After you download your project, go to the folder where it was downloaded to. Click on "Extract All". Choose where you want the extracted files to go. Click "Extract".  You will see your Cover.pdf and Interior.pdf, ready to upload on Amazon KDP.

Many first time KDP sellers who are looking to get into producing low content books run into a bit of a "shock" during the 3 step upload process.    If you have the two pieces of a Kindle Direct Publishing book (your cover, and your low content interior), then the uploading process is actually really easy!    In this video, we go over each part of the Amazon KDP upload process and discuss common errors you may be running into.

The Book Bolt Studio comes pre loaded with over 1,000+ fonts that you can use commercially. However, there are times where you just want to use your own font that you have purchased or created yourself.   In this case, follow these steps to upload your own fonts.   Click here for the article or watch the video below.

Yes, once your book has been approved on Amazon KDP, you can order one of your books for a reduced price. Log into your Amazon KDP Account. Click on "Bookshelf" at the top of the page. Find the book in your bookshelf that you want copies of. Click the "Order author copies" Button. (If you don't see it, click the ellipsis (...) button and choose "Order author copies". Enter the Quantity you want to order and then choose the marketplace you want to order from.

Once your project is completed and you are ready to download it, you have 2 choices. Click on "Project" on the drop down menu in the Studio. Your choices are "Download this Porject (CMYK)" & "Download this Project (RGB)". In short, if you are doing a printed book, choose the CMYK version, and if it is for the screen, like an e-book then choose RGB. Click here to see a detailed article about this.

If these things happens to you then watch this video with possible reasons why.

By creating a QR code to place inside your book, could lead to more reviews, which in turn could lead to higher ranking on Amazon KDP. Click here for the article, or watch the video below,

When you first load in a new book project that includes a cover, you will see the guidelines page from Amazon KDP. This is helpful to know where the cutoffs are on your book, but may make it difficult to design a proper cover. In order to remove the KDP guidelines page, or temporarily hide it, please follow these simple steps. Note: Even if you keep the template visible, this will NOT download on your final copy when you download your cover and interior to upload to KDP.

You can easily add page numbers to any book you are creating, just follow the steps below. Keep in mind you should leave blank space on the book where you want to place the page number, When you are inside the studio in your project, click on the templates icon, The very first template is on the left, top row, click on it, Select All at the top of the page, de-select any pages you don't want to number.

If you have words that you have grouped together and want to change the size of them, all you need to do is click on one of the corners of the grouped objects and drag it to the size you want, Clicking on the corners will keep it in the same aspect Ratio, If you want to skew the font size, then pick one of the circles in the middle and drag it,

On some of the older templates you can not right click on and pick "Edit Contents", this video will explain how to work with these premade templates to edit them to your liking.

Amazon KDP does not allow you to change the book Title, Subtitle or the Author Name along with a few other things. You can edit your Description and Keywords, along with some other things like changing Categories and pricing of your book. To do these things, login to your Amazon KDP account and go to your bookshelf. Find the book you want and click on the ellipsis (...) button on the right side of the book.

Yes we do offer an Affiliate Program! Earn Recurring Revenue by Helping KDP Publishers Thrive with Book Bolt. Click here to read all about it and sign up.

No, Amazon KDP only offers the ability to do Paperback and Hardcover Books. You can have a printing company print books for you and you could sell through Amazon's Merchant-Fulfiment or Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) if you choose to. Click here to see an article about this.

This is very simple to do, Click Here to see an article about it.

Yes you can do this easily. Keep in mind a couple of things, Amazon will review your book again and changes should not be a radical change from what you previously had. Once you have edited your Cover or your interior and have your PDF(s) login to your Amazon KDP account. Go to your bookshelf and find the book you want to update and click on the ellipsis (...) button and choose "

You can not remove from your bookshelf, the only choice you have is to unpublish it. Go to your Bookshelf on your Amazon KDP account and find the book you want to unpublish. On the right hand side of your book click the ellipsis (...) and pick "Unpublish print book". A pop up will appear that says: "By confirming, you will be unpublishing this book. We'll stop printing copies of your paperback to fulfill customer orders.

Sometimes so many users are downloading projects that the Queue becomes very high. You can wait until it downloads your project, or you could cancel it and download it later on when the Queue has become smaller. We are always working on upgrading our servers.

Yes you can do this in the Book Bolt Studio. Once you are inside the studio and are working on a project, you may want to see or want to save one page. Click on the page you want to save on the left side. Go to the menu at the top, click "Page", then click "Export to PDF (CMYK). The page will save to your default folder. If you want to do more than one page, you just repeat the steps above.

If you setup your interior as a black & white interior and do the same on Amazon KDP it will be printed in black and white. However it may not come out very well, so you should convert the images to greyscale or black and white. This is easy to do in the Book Bolt Studio. Once you are in the Studio and have a image on a page, click on the image.

After you have uploaded your book to Amazon KDP you have to wait up to 72 hours for them to approve it. Sometimes it is less time or it can be more time Once it has been approved, Amazon will send a email saying if it has been approved (or if it wasn't). You can also login to your Amazon KDP account and find your book and it will show the status "

Yes, but you can just not simply edit the size.  Click here to read the blog post, or watch the video below.

In mid 2022 Amazon stopped offering the look inside feature for low content books. In general, a low-content book has minimal or no content on the interior pages. These pages are generally repetitive and designed to be filled in by the user. (From Amazon's KDP's definition of low-content books). However; there is still a way to accomplish showing photo's, but will require a little work by you. Click here for our article on adding A+ content to your Amazon KDP Listing.

Yes you can do this easily. Go to any page with your word search on it. Right click on it, and select edit contents. At this point you can select the word(s) you want and resize and or move around the pageto the place you want the. You can also change the words in the list to all upper case if you want easily. Highlight all the words below the word search, click the "

If your book is done you and you want to move page 3 to be on page 6 in your book, you need to add a page. In this case, on the left side of studio, click the "Add Page" above page 7. This will insert a page which will become the new page 7 for now. Then right click on page 3, and pick "Clone this Page to others"

You don't have to have your back page of a coloring book page a solid color, black or grey, but there may be some color bleed through when the person colors it. If doing a black and white interior you should put the images to be colored on odd numbered pages and the solid color, blackor grey on even number pages. This is simple to accomplish, go to the page you want to fill in and click the "

You can create an overlapping spine easily in the Studio. You can just freehand it if you want the quick and easy way. If you want to make sure the spine will be even on the front and back cover you can follow the steps below. See the image below, the cover is ready to add the overlapping spine for the Composition Book. Click on the "Grid Lines" icon and click "

You have a list of words that are sorted alphabetically and you want them to be in random order for a word search. Just follow the steps below. Your list will look something like this below in alphabetical order inside your .csv file. Click on cell B1 and enter =rand() like you see below Press the enter key on your keyboard and a random number will appear (odds are it will not be the same as below, since this formula is creating a random number).