Create a KDP Journal Book Cover and Interior to Publish on Amazon - Canva Tutorial
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The biggest hurdle, for most beginners, to creating and publishing KDP no content and low content books on Amazon is getting started. It can seem very overwhelming. In this video I break down and teach you the process, form start to finish, for creating your first KDP lined notebook or journal. Even if you are experienced there are some very useful tips in this video. When you've finished you will have a book cover and book interior ready to upload to Amazon via the KDP platform and for you to hit that publish button. Creating KDP journals and notebooks is a great way to start an online business which was how I was able to quit my job and go full time online.
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00:00 Introduction
00:47 Create Online Income
02:53 KDP Cover Template
03:15 Canva
06:32 Image Licensing
09:14 KDP Cover Title
12:21 Download Cover PDF
12:44 Create KDP Interior
16:24 Download Interior PDF
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About this video - In this video I show you how to create a KDP lined journal or notebook ready to upload to Amazon and publish online. The steps are broken down to suit beginners to online publishing.
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I have been binge watching your videos like they were the next hit Netflix series or something. LOL! No, seriously - I have! I've published 3 KDP books over the past 3 weeks. I know - slow... but I am also very ill and bedbound, so I am working on it as and when I feel strong enough. I am desperate to create some sort of "passive" income stream (although I know in reality none of it is passive at all) because I live in the states and I can't afford the medical care I urgently need. I've been bed/wheelchair bound for 4 years now, and am also trying to care for my 94 year old Dad who lives in my home. He lives downstairs and I live upstairs - I monitor him via little webcams and have hospice care for him for an hour a day - but we need more care. I thought if I could maybe come up with some ways to earn a buck or two online it might help. I'm very, very ill - but I'm also willing to give it a go! Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for your fantastic collection of videos here. They've been ever so inspiring, and I've learned a lot. I am kicking myself over some mistakes I made on my first KDP book that I realised AFTER I watched your videos (whoops) but hey - I'm learning! Hopefully each of my books will be an improvement upon the last. Thanks, Paul! 🙂
You're welcome. I'm glad you;ve found the videos inspiring and have been able to put the information into action.
@@paulmarles I've also had a few sales already! I was amazed about that given the competition, but I guess I got lucky. I still can't believe it. I have a LONG way to go before I can really start to make enough to help with medical costs, but it's a start! 🙂
@@JanniMisc🎉
@@JanniMiscI hope you have continued luck.
wish you good luck Allah will help you Ameen
Your tutorials are excellent and concise. I appreciate how you explain every minor detail with such precision and clarity.
The absolute BEST video I’ve seen on how to create a cover for KDP. Thank you Paul! You’re a superb teacher!
Hi Paul, thank you so much for these videos! I've watched several of them so far and they have all been excellent. You explain everything so well and your tips on sizing and formatting have been so helpful!
Thank you. Glad you like them!
Regarding the duplicating of the pages, there's a shortcut trick. Just click the page button beside the zoom to go to grid view. Then select your page and press hold ctrl+D. 🙂
I am new to this and trying to learn, I just needed to make sure. When we say 120 pages, it means back-to-back? Right? Not, 120 sheets? Meaning, when I put 120 pages, it actually means the book is only 60 sheets thick.
Great tip. Thank you!👍
Great shortcut! I just held my finger down on the ctrl and D buttons rather than clicking 120 times and it went really quickly.(I had to delete a few extras lol)😄 Thank you!
@@MarieThereseWarren Yes :)
Do I have to buy canva pro version to have a custom size because I can't do the custom size it's asking me to buy the pro version
Your channel was recommended to me a little while ago, I have watched quite a few of your videos and I must say you are quite the gem. Your lessons are very easy to follow along with, and you answer many questions that I had. I truly appreciate the time you have taken to produce such quality and timeless content. 🤗
His video is very informative and helpful to me
As a teachers he is just a blessing
Gr8t explanation!
