Recently, Amazon has unveiled the newest of their Kindle feature tools, entitled the Kindle Comic Creator. Since it’s still relatively new and there’s not too much known about it, I wanted to give a basic breakdown in case you’re interested in utilizing it. This is a great way to update and transform picture or graphic-based books.

>> What Is the Kindle Comic Creator?

The Kindle Comic Creator is a completely free tool for both Kindle book authors and publishers that enables them to turn their comics, manga and graphic novels into Kindle books to be sold on the Amazon Marketplace. It makes it incredibly easy to import various file extensions of imagery, artwork and drawings in order to craft the most preferred customer reading experience, even allowing you to preview how the book will look on Kindle devices before you unleash it upon the masses.

Whether you’re looking to create an aforementioned comic, manga or graphic novel or even any other type of guided navigation experience you can think of. With the helpful integration of Kindle Panel Views, the Kindle Comic Creator automatically detects and even recommends the ideal Kindle Panel View placement for your book.

>> What Other Things Can You Do With the Kindle Comic Creator?

Not only does the tool allow you to craft comics for viewing on the tablet, but also practically any kind of guided navigation experience imaginable as well. Helping to support this, you can additionally create books with either double page spreads or even facing pages — whether they’re solely consisting of images, text or a combination of both is entirely up to you!

Additionally the Kindle Comic Creator also allows you to import artwork via .jpg, .tiff, .ppm, .png and .pdf formats, enabling you to use whichever image or design program that strikes your fancy so long as you save your work in any of the aforementioned formats.

Should you so choose, you can either import EPUB and KF8 files that are created according to the Kindle Publishing Guidelines or, alternatively, export images from EPUB’s that have not been created according to the Kindle Publishing Guidelines. Obviously so long as your newly uploaded Kindle comic book, manga or graphic novel does indeed adhere to the requirements.

>> What Are the System Requirements For Using the Kindle Comic Creator?

Unfortunately, most likely since it’s only just been released, the Kindle Comic Creator is currently only compatible with Windows XP, Windows 7 and Intel Mac OSX 10.6+ operating systems. No doubt Amazon is working on expanding the moderate restrictions of the tool (most notably allowing Linux users the opportunity to use it) and it should be available for additional operating systems, tablets and — most likely — smart phones in the near future.

Regardless of whether or not you’re even interested or able to create your own graphic novels, comics or manga books with the new Kindle Comic Creator tool, you have to admit that it’s a significant advancement in the medium. Allowing more artists and creative minds to create and share their works with the Amazon Marketplace is only going to make it that much more of a vibrant, rich and diverse of a place.

If you’re interested in trying out the Kindle Comic Creator, simply head on over to http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1001103761 to download the tool and read up on additional information regarding the features and restrictions it possesses in greater detail.

Amazon’s New Kindle Comic Creator is a post from: AmyHarrop.com