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Business book formatting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Format your business book for KDP.

Recommended KDP trim

6x9 in – Acceptable alternatives: 5.5x8.5 in or 7x10 in. All are KDP-approved trim sizes.

What we get right for business book

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 across major Kindle apps and devices.

Children's chapter book formatting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Format your children’s chapter book for KDP.

Recommended KDP trim

5.5x8.5 in – Acceptable alternatives: 5x8 in or 6x9 in. All are KDP-approved trim sizes.

What we get right for children’s chapter book

Age-appropriate typography

12-13pt body text, 1.6 leading, 60-65 character line length. Type sized for 7-12 year-old readers, not adult novels shrunk down.

Illustrated chapter openers

Half-page or full-page illustration at every chapter opening. Treated as 300 DPI plates, registered to the chapter heading so they feel composed, not pasted.

Cookbook formatting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Format your cookbook for KDP.

Recommended KDP trim

8.5x8.5 in – Acceptable alternatives: 8x10 in or 7x10 in. All are KDP-approved trim sizes.

What we get right for cookbook

Two-column ingredient lists

Metric left, imperial right (or US cups left, metric right). Aligned to the baseline grid so quantities line up cleanly. Reflowable variants for Kindle designed not to break in mid-recipe.

Full-bleed photography

300 DPI minimum, 0.125-inch bleed on every full-page image. We pre-flight every photo against KDP’s print profile — not just “is it 300 DPI”.

Fantasy novel formatting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Format your fantasy novel for KDP.

Recommended KDP trim

6x9 in – Acceptable alternatives: 5.5x8.5 in or 6.14x9.21 in. All are KDP-approved trim sizes.

What we get right for fantasy novel

Maps as front matter

Double-spread maps at 300 DPI for print, single-page PNG fallback for EPUB, plus a full-page map image on Kindle sized so it doesn’t reflow into a sliver. Vector-first if you supply layers.

Chapter ornaments + heading sigils

Custom glyph or sigil at every chapter opening, scene-break ornaments that match. Faction-specific ornaments per POV if your book uses them (Game of Thrones-style).

Memoir formatting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Format your memoir for KDP.

Recommended KDP trim

5.5x8.5 in – Acceptable alternatives: 6x9 in or 5.25x8 in. All are KDP-approved trim sizes.

What we get right for memoir

Photo plates (insert sections)

Trad memoirs often use 8- or 16-page photo plate inserts on coated paper. KDP doesn’t do coated inserts, so we integrate plates into the text block at 300 DPI with framing that respects the photo.

Letters, journal entries, transcripts

Set in a distinct face (often a slab or a typewriter) so the reader knows it’s a document, not your narrator’s voice. Indented block, dated header, source attribution.

Narrative history formatting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Format your history book for KDP.

Recommended KDP trim

6x9 in – Acceptable alternatives: 6.14x9.21 in or 7x10 in. All are KDP-approved trim sizes.

What we get right for history book

Footnotes vs endnotes

Your choice — and we honour it. Footnotes at the bottom of each page (Chicago-style), or endnotes per chapter or per book. Both link cleanly to text on EPUB; both survive reflow.

Bibliography + index

Full bibliography set in hanging-indent reference style. Real index with page numbers for print (built from the typeset PDF, not Word’s auto-index), anchor links for EPUB.

Picture book formatting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Format your picture book for KDP.

Recommended KDP trim

8.5x8.5 in – Acceptable alternatives: 8.25x8.25 in or 8x10 in (landscape). Confirm your chosen trim against KDP’s current trim-size list.

What we get right for picture book

Full-bleed every spread

0.125-inch bleed on all four edges of every page. Text kept inside the 0.25-inch safe zone — never within the gutter. Every spread treated as a single composition, not two pages.

Poetry collection formatting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Format your poetry collection for KDP.

Recommended KDP trim

5.25x8 in – Acceptable alternatives: 5.5x8.5 in or 5x8 in. All are KDP-approved trim sizes.

What we get right for poetry collection

Line-break fidelity

Every line break is the poet’s, not Kindle’s. We use non-breaking line-end markers so a 7-syllable line rarely wraps onto two visual lines on a Paperwhite — and we test on the smallest screen.

Hanging indents on long lines

When a line MUST wrap (Kindle on a phone), the continuation gets a deeper indent so the reader can see it’s the same line. Trad poetry-press convention.

Romance novel formatting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Format your romance novel for KDP.

Recommended KDP trim

5x8 in – Acceptable alternatives: 5.06x7.81 in or 5.25x8 in. All are KDP-approved trim sizes.

What we get right for romance novel

Scene-break ornaments

Glyph dividers between scenes (rose, heart, fleuron — your call). Consistent every chapter. Reflowable on Kindle, centred on print.

Drop caps that work

Three-line raised drop cap opens every chapter. Built to render cleanly across Kindle, Paperwhite, Fire, iOS Books and Kobo — not just print — and tested on-device, since reflowable drop caps can vary by reader.

Science fiction formatting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Format your science fiction novel for KDP.

Recommended KDP trim

5.5x8.5 in – Acceptable alternatives: 6x9 in or 5.25x8 in. All are KDP-approved trim sizes.

What we get right for science fiction novel

Ship-log + transmission inserts

Captain’s-log entries, intercepted comms, datapad readouts — set in a distinct monospaced display face inside a bordered block. Reads as a document, not narrator voice.

AI / synthetic-voice dialogue

AI character dialogue set in monospace or small-caps depending on your house style — visually distinct from human speech without breaking the prose flow.

Self-help book formatting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Format your self-help book for KDP.

Recommended KDP trim

5.5x8.5 in – Acceptable alternatives: 6x9 in or 7x10 in (workbook-leaning). All are KDP-approved trim sizes.

What we get right for self-help book

Exercise + reflection prompts

Bordered prompt boxes with a clear visual signal (“Try this”, “Reflect”). On print they’re styled callouts; on EPUB they’re semantic asides that survive reflow.

Fillable journaling lines

Where your book asks the reader to write — we set proper rule-line blocks at the right line-height. Print readers fill them in; EPUB readers get an explanation that the journaling is best done on the paperback.

Thriller & crime formatting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Format your thriller for KDP.

Recommended KDP trim

5.25x8 in – Acceptable alternatives: 5x8 in or 5.5x8.5 in. All are KDP-approved trim sizes.

What we get right for thriller

Short-chapter rhythm

Chapter-per-page logic that keeps every chapter (even two-pagers) opening on a recto. The visual pace of a James Patterson, without the page-count blowing out.

Time-stamp headers

Day, time, location at the top of cut scenes — formatted as a typographic block, not Word default text. Renders cleanly in print, and as consistently as reflowable Kindle allows — exact appearance still varies with device, app and font settings.