Book Formatting
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Reedsy Studio Is Free. The Question Is What You Give Up
We imported a nonfiction chapter into Reedsy Studio on September 28, 2026, exported it to print PDF and EPUB, and counted what survived.
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The Copyright Page, Line by Line, With a Template You Can Copy
How to write a copyright page for a book: use this copyable template, see what each line means, and learn what Amazon KDP actually requires in 2026.
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Page Breaks That Survive Publishing: Word, Google Docs, and What KDP Does With Them
Page break vs section break, how to insert each in Word and Google Docs, why chapters start on the right, and what Kindle Create does with your breaks on import.
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Curly Quotes vs Straight Quotes: Why Your Book Looks Self-Published
Why manuscripts end up with straight quotes, how to fix them in Word, Google Docs, and Scrivener, and the apostrophe traps autocorrect gets wrong.
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What Is Typesetting? How Book Interiors Get Made in 2026
What a typesetter actually decides inside a book, from margins to widows and orphans, what it costs to hire one, and how formatting software now automates most of it.
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Title Page vs Half Title Page: What Each One Does
A half title page carries the book's title and nothing else. A title page adds the subtitle, author, and publisher. What belongs on each, which one KDP needs, and why ebooks skip the half title.
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Kindle Create Review: What Amazon's Free Tool Can and Can't Do
We installed Kindle Create and ran a real manuscript through it. What Amazon's free formatting tool handles well, the four limits we tested, and when to move on.
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