Why interior design matters
Readers judge a book by its cover, then by its first page. Cramped margins, inconsistent spacing, awkward chapter openings and the wrong typeface signal “amateur” within seconds, even if the writing is excellent. Professional typesetting is invisible when it’s done well. The reader simply settles in and reads.
Our designers typeset books the way traditional publishers do, with attention to typography, white space, line breaks and the details that make a book comfortable to read for hours.
Print book typesetting
We design your paperback or hardcover interior around your genre and trim size. That means choosing a body typeface that suits the tone of your book, setting margins and gutters that keep text clear of the spine, and designing chapter openings, headers and page numbers that feel cohesive.
We also fix the problems that DIY layouts miss: widows and orphans, rivers of white space, hyphenation stacks and pages that end with a single line. The result is a print-ready PDF with correct bleed and embedded fonts, ready to upload.
eBook formatting
Ebooks behave differently from print. Text reflows to fit each device and readers can change font size, so your file needs clean code underneath. We build reflowable EPUB files with a linked table of contents, properly sized images and styling that displays correctly on Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, Nook and Google Play Books.
For children’s books, cookbooks and photo-heavy titles where layout must stay fixed, we create fixed-layout ebooks.
What’s included
- Custom interior designTypography and layout chosen for your genre and audience.
- Front and back matterTitle page, copyright, dedication, contents, acknowledgments, author bio.
- Print-ready PDFCorrect trim size, bleed and margins for your printer.
- EPUB fileReflowable or fixed layout, tested on major e-readers.
- Images and tablesPlaced, sized and captioned to fit the page cleanly.
- CorrectionsSmall text changes after your review are included.
Common trim sizes: 5 × 8 and 5.5 × 8.5 inches for fiction and memoir, 6 × 9 inches for non-fiction, 8.5 × 11 inches for workbooks and children’s books. We’ll recommend the right size for your genre and printing costs.
Complex layouts we handle
Cookbooks with ingredient lists and photography, workbooks with fill-in pages, poetry with precise line spacing, academic books with footnotes and indexes, and full-color photo books. If it has an unusual structure, we’ve likely formatted something like it.
Ready to publish?
Formatted files pair naturally with a matching cover design and our publishing service, where we upload everything to your retailer accounts and order a proof copy for your approval.
