Paperbacks and hardcovers

A book’s interior, ready to upload to KDP Print or IngramSpark: typeset, paginated and laid out to the printer’s rules.

Typeset like a book

The interior is laid out as a printed novel: chapters opening on right-hand pages, sunk down the page; running heads with your name on the left and the title on the right; page numbers at the foot; justified, hyphenated text with widows and orphans avoided. A half title, title page and copyright page come first, then your front matter, an optional contents page, the story numbered from 1, and the back matter.

The three themes match the ebook’s: classic, modern and plain.

To the printer’s rules

• Trim sizes from 5 × 8 inches to 8.5 × 11, as KDP Print and IngramSpark offer them, and A5.
• Margins mirror inside and out, and the gutter widens with the page count, as KDP requires. The book is laid out, counted, and laid out again if it needs to be.
• Hardcovers in KDP’s five case-laminate sizes, with their own page limits.
• Large print: sixteen-point type, ragged right and unhyphenated, with more space between lines.
• Checks: a warning when the book is too short or too long for the printer.

Every print build also writes the cover template to go with it.

Print-ready interiors are part of Septangular Publish. Without a licence, they’re built as a sample of the first three chapters.