Book Formatting
Let us Take Your Book from Concept to Print-Ready
Looking for help getting your book concept print-ready? Confused about bleed, margins, and color profiles? Let our experienced book formatting team handle it for you!
We can help with:
- Layout and and formatting including bleed and margins
- Font selection and type setting
- Color space conversion from RGB to CMYK
- Print files for specialty features like embossing, spot UV, dust jackets, and slip cases.
Our formatting service starts at just $299.
Contact us at business@pufferprint.com to get a free, no-obligation estimate for formatting your print project!
How it Works:
To estimate the work required, we’ll start by asking you to share files containing your text and illustrations. The more you can provide the better, so please include the following (if you have them):
- An MS Word file or Google Doc containing the complete text of your book
- High-resolution digital files of your images and/or illustrations (Tiffs, high-resolution PNGs, or JPGs)
- The text for your front and back cover
- Author bio, dedication, copyright page text, etc.
- Font files or any examples of the style of fonts you want to use (optional)
- If you’ve already begun formatting your book, please provide PDF, Illustrator, or InDesign Files you have already started working on (optional)
Once you’ve shared your files with PufferPrint, we’ll review the work to be done. Within 3 business days we’ll send you with a fixed bid to complete the job of formatting your book. That means we’ll provide as many drafts as are necessary to finish the job to your satisfaction with no additional or hidden costs.
If you want to proceed just let us know! We’ll send you and invoice and a secure checkout link. Once we receive payment, we’ll begin the formatting process.
Depending on our current workload and the complexity of your project, it takes approximately 1 week to provide the first draft and typically just 2-4 weeks to take your project from concept to a polished, print-ready book that you’ll love!
Optional: eBook Conversion
Our team can also convert your book into an eBook. We’ll provide you with both EPUB and MOBI formats so your eBook looks amazing on any eReader including:
- Amazon Kindle
- Apple iPad
- Barnes & Noble NOOK
- and more!
Fixed Layout eBook
If you’re printing a children’s book, cookbook, graphic novel, or art book we can convert it into a fixed layout eBook. This ensures your text and images appear exactly how they are supposed to across eReaders and devices.
Bonus: Free ISBN Registration ($125 value!)
Our formatting service comes with a complimentary ISBN and barcode for your book. Purchasing your own ISBN from Bowker typically costs $125, but we’ll provide you with one for free!
* If PufferPrint provides you with an ISBN it technically makes us the publisher of your book. If you would like yourself or your company to be listed as the publisher, you should purchase your on ISBN from Bowker. You’re always welcome to provide us with your own ISBN and barcode and we’ll include it in your print files.
Books We’ve Formatted
Here are some samples of past book projects our formatting team helped bring to life!
ABC Dim Sum is a fun introduction to dim sum for both kids and adults. Whether savory or sweet, vegetarian or meat, baked or steamed, dim sum offers something for everyone’s tastes!
Written and Illustrated by Karen Wong
- Binding: Self-Cover Board Book
- Trim Size: 5.625″ x 5.625″
- 26 Pages
- Author’s Website
Request a Monster is compendium of weird and wonderful monsters imagined by children and brought to life in watercolor during the COVID-19 lockdown.
By Dan Walsh
- Binding: Casebound (Hardcover)
- Trim Size: 7″ x 7″
- 62 Pages
- Author’s Instagram
Paper Boat and Other Seaside Songs is a hand illustrated sing-along picture book featuring ten original songs. The author enlisted the help of PufferPrint’s formatting team so she could focus on her music and art.
Written and Illustrated by Blanca Apodaca
- Binding: Casebound (Hardcover)
- Trim Size: 8″ x 10″
- 38 Pages
- Author’s Etsy Store
Note to my Little One is a beautiful ode to the author’s daughter. It was printed as both a self-cover board book and a casebound (hardcover) board book. Our formatting team handled both projects making it easy for the author to publish both versions of the book.
Written by Khushboo Batia; Illustrated by Arun Sharma
- Binding: Self-Cover Board Book
- Trim Size: 6″ x 6″
- 22 Pages
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