The Easy Way To Create A Canva Planner And Publish It On Amazon KDP Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
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Want to create a low content book, paperback, notebook or planner and list it on Amazon KDP to make passive income? In this video, you'll learn the easiest way to create, design and publish your book on Kindle Direct Publishing for free!
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really informative video! Thank you!!!
Thank you for this very helpful general overview!
Great content! Thanks and congrats on your second planner.
Thanks so much!
Very nice congrats on your planner
Thank you so much, Josie!
Awesome video and great content!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Joseph...thanks
Thank you so much! I love your content!
Q: You say Amazon requires you to add numbers to your pages? Yet when I am looking at your book preview on Amazon your "manuscript" don't have pages?
I haven't found a video about this yet. And I have googled to see if Amazon is requiring page numbers to be added, but it's hard to find any info on it.
I don't think it's a "hard" requirement, but it's helpful in order to create a table of content. The preview just temporarily cut of my page numbers (or the font was too small). But those show on my actual planner.
Hey Ana! I just wanted to say thank you for your video here. It's given me the push I needed to finally get my planner into development. I've got almost all the pages planned out; I just wondered whether it was possible to get a coloured edge to different sections of the planner on KDP? I know we can select colour in the printing setup, but would I just set a different coloured border for each section of my planner because we don't have tabs or dividers with these ones from Amazon do we? Would appreciate your thoughts.
Hi Amy! This is so great to hear and well done on getting your planner nearly ready!
Amazon doesn't have any fancy tools to allow you to do the edges - except for the outer edge. (You can set that in the cover image basically and their book cover builder.)
But if you create a colour planner - where the pages are in colour as well - you can add a different boarder manually for separate sections within Canva (or the editor of your choice). Those would then show when people flip through!
Worth testing this theory and ordering an author copy before launching, because coloured pages cost a little more to print, but buyers usually prefer them. Hope this helps!
@@TheSheApproach I’ve just had two of my 3 notebooks rejected for publishing because the covers aren’t the right size. Despite using the correct measurements as per the KDP calculator they won’t take them. I’ve lost track how many times I’m trying to get these right but no. It all feels v hit n miss. Are there any tips for using Canva more clearly with the measurements?
@@amybalcomb607 I usually create just the front cover in Canva, allowing some spacing to the sides, and use their cover generated to do the rest. That way you can adjust the actual image upload to fit their measurements, while not having to worry about the spine and back - you just add those via their tool. It's so much easier that way!
Hello, thanks for the video, which category did you used wile ploading the planner on KDP?
My KDP planners are in different categories, as I have a couple of different ones at this stage. For this I selected a Web and blog category and an accounting one, as it is a financial planner.
Bookbolt has a KDP category tool to help you find and choose the best categories: thesheapproach.com/bookbolt.
Hey Ana, thanks for your excellent video. I have a very basic question for you. When we publish a planner ebook does it always have to be printed by Amazon and shipped to the customer, or is there an option to deliver the ebook electronically directly to the customer, and in this case how the customer fills the content into the ebooks? Thanks again
You can create an eBook version of the same paperback, and people can buy it on Amazon. But it has to be compatible with a Kindle reader, so it's often limited in how it is used electronically - aka, you can't make it fillable or interactive.
Hope this makes sense!
Ana, thanks so much, ...for those informations, ..could you please tell me the dimensions in width and height to start my book if I work with KRITA, program, all I need to know is the ideal dimensions from krita (33 pages) before to upload them on the kdp templates..
Thank you so much.
You can look at the print options, and choose one from there - kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201834180.
Then create your project using the same dimensions. Hope this helps!
Hey love your video just want to know what size is your planner?
My planner is 8.27 x 11.69 in (21.01 x 29.69 cm).
Hey! Can you use elements of Canva ex. pictures/lines/text and sell the product without using the template
Yes - you can use the basic elements as you are building your own unique design! (Or buy some pre-made design with commercial licence and tweak those. I use designbundles.net/free-design-resources/rel=ZKNGAe a lot!)
