Publishing & Sharing

How the colouring page appears

Publish a coloring book to the showcase the same way as any other book. Its public page then shows a "Colour this book online" button in the Look inside section, and the page itself lives at your book's address with /colour on the end. Nothing extra to switch on.

1. Open Showcase in the app and click Publish on the coloring book (or publish from the review screen when the book finishes).
2. Open the public book page. Under Look inside you will see "Colour this book online" with the number of free pages.
3. Share that link anywhere: social posts, your newsletter, a QR code on the printed book, a classroom board.

What readers can do

The colouring page uses the same preview pages that Look inside shows, so readers colour a sample of the book rather than all of it.

• Tap a shape to fill it, or paint with marker, pencil and soft brushes; an eyedropper picks colours from the page.
• Six palettes, a custom colour picker, recent colours, and gradient fills.
• Undo and redo, a two-tap Start over, pinch or scroll to zoom, and keyboard shortcuts on desktop.
• Download the finished page as an image with your book's title and name on a caption band, or share it straight from the page on a phone.
• Their colouring is saved in their browser, so they can come back to the same page later on the same device.

Turning colourers into buyers

Under the tool a card says how many more pages the full book has and links to where it is sold. If the book is published to Gumroad or Etsy, the button goes straight to that listing; otherwise it goes to your book page. A second card invites readers to make their own coloring book with Inkfluence, so the page also brings new authors in.

Once a reader colours most of a page, your book page starts showing how many times the book has been coloured, next to its reads and recommendations.

• Connect Gumroad or Etsy and publish the book there first, so the "Get the whole book" button has somewhere to send people.
• Print the colouring link as a QR code inside the paperback: buyers get a free digital extra and a reason to share.
• Teachers and parents can use the page as a free activity without buying anything, which is fine: every share carries your book's name.

Where reads appear

Once a book is published, its card in the Community tab shows its reads, how many of those came this week, and how many authors have recommended it. The same figures appear on the book's public page and on the Published badge on your bookshelf.

Pin up to three books from the card menu on Your Shelf. Pinned books stay first on your shelf and lead your public author page, with the first pin shown as the big featured book.

Anyone can read the whole of your first chapter on the public page, turning pages with the arrows, the keyboard or a swipe on a phone. Every visit to the page counts as a read.

Reading other authors

The Community tab shows other authors' books in five views: Rising (new books gaining reads and recommendations, so a book published this week can lead), Most recommended, Editor's picks (chosen by the Inkfluence team), New, and Most read. Tap Read to open a book on the public site. Each book you read counts once a day.

Reading other people's books lifts your own in Rising, in the app and in the Rising row at inkfluenceai.com/books. Up to twenty reads a day count.

Recommending

Tap Recommend on a book you liked. You get five recommendations a week and they refill every Monday, so each one carries weight. A recommendation counts double a read towards your own boost in Rising. Recommendations are one per author per book and show on the book's public page as "Recommended by N authors".

After you publish

The Community tab highlights after each publish and counts your next three reads, which give your new book a boost in Rising.

The bell in the header tells you when it happens: a recommendation shows up straight away (several on one day collapse into one line), and a morning entry sums up yesterday's reads when there were a few or when a book found its first readers. Quieter weeks roll into one entry on Monday. Nothing pops up while you write and there are no emails.

Steps

The studio writes the words for you from your book, so most videos are ready to make as soon as it opens.

1. Open the video studio with `Make a video`. It is on your dashboard (the `Video` card in `Tools`), in the menu on every book, on the `Publish` page, as `Video` in the editor’s tool bar, and as `Make a video of it` in the window that opens when a new book is ready.
2. Check the book name at the top. To make a video for another book, click it and pick the book.
3. Press play on the preview to watch the whole video as a sketch, scene by scene.
4. Click a scene in the strip under the preview (`Hook`, `Line 1` to `Line 3`, `End card`) to change its words or picture.
5. Choose a look in the `Style` tab and a narrator in the `Voice` tab.
6. On a phone, the strip names the scenes `Opening`, `Line 1` to `Line 3` and `Ending`, and the bar at the bottom has `Words`, `Style`, `Voice` and `Pictures`. Tap one to open it under the preview, and tap it again (or the arrow) to close it.
7. Click `Make video`. It takes about a minute.
8. Click `Download video`, then `Copy caption` for your post.

The five scenes

Every video has a hook, three lines and an end card, and runs about 15 to 20 seconds.

• `Hook`: shown and spoken in the first two seconds, when most people decide whether to keep watching. A question or a moment from the story works best. Up to 9 words.
• `Line 1` to `Line 3`: the body of the video, up to 12 words each. Click `New line` for a fresh one from your book, or type your own.
• `End card`: your cover, title and author, and where to find the book.

Choosing the pictures

Under each line, `Picture` shows your cover and the pictures in your book, with the one that fits the line already picked. Click another to swap it, or `Show all` to see every picture in the book.

`Add a picture` uploads an image from your computer. It is saved into your book, so you can use it again in the editor or in another video.

Styles

The studio suggests the style that suits your book and marks it `Suggested`. You can pick any of them.

Voice and music

The `Voice` tab has six narrators. Press play beside a name for a sample, then `Hear your hook in` that voice to hear your own words. The voice reads with feeling to suit the style, and the words light up on screen as they are spoken.

Music is off by default, because a voice on its own reads best and TikTok and Instagram let you add a trending sound when you post. If you want music in the video itself, pick `Cozy`, `Suspense` or `Playful`.

Where to find your book

On the `End card` scene, `Where to find it` sets the last line of the video:

• `Out now on` your stores: names the stores your book is on, for example Amazon. Click `Add a store link` to paste your Amazon, Etsy or Gumroad link. It is saved to your book, so your book page gets the same buttons.
• `Link in bio`: for TikTok and Instagram. Put your link in the caption or your profile.
• `Your own words`: up to 6 words, for example "Free on Kindle Unlimited". Links are not allowed here.

While it is made, and after

You can keep editing or close the studio while a video is made. When it is ready you get a notice in the app, and it is saved in `My videos` at the top of the studio, where you can download it or copy its caption again.

The video is a vertical MP4 (1080 by 1920). Edit the caption in `Caption for your post` before you copy it. `Make another version` takes you back to your words and settings so you can try a new hook or another style: posting often works better than one perfect video.

The voice is made with AI. Some apps add an AI label to videos like this.

How many videos you can make

Creator includes 20 videos a month and Premium 60. The count is shown next to `Make video` and resets each month. A video that fails is never counted: open `My videos` and click `Try again`.

Videos are not part of the free plan. On a free account the studio shows what you would get: a moving preview of your own book, drawn from its cover, pictures and opening lines with no voice, and four example videos made from real books (tap one to watch it, with `Tap for sound`). Pick `Premium` or `Creator` and click `Get Premium` or `Get Creator` to upgrade.

Videos work for books written in languages that use the Latin alphabet, such as English, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese.