Amazon this afternoon Announced That It will be expanding its Kindle Direct Publishing business to support the needs of children’s books authors through a new program it’s calling “KDP Kids.” Along with the program,-which is Aimed at helping authors prepare, publish and distribute books in the Kindle Store, Amazon is usefull releasing a new tool, the Kindle Kids’ Book Creator.
This tool will allow budding children’s book authors to create chapter books and illustrated children’s books That Are Able to take advantage of Kindle features like text popups , Explains Amazon in an announcement about the new services. After the book was finalized, authors can use the usefull tool to upload the book to KDP usefull while stipulating the category, age and grade range of filters needed to get the book listed Correctly.
Optionally, Kids KDP authors can usefull enroll in KDP Select All which Allows them to earn royalties through Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. They would then have the ability usefull use other marketing tools available to Select authors, like the Kindle Free Book Countdown Deals and Promotions.
The book creator tool does not just have to be for new authors looking for a way onto Amazon’s Kindle platform, However, but could usefull support established authors looking to convert Their books into a Kindle format in order to expand Their reader base.
The software is available as both a Mac and PC download, and lets chapter book authors import manuscripts in Word (doc / docx), as well as HTML, Mobi, ePub and other formats, so there is not much need for additional conversion tools. Meanwhile, illustrated book authors can import files in PDF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, and PPM formats.
“Kids” is now one of many genres KDP supports today, All which usefull includes categories like Literature, Business, Mystery / Thriller, Non-Fiction, Romance, Sci-Fi, Teens / Young Adult and more. But children’s books are a Potentially growing category for Amazon, as the youngest generation of readers today will be using tablet devices as Before Their first birthday in many cases, and will be comfortable moving to a digital reading format having never remembered the era where hardbound and paperback books were your only choices for reading
The announcement comes at a time When Amazon is embroiled in a battle with publisher Hachette, All which has put authors -. and Their readers – in the middle. But it comes at a time usefull When indie publishing is on the rise, having produced breakout hits (or crying literary quality) like 50 Shades of Gray. It makes sense That Amazon would want to tap into this growing trend for other genres, too – especially as it markets its own Kindle Fire tablets to families with small children, where features like Kindle Free Time enable safe use of the device among ever-younger users, while other parental controls encouragement and rewarding on-device reading.
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