Book formatting for indie authors
From manuscript to KDP-ready
Professional book formatting. Send us your manuscript and we'll confirm the scope, price and delivery time before you pay.
Get Started →Why authors hand this off
Formatting is the part of publishing that breaks people
You wrote the book. Then the finish line turns into a fight with margins, fonts, and file specs. Here's what you're trying to avoid.
Word fights back
Page breaks drift, headers vanish, the TOC won't update. One change and the whole layout shifts.
Software has a learning curve
Dedicated formatting apps mean a new tool to learn and a subscription or licence to buy, for a book you'll format once.
Freelancers are a gamble
A cheap gig can come back with the wrong trim size, mismatched fonts, or a file KDP rejects, and now you're out time and money.
KDP rejections
Wrong margins, bleed, or spine width and Amazon bounces your upload. You guess, re-export, and wait again.
The hard parts get dropped
Tables, footnotes, callout boxes, recipe layouts, puzzle grids: the things cheap formatting quietly mangles or ignores.
Hours you'd rather write
Every evening spent wrestling layout is an evening not spent on the next book.
By the numbers
Built to ship clean files
Handled, not dropped: clickable TOC · footnotes & endnotes · callout boxes · multi-row tables · poetry verse · glossary & index · drop caps · multi-language
The difference
One manuscript in. Every store-ready file out.
Send the DOCX you already have. We confirm which files your book needs, and what they cost, before you pay.
The paperback interior and the EPUB are included. Hardcover and IngramSpark interiors are +$19 each. Print cover conversion is a separate service.
Every destination
Upload-ready files for everywhere you publish
One manuscript in, one set of files out. The paperback interior is checked for Amazon KDP, with an IngramSpark interior as an add-on, and your eBook is a valid EPUB the other destinations accept as it is. Print covers are a separate service.
Every file, checked
30+ checks before it reaches you
Every book is read back across print, eBook, and cover before delivery.
Print PDF
- Every font fully embedded
- KDP-supported trim size
- Margins scaled to page count
- 0.25" safe area on every edge
- Images at 300 DPI or higher
- No transparency (KDP rejects it)
- Accurate TOC & chapter starts
EPUB / Kindle
- Full EPUB structure: nav, manifest, spine
- Tables, callouts, and footnotes all survive
- Every character preserved
- eBook cover size and proportions checked
- Title & author metadata match
- Passes W3C epubcheck with zero errors
- Flags anything that would disable Enhanced Typesetting
Print cover (with Cover Conversion)
- Read back from the rendered PDF
- Correct dimensions & spine width
- Right colour space for each store (Kindle RGB · IngramSpark CMYK)
- No transparency or soft-mask
- Single-page wrap, ISBN/EAN placed
- Validated for KDP and IngramSpark
The hard parts
The things other tools quietly drop
If your book has it, we lay it out properly, then read it back to confirm it survived.
Clickable TOC
Working contents, even in cookbooks and image-heavy books.
Footnotes & endnotes
Real note layouts that stay attached to the right line.
Callout boxes
All five callout kinds, styled and preserved into the eBook.
Multi-row & wide tables
Real, selectable tables, not flattened screenshots.
Poetry verse
Stanzas, hard line breaks, and hung indents kept intact.
Glossary & index
Back-of-book index and complete glossary entries.
Recipe cards
Ingredients and method laid out as proper recipe pages.
Multi-language
French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, with accents and punctuation verified.
Great on Kindle
An eBook that works like an eBook
We build your Kindle file the way Amazon expects. Real navigation, not a flat PDF dressed up as an eBook.
- A working, clickable table of contents, even in cookbooks and picture books
- Real navigation: NCX + EPUB 3 nav and a Start-Reading point
- Images, tables, callouts, footnotes, and glossaries all survive into the eBook
- Every character preserved, none corrupted
- Cover size checked; title and author metadata match
- We flag anything that would disable Enhanced Typesetting
- Introduction1
- Chapter 1 · Beginnings7
- Chapter 2 · The Turn23
- Chapter 3 · Aftermath41
- Notes & Sources58
Great on Kindle is invite-only and curated by Amazon, so no one can award the badge for you. But your file meets every published Great on Kindle file requirement, ready the day you are invited.
Puzzle & activity books
From a word list to a finished puzzle book
Hand us a spreadsheet of titles, themes, and words. We generate the grids and lay out a print-ready interior, with solutions and page numbers included. No word lists yet? We can create them for a word-search book too. By custom quote.
| Theme | Words |
|---|---|
| Yellowstone National Park | geyser, bison, caldera, grizzly, ranger… |
| Garden Birds | robin, finch, sparrow, wren, magpie… |
| Ocean Life | coral, dolphin, urchin, kelp, marlin… |
| Wildflowers | poppy, clover, daisy, foxglove, aster… |
Book types
What we format
Every common book type, plus the awkward ones competitors won't touch.
Fiction / Novel
from $69
Nonfiction / Self-Help
from $69
Memoir / Biography
from $69
Poetry
From $59, final price confirmed after review
Cookbook
From $149, final price confirmed after review
Picture Book
From $149, final price confirmed after review
Puzzle / Activity Book
From $99, final price confirmed after review
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Professional documents
NewNot just books
Reports, memos, papers and other straightforward text documents, formatted cleanly. By custom quote.
- Reports, memos, and white papers
- Title page, table of contents, and heading hierarchy
- A print-ready PDF and an editable Word file
- By custom quote: send the document and we confirm scope and price
How it works
Three steps from manuscript to finished book
Upload your manuscript
A DOCX is all we need. Pictures, tables, footnotes, bring whatever your book uses.
Pick your style
Choose a template, trim size, and finishing options. We confirm the price upfront.
We deliver your files
Paperback interior PDF and EPUB, checked and ready to download, in 2 days for online orders. Hardcover and IngramSpark interiors are add-ons.
Compare
Three ways to get formatted files. Only one that just works.
| Doing it yourself | A typical freelance gig | Formatli | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Store-validated files | Guess and hope | Sometimes | 30+ checks per book |
| Print + ePub + IngramSpark | Build each yourself | Usually one format | Paperback PDF + EPUB; IngramSpark interior +$19 |
| Tables, footnotes, callouts | Painful / breaks | Often dropped | Handled, not dropped |
| Licensed professional fonts | Source your own | Varies | 50+, licence-clean |
| Turnaround | However long it takes you | Unpredictable | 2 days for online orders |
| Revisions | Endless self-edits | Often charged extra | 3 submissions included |
| Pricing | "Free" (your time) | Variable quotes | From $69, confirmed before you pay |
Pricing
Clear pricing, confirmed before you pay.
No subscriptions. Straightforward books are priced online from your manuscript. Everything else gets a custom quote first.
Book Formatting
From $69
Fiction, nonfiction, memoir: paperback interior PDF + EPUB, delivered in 2 days. Hardcover or IngramSpark interior +$19 each.
Cookbook & Picture Book
From $149, final price confirmed after review
Recipe layouts and image-driven pages with fixed-layout EPUB. By custom quote.
Cover Conversion
From $15, final price confirmed after review
Your finished cover artwork assembled into a print-ready wrap with the spine sized to your book. By custom quote.
Books with more than one table or a complex table, footnotes or endnotes, colour interiors, embedded charts or more than 120,000 words are priced with a custom quote.
3 revision submissions included. Online orders are delivered in 2 days. Custom projects have their timing confirmed in the quote.
Frequently asked questions
Hand off the formatting. Get back to writing.
Send the DOCX you already have. We confirm the scope, price and delivery time before you pay, with 3 revision submissions included.
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