Kindle Kid's Book Creator Free Software

**B* M* <b*@verizon.net>**

It is always fun to do something other than what you are supposed to do. I found a free tool on Amazon.com called Kindle Kid's Book Creator and it seemed to call me to publish a children's book I wrote a few years ago. It went live yesterday: "How Big Ears Lost His Whiskers." It tells how little Sally lost her toy bunny and learned how to find what she had lost. The colorful illustrations are by Betsy West. Her image of a dangerous goat is priceless.

If you join or are in the Kindle Digital Publishing Program, you can find this software in the publishing tools area. Not only will it do children's books, it will work very well for all kinds of illustrated books. Garden picture books, anyone?
http://kdp.amazon.com will take you to Kindle Direct Publishing and all that it does and does not offer to us as book creators.

Basically with the Kindle Kid's Book Creator tool you take your book (or just your book's images) in pdf form and process them. Out comes an editable ebook in the correct Kindle format and in color. Add or change words and so on. It can even make pop up text for you. It is best to start out with a pdf in a 6 by 9 inch format, because those are the proportions of the screens on many Kindle readers. I used a 144dpi output on my pdf.

After I made it into my ebook, I found that the format is fixed (no words flowing around in different sizes) and I could have done more combining of the images and words on the same pages. I was too lazy to lay it out all over again, but I did fix a few small errors and re-output it. 

If you want to try this, my advice is to do it with a less important project, learn from it, and go on to a more vital project.

You can get a free sample of part of my book and see how this looks at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGR3IQA
Cheers, all!
BettyB. B. Mackey Bookswww.mackeybooks.com

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