
Paperback Setup
Welcome to Paperback Setup. If you’ve finished your manuscript in Word but feel a long way from a clean, professional-looking book interior, this episode is for you. We’re looking at a self-service formatting tool that turns DOC or DOCX manuscripts into print-ready interior PDFs for platforms like KDP and IngramSpark, as well as commercial printers.
The idea is to make paperback setup feel less like wrestling with margins and page breaks, and more like guiding a helpful assistant through the choices you want. Upload your Word file, and the tool uses AI to identify the structure of your book…
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