Your picture book’s layout in Word translates safely to the screen of your favorite eReader device. And best of all, it is easy to use, taking most of the guesswork and frustration out of creating your own picture eBook. It is a breakthrough that offers both control of how the page looks, with the compatibility to work on a wide range of devices. With Fable, we have created a new hybrid format that combines the best of both fixed-layout and free-flowing eBook layout styles in one template.
#Childrens book template full
Our new Fable picture eBook template is the culmination of all of the experience and knowledge we’ve gained from developing our full template line, pulled together to provide an easy way to make picture eBooks at home. Giving authors choices and making self-publishing easier is our driving force, so we set out to build a solution that would best serve DIY picture book authors. Stuck with only two choices, self-published authors have found that there was really little choice at all, with no compromise between artistic vision and ease of creation. Other authors simply give up and release free-flowing picture eBooks and hope that readers understand which pictures and text are supposed to go together. With strict limitations on style and compatibility, most picture book authors resign themselves to hiring professionals to develop several versions of their picture eBook in fixed formats. It typically takes a lot of expertise to create a fixed-layout eBook for every platform and a lot of work goes into creating one. Rigid programming requirements and graphical precision deliver a high degree of control over how the page looks on the eReader, but the file is often limited to certain devices or formats. On the other hand, fixed-layout eBooks are less common, but look great on the screen. Free-flowing eBooks have also become a self-published author’s standby because they work on the widest variety of devices and are easy to make since you don’t have to do a lot of programming. This works great for fiction and non-fiction books alike, but it falls short when an author needs precise control of the page layout for a picture book. Most eBooks today are formatted with a free-flowing layout, where text and images run from page to page with only marginal control of how the pictures and text mingle on the page. Until now, picture eBooks have generally fallen into two distinct formats: fixed or free-flowing. Here’s Tracy’s article on what makes Fable tick. So help us celebrate, and get yourself a real deal on a template that will help you create a great-looking, industry standard book with Microsoft Word. I asked Tracy to explain just how big a breakthrough this is for do-it-yourself authors, and to explain how it works. Taking all the experience gained this year from producing the 14 book templates available on the site-for fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books-Tracy has now managed to create a template that will make this possible with a minimum of fuss. Although we’ve been able to wrangle Microsoft Word into producing great-looking print and ebooks, authors have faced quite a challenge if they want to produce picture books for the Kindle and other eReaders.īut is a Kindle picture book template the solution to that challenge?
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