My KDP HARDCOVER Proof Copy is Here! | Quality Review + Update on the "Omnibus" Collector's Edition!
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- My KDP Hardcover Proof Copy is Here! Excited to share a quality review plus some updates on my plans for the "omnibus" collector's edition of all four books in The Stolen Kingdom series!
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I’mma come clean Aunt Beff, as much of a help as you’ve been to me getting my first book published earlier this year and putting together the other 3 of my series I haven’t gotten to read any of the books of the series. As soon as this collectors edition is available I WANT IT, and I will pay extra for a signed copy.
OMG, I love this!! Can't wait to see the final version 😁
congratulations and thanks for the review, excited for the new hardcovers!
YAY thank you! I just saw the first draft of the official cover today and it's going to be GORGEOUS! I can't wait for you to see it! :D
Sooo cool! Thank you for the video! I can feel your excitement!
Yay! So glad you liked it! :D
i just found your channel about a month ago and this collectors edition came at the perfect time! I am so excited to read your series in all it's glory!!!
Yay! So glad you're here and can't wait for you to read this whole set! :D
You have no idea how excited I am about this!!! I love the artwork too!😍😍💕
Yay! Thank you so much!
Been waiting for this video! Thanks!
Yay! Hope you enjoyed it!
Just watched the video of you ordering the book this morning! So excited I didn't have to wait that long to see what it looks like! I love it! And I love the character fan art on the cover but can't wait to see the final version! So excited!
YAY! I just saw the first draft of the official cover today and it's going to be GORGEOUS! I can't wait for you to see it! :D
I love this so much Bethany!!! 🤗🎉 I can’t wait to see the final special edition ❤️
Yay! Thank you!
Ahh! This is so exciting! It looks so cool, I'll definitely be getting this edition!
YAY! I just saw the first draft of the official cover today and it's going to be GORGEOUS! I can't wait for you to see it! :D
That's so cool! I can't wait to unbox mine. Creating the hardcover edition of my first book this weekend - once the NY dust settles.
Thank you for sharing! This is going to be awesome!
YAY! I just saw the first draft of the official cover today and it's going to be GORGEOUS! I can't wait for you to see it! :D
Your going to make it big congrats and much blessings to you!!!
Thank you!
Ooh, I'm so excited for this😱😍
Yayyy! :D
Oh my God, I'll definitely be getting the special edition. I personally happen to like bigger thicker books over smaller thinner ones. Can't wait for the special edition!
YAY! I just saw the first draft of the official cover today and it's going to be GORGEOUS! I can't wait for you to see it! :D
your journey is so inspiring .
thank you so much!
Oh, I've just ordered a couple of notebooks author copies from Amazon. Didn't know we weren't able to resell them anywhere locally! As a new kdp author, I'm excited to see you here with all your books!
It looks great! Congrats so exciting
Yay thank you! :D
That is so cool! Love the look of that. Just found your videos last week as I am researching self publishing my book and have been bin watching them ^^ Very excited to be able to make hardcovers now too trough KDP! :D
Yay! Thank you so much, so happy to hear that! :D
I can’t wait to add this edition to my shelf! 😍
YAY! I just saw the first draft of the official cover today and it's going to be GORGEOUS! I can't wait for you to see it! :D
Very helpful!
So glad!
This is so dang cool. Completely awesome.
Yay!
Ahh it looks so cool!! I am so excited for this!! XD
YAY! I just saw the first draft of the official cover today and it's going to be GORGEOUS! I can't wait for you to see it! :D
That's beautiful! Love the lettering on the front cover and the size of the book. And the pic is cute! :) Congrats, girl!
Yay! Thank you! The final cover will be even prettier - I just saw the first draft today and it's STUNNING ahhh! :D Can't wait to share soon!
It looks so amazing already! I'm definitely going to be getting this edition when it releases! as a bonus, really wide spines really helps balance the look of a bookshelf
YAY! I just saw the first draft of the official cover today and it's going to be GORGEOUS! I can't wait for you to see it! :D And that's such a good point, love that!
So proud of you. You are self motivated. Did you do your own formatting? Copy editing?
@Bethany Atazadeh I felt your excitement from here. Congrats on the hardcover. I printed last year and I know the excitement, even if you sell 15 copies it is your work and something you did. Now about the size of the font that I have seen a lot of people print at 9 or 10PTs. I call these books, "Nose scrapers" because you have to get so close and your nose has to scrape the page to read the text. Congrats on your little series coming. I am sure you and your Husband are excited for that day when your little boy(I think you said) comes. I am sure he be a source of joy and happiness.
I had to subscribe your energy is so pretty and pure. Your pregnancy glow is phenomenal and beautiful too 🥺💙 Wishing you all the best!!
