Great Tools for Making Children’s ebooks

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If you are struggling to publish your children's ebook here are a couple of great tools to ease your way!

indexKDP Kids' Book Creator is free and super easy to use! This software, downloadable from Amazon can be used to create beautiful illustrated ebooks for kids. KDP Kids' Book Creator automatically converts your book for Kindle.

KDP supports many formats including HTML, Mobi and ePub. Import your PDF file with layout done, create your ebook page by page, use different custom fonts, add illustrations and text popups to make it more interactive! Adapt your book to your target audiences using various filters. Don't worry about how your book is going to look like on different screens – you can easily adapt the layout per device. Have fun and reach a whole new reading audience! You can download the KDP free guide here.

 

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TigerCreate is another fantastic digital solution that allows you to create interactive books that can be sold either as e-books or standalone apps on all major platforms. TigerCreate has lots of design possibilities. You can create animations, add sounds to your ebook, integrate games into stories, you can create word highlighting with voiceover and discover tons of sound effects. The layout of your story can automatically adapt to different screen sizes and aspect ratio.

The minnimum requrements to run TigerCreate are:

  • Mac OSX 10.10.x (Yosemite)
  • A minimum of 8 GB working memory
  • An Intel Core i5 processor (or later) running with 2.5 GHz
  • Display should support a resolution of at least 1280×800 pixels

And to export your content to the various platforms you’ll need to install these free tools: Xcode, Android SDK and iBooks

The process of developing an interactive children's book with TigerCreate is quick and easy. Besides  TigerCreate you need to have the things you actually want to incorporate into the ebook (text, images, sounds etc.) and a program for editing pictures and simple sound editing tool.

Find out more about TigerCreate and download the software demo version from www.tigercreate.com onto your Mac.

 

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iBooks Author is another Mac friendly app which allows you to create any kind of book. You start creating the ebook by choosing designed template from a variety of styles, then work your way through and add text, shapes, charts, tables and Multi-Touch widgets (great for textbooks), choose your custom fonts, write mathematical expressions, add video or audio elements.

iBooks Author lets you preview your book on iPad or Mac. You can go step-by-step before publishing and submitting it to iBooks for purchase or free download. Update your book later and iBooks will automatically let your readers know about the new version that is ready to download. You can also export your book in iBooks format to share on iTunes or to give to anyone with an iPad.

Find out more about KDP Kids' Book Creator 

Find out more about TigerCreate

Find out more about iBooks Author

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