Formatting Comics for the Kindle and Nook

28 pages. Full color.

Formatting comics and image-heavy eBooks can be a confusing and sometimes frustrating task. Every e-reader on the market has a different screen size, meaning that as a creator/publisher, you have to format your comic multiple times. 

UPDATE: This ebook includes new processes for preparing your comic for the Nook, using our new, resizable ePub template (available as a free download when you buy this ebook).

In this how-to guide, we'll be talking about putting together your eBook images for the two biggest e-readers on the market: Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook and Nook Color. 

Written by the creative team for the ground-breaking digital comic IN MAPS & LEGENDS (artist Niki Smith and writer Michael Jasper), this eBook covers how to convert the images for your comic into the Kindle and Nook formats, and how to package those images in the most effective manner for those two formats. 

We'll also share what we've learned about digital comic distribution for sites other than Amazon.com and BN.com. 

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Part 1: Preparing Graphics

- Adjusting for a Smaller Screen

- Tweaking the Text Size

- Adjusting Image Legibility, and Deciding on Grayscale vs Color

- Setting Pixel Dimensions for Kindle

- Setting Pixel Dimensions for Nook

- Adjusting the File Size

- Streamlining the Formatting Process

- Creating the Cover

Part 2: Uploading Your eBooks

- Uploading Your Comic for the Kindle

- Uploading Your Comic for the Nook

Part 3: Working with Digital Distributors

About the Creators

Each chapter is accompanied by step-by-step screenshots to help you format your images and put together your Kindle and ePub files.

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For more information, please visit http://InMapsAndLegendsComic.com.

Authors: Niki Smith and Michael Jasper

Publisher: UnWrecked Press

Release Date: March 28, 2011

Copyright (c) 2011 Michael Jasper and Niki Smith.

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