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Book Bolt Studio Issues: Page is Stuck When Downloading a ProjectIf you are downloading a project and it gets stuck at for example, Page 150 of 151 for a long time that means the browser was not able to save one of the pages, which means the project could not be downloaded. Common reasons this can happen is: The page contains large images and the computer does not have enough RAM on their computer or laptop. The page did not get sent properly because of internet connection issues and can not be rendered in PageVision script.
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Book Bolt Studio Issues: Images Are MissingYou may have added images to a project and later deleted that image from the file library. After some time you may reopen that project and the image will be gone, as the system will remove garbage and deleted images permantly from the user's account. To fix this, add the image again to the file library and add it to your project. On the right side of the studio in the layers section, you will see an "
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Book Bolt Studio Issues: Page Can Not be Opened - White Screen or Endless LoadingIf you go to the studio and you get a white screen or an endless loading loop, if you can see "Help" from the menu, click it and then choose "Clear Local Data". You may have to try reloading the page. If that does not work, then load the Page Console by holding down CTRL + SHIFT + 1, then click console tab at the top. Highlight all items and copy, and paste into a notepad file to send in with your ticket to help us resolve this issue.
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Book Bolt Studio Issues: Small Images in PDFYou may review your PDF and see some images are small in the PDF you downloaded. This may happen with older projects sometimes. To fix this, go back into your project and find the page, and click save. Download your project again and check to see if it is okay now.
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Book Bolt Studio Issues: Image After Adding Effect are CutIf working with images that were added to the file library a while ago may experience some issues if they were larger than 3,000 x 3,000 pixels. This has been fixed and to correct this problem, upload that file again into the file library and use this newly uploaded image in your project.
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Book Bolt Studio Issues: Failed to FetchIf you get this error message, 99.99% of the time this is an internet connection issue. It could be your own provider or it could be some issue happening between your computer and our servers. If the internet connection is okay, you should open the "Page Console" by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + 1. That will open Dev Tools. Then click Console Tab at top. Highlight and copy everything in this and save in a notepad file and email it in with your ticket.
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Why Does KDP Says I Have the Wrong File Format When Uploading My Book (How to Unzip Files)?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.
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How To Upload Low Content Books To 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.
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Can You Upload Your Own Font?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.
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Can I Order a Book I Created on Amazon at a Reduced Price?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.
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Which Choice Do I Pick When I Am Ready to Download My Project? CMYK or RGB?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.
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Why Do None or Only Some of the Solutions for Puzzles Appear / Words Are Cut Off?If these things happens to you then watch this video with possible reasons why.
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How Can I Gain More KDP Reviews With QR Codes?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,
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How Do I Remove the KDP Guidelines Page?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.
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How Do I Add Page Numbers to a Book?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.
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Can You Change the Font Size of Words That Have Been Grouped?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,
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How To Edit Premade Templates Inside The Studio?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.
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Can You Edit the Title of Your Book, Author Name or Other Information on KDP Once it Has Been Approved?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.
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Does Book Bolt Offer an Affiliate Program?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.
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Can You Make a Spiral / Coil Bound Books on Book Bolt to Sell on Amazon KDP?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.
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How do I Clone / Duplicate a Page in My Book?This is very simple to do, Click Here to see an article about it.
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Can You Edit a Cover or your Interior on Amazon KDP?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 "
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Can I Remove Books From Amazon Once They are Live?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.
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Why Does it Take So Long to Download My Project?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.
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Can I Download Just One or a Few Pages Instead of the Whole Project?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.
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Should You Change a Color Image to Greyscale / Black and White if you Picked Black & White Interior?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.
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How Will I Know When My Book on Amazon Gets Published?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 "
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Can I Change My Book Size or Make a Paperback into a Hardcover?Yes, but you can just not simply edit the size. Click here to read the blog post, or watch the video below.
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The Look Inside Feature is Gone, Is There a Way to Add Additional Photos on My Amazon Listing?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.
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Can You Move or Resize the Search Words at the Bottom of a Word Search?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 "
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Can I Change the Order of the Pages?This is very simple to do now in Book Bolt. Right click on the page you want to change in the page view on the left. Click on "Change Page Number". Once you click that, a pop up appears asking you to enter the new page number you want to move it to. Enter the page number you want it to move to and press OK. In this case we entered "
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Should Your Interior's Back Page of Each Page to Color have a Solid Color or Shade of Grey?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 "
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How Do You Create an Overlapping Spine for a Composition Book?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 "
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How Can I Make a List of Words to be Random Instead of AlphabeticalYou 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).
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Is There an Easy Way to Create a Blank Row for a Word Search?You have a list of words for a word search and you want to quickly add a blank row for each puzzle on each page, this can be done fairly easy, just follow the steps below. In this example we have a list of 1200 words, that we will be using in a 120 page word search. So each word search will have 10 words. In Column B put in the numbers, 1 then 2.
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How Do You Add Bullet Points in the Studio?You can hold down the "Alt" key on your keyboard, while doing so, type 0183. This will produce · to use like a bullet point. Alternatively you could create a list in MS word or another word processor, then highlight your list and copy it. Once your list is copied, than go to the Book Bolt Studio and click the "Text" icon and pick any text, in this case we will pick "
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Should / Can you Create All of your Books Under One Name?There is no issue with doing this at all. However keep in mind it is probably not a good look to publish all your books under one name, if you have some raunchy material and children's books out there.
