![]() For authors who don’t want to work with a designer, there are options to just pick and choose a bunch of options online. One can plug whatever design one wants into their system as long as it corresponds to the requirements of their system, and the template helps make sure it’s prepared the right way. It then spits out a template done up to fit their specifications on how they need their interior pages and covers laid out in order to meet their mass-production requirements. With IngramSpark, for example, one goes online to their template creator and checks a bunch of boxes, along the lines of what dimensions your book is, how many pages it will have, what paper you want it printed on, whether you want a glossy or matte finish and whatever other options and shortcuts they might have. This is similar to how billboard companies supply layout templates that provide the specs to prepare the artwork in ways that fit their production requirements. Because most of these authors know next to nothing about how to create the mechanical artwork for their books, they supply templates that consist of blank pages with the bleeds, margins, spine position, bar code space, etc., already in position. Their whole business is geared around catering to amateur authors. Unlike book publishers that only publish books they deem salable, these on-demand printers will print, bind and make available for wide distribution (both digital and print) any book from any author who’s willing to pay their fee. Amateur authors write books, then sign up with one of these companies to get copies printed. Similarly, there’s IngramSpark, Blurb and Lulu among others. I’ll (over)explain.Īt the risk of what you already might know, KDP is Amazon’s self-publishing, on-demand printing company. ![]() The templates are layout templates, not design templates. You’re partly wrong with some legitimate concerns. Please tell me I’m wrong and it’s not the publishing equivalent of crowd-sourced logo mill sites. I’d think if they had recently begun printing hardbacks, that they’d provide instructions on preparing the artwork. But like you, I can find nothing on Kindle’s website saying much about hardbound books - only paperbacks. I don’t know how hold this article is, however. Out of curiosity, I just did a Google search and found the following, which mostly goes into detail on what I just mentioned. When I was looking into it a year or so ago, it was only possible to sell hardbound books through the Amazon distribution system by printing them through, for example, Ingram or Lulu. But last I checked, KDP did not print hardcover books - only paperbacks. I don’t do many self-published book covers, so my information might be outdated. I’m guessing that you’re referring instead to the KDP or Ingram layout templates they supply to create the final artwork files for covers before uploading them? I thought you were referring to cover mockup templates - sorry. I misunderstood what you meant by template.
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