I appreciate your detailed support! Just published my 1st journal. Soon I'll publish a children's book I wrote years ago, but didn't know how to publish. THANK YOU! Blessings to you.
You are a blessing. I was working on my prompt journal and it hit me, several pages in, that I hadn't resized my pages! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for sharing all of these tips and information! You ROCK!! :D
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful.
You are absolutely amazing!!! Thank you for sharing such in-depth detailed information, you are a great teacher!
Thank you. I'm glad you found it useful.
Paul, yesss, Brilliant. Thank you. Was going to make my own interiors and was worried about making a hash of it. This is fab. Shown me controls on Canva and my keyboard that I didn't know about. By end of next week I will have published my first KDP book. Have so many ideas. Have a good day..
Thank you. Glad you found it useful.
@@paulmarles Hello Paul. I hav a question, if I may. My manuscript has been kicked back 5 times for margin formatting issues. I have reworked it correcting every error, rejected again. All items are within the margins but still aaarrrggh!
SUPER HELPFUL!!!! So great to be able to see this, your tutorial is excellent! Can't wait to get started on my own designs now. Thank you for sharing!!
Paul, I looked for hours on how to do these lines for 8.5x11. Thank you so much for doing this video. I followed it exactly and so appreciate your expertise and how you present them. I'm following you and using a lot of your recommendations. I have 3 books and a kindle already. Just getting started.
@jennniefar9319, just getting started, but learning every day
Thank you Paul this is excellent. You are a great mentor. 😊
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
Looking to learn how you would make a 8 1/2 x 11 notebook interior. Love your videos. Just starting into the KDP journey
Created and published my very first notebook on Amazon following your video. Thank you so very much!
Thanks for creating/sharing this video! I appreciate that you took the time to demonstrate the steps for creating kdp material, in a very clear & patient manner for your audience. Love it!
You're welcome. Glad you found it useful.
Thanks so much, Paul!!! I learned some new tips that I think will make Canva much easier to use. I’m sure there’s a tutorial in there somewhere, but I’ve been too busy making and publishing books to look for it. You explain things much better anyway.😃 I’ve just been wrestling through it, but I had a couple of ah ha moments when watching this video! I’ve used my own photos for my covers and created my interiors from the start in Apple Pages. Love this video, love all your videos, and appreciate all you do to help us learn to use these great and often free tools! You’re the best!
Hi, Paul. I’ve been trying to message you, but no response. Evidently, my messages aren’t getting through to you for some reason.
His video is very helpful and informative to me
When making a duplicate of your interior on Canva , you can go to the grid view in the lower right corner and highlight and duplicate more than one page at time.
You select all and then left click to duplicate , it will double each time so you get one page , 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.. added to your pages.
It’s a little quicker than just clicking to duplicate 100 or more times!
His video is very informative and helpful to me
His video is very informative and helpful to me 👌
Thanks
thanks
Thank you!
So just to say thank you. You have helped me navigate this so easily. I am so grateful of your videos. I don’t think i would have been so confident without your videos
You're welcome. I'm glad you've found the videos helpful.
Absolutely love your tutorials! Anytime I need to figure out how to make something I'm looking through your videos!😊
Amazing tips and tricks. I have been using Canva, so I am hoping that this process will be less of a learning curve than I expected. You also show a few tips inside Canva that I was not aware of, so this will be helpful in my other work. Looking forward to publishing my first journal.
Thank you. Glad you found it helpful. 👍
Haven’t worked on publishing to date, this is the goal this month.
I really appreciate all these that you give out. You are a really great and patient teacher. Please, can you dou a video recreating this on an Android phone for the sake of those without a computer but really want to get into Amazon kdp?
Will really appreciate your response.
You are absolutely the best!! Thanks for the step by step hand holding tutorial. Appreciate your time and efforts!
If I could I would give you five thumbs up. Thank you for the detailed lesson on creating a low content book. This is the very best video on low content book creation I've seen yet. I so much appreciate it. Thanks 😊 🙏
That's very kind of you. Thank you. Glad you found it useful.