I’m about to release my first PNR book next month and was debating KDP hardcovers for a personal copy cause I’m super scared of the print quality but now I really want to do it!! I’m keeping it as a personal copy cause I have plans to create a special edition version of my book in hardcover format in the near future 😋
Thank you so much!
Congratulations . The hard cover looks Amazing. I truly loved It.
Yay! Thank you so much!!
Such a great idea to have a collector’s edition!
Yay! I'm so happy you like the idea! :D
Nice. I am going to try and do one. Thank you
Have fun!
Totally hear you with the page margins and text size. Just played around with this at work, actually! The nice thing is, it’s not too major of a change to make. And the chapters, I’m on the train of thought where every chapter starts on its own page too. 😊 it’s coming along nicely, overall, though!!
Can’t wait to see the final product!! Very excited!!
Yay thanks Rachel! :D
Wow, looks awesome congrats, I"m trying figure it out lol!
Thank you! :D Good luck!
I did see the "smoosh" when you first held it up, but it still looks great. (BTW, you match your book cover 😆!) I keep hearing that the pages are nice and thick. Overall, it looks great. How exciting for you!! Hopefully you can figure out a way to make it work and get most of the information you want into your omnibus!
Haha yeah it's weirdly noticeable in certain lighting and then totally invisible in other lighting! Haha thank you so much, I'm so excited for this to come out! :D
Wow! Very impressive. Congratulations.
Thank you very much!
So beautiful! Congratulations.
Thanks!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
😲..... collectors edition...... that's amazing!!!
It's turning out super cool!
Thanks!
Absolutely, and thank you! :)
This is going to look so cool! Already looks cool, but can't wait to see the cover. My KDP hardcover proof also came with some minor damage, but it was apparently a manufacturing error, and mine was on the spine. I also noticed yours has the same thing mine does, where the pages, when laying flat and viewed from the side, appear to have a bit of a wave to them. Not sure what causes this but after the book sat on my desk for about a week, it's more or less gone away.
Yay! It's turning out super cool, I'm so excited to share it soon! :D And that's so interesting, I'll have to take a closer look at that!
Love it
Love it!
Yay! Thank you!
That's awesome. I am not sure how many of my books I want in hardcover. For right now I only have my one book from Barnes and Noble which didn't include a dust jacket and they didn't put my cover photo on there either. I really want to give KDP a try now for at least my one book. I can't wait to see the real cover for your collection's edition.
Oh no! That sounds like maybe they had a printing error? Might be worth contacting them to get the dust jacket sent separate! But yay thank you so much!
She is beauty, she is grace, she is your omnibus! 😝
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Can't wait to see what cover Mandi comes up with. I think removing the bonus content and containing a special link is a good move in order to get the words larger. My kindle font is grandpa size 🔎👁
Haha yes! Thank you so much! I can't wait to see the cover too :D And I didn't think to mention this in the video, but I will also link this hardcover to an ebook box set of all four books where the font will be much bigger too, since there's no size limit for a digital file :)
Maybe do a two-part omnibus? And then you can add in the secret gift too perhaps. Either way, looks awesome!
That'd be so fun! I think The Secret Gift is going to have a sequel or two, so my long-term vision is that maybe it will also get it's own collector's edition for Jezebel's stories! :D That might be a little ambitious of me haha, so we shall see! Thank you!
@@BethanyAtazadeh Ooo! Then definitely save them for it's own collection, that would be wonderful to see. You've got this! :D
Girl, you have the cutest baby bump!
Haha thank you!
The book is beautiful! I'm curious how you went about formatting the map across two pages? I'd love to do that on my books.
Wow it really looks Great. Congratulations. I wish KDP allowed Picture books for us Children authors.
Yay thank you! And I hope someday they will remove those limits too! :(
Instead of including the glossary in the book, you could include a QR code that links to a digital glossary on your website for people who want to see it? Then you have the win/win of people being able to access the glossary and more traffic being driven to your site!
That's a really cool idea! Yeah I'm more and more drawn to the idea of a secret webpage with tons of exclusive bonus material because then I can also add more to it and maybe even add extra details over time as well! :D
I’m so anxious to be able to order this!
Would you consider designing a dust cover for the collectors edition that has character art on the inside?
Yay thank you! :D And honestly I don't think I will right now, just because the collector's edition cover that I'm purchasing is styled for a laminate cover only, but also because I've left the company where I previously created hardcovers with dust jackets. But you never know, maybe someday that will change!
I regret to had my Kindle, because the paper is better. Thanks for sharing.
Very nice 🌹 📚
OMG I didn't think we were able to fit the Gideon story in the book! Also side note, I'm designing the special edition cover as I watch!
AHHHH! I can't wait!!! :D
I'd love it if at least the Gideon story was included... get all the stories in one place. The hardcover is so cool!
I promise there will be exclusive bonuses, one way or the other! I may do a secret link to a private webpage because then I could definitely include Gideon's story plus a bunch more cool exclusives!
