Publishing pipeline
Your book comes out with a spine width.
Not a document you still have to typeset. A print-ready interior, a cover built to the exact spine your page count produces, and a pre-flight check against the retailer’s specification — run before you upload, not after they reject it.
- Trim
- 6 × 9 in
- Extent
- 312 pp
- Output
- PDF · EPUB · cover
The Weeknight Kitchen
A. Adeyemi
What you get
Three files a printer will accept.
Every figure below is a constraint of the format, not a feature we chose. They are set in the same face the product uses for measurements, because that is what they are.
Print interior
A PDF composed at your trim size, with the gutter widened as the page count grows — the measurement most often got wrong, and the usual reason an interior comes back.
Cover flat
Back, spine and front as one artboard, with the spine computed from your final page count and the paper you chose. A spine off by a millimetre is a rejected cover.
EPUB
Reflowable, with a navigable table of contents and semantic headings — so it reads correctly at any type size and a screen reader can move through it.
Pre-flight
The rejection happens here, not at the retailer.
Every mechanical rule a store applies before a human looks at your book, applied first. It cannot tell you whether the book is good. It tells you whether it will be accepted — which is the part that wastes a week when it goes wrong.
- Bleed present on every trimmed edge0.125 in
- Gutter widened for the final extentpage-count aware
- Spine matches the paper and page countcomputed
- Images above minimum effective resolution300 ppi
- Fonts embedded and subsetno substitutions
- Nothing inside the safe area0.25 in from trim
How it runs
Nine stages. No percentage.
A percentage is least accurate exactly when someone is watching it — ninety per cent for four minutes tells you nothing. So the product reports the stage it has reached and the ones it has finished.
- 01DraftAn empty book with a subject, a trim size and a binding.
- 02Researching the subjectSources gathered and summarised, with the claims that will need checking marked as you go.
- 03Building the outlineA chapter structure with a word budget per chapter, sized to the page count you want.
- 04Writing chaptersChapters drafted against the outline, one at a time, in order.
- 05Editing and continuityA pass across the whole manuscript for repetition, contradictions, and terms used two different ways.
- 06Formatting the interiorThe manuscript typeset to the trim size: margins, gutter, running heads, folios, and a real table of contents.
White-label
Run the whole thing under your own name.
Imprints and course businesses run the pipeline as their own product. Their customers have no way to tell we exist — which is the only version of white-label worth selling.
How the programme works- Your name, palette and typefaces on every screen
- Your own sign-in credentials, so the consent screen names you
- Your merchant account — money settles to you
Finish the book, not the file.
Start with a subject. You keep the copyright, you can export everything at any time, and nothing you write is used to train a model by us.
Start a book