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Book production software
Professional formatting for ebook and print.
Turn your manuscript into a beautiful, publish-ready book with precision typography, smart styling, and clean exports for ebook and print.
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Readable pages, clean chapter openings, and professional output for print and ebook.
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Formatted by BookSetter™
Professional ebook and print formatting
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Main features
Book production without desktop layout software.
BookSetter helps authors and small publishers turn structured manuscripts into polished ebook and print layouts with less manual cleanup.
Elegant typography and industry-standard layouts that readers love.
Apply consistent styles across your entire book in seconds.
Export EPUB, Kindle-ready ebook files, print-ready PDF, DOCX, and more as supported.
Smart suggestions for typography, spacing, page flow, and front matter.
Add a professional Formatted by BookSetter™ credit line to sample books.
Precision, Purpose, Pride.
A production system for better book files.
Pixel-conscious formatting that treats your manuscript like a production file.
Every page, chapter, heading, and sample export follows the same book system.
Move from rough Markdown to publish-ready previews in a fraction of the time.
Workflow
From Markdown to publish-ready files.
Bring in Markdown, text, or supported manuscript files.
See ebook and paperback layouts before you export.
Adjust front matter, headings, spacing, chapters, and style settings.
Create clean ebook and print-ready files for your publishing workflow.
Samples
Beautiful results. Every time.
See how BookSetter brings manuscripts to life across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and sample exports.
Literary
Literary Novel
Balanced serif type, restrained ornaments, immersive page rhythm.
Quiet Fiction
Elegant chapter starts, measured white space, soft contrast.
Nonfiction
Practical Nonfiction
Dense manuscripts get hierarchy, tables, endnotes, and proofing.
Systems Manual
Heads, notes, tables, callouts, and references stay legible.
Poetry
Standalone Poems
Format an individual poem without forcing it into full-book structure.
Small Rain
Line breaks, stanza space, and page silence stay intentional.
Accessible
Accessible Editions
Large print, accessible fonts, and EPUB resilience for broad reading contexts.
Open Edition
Readable type, robust spacing, semantic ebook structure.
Gutenberg source samples
Preview the same public-domain text as print or e-reader output.
These samples use short public-domain source excerpts available through Project Gutenberg, then show BookSetter-generated formatting. A separate samples page has downloadable EPUB, PDF, DOCX, and package files where available.
Source credit: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, source landing page at gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342. BookSetter is not affiliated with Project Gutenberg.
Pride and Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so fixed in the minds of the surrounding families...
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Pride and Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood...
Book credit
A professional credit line for sample books.
BookSetter can add a clean formatting credit to sample books and demo exports, giving generated examples a polished production finish.
Formatted by BookSetter™
Professional ebook and print formatting
About BookSetter
Built for writers who care how the book feels.
BookSetter combines the discipline of traditional book production with the speed of modern web software, helping authors turn structured manuscripts into clean ebook and print layouts.
The name comes from setting books: arranging words, chapters, margins, pages, and details so the reader never has to think about the machinery behind the page.
Pricing
$29 gets the first book done.
Preview free. Pay $29 only when you want final EPUB and paperback PDF files for your book, with a white-label option when you want no BookSetter credit in the files.
$29
Final EPUB, print-ready paperback PDF, table of contents, composed front/back matter, Markdown preflight, EPUB validation, paperback preflight, and a 30-day free re-export window for the same manuscript and title.
$5
After the 30-day included re-export window, make a typo fix, add backmatter, or adjust a small section and export a fresh package for $5 instead of buying a full book reformat.
- Free re-exports for 30 days
- $5 targeted update exports after that
- Untouched sections are locked and reported
+$9
Remove BookSetter's generated production credit and URL from final EPUB and PDF files for authors or publishers who want unbranded interiors.
- Suppresses the automatic formatting credit
- Applies to the final export package
- Does not alter manuscript text
Apply the $29 later
If you buy a prepaid package or subscription within 90 days, the $29 first-book formatting charge can be credited toward that upgrade on the same account.
- Valid for one upgrade within 90 days
- Same account only
- Not cash, transferable, or refundable
After book one:
Books 2-5: $15 each
Books 6-10: $10 each
Books 11-25: $7 each
Books 26+: $5 each
Update exports after 30 days: $5
BookSetter Quality Guarantee
If a standard manuscript fails EPUB validation or KDP paperback preflight because of BookSetter formatting, we fix it or refund the formatting charge.
Competitor references
BookSetter may compare pricing and platform constraints with products such as Vellum or formatting services when the comparison is factual, current, and useful to buyers. Competitor names are used only to identify those products. BookSetter is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Vellum or any other formatter, marketplace, retailer, or publishing platform mentioned here.
What a paid book includes
EPUB and print-ready PDF in one production run.
Clickable table of contents
One trim size
Front and back matter composition
Style/theme selection
Manual customization mode
30-day free re-export window
$5 targeted update exports after 30 days
EPUB validation and preflight
Watermark-free final files
Optional Formatted by BookSetter™ credit line
+$9 white-label no-credit export
Content checks
Writer freedom with retailer-aware guardrails.
BookSetter should not block ordinary fiction, difficult subjects, satire, memoir, politics, horror, romance, criticism, grief, or conflict. It should block or escalate material that creates clear legal, safety, rights, or retailer-compliance risk before a book, poem, or greeting card is converted.
KDP's official guidance is category-based, not a public banned-word list. It focuses on illegal or infringing content, certain offensive content, required AI disclosure, poor customer experience, public-domain differentiation, and Kindle quality problems.
