Hello, this is Rob here from Rob carbon calm and I'm going to show you how to create a paperback book. All you need to do is create an account at create space calm. CreateSpace is wholly owned by Amazon. And it is the print on demand service. Somebody purchases your book on Amazon and they want the paperback version they purchased the paperback version on Amazon. Amazon then prints out the copy of the book and delivers it to that customer.
So the book doesn't actually exist until someone purchases it. And so this can be done very cheaply. In fact, it doesn't cost you anything at all to upload a book. If you do it all yourself and I'll show you how to in this video. Then all you have to do is connect the Kindle to the CreateSpace paperback and then you can sell two alongside each and it looks great on the listing. If you ever need a copy of your book yourself, you can print your own book for three or $4 and other people can buy it and you can make money.
So it's a really great thing to do. So here's how you do it. So in order to get a template for the interior of your book, you need to provide two separate files interior and exterior. And for the interior, then most of you will be doing this in Microsoft Word. I actually do mine I'll show them to you later in InDesign, but Microsoft Word would be fine and here I've googled CreateSpace paperback interior template nine by six, I would advise you to create your nonfiction books in the nine by six format that is traditionally the format's nine inches by six inches, that paperback books are sold at in nonfiction genres. So we'll go to that first link and it's at CreateSpace.
So you can find it on the CreateSpace site and that tells you how to set up the document to format your interior pages for the book. And if you scroll down here, you'll see the six by nine word templates. So you can download them there. Here they are. There's a blank one, which isn't particularly helpful. It's just got one page in it, which is six by nine.
But here is another template, which shows you exactly what to do. It's got the contents page, it's got the title page, it's got a dedication page, it's got a copyright page. It's got a knowledge page. But more importantly, it's got these chapter pages. So all you need to do is flow the text in here. And you'll see up here under styles in what Microsoft Word that you can apply different styles.
So obviously, if it's the text of the chapter, there, you've got staff for that, and you've got a style for the chapter headings. And you will have a style for other things like bullets and subheadings etc. And also there are headers and footers that you can fill out. So it wouldn't take you too long to flow in the text of your book and style it up, and then export a PDF from this file. Here is the same thing more or less in InDesign, which gives you a little bit more of a control over the text. I mean, everything else is the same.
It's six, nine, here it is six inches by nine inches. And the margins are the same. The margins are specified in that page I showed you but they're also the same on the Word document. As you see I've got some images here that I've put in and drop caps on the first paragraphs after the chapters have got contents page. I've got a little disclaimer there and I've got to put the ESPN numbers in there. You don't have to do that.
But there it is. It's very long book. It's got it Images throughout the text and still going strong. It's about 170 pages. So this is by far the longest book I've written. But you don't have to write so much.
This is about 40,000 words quite a lot. You should be aiming for around 12 to 15,000 words. And right at the end there, I've got a copyright and disclaimer section I put in all of my books. So there it is, and then you can export that as a PDF, print ready PDF, upload it to create space, and I'll show you that in another video. So back to create space. Also, we've got to create the cover the cover for the book, so I'll just search the site for interior template.
I'm not too sure how to find these things, but you can find them pretty easily if you just look around the site and book cover templates. Here you can configure the templates The cover and the reason why you've got to do it in this way is because all covers are going to be different sizes depending not only on the size you've chosen, there's nine by six, but also the amount of pages are in the book because that would increase or decrease the spine. how thick the book is. So that has a bearing on the cover template. So we're going to choose the interior type black and white. The trim size, of course is going to be six by nine.
The number of pages you don't have to get this quite right, but 176 I've got here, all books are always divisible by four, they usually add a bit on the end. So I'm going to go for 180 I think that's it should be divisible by four. Just quickly check that 180 divided by 445 dead. Okay, so 190 that's divisible by four. It should be fine. It doesn't matter that much.
Paper color white. So we click Build template and download that zip file. And the zip has a PNG and a PDF that you can use as the template for your cover. I'll just open the PDF for you and there you can see the cover. Now what you've got to do is supply this, I'll show you how to do this. But basically you've got to create something that is this size, and it shows you where the spine is.
It shows you where the barcode goes so you don't put anything important there. They put the barcode on, you don't have to worry about the barcode and all the text appears within the live area which is the white area. So I'm just going to go away and do the cover to this template now. Okay, so I've just finished the cover and I've saved that as a print ready PDF in cm ik, here it is. You can see on the writers The cover on the left is the back cover. And you'll remember I downloaded a PDF and a PNG from CreateSpace as my cover guidelines, I'll just show you the PDF opened in Adobe Illustrator.
Here is the cover in Adobe Illustrator I go into the layers, and this is the template that we got from CreateSpace. And this is the artwork. So what you've got to realize there is I've seen where the spine is there's the spine, and I've seen where the trim is. There's the outline of the edge of the kind of pink color. That's actually the bleed the trim is three millimeters in from that way you can see that dotted line. What you've got to make sure is all the color bleeds over the edges.
However nothing goes to near to weather The dotted line is where the trim is. And this is easier to see if you cut down the transparency of the top layer. So there you can see, the spine is just going to be that blue color. I've got the author's name and the subheading appearing within the dotted line. All of the back page text is well within the dotted line, of course, and importantly, there's no text running over where the barcode will be. So all I need to do is save that out as a print ready PDF in Illustrator, and then I can upload that so CreateSpace Of course, if you don't want to do this, very easy, you can outsource it you can find someone on Fiverr or Upwork, who can do this for you.
But if you do that, if you follow some of the things I've gone through in this video, like for example, how to download the templates That will help you when you come to brief the freelancer and outsource the projects as well. So whether you do it yourself, or you get someone to do it for you, that is the correct way to prepare a book for CreateSpace. And in another video of course, I'll show you how to upload it and put it for sale on the Amazon platform. My name is Rob coven. I'll see you in another video.