Word Garden is here to help you convert you story or ideas into a published book. A well formatted and designed book will bring your story more probability of success. We are here to help you format your work into whatever is required, be it a high resolution print quality PDF, a manuscript for a publisher, or a beautifully designed book you would like to self-publish or to submit to a printing house. We also design eBooks in EPUB, MOBI and other formats to submit to places like Smashwords, Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, Kobo, Apple, Barnes & Noble, IngramSpark and more.
Manuscript
If you wish to submit your story to a publishing house in hopes that they will publish and market your book, you will need to follow specific in house formatting. Each publisher has specific requirements that need to be met to be accepted. We can prepare your work to meet those specific requirements.
Self-Publishing a Printed Book
For a printing house to convert your manuscript into a published book, you must follow specific in-house formatting for it to be accepted. The interior of the book will need to be designed without using a template and will take into consideration your input and theme Our basic design package will include margins, typography, headings, and will include a copy page, title and half title pages as well as an ISBN. We can also prepare images, table of contents, etc. to prepare your book for publishing. Please also note that stories of nonfiction should also be thoroughly fact-checked. Currently we are not creating book covers from scratch unless you already have a vision or a possible image that you need help with. If you need to create a cover, we are more than happy to recommend a graphic designer from our team at Word Garden to help.
Once the design and proofs are approved by you, we will create and export a final PDF to submit to Amazon KDP Print, IngramSpark, or any press or publishing house.
Self-Publishing for Electronic Books
Like printed books, you will need to format your story and prepare it into a digital file (PDF, DOCX or EPUB) that is ready to meet a publisher’s requirements.
Digital books can be read on an eReader, tablet, or smartphone.
The majority of companies that sell eBooks require you to upload a flowable EPUB file, this is the format needed for Kobo and , for example. This format allows readers to enjoy your book on various devices like tablets and smartphones and allows the reader to adjust their reading experience to what suites them best, be it a larger font or smaller margins and permits users to take notes and add highlights.
There is another popular and more complex form of an EPUB digital file called a fixed EPUB. This file is specific to books that contain several images fixed to specific pages in their interior like cookbooks and children’s books with illustrations.
Some personal websites like Squarespace have an ebook section, for this you can use the pdf file used for your printed book. There might be some little adjustments needed but if this is something you would like, just let our team know and we will help. Once you pick the format that best suites your book, your file can be published on multiple devices and platforms
Different Styles of Book Formatting:
Manuscript – You will need this to…
PDF – You will need this for… the interior of the book will be carefully design with margins, chapter, etc..
EPUB – This format includes two different types for different necessities. There is the flowable .. and then there is the fixed for..You will need EPUB to submit to
MOBI
Enrich ebooks with audio, videos, images, and interactive elements
Integrate eBooks with your LMS using LTI interface and API with single sign-on access
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We are here to help you convert you story or ideas into a published book. A well formatted and designed book will bring your story more probability of success. No matter what format you have it in right now, we can help you format it to whatever you need. Be it a manuscript to a publisher, a pdf or a beautifully designed book for self-publishing or to submit to a printing house. We also design ebooks in EPUB, MOBI and other formats to submit to places like Smashwords, Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, Kobo, Apple, Barnes & Noble, IngramSpark and more.
Manuscript
If you are looking to submit your story to a publishing house in hopes that they will publish and market your book you will need to follow specific in house formatting. Each publisher has specific requirements that need to be met to be accepted.
Some editors and … might require this format.
Self-Publishing a Printed Book
Manuscripts cannot be submitted to printing houses as word documents, they need to follow specific in house formatting. Manuscripts need to be converted into books. The interior of the books will need to be designed without using a template and will take into consideration your input and theme Our