Hi.  is anyone rendering illustrations for kindle books?

please, could you recommend render dimension settings?

Thanks!

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Amazon has a lot of info available for doing your own Kindle book. (I've done a few.) Here's a page on images:

https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A1B6GKJ79HC7AN

Basically up to 5 mb, 9:11 ratio. The attached photo, the inside title page of Kali, done in Poser and Photoshop, is 1002x1502, and it filled the page nicely. I've also used 1200x1920. 

You got to rather explore their info pages to find what you need--they dont seem as well organized as they could be. But the information is there.

If you get their free Mobi creator, you can preview your finished work and adjust the sizes.

 

 

 

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thanks.  getting lost on amazon,

was hoping someone here had it worked out. :)

i haven't researched it since before kindle fire came out with color.

 

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It looks like there's a bunch of new tools to use for the Kindle--

https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A3IWA2TQYMZ5J6

I create the book in Dreamweaver, import it into the Mobi creator, and test it using the Kindle Previewer. It takes some time and experimentation (their explanation for making your Table of Contents, if you need one, is particularly useless). Some people use Photoshop for the original creation. You can also turn it into a PDF, and convert it to Kindle. I like using Dreamweaver for the original because I am so familiar with that program, and I like putting it into the Mobi creator because it gives me a look at the final formatting, in a .prc format, which I can then upload directly to Amazon.

I'm working on another right now, one of the Don Danger detective series I'm doing with a friend, a combination of text and photos. Is your project all images? Text and images?

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kewl.  i use Dreamweaver8.

Thanks for the link.

It's text with full page chapter illustration (i call em pfooffs) and occastional banner graphics within the chapter.
 

the NYTimes best seller list is different from what amazon reports for their bestsellers. different metrics?

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Looks like the Mobi Creator program with its .prc files is no longer accepted. Have to use the Kindle Gen tool instead. I'll be experimenting with it myself later, see how it works--like the Mobi, you can import the html directly into it, then convert...

I think Amazon's bestseller list is just for their own sales. The NYTimes collects sales from everywhere.

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well, this is good news for graphic novelists 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001103761

"

A: Comics and graphic novels are among the fastest growing content categories in the Kindle Store. "

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Quote - Hi.  is anyone rendering illustrations for kindle books?

please, could you recommend render dimension settings?

Thanks!

I do. Its not hard I do 300dpi and 3125x4167 Turns out quite well.

One thing to remember is they tend to go darker(kindles/ebooks) so you need pretty decent contrast.

I have had a few issues with that. Things blending into the shadows and you loose them in Ebook covers.

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Do you mean for Kindle Fire? Because the eReaders can only display "16-level grey scale" images. And most of the devices would only have a resolution of 167 ppi (Kindle) or 221 ppi (Paperwhite).

9x11.  out of proportion with the book trim sizes  doh, recropping renders.

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