![]() (All of the following e-books are available with Kindle Unlimited, Amazon Prime, and of course good old-fashioned sales. Here are a few sample e-books illustrating the Kindle Textbook Creator. Kindle Textbook Creator Pros & Cons (and Tutorial for how to Optimize it).You can find a discussion of the pros and cons of using this tool, and tutorials for how to use the Kindle Textbook Creator and the Kindle Kids’ Book Creator (both are free tools available straight from Amazon) at the following links (to my detailed free “how to” articles): The Kindle Textbook Creator isn’t ideal for “all” types of e-books. It might help to provide the ASIN of an e-book showing an example where there is clearly a Look Inside of the Kindle edition of an e-book that was definitely published using the same tool as you used, either the Kindle Textbook Creator or the Kindle Kids’ Book Creator. Secondly, if it doesn’t generate in a couple of weeks, you can place a request through support. First of all, there can be delays of weeks in generating a Look Inside regardless of how you publish there is some luck involved in the timing. Just because it can be done and it has be done, doesn’t mean it automatically will be done. Let me emphasize the word “can,” and this word may also apply for the Kindle Textbook Creator. I’ve heard reports from authors who use the Kindle Kids’ Book Creator that a Look Inside can now generate for those, too. Most of my older e-books published using the Kindle Textbook Creator still don’t show a Look Inside for the Kindle edition, but I expect this feature to roll out over the course of the coming weeks. (This book doesn’t have a print edition, nor does it have an ISBN-it just has the free ASIN assigned by Amazon.) However, the e-book I published yesterday generated its own Kindle Look Inside automatically. (Though it was always possible to place a request so that the print Look Inside would show in its place.) In the past, I’ve always been informed by KDP that e-books produced using the Kindle Textbook Creator won’t generate a Look Inside. It automatically centers images on each page.Images usually take up a ton of memory, but they are greatly reduced when using the Kindle Textbook Creator.It seemed ideal to have one image puzzle per page, a large image using large letters, for easy reading on any device.Letters tend to pixelate in Kindle images, except when using the Kindle Textbook Creator (as long as you just leave the text as text, and don’t turn them into images). The letters should ideally display the way that images do.The letters are scrambled across 2 or 3 lines, so it’s a bit of a geometric formation.We used the Kindle Textbook Creator because: ![]() Yesterday, I encountered a pleasant surprise shortly after publishing my mom’s latest word scramble e-book (101 Teen Word Scrambles). 101 Teen Word Scrambles: LOOK INSIDE FOR THE KINDLE TEXTBOOK CREATOR
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