed option there. Please explain, thanks.
Paul, your information is simply excellent. Everything is so easily explained and understandable. Thanks.
You’re welcome. Glad you’ve found it useful.
Can you please do a tutorial video for publishing large book 8.5 x 11? I wanna see exactly how you do the margins for large book because it seems complicated for me. I only see 6x9 most of the time
It’s the same margin sizes and bleed sizes.
Hi Paul, GREAT video, clear and easy to follow, thank you! Just something you may have expert advice on. I also use AFFINITY PHOTO and each time I resize my document to 6.125 in X 9.25 in, click enter and OK, all seems hunky-dory until I reopen the document and the size keeps reverting to 6.127 in X 9.25 in. Why won't it keep the number I have entered?
I don’t know the answer to that one I’m afraid. On a side note you say Affinity Photo. Do you mean Affinity Designer? That’s the software you should be using.
@@paulmarles Yes, I am using Affinity Photo as it's been a great tool so far 👍 I think Affinity Designer is a good call and I'm going to purchase it soon. Thanks again for the great tutorial ❤
Hello Paul, why there should be an outside margin for the books with bleed = 0,125 in (7:32) while on the amazon help page it says that the outside margins (with bleed) should be at least 0.375 in (9.6 mm). Please help.
That's the blled setting I'm talking about at that pint. The bleed and margin settings are two different things.
@@paulmarles Thank You Paul for info
Here's a newbie question: I have ruled paper that has some text written on the left to fill in some form fields. Would that interior be no bleed -so text would not be cut off? Another words, it's not just ruled notebook paper that goes to edge. It has text. Thanks for great videos. 100% newbie here.
I am pretty sure anything that goes to the edge whether It is lines or text or pictures is considered bleed. Even if only on one page in the whole book, it has to be set at bleed.
Hi Paul. Thank you so much for this video. Everything is really clear on this information. Anyway, as I upload into KDP my notebooks and journal I found out that the margins are different whether it's even pages or odd pages, because on even pages you have the right margin with one size and on odd pages you have the right margin into the gutter margin with another size. So how can we do it so that we can make one page with opposite margin from the previous one? Thank you so much for your help.
Hi, thank you so much for this video and playlist. It has been super helpful creating my journals. Although, I'm not sure how you are calculating a book with bleed. I want my journal to be 5.5x8.5 with bleed because of pictures so I know I have to add 0.125. I see how for a 6x9 book: 6 + 0.125= 6.125 but I'm not sure how you got 9 + 0.125 to equal 9.25 instead of 9.125? Also, would I still use 0.125 for a 5.5x8.5 book? Thank you so much!
).125 at the top and 0.125 a the bottom. Add those together = 0.25. As for your bleed it should be the same - but I would advise checkeing on the bleed formatting halp eage on KDP.
i tried this but it's still giving error I selected bleed and no bleed....
I appreciate your content! I found you today and have created journals :) Looking forward to self-publishing my other work as well!
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much Paul for making this video. It's extremely helpful and thank you for making it so comprehensive and visually pleasing. Thank you for all that you do! We appreciate it!!!
Thank you paul, that has been a big help in me grasping issues re margins, bleed and no bleed. Ive seen other videos of yours and together I think I have a better understanding. Thank you really appreciate this. cheers
Really clear, thanks - the email from kdp was so confusing! However, if the inner margin is different to the outer margin, this would mean different margins depending if the page is on the left or right? Am I overthinking this?!
That is correct, margins are different for left and right pages.
Good vid
I need to ask, cream and white which is the best, I mean most accepted by buyers
White.
You're the best bro, God bless you 🙌
Thank you. 👍
This video is amazing. I'm finding it impossible finding information on publishing a KDP in a landscape format. I make classroom instructional material and landscape works best for me. Is there any way to publish in landscape? I've tried loading in pdf and word, but the pages still come out squished into portrait mode.
They only print the books in portrait mode. You would have to orientate your pdf in portrait to make it work I would’ve thought.
Great video ive subscribed iam working on my first book ive written it but when I load it up to amazon for some reason my pages flip around everytime I load the book the pages are on their side instead of right side up its driving me nuts 😳
Maybe you are saving your pdf in landscape mode. That's the only thing I can think of.