Thanks I want to say thank you so much. I appreciate your videos I recently lost my husband and decided to do a journal the person that was supposed to be helping me upload the information backed out on me but through watching your videos I have been able to complete my journal thanks so much I really appreciate your time and may God so back into your life the same generosity that you give thanks again.
You're welcome. I'm glad you found the video helpful and was able to finish your journal. 🙂
Thanks Paul I just followed your very well done instructions and uploaded my notebook to KDP. Awesome channel!
Hi Paul. I love your videos!!! Can't get enough! Thanks so much!
I just made my first book 😍
🥳Congrats 🥳 Paul's video tutorials helped me publish my 1st book too as of 5/1/22. I felt a sense accomplishment & have set new goals for publishing
Congratulations. That's great to hear!
@@paulmarles 💕
Thank you so much for all the videos! I used this video step by step to create my first kdp journal! I have a couple of questions that came up when submitting: I got an error that said I submitted a 6x9 interior but submitted one with the slightly larger measurements you gave. I just chose the option for them to format it anyway. Then Amazon rejected it because it said I couldn't have "journal" on the cover because it connotes that it's bound. It seems like "notebook" would be even more of a problem, so it doesn't make sense to me. Any insight would be much appreciated.
That’s the first time I’ve ever heard of the word journal on the cover causing an issue.
I'd have another go Amber. Don't give in! 🙂
Hi Paul, thank you so much for sharing these videos and tutorials! I received my first notification today from KDP to say my notebook has been published, truly grateful. Thanks again
Congratulations! That's great to hear. 👍
Best tutorial I've watched on kdp. U are simply the best, and love the fact that u didn't hide anything, thanks and God bless
Thank you. 👍
For books under 150 pages, the margin requirements are 0.375" on all sides. So the shortcut would be to set up your pages with bleed(even if your design has no bleed), so you do not have to care about the margin differences for left right pages. But I'm wondering if the printed result will look any different from a book set up without bleed(no trimming done)? Or is it practically indistinguishable?
It should look the same but you may get an error warning if none of the pages actually have bleed.
As always: creating whatever book or books is the (very) easy part. Selling them, is the (most) improbable part. When you create a book like this and upload it, it will just become another never-to-be-seen book among the thousands of similar ones already floating in the (Amazon) cloud, destined to never be seen, never to make a sale, let alone make many sales. I'm sorry to be a party-pooper, but starry-eyed newcomers need to know the reality too.
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.
@@katehall2027 And thus you're wrong Katie. It's not about THINKING, it's about REALITY. And the reality is that only a minute percentage of the thousands upon thousands of starry-eyed "creators" ever sell a book.
I watched a video only yesterday of someone thinking of himself as a "successful" creator. He made $120 000 in FOUR years ($30 000 per year, or $2 500 per month), but from ... wait for it ... 4 200 books!
He also admits that less than 5% of his books ever made a sale, meaning that the time and effort spent on creating 3 990 books (at almost 1 000 books per year) were a complete waste.
Bottom line: He made, on average, $2 500 per month. The average KFC salary in the USA is $29,221 per year. He would have been better off selling KFC.
Yep. I made 12 books 4 months ago and I can't even find them. Zero sales and most likely zero views. It was disheartening enough for me to quit spending the 4 to 7 hours to make and upload a book.
@@FFTS There we go! And that is/was the story of thousands upon thousands of starry-eyed future "multi-millionaires", myself included. The only "successful" creators are those who got in early a few years ago and thus gained a lasting advantage.
His video is very informative and helpful to me
You are SOOOO GOOD at explaining everything! And quite thoroughly...
Very big thanks Paul. The best video I've seen on how to create low content KDP book. I intend to publish my first book this week. Thanks so much.
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful.
