Book Interior Formatting for Print and Ebook

About this service

What our interior formatting service involves

A manuscript in Word is not a book. Print needs trim sizes, mirrored margins, gutters, running heads and page numbers. Ebooks need a clean structure, a working table of contents and text that reflows on every screen. Poor formatting is obvious to readers even when they cannot say why, and it can lead to upload errors.

We format to the specifications of the platform you are publishing on, check every page and deliver files that pass its checks. Details such as drop caps, scene breaks, headings, footnotes, images and front and back matter are handled consistently, so the finished book looks like it came from a traditional publisher.

Our approach

How we handle interior formatting

Interior design is mostly about restraint. The reader should notice the story, not the layout. We choose a typeface with good readability in print, set line spacing so that paragraphs breathe, and use chapter openings that add polish without clutter. Fiction, memoir and technical books each call for a different level of ornament.

For ebooks, the priority is reliability. The same file is opened on small phones, large tablets and dedicated readers, and the reader may change the font size at any time. We build clean structure that adapts, test on several devices and make sure links and the contents page work.

Common mistakes we help you avoid

• Formatting in a word processor by hand. Manual spaces and tabs break when files convert. Proper styles produce clean, stable layouts.
• Margins that are too tight. Text too close to the spine is hard to read. Page margins must account for the binding.
• Forgetting the ebook. A print layout does not work as an ebook. Each format needs its own file.