Bethany, I’d like to know who has possibly had any issues with their KDP paperback proof copy having pages fall out. I received my proof copy on Thursday, March 24, 2022. I was excited about my book, (this being the sequel to my first romance novel. My first romance novel was done by a different company and NO problems). I also noticed the “not for sale” strip across my cover. I didn’t care for it. Then I noticed the crease near the spine on the front as well as the back. Way too close to the spine. It’s like that’s where it was marked for gluing the pages. It’s a job done poorly.
As I started looking through checking for errors, formatting, etc. I had pages coming out, close to thirty. I think KDP should do some reformatting regarding the gutter, giving more space there so that when they assemble, glue and press, you don’t have pages falling out because it wasn’t done correctly. Also, I see no reason why the outside margins couldn’t be a bit closer to the edge of the page. That would compensate for text fitting so much better, as well as the fact that people don’t have to all but bend the book to read those words near the gutter. Anyone else have any issues like this? I’d like to know, and what did you do about it? And, I’d hate to have my copies going to the copyright office and LCCN office with pages falling out. I’m beginning to wonder if I made the right choice in choosing KDP.
Keep the bonus pages in a smaller font!
HI Bethany you can choose whether to have a "not for resale" or not on your proof copies. You have the choice in order proof settings. Maybe that's just in the UK.
Sadly no, that's not an option in the U.S. but you're lucky you have that!
Ooh it's looking good already! I can't wait to get my hands on it! As a reader, I would completely be fine if the extra stuff was a qr code or section of your site I had to go to. As an author, I feel your frustration on potentially having to cut it :)
Yayyy thank you so much! :D And that's so encouraging to hear - I'm getting more and more excited about the webpage idea because then I could actually continue to add other cool bonus features to it as well, so it might end up being more exciting that way!
@@BethanyAtazadeh Congratulations on your new book! High five!🙌
@@BethanyAtazadeh I was thinking to tell you the same thing “that it would be fine with me to have the bonus future separately” but then I thought more about it and as a reader when I purchase Collectors edition of a book: 1st I’m ready to spend more for it 2nd I expect to have all of the extras in the edition without need to do anything extra(accessing a link for example and its hard copy so it’s not gonna be híperlink so I’ll have to go and actually typed in the search tab) I feel like links are great for ebooks because you just click on it.
Im not saying that is a bad idea just wanted to share my thoughts with you in hope to be helpful not to sound like im criticizing
And a question: would it be available as ebook?
@@BethanyAtazadeh the possibilities are endless! Looking forward to whatever you decide 🥰
Beautiful cover. I just watched another review and the cover had fingerprints on it.
Thank you! I think the official cover (the classic old book cover style) will be even cooler!! :D And oh no, that's so weird! I wonder if their employees just need some practice creating this new type of cover and are making little mistakes maybe?
This is so cool! I won't object to a thicker book if you think the font is too small. Shoot, Brandon Sanderson has books that are over 1200 pages (epic fantasy).
For breaking up the chapters, I say keep it the way it is instead of bringing them to the previous page. I prefer a new chapter on a new page.
Yay thank you! Holy cow that's a lot of pages haha! I think this one would be just right at the 650-ish page count, but since KDP only allows 550 max, I'll have to get creative haha! And definitely will make that a last resort, I don't like chapters merging either!
Many thanks for your video ! I'm wondering how much time it took for you to receive it ? I just created a hard cover book and published it but it says 'shipped within 2-3 weeks" ? Was it that long for you ?? Thanks
The hard cover looks really good. As you already noted the font is too small but I really like the paper quality, etc.
Yay thank you! I'm excited to reveal the final product soon! :D
@@BethanyAtazadeh Bethany if you like the final hard cover product, does that mean you feel Amazon provides the best deal for self published authors ordering hard cover books from them?
Please don’t take out too much of the white space. It makes it so hard to read with out the space! I have a hard time reading lines that are close together. But thank you much for sharing your experience here!
I will send my book for Bethany to format it and design and stuff.
Haha!
What you can do is make a collab with the first two books, with the character art and the glossery And make another Hard cover with the Last two books, with the Secret gift and the Gideon short story!
That'd be cool too, but I have my heart set on including all four! Good news, it's working out lovely and looks amazing! :D
For my hardcover of my book I had to do the same and combine my two books in one because the 75 page minimum. It should arrive in another 7 days or so. I titled mine the Deluxe Edition (it is a game book). I meant to just print the author copies but ended up accidently publishing it. Oh well. Lol
Can you or do you have a tutorial on how to do this? How to get a test cover and everything in between?
Yep! That was the last video I just did! Here's the link: czcams.com/video/Pk22SiX3VAM/video.html
@@BethanyAtazadeh Thank you so much! Going now to watch it now! God bless!
