Literary
Classical and unhurried — a Garamond-flavored serif with generous leading. For literary fiction, historical, and anything that wants to feel like a hardback.
Interior Formatter
Your manuscript is written. Now make it look like a book.
Turn a Word manuscript into a professionally typeset print interior and EPUB—with real book typography, correct page geometry, and no expensive desktop software.
Free to build and read. $19.99 for the whole book. Your manuscript stays in your browser.
Writing and typesetting are different jobs
Word knows documents. Printers expect books.
A manuscript can look perfectly respectable on screen and still produce awkward pages: text disappearing into the gutter, lonely lines at the top of a page, chapter headings on the wrong side, inconsistent scene breaks, and page numbers where they do not belong.
The formatter strips away improvised document styling and rebuilds the book from its actual structure.
- Gutters that grow appropriately with the final page count.
- Justified, hyphenated text with widow and orphan control.
- Right-hand chapter openings and intentional blank pages.
- Running heads and page numbers suppressed where they should be.
- Consistent chapter headings, paragraphs, and scene breaks.
Professional defaults, without the design degree
Choose the character of the book. The formatter handles the details.
Six settings, and six book faces to set them in — Crimson Text, Gentium Book Plus, Spectral, EB Garamond, Lora and Alegreya. Or let the formatter measure your manuscript and choose for you.
Modern
Clean and even — a true book face designed for long-form reading. For contemporary fiction, romance, and book-club paperbacks.
Genre
The workhorse — tighter set, economical page count. For thrillers, fantasy series, and anywhere printing cost per page matters.
Compact
The fewest pages — a dense setting that can take 25% off the length of a book, and that much off what every copy costs to print. For long series and box sets.
Classic
Two faces, the traditional way — a sturdy text serif for reading, a lighter Garamond for chapter openers and running heads. Drop caps on.
Large Print
Not a setting but a second edition: 16 pt Luciole, ragged right, at 6 × 9. Built in one click from the book you already have, with its own ISBN and its own cover.
From DOCX to finished files
See the book before you download it.
Load your Word manuscript
The formatter detects chapters and preserves meaningful structure such as emphasis, scene breaks, and headings. Your file never uploads to our server.
Confirm the structure and style
Review detected chapters, choose the trim size and typography, then preview the typeset pages in the browser.
Download print and ebook editions
Export a print-ready interior PDF and a reflowable EPUB from the same manuscript and book details.
One manuscript. Two finished editions.
InputA Microsoft Word DOCX manuscript.
Print outputA typeset interior PDF at your selected trim size, ready for the printer’s preview and upload checks.
Ebook outputA reflowable EPUB with automatic contents and your available cover art.
Also availableA submission manuscript in Standard Manuscript Format — the double-spaced .docx agents ask for — from the same file. Included in the Complete Book.
Large printA separate 6 × 9 large print edition at 16 pt, built in one click. It is its own book with its own ISBN, so it is licensed as one.
PrivacyFormatting happens in your browser. The manuscript is not uploaded to BookPublish.app.
The useful connection
When the interior changes, the spine changes too.
Your final page count determines the physical width of the spine. The formatter writes that count back to the same book project, so your cover geometry can update without re-entering the book details or guessing at the final size.
Before you format the book
What kind of manuscript should I use?
Use a DOCX with chapters marked by Word headings or clear chapter-title lines. The formatter can correct chapter detection, but a clean, consistently structured manuscript produces the best result.
Will it preserve my fonts, margins, and manual spacing?
No—and that is intentional. Those document-level choices are replaced with book typography and page geometry. Meaningful emphasis and structure are preserved; improvised layout is rebuilt.
Can I preview it before paying?
Yes. Load the manuscript, inspect the detected chapters, choose a style, and preview the formatted interior. Payment removes the export watermark for that book.
Does it handle image-heavy or highly specialized books?
The current formatter is best for text-led books such as novels, memoirs, and straightforward narrative nonfiction. Cookbooks, textbooks, poetry, footnote-heavy scholarship, and image-led layouts need more specialized composition.
Do you retain my manuscript?
No. Parsing and formatting run in your browser. Your manuscript remains on your device and in the local book project you control.
Before you typeset it
The guides behind the tool — what makes a page readable, and what to hand it.
What it costs
One book, one price. No subscription.
Interior Formatter
Free
Build the whole thing and look at it. Exports carry a preview watermark.
- Typeset print interior PDF at your trim size
- Reflowable EPUB from the same manuscript
- Six page styles and six book faces, or let it choose
- Page count writes back to your cover, so the spine stays right
- A large print edition in one click — its own book, licensed as one
Complete Book
$19.99
One book, one time. Final files, no watermark.
- Up to 11 cover wraps — four printers, every binding they sell
- Interior PDF + EPUB
- Mockups + Social Pack
- A+ content pack
- ARC watermarking
- Submission manuscript
- Large print edition
Your license never expires — it is tied to this book, and re-exporting is always free. Would rather not do it yourself? BookPublish Concierge is the whole book made for you, $199.
The manuscript is done. Make the pages worthy of it.
Print PDF and EPUB for one book. $19.99 for the whole book, with no subscription.