Hey Paul I am following you for the past 4 months
I have just created 10 notebooks at first by watching your previous tutorial
after 1 month I got a sale on one of the journals which were very pretty but since then I have uploaded a total of 25 notebooks and didn't get any sale after Feb 3, I have another 25 notebooks ready to upload but would It be helpful to upload all notebook or should I go into low content books
after my first sale with your simple interior, I created a very unique and good interior but now no one is buying should I wait? or edit my notebook interior back to a simple one.
I check my account daily but not a single sale is coming sometimes I feel very bad that I have only earned 1 dollar after this much struggle.
Journals and notebooks are very competitive. They are a great place to start but if you are familiar with the creation process I would probably look at creating low content books now.
Now can we create more than 100 pages in canva?
Yes, it looks like it. I certainly did.
You sir are a life saver! I followed your instructions to the letter. Much easier than using Book Bolt. Thank you so much!
You're welcome. Glad you found it useful.
Amazing! So grateful to you for these videos and for your clear step-by-step instructions. Excited to dig into this! :)
THIS IS SO HELPFUL!!! Thanks for making the clear & informational video for us to learn from.
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful. 👍
Excellent excellent tutorials! Thank you! Without any pointless chit chat. Super work thank you!
I like you Paul Marles. Your tutorials are very simple and comprehensive.
Thank you and keep your ball rolling🤝
Thank you. Glad you find them helpful.
Paul I love your material and you are easy on the eyes so it helps! Hope all is well!
Thank you! 🙂
I love your videos...i love relatively fast teaching and explanation and your videos meets all my need
Thank you. Glad you found it useful. 👍
Thank you so much for your videos. I am leaning a lot from them!
Thanks to finding your channel I was able to have my book published today!!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!!
Congratulations! That's great to hear. 👍
Excellent and Bombastic Tutorial .Dear Paul Thanks for Sharing.
Thank you my friend, I just submitted my first Journal to Amazon.This video is so incredibly helpful for creative people like me who don't know the technology. Have a good morning!
Congratulations on publishing your book! 👍
This video was so easy to follow and so helpful! Having some issues with deleting the template, but troubleshooting. Thanks. Just subscribed!
Thank you Paul for the detailed and clear explanation. I am grateful to you.🙂
You're welcome.
Well explained. You have an enormous good and relax voice to do these videos. Thx, it helped me a lot
These videos are so very helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to do them!
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
Absoloutly amazing! I've had so mucns truggle with other tutorial until I stumbled on your vides and just created a notebook step by step. I'm so made up with myself. just hoping it will sell now. cant thank you emough!
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
I want to Thank You so much for these KDP/Canva Step-by-step videos. Because of your attention to detail, I published my 1st ever book and was approved 1st time through with No Errors! These videos made the process SO much more understandable and way, way less intimidating!! Onward and Upward! Thanks SO much!
Congratulations! That's great to hear. Glad it went smoothly for you.
Sane here
Thank you for your videos, they are so informative and easy to follow! Very grateful for your genuine advice.
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
This is the best tuto i found to create my first product ! Well done, stay blessed! thank you so much!
Thank you. That's much appreciated.
Thank you very much for your videos. Since I am interested in KDP, several of them showed up on my UA-cam feed and I have started watching them. Your videos are very informative and easy to understand.
Thank you. Glad you've found them helpful.
Thank you so much for such a detailed explanation! I just created my first series of notebooks and uploaded it to KDP, now waiting for review. I was planning to try it for a while, thanks to your videos process of making notebooks was very easy, I really enjoyed creating covers in Canva 😄😁
You're welcome and congratulations on publsihing your books. 😀
thanks for this tutorial. i will try to make my first journal
Thank you Mr. Paul Marles. You're the best ❤️
Thank you. 🙏
You such an amazing teacher and mentor. Thanks so much for the videos
You’re welcome. Glad you’ve found the videos useful.
Love your channel, so much input and so easy to follow. Thank you very much :)
You're welcome. I'm glad you've found them helpful. 🙂
You are amazing. I am so glad I found your channel. I am a retired public school teacher of special ed. Thank you so much.
