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Format your business book for KDP.

Pull-quote callouts. Chapter summary boxes. Frameworks rendered as diagrams, not Word SmartArt. Charts that survive Kindle reflow. Business-book formatting that signals "I know what I'm doing" before the reader reads a paragraph.

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Free · 60 seconds · No payment

Before you pay anyone — score it free first.

Drop your manuscript and we run the same 30+ checks Amazon does, line by line, in under a minute. You get a clear /100 score, every failure point flagged, and the exact fix for each one. Whether you book us, do it yourself, or hire someone else — running this first means you don't pay for a service you didn't need.

  • Margins & gutter
  • Image DPI
  • Font embedding
  • ToC links
  • Blank pages
  • ISBN match
  • Bleed configuration
  • Page-count rules
  • Spine width
  • EPUB validation
  • 20+ more checks
  • Per-file PDF report
Step 1 · Production

KDP Readiness Score

"Will my business book pass KDP review?"

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Accepts .docx, .pdf, .epub · up to 200 MB · files never stored, deleted after 24h

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The recommended trim size

The format choice that matters most. We can deviate if your project needs it — but here's the working benchmark.

Recommended KDP trim

For business book — go with 6×9 in

6×9 in

Acceptable alternatives: 5.5×8.5 in or 7×10 in · all are KDP-approved trim sizes

6×9 is the trad business-book trim — Daniel Pink, Adam Grant, Patrick Lencioni. It gives pull-quotes and callout boxes the breathing room they need, supports a 12pt body text comfortably, and shelves alongside HBR Press and Penguin Business without looking self-published.

Business books often have 10-40 frameworks/charts — each one redrawn vector-first, then exported per-format.

What we get right for business book

The six things that make business book formatting different from generic novel formatting.

Pull-quote callouts

Larger-type pull quotes lifted from the body. Set with a coloured rule, indented block, or full-width banner — your house style, applied consistently.

Chapter summary boxes

End-of-chapter summary panels ("The 3 things to remember") set as bordered boxes on print, semantic asides on EPUB. Renders cleanly on every device.

Frameworks as diagrams

Your 2×2 matrix, your 5-step funnel, your concentric-circle model — drawn vector-first, exported at 600 DPI for print and SVG/PNG for EPUB. Not screenshotted from PowerPoint.

Charts that survive reflow

Bar charts and line graphs rendered as SVG (Kindle 9+ supports vector) so they stay crisp at any zoom. Fallback PNG for older Kindles.

Endnotes vs footnotes

Trad business books use endnotes-per-chapter. We set them as a chapter-end appendix on print, hyperlinked superscripts on EPUB. Both link both ways.

Bio + speaking page

Author bio block, speaking-enquiry contact, link to your firm. Set up as discoverable back-matter so the book actually generates leads.

Standard, on every project

Whatever the book type, this is what every order includes.

Print-ready PDF

KDP-compliant margins, mirrored gutters scaled to your page count, 0.125-inch bleed where needed, embedded fonts, 300 DPI image pre-flight, semantic page-break logic.

Reflowable Kindle EPUB

Optimised for every Kindle device including phone reading. Clean chapter recognition, working drop caps, scene-break ornaments, properly-linked TOC, semantic ordered/unordered lists.

Cover wrap calibration

Spine width auto-calculated from your final page count. Cover supplied to KDP-template spec for paperback, hardback or both. Full-bleed art tested against KDP's print profile.

Two free revision rounds

Side-by-side viewer to comment on specific pages. Most books need none; complex non-fiction sometimes needs both. Additional rounds £19 each.

KDP-approval guarantee

If KDP rejects your file for a formatting reason, we fix it free. We've never had a rejection — but the guarantee is the principle.

UK-based, no Mac required

You send a Word file (or PDF, Google Docs, RTF, ODT, EPUB, plain text). We send back finished files. No software to install, no learning curve.

Ready to format your business book?

From £69 for print-ready PDF. £119 for print + Kindle. Picture-book and complete packages from £179.

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Last reviewed May 2026 · Reviewed by the publishing.co.uk team