Paperback interior
Atticus vs Vellum vs hiring a formatter for KDP
Atticus vs Vellum starts with your computer: Vellum runs only on a Mac, and Atticus runs almost anywhere.
Self-publishing guides
Fixes, rules and costs for publishing a book on KDP: editing, formatting, covers, Amazon listings, launch plans and author websites.
If a file is already stuck, start with our KDP rejected file fix, or see the paperback interior service if you are choosing who sets your pages.
Guides
Paperback interior
How to format a book for KDP in Word, step by step
How to format a book for KDP in Word: set the page size to your trim size, then the margins for your page count.
Cover wrap and spine
KDP paperback cover size: spine width by pages and paper
Cover width is two trim widths plus the spine plus 0.25 inch. Spine is pages times 0.0025 inch on cream or 0.002252 on white, so size it after the interior.
Ebook formatting
Ebook vs paperback formatting for KDP: 8 differences
Ebook vs paperback formatting comes down to one thing: a paperback has fixed pages and an ebook does not.
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