You're welcome. Thank you too for watching.
I wish I could love this 100 times! Thank you so much!
Thank you too for your fedback. Much appreciated. 👍
Thanks a million for this videos saved me precious time
Happy new year 🎉
Thank you so much for this informative video! I appreciate you getting right to it.
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful.
you are awesome Paul!! Thank you very much for sharing all of this!!
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
You are the real deal! So grateful for YOUR time! So helpful ❤
Thank you. Glad you found it helpful.
You explain so good! Bravo!
thanks mr paul for the efforts you do, l m very satisfied with your pedagogic method in presenting theses interresting courses
You're welcome.
I must say your tutorials is the best ever... Am super blessed to have you sir
God bless you 🙏
Thank you. That's very kind of you to say.
Thank you , excellent videos you are a wonderful teacher, step by step easy to follow and pleasant to listen to
Thank you. That's very much appreciated.
I am new on Amazon kdp, I watched few of your videos and it's very informative with guidance that even a newbie would understand,
I watched this video and already creating my first journal I pray It gets approved And published so I can start earning
Glad you found it useful. 👍
Hey Paul. I came across your videos and I immediately subscribed. Thank you for making helpful videos for everyone.
You're welcome and thank you too.
You are an awesome teacher, thank you for your content
You're welcome. 👍
Great video! I learned some new tips, thanks!!
Thank you Paul for your work ! 🤝👐
Paul thank you so much for the excellent video
Thank you so much for the video.I literally tried it while listening and it came out well..
That's great to hear. 👍
Extraordinarily helpful TY!
So easy and helpful! Thank you!
Thank You Sir.
Your Channel is a school..
I will definitely make it my deafault school of learning KDP
Thank you!!!! I had been struggling with this process
You're welcome.
I did it !!! Thank you so much . I know I’m late on the bandwagon but it’s a great start for me !! Thank you !!! I’m so proud of myself ❤
Congratulations! That's great to hear. Well done. 👍
Great video Paul! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
hi sir I really wanna say thank you a lot for making such an Amazing videos I watch u alot. I followed you and published 4 notebooks. they r live now. I told my brother to buy it and he bought all 4.
I just wanna say ur work is amazing and ur advice r so helpful. God bless you
Thank you for this very helpful video. I'm just starting with this :)
You're welcome. Thank you for watching.
You are the best. I’m writing and creating, have placed a few low content books but no sales yet because learning curve. The cover details have been a bit of a brick wall for me since I am not any kind of designer. You make it makes sense. Thank you.
Hi, can you share if you interior stayed inside the margins or outside the margins. In this video, he went over the margins lines, when I go over the margins, kdp issues error. How did you manage to do it? Thank you
You are awesome. This was so helpful. I was able to create my financial journals on Amazon. Thank you so much!!
That's great to hear. I'm glad you found the video helpful.
OMG i made it again...thank you so much...i realize where i was making mistake...ur awesome ..all videos are extremely helpful..
Thanks so much for this tutorial. It is so clear and easy to follow.
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful.
Thank you! I was able to create a habit tracking journal for my clients in one evening.
Congratulations! Glad it was helpful! 👍
Awesome videos. I enjoyed watching them.
AWESOME Stuff Paul! Thanks so much!
You're welcome.
I am really great full to you for sharing this video.
You're welcome.
Great!! Just started posting low content with photoshop. I might move over to canva..very interesting. Thank you for the video.
You're welcome. Glad you found it useful.
excellent explanation!!!, I loved this video, I hope to see the next one where you explain how to upload it to kdp, since it seems the most complicated
His video is very informative and helpful to me
Awesome Vid! I’ve learned so much Thank You! God Bless!
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful.
Thank you very much for the tutorial Sir. It was highly informative.
You're welcome. Glad you found it useful.
The BEST video! Thank you so much! 👌
You're welcome and thank you too.