I was actually so excited when I saw KDP hardcover as an option for me, but unfortunately it's actually not for my short story... Because of the minimum 75 page word count. Which, granted, with my little short story it'd be basically two boards with almost nothing in the middle but still XD Would be nice to have for myself.
Oh no I'm sorry! I hope they will get rid of those limits someday!
I already have all 5 paperback books, (the first 4 with the original castle covers). I pre-ordered them each time. I'm tempted. Gah! I don't have the room for the chonk. ☹
Maybe have all four girls from the 4 main books on the cover? 🙂
I think "banner" was the word you were trying to think of? Re: not for resale. 😊
That's awesome! No pressure at all, this is just for fun! :)
Hi Bethany, were you aware that Barnes and Noble press has a hard cover option and you can go up to 800 pages and it comes with a dust jacket.
Yep! The whole point of this is to test out KDP Hardcovers for the first time haha. Plus B&N is only sold on their retail site, Amazon is expanded distribution worldwide.
HI Bethany. What kind of font did you usted for that book?
I have multiple, but the main body font is called Junicode.
One problem here in the UK - you can create a hardback (just done that) but you can't order a proof FROM Amazon UK, you have to use other Amazons in other countries. I tried ordering from France. Obvious really. Only one problem - even though 'UK' is in my address, they can't ship a hardback proof.
Something a bit wonky there.
Being that you combined 4 books in one, did you give each book in that one book it's own title page or just continued listing the chapters after the first book ended?
Each book has a title page!
Just stumbled across your videos today, I'm on a journey to get my first book published hopefully the beginning of the year. My two cents, instead of trying to create an omnibus, why not break it up into two separate books? Similar covers. Two different volumes. You can reformat the text to be larger and keep your spacing. Your chapter headers and scene breaks can remain. Keep your bonus material in and maybe add even more bonus material (unused artwork, fan art, etc) if you want to give it that collectors feel, something the fans didn't get in the solo books. First two books in one, and the last two in the last volume. You can also bundle books in Amazon right? Sell the pair for a special deal. Makes it easier on you and also a little less work before the baby gets here. Omnibuses are very popular in comics and they usually are over 1200 to 1300 pages for the whole run. I'm sure Amazon will get there after the beta period is over, they are probably seeing if they can handle it smoothly with the influx they will probably get before releasing the whole kit and caboodle. Last thing, are proof copies free? I thought that was why they put the "Not For Resale" bar on there, and the author copies didn't have it on them, to keep the bad actors from ordering a bunch and then selling them. Let me know if I'm wrong on that. But, it looks good and good luck on getting your project out by your deadline! 😊
The goal is to have all four books together, but don't worry, it's definitely doable! :)
@@BethanyAtazadeh Good luck! I'd be curious in finding out what you did. 😊
i just got a shipment of books today and the one book that is matte has the same stuff on the cover. It is finger prints and it came of with a damp cloth. I rubbed it off very lightly.
That's so good to know that it can be rubbed off!
Those spot maybe handprints. I've seen other authors complaining about their matte hardbacks coming with alot of handprints on them, especially black covers.
That's what a few other comments said, and I also heard they wash off pretty easy so I'll try that! :D
Are there gold foil options on KDP?
Nope! I don't know any print on demand companies that offer that to indie authors, BUT the cover will *look* like it has gold foil! ;)
@Bethany Atazadeh - What is the minimum page count for a hardcover book with KDP? My book is a Children’s book. I am thinking my page count may be low.
I have no idea, you’d have to research or ask KDP!
Hello, I would like to know, if it's not confidential, how much did Amazon charge you for printing the book?
I can’t remember it I thought I put that in one of the videos about this hardcover-check the videos in the description and one of them will say! Ps every book will be priced slightly different depending on size, page count, color, shipping , etc.
So, do you use KDP or Ingram for your publishing? Both?
Both
Every single hardback of my book that I've ordered through Ingramspark has the glue smears on the laminate cover. Comes off with a damp rag. Still disappointing because we shouldn't have to clean our purchases!
That's so good to know that it comes off, I had no idea! Very true, but happy to hear that!
That looks so much larger than 6x9. Wow.
It's really not as big as I expected though - I just got a trad pub hardcover book that's just one story (Once Upon a Broken Heart) and it was bigger than this haha!
Hardcover free book for you
That’s a beautiful cover.... but doesn’t it feel like a textbook?
Nope!
I have a quick question, why you're having this tiny grey line on your book cover? Is that for every reader who's gonna buy my books? I really want to know.
It's called an ARC copy, and the "not for resale" band is there until publication to make it clear it's not the final book.
@@BethanyAtazadeh thank you so much for your help
Ugh my first is 182,000 😩
Did u get proof copy for free
No
People who turn pages by grasping the page near the spine are pure evil. ;)