Creating A Kdp Book Cover With Powerpoint - Amazon KDP Paperback Publishing (Easy)

About this video

The creator walks through making a 6x9 Amazon KDP paperback cover entirely in PowerPoint. He starts a blank presentation, deletes the default placeholders, and sets a custom slide size calculated from KDP’s template. For his example of a 150-page book on white paper, he downloads KDP’s cover template, notes the spine is 0.34 inches, and adds the 0.125-inch bleed on each side, giving a total width of 12.59 inches and a height of 9.25 inches. He stresses saving templates for each book size to speed up future covers, researching the niche because he says the cover works like a thumbnail that drives clicks, and keeping text away from the edges because Amazon has rejected his books before for text too close to the bleed. He adds shapes and an image as a simple front-cover example, leaves the back cover design flexible, saves the file as a PDF, uploads it to KDP, and checks it in the launch previewer for gaps at the edges before approving it.

Key takeaways

• Use KDP’s downloadable cover template for your exact trim size, page count, and paper color before designing
• Calculate full cover size as front plus back plus spine plus 0.125-inch bleed per side; his 6x9, 150-page example was 12.59 x 9.25 inches with a 0.34-inch spine
• Save a PowerPoint template for each book size so you do not recalculate dimensions every time
• Keep text well away from the bleed edges or Amazon may reject the cover and delay the book
• Export as PDF, upload to KDP, and inspect the cover in the launch previewer for edge gaps before approving

Episode details: published February 12, 2020 · 13:42 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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