Most of the things you do below will make your InDesign file look much worse, but that doesn’t matter. Once you’ve installed the Kindle Plugin, open your book’s text file (not the cover file you created) in InDesign, save as a new file and go through the following steps. Scroll towards the bottom of the page, then download and install:
#KINDLE PREVIEWER INSTALL SOFTWARE#
Now you need to download a couple of pieces of software from Amazon ( ). Then I rearranged and resized everything to fit that layout, and saved the result as a high-quality jpeg (File > Export... > JPEG). I then copied everything on my book’s front cover (by clicking on the black arrow at the top of the left-hand menu and drawing a box around it all, then pressing CTRL+C), and pasted it into the new document. After some research, I found that this is the most up-to-date size. Some of Amazon’s guidance notes haven’t been updated and specify a smaller size than this. The coverĬreate a new document, choosing “Web” as your intent (so that it deals in pixels instead of inches), and make it 1562 pixels wide and 2500 pixels high. In other words, you have much less control over how it looks than you did when setting up the paperback. It’s important to remember that the Kindle will flow your text however it wants to, depending on the size of the Kindle, the size the user has chosen for the fonts, and the settings you specify. Putting out the Kindle version is much easier than the paperback – I just adapted my InDesign files.