KDP Content GuidelinesBookSetter should not reject a manuscript just because a word appears. The analyzer should look at context: direct threats, instructions for illegal harm, copyright/rights risk, deceptive metadata, unsafe links, and content that will not work as an ebook.
Kindle Content QualityThreatening greeting cards, operational instructions for violence or cyber abuse, malware/phishing, obvious rights infringement, sexual exploitation of minors, terrorist advocacy, and unlawful projects should not be converted or exported.
Hate advocacy, doxxing, libel/privacy risk, counterfeit documents, scams, public-domain republication, AI-generated content disclosure, and retailer-sensitive adult content should be flagged for review rather than silently formatted.
This is a production policy model, not legal advice. Retailer rules change, and the author remains responsible for publication decisions and rights clearance.
Legal terms
Plain-English publishing rights and payment rules.
These terms are written for the online BookSetter service. They should be reviewed by counsel before launch, but they establish the customer-facing rules the product needs.
Manuscript ownership
You keep all copyright and ownership rights in the manuscripts, images, poems, samples, metadata, and other material you upload. BookSetter does not buy, claim, co-own, publish, sell, train on, or redistribute your manuscript content.
You grant BookSetter a limited license to store, process, render, validate, preview, and export your uploaded material solely to provide the service, troubleshoot jobs, prevent abuse, and maintain your account history.
Your publishing rights
After you pay for a final export, you may use the generated EPUB, paperback PDF, and related output files for commercial or non-commercial publication of that book, including upload to retailers, printers, distributors, author websites, newsletters, and direct sales channels.
BookSetter may retain ownership of its software, layout engine, style system, diagnostics, templates, sample designs, and service branding. A paid export gives you rights to use the finished book files, not ownership of the BookSetter platform or reusable design system.
Subscriber and credit rights
Subscriptions provide the account features, monthly book credits, queues, team/API access, or other benefits shown at checkout. Book credits are a prepaid right to generate final exports for eligible books under the plan limits shown on the pricing page.
The first-book $29 formatting charge may be applied once toward a prepaid package or subscription upgrade purchased on the same account within 90 days of the first paid export. Credits are account-bound unless a publisher or agency plan explicitly says otherwise. Credits are not cash, stored value, securities, or gift cards. Unused book credits and unused promotional upgrade credits are not refundable, redeemable for cash, or transferable after cancellation.
Refunds and re-exports
There are no refunds for unused book credits, unused subscription time, expired credits, abandoned projects, optional white-label no-credit upgrades, or books the customer chooses not to publish. A standard paid book includes a 30-day free re-export window for the same manuscript and title. After that window, targeted update exports for typo fixes, small section changes, or added backmatter are $5 for the same manuscript and title.
The BookSetter Quality Guarantee is limited to technical formatting failures caused by BookSetter: if a standard manuscript fails EPUB validation or KDP paperback preflight because of our formatting, BookSetter will fix it or refund the formatting charge for that book.
Customer responsibilities
You must have the rights needed to upload and format every manuscript, image, font, excerpt, poem, table, and other asset in your project. You are responsible for editorial content, copyright clearance, permissions, libel/privacy review, ISBN metadata, retailer category choices, and publication decisions.
BookSetter may reject, suspend, remove, or require review for projects that appear unlawful, infringing, malicious, abusive, threatening, deceptive, retailer-prohibited, or technically unsafe for the service.
Samples and previews
Free previews, free poems, one-page samples, and watermarked sample outputs are for evaluation and proofing. Final commercial export requires a paid book credit, pay-as-you-publish checkout, or active plan with the required final export fee. Final files may include an optional Formatted by BookSetter™ production credit unless a white-label no-credit export is selected.
Sample style cards on this site show BookSetter edition directions. They are not copies of competitor templates and do not grant rights to competitor assets, logos, trade dress, proprietary templates, or marketing language.
Privacy and storage
BookSetter should collect only the account, billing, manuscript, rendering, diagnostic, and support data needed to operate the service. Payment details should be handled by a payment processor such as Stripe; BookSetter should not store raw card numbers.
Users should be able to delete projects and request account deletion, subject to fraud prevention, tax, security, backup, dispute, and legal retention needs.
No legal or publishing advice
BookSetter provides formatting, validation, and production tools. It does not provide legal, tax, copyright, ISBN, retailer compliance, editorial, or publishing-business advice. Retailer and printer rules can change, and users remain responsible for final publication review.
Live studio
Try the online BookSetter workflow.
Sign up for a free account to preview poems and one-page samples for your own projects. Final export hooks are ready for the subscription and credit checkout layer.
Workflow test drive
Walk through creating a book with a public-domain source.
This guided demo only uses local samples derived from Project Gutenberg source texts. Pick a book, commission a format direction, then load the result into the live studio as a free preview project.
Choose a source book
Pick a design direction
Create the preview
BookSetter imports the sample, detects sections, applies the selected style, and opens the studio preview. No paid export is created.
Pride and Prejudice
Literary paperback · Paperback PDF simulation
- Import local public-domain source excerpt
- Commission BookSetter edition direction
- Open editable ebook/print preview
Free account tools
Create a free poem or one-page book sample.
These previews are free after signup. They create a live BookSetter preview project without generating final paid export files.
Greeting card maker
Turn Markdown into a printable greeting card.
Paste a small Markdown note or upload a .md file. BookSetter turns it into a folded card preview you can print or download.