Can you print a planner with Amazon KDP and add to that planner “divider tabs” like for each month?
Heya - yes, you can do this "internally" in the actual pages. But you can't add the type of dividers for journals that stick out or that are colourful. It's only simple paperback books that they can print on your behalf.
You can pay extra for colour pages and get creative with the process to make it stand out.
hey, do you know if it is possible to design it like a spiral calander and not like a notebook?
Not on Amazon unfortunately.
Im just now starting to learn about this and I had no idea that I had to buy my own font and make my own (or buy) a template and that I could'nt use those things from Canva. You saved me so much dissapointment. Thank You. Can I use the elements and pictures from Canva on things I want to sell?
You're welcome! I believe you can still use widely used fonts, and for most elements, you are allowed to use them - but you have to modify them a bit and make them your own. And you cannot resell the digital element if that makes sense.
P.S. You can find really affordable fonts here: fontbundles.net?ref=ZKNGAe. And you can buy the commercial licence for them to be able to use them as you please. They have $1 per font events sometimes too!
I thought the Canva license covered fonts as well. I'll have to go back and check it out... how do people use Canva to create POD stuff all the time if not?
You can use some, but not all, Canva fonts for commercial use. Some fonts on Canva “Free and Pro editions” are free to use with commercial rights, and some are not. It is up to the creator to check all font licenses.
Some Free Well Known Commercial Fonts on Canva Include:
Arrow
Bona Nova
Old Standard TT
Modern Sans
Merge
Teen Regular
Kong Quest
Don Graffiti
Oldies Cartoon
Allura
So you either need to check the fonts usage rights manually, or import your own.
I get my fonts from thesheapproach.com/fonts and just upload them into my Canva PRO account.
@@TheSheApproachI thought that all image and fonts on canvas can be used for personal and commercial.
I think I just heard in the video the fonts in canva cant be used in journal/ planners for sale ? Can you explain more please?
It's part of their licensing rules. www.canva.com/en_gb/help/licenses-copyright-legal-commercial-use/
Does Amazon create spiral bound planners?
They do not - huge bummer! You could find another manufacturer who does, and then just list your products via the Amazon Seller Central account instead - but that means acquiring stock upfront and sending it over, so not really worth it if you're just getting started or testing a specific kind of planner.
Isnt there any option for hardcover?
There is - you can create both a paperback and a hardcover separately and price them accordingly. Just create the paperback first, and you should see "+ Create Hardcover" under it from your bookshelf: kdp.amazon.com/en_US/bookshelf.
Or you can do just the hardcover as well if that's all you need.
Hi Ana, Canva is offering only a spriral planner. Do I need to be on Canva Pro to have a non-spiral option?
Also, is Lovelo a free font on Canva
Amazon doesn't offer a spiral option unfortunately.
so, I can't use Canva fonts to sell my planner?
You just need to check the licensing of the fonts as some you are able to use commercially, but some are copyrighted so you need to have licensing for it.
@@TheSheApproach How do we check? Also, what if we started with a template but customized it?
I kept watching thinking - hoping rather - that there would be some sort of “walk through” with the publishing steps through KDP. There is nothing.
Hi Kaleena. The video is focused on giving a tutorial on how to create the actual planner or low-content book for publishing, but took a note of your comment and will make a dedicated KDP tutorial as well soon.
There is a quick overview starting with 8:21 though!
@@TheSheApproach that would be amazing!
For beginners should have been in the title of this video.
Great suggestion! Thank you. Were you looking for more advanced tips?
I really hate how they made my cover 😢 when I did this back in 2019 it was soooo easy no problems whatsoever. Now I made one 2 days ago and it was so hard to meet their requirements. I had to redo many times smh. I can’t wait to get my author cover becuz I know I’m hate it lol. Why they make it so hard now?
Ahh - sorry to hear! You can try using www.thesheapproach.com/bookbolt to create the cover in there, as they print out the PDF in line with Amazon's rules for the cover.