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What Training Videos Are Best to Watch?We have many video's and blogs to watch and read. If you log in and click "Weekly Calls", scroll to the bottom of the page and watch the 2 oldest videos called, "Research, Covers, Keywords, Listings" and "KDP Research for Low Competition Niches". Also we have in depth articles in the Blog Section, on the main page at www.bookbolt.io. When inside of the Studio, you can click on "Help" and then click Book Bolt Knowledge Base.
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How do you Create a Cover Only?Once you are inside the studio, click "Project" then "New Project". Select "Cover" from the top drop down menu. You still have to enter the number of pages that will be in your book. Make sure when doing the interior, that it is the same number you put for the cover.
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Can you do an Outline of Text?Yes you can easily, just follow the steps below. Click the "Text" icon in the Studio, then pick whichever you prefer. In this case we picked "Heading". Click the "Stroke" button to display your choices. You can change stroke width as well, in this example we changed it to 3, and picked the color red. Now, click on "Text Color" and click the Transparent choice. Now you have an outlined image.
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How do you Proof Your Interior Before Uploading to KDP?To do this, you download your project and unzip / unpack it. In this example we are using Adobe Reader to view PDF's. If you don't have it click here and then click "Download Acrobat Reader". To view it simular to a book, in the Adobe Reader program, click "View" then "Page Display" and if "Two Page View" is not checked, then click it. Also check "Show Gaps Between Pages"
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How Can You Make Your Word Search Be in All Upper Case or Just the First Letter?This process is pretty simple to do. First have your .CSV file open. All your words should be in Column A of your file of course. In "Cell B1" enter this =upper(A1). Now hit the enter key so it shows the result. Now you need to repeat this formula all the way down the column, click the small handle on bottom right and and drag it until you have reached the end of your words.
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Can you Add Chapters to Your YouTube Videos?We have started doing that at Episode 37 of the Weekly Calls. In time we may add chapters to the older videos. Click the "Show More" text in the description on YouTube. Once you do that, you will see a list simular to the below image. Just click on the time and the video will skip to that part of the video. Also another way to view the chapters in the Weekly calls are to go to bottom of the description and see it in chapter view.
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Why Did Amazon KDP Reject my Sketch Book for too Many Blank Pages?They will reject books like this with nothing on them if there are to many consecutive pages that are blank. You can try adding page numbers to all the pages, and or put title at the top of the page with a line, so the person would have a space to add a title. Or get creative in other ways and add something else to the pages. There are no guarantee's even they will always accept those even, but it defiantly improves your odds of your book being approved.
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Why Did Amazon KDP Reject my Book for to Many !!!!!!Amazon generally does not like repeated symbols like !!!!!!!. Who knows the reason's why, they can be picky like that. Just remove things like that off the Title or where you had it and then submit it again.
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Someone Purchased My Book, But the Sale Does Not Show on my Sales Report, How Long Does it Take to Appear?When you sell a book, the sale does not instantly go onto your sales report. Generally once Amazon has processed the book, meaning, printed, packaged, ready to ship and the person's Credit Card is charged, it should show up on your sales the next day. This can vary some, just be patient!
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How do You Get Around Having no Reviews on Books and Create Confidence to Seller?There are a few ways to help. One is to make your book cover stand out. Big text, bold colors on the cover. As well as showing on your cover what is inside your book. Or add A+ content to the book. Promote your book in many ways. Marketing by posting on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, etc. Use Amazon Ads. You can pay a YouTuber to mention it, or send YouTubers one of your books and maybe they will show it on their channel.
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How do you Delete a Page in the Studio?Deleting a page in the studio is quite easy to do. In this screenshot below, page 2 is selected as you see. You can delete any page but page 2 in this example. If you try to delete the current page, you will get an error. Next thing you do is "right click" on any page (except page 2 in this example) and pick "Delete this Page". Once you do that, a warning box pops up, click "
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How do you Add a Page in the Studio?This is quite easy to do. On the left hand side where Page Vision shows you the small pages, just click on the "Add Page". Once you click it, a warning box will pop up, press "OK" and your page has been added to your project.
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Are all the Pictures from Pixabay & Unsplash Free for Commercial Use?Yes, most of them are. You can click on the license tab on either one to fully understand the agreement. Just selext Pixabay or Unsplash and on the top right you will see "Pixabay License" or "Unsplash License", click either and the details are in there. Some common sense has to be applied though, you may see a Disney charactor or Marvel charactors, or things like that, that Pixabay or Unsplash have not noticed in their database yet.
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How Can I see what my Book Bolt Membership / Subscription is?When you first log into Book Bolt, on the top right of the page you will see your name. Click on that and choose "Subscription Settings". This will show what you are Subscribed to, as well as your status.
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Can I Change my Categories on Amazon KDP After my Books are Published?Sometime after publishing your book you may decide to change the category. You can do this easily by logging into your Amazon KDP account. Find the book you want to update the categories on then click the ... on the right hand side and pick "Edit print book details". Scroll towards the bottom of that page to Categories section. If you had already picked 2 initially, you will need to uncheck one or both in order to change your categories.