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Tools for Self-Publishing Author

Format a manuscript, size the cover, check an ISBN, build the interior and the EPUB, and work out print cost and royalty before you upload.

Publishing a book yourself is a chain of small technical jobs that each have a hard requirement: a page count the printer accepts, a spine width that depends on the paper, a cover file the right size, an ISBN that checks out, an ebook file that opens everywhere. These tools follow that order, from the manuscript to the files you upload, so a mistake is caught before the platform rejects the file.

Manuscript Formatter (Shunn)

Turn pasted text or .docx, .md and .txt chapters into a standard Shunn-style manuscript .docx with a title page and running head.

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Book Page Count Estimator

Estimate printed page count from word count, trim size, type and margins, or work backward from a page target to words.

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Book Interior Maker

Turn manuscript chapters into a print-style interior PDF with trim size, margins, page numbers, running heads and a page-flip preview.

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Book Spine and Cover Size Calculator

Estimate spine width and full wrap-cover size with bleed for KDP, IngramSpark and Lulu, with a to-scale layout preview.

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Print Cost and Royalty Calculator

Work out the printing cost of a paperback, what you earn per copy at a list price, the price for a target royalty and the copies needed to earn back your costs.

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ISBN Checker and Converter

Validate ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 check digits, convert between them, add hyphens and see the barcode digits, singly or in bulk.

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Copyright Page Maker

Build a book's copyright page from a form and get a one-page PDF at your trim size, plus copyable text and HTML.

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EPUB Maker

Turn .docx, .md and .txt chapters into a finished EPUB 3 e-book with cover, details and a reading preview.

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EPUB Checker

Check an .epub in your browser for structure, metadata, navigation, missing files, alt text, cover and accessibility problems.

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Book Description HTML Formatter

Turn plain text into the HTML tags a book store description accepts, or clean existing HTML, with a preview and a 4,000-character check.

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ONIX Metadata Generator

Fill in a book metadata form and get a checked ONIX 3.0 XML file with ISBN-13 validation, prices, subjects and a live preview.

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PDF Bookmarks Editor

Edit a PDF's bookmarks as a tree: rename, reorder, indent, delete or add one at a page, then download the PDF.

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Low-Content Book Interior Maker

Make lined, dot grid, graph, checklist or blank interior pages for notebooks, journals and planners, with the right inside margin for your page count.

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ACX Audiobook Checker

Check an audiobook chapter against the ACX numbers: loudness, peak, noise floor, sample rate and MP3 bit rate, then fix and save a compliant MP3.

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