I've sorted mate thanks I got their in the end thanks 😊
Can you possibly explain the guides in the KDP Previewer? I am trying to ensure parts of my images don't get cut off in the bleed trim. I can't seem to find any templates that include the measurements or safety guides that I can use to preview my images. Example, I have images of people and when increasing the image the previewer on KDP shows the very tops of their heads being cut off. I need to prevent this. Going back to Canva and dragging the image down a bit would work, but I need to know how far to pull it down. 🧐
You would have to keep the images within the page margins in order to not get cut off. Here is a link to some free margin templates I created which you can use in Canva which may help: paulmarles.gumroad.com/l/RaWRi
I created a book with bleed and use the dimensions of 8.625×11.125 inches for the interior , but I emailed by amazon with "Add 0.125" (3.2 mm) to your book's page width and 0.25" (6.4 mm) to the page height to ensure that the images in your manuscript extend beyond the edge of the page. Once you have added the size, extend any images or backgrounds that you want to reach all the way to the edge of the page 0.125” (3.2 mm) beyond the trim line. This prevents manufacturing issues when the file is trimmed to size". How do I fix this on canva?? Thanks
In the KDP dashboard what size of book did you set it at? It should be 8.5x11" and select the bleed option.
same....I'm getting this message 'Increase your outside margins so that content isn't trimmed when your book is printed. The outside, top, and bottom margin requirements are 0.25" (6.35mm) for books without bleed and 0.375" (9.52mm) for books with bleed.' I'm using 8.625x11.125 for the interior with bleed. Set Bleed in KDP options, Launch Previewer, no errors, accept, get the above message. I'm so confused! Is there an easy fix in Canva or do I need to reformat my entire document in Word? BTW it's a Word Search Puzzle Book and I definitely want Bleed for the graphic borders. @godswillideh did you ever figure it out?
@@laura-being-laura did you solve it?
@@jobbybobby1779 same issue.... Did you resolve it?
@godswillideh did you solve the issue. I am getting same error. Pls help🙏
I don't understand, where does this fit in, in the previous two videos, can u please show how to do that in canva. Please help
after adding width and height in canva go to file and show margins and make your content within it it will work fine.
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At last, someone who understands the problem. I loved it. Excellent. However, would it not be better for your viewers if rather than switching between bleed and no bleed, you did a separate video for each one. Less confusing.
QUESTION: I want to know if it’s possible to format my children’s book in free programs? For example in Pages (Mac)? You use Affinity Designer and suggest Canva or Photoshop. I have made my drawings on a Wacom Cintiq 16 drawing tablet and I save my drawings in .jpeg
I would very much appreciate your help.
I would avoid Pages or Word as they add formatting code that can cause issues whn you upload the interior to KDP. The easiest options for putting the interior together are Powerpoint, Keynote and Canva.
Thank you for your help. I really appreciate advice from an experienced publisher like you 👍🏼🤗. I’ll try which program works best.
re: Page Count
How is the page count determined?
One sheet paper = 2 pages?
Or one sheet of paper = 1 page?
Thank you!
One sheet of paper is two pages.
I think that without your videos I wouldn´t even try anything! So, if I understood, if I have 6x9" and no bleed, I put in Canva dim 6.125"x9.25" and then in the document I set up margins as you showed? So, all of my content should be inside that margins, no matter if I have a bleed option? Thanks for everything!
Correct with margin, incorrect with page size. If it’s no bleed it should be 6 x 9.
@@paulmarles Oh, yeah, I mixed that one! I´m doing everything with the bleed. Wow, you answered quickly! Thanks
Thank you for making it so easy to understand 😊
You’re welcome. Thank you for watching.
hey Paul! Love your work!!! i just uploaded my first journal but don't know how to add pics showing whats inside the book at the side!!! how does one do that????
I'm publishing my first log book today for chicken homesteaders. It's absolutely beautiful! But the page numbers are below the line... of the bleed... Think it will be cut off?? lol
If it's below the line of the bleed then there's a very good chance they will be cut off.
Thank you Pual, I loved this video
hey paul ive made a coloring book with references on corners . i have used 5.333*8.333 inches in canva. for trim size i should use the same and bleed option or increase trim size on kdp to prevent printing issue
If the pages have bleed then you would need to increase the trim size.
Thank you for your help, but I've encountered another problem. After applying the recommendations, I've found that the text on the final page of every chapter has been haphazardly pushed to the center (including the page number that's supposed to be in the corner). Does anyone have any advice for how to fix this?
I really appreciate the time you spent making these three videos, but even after this one I have no idea what I did wrong. I followed your first video to the letter just so that I could practice. I made almost the same notebook with the same dimensions so I am no idea what I did wrong
Still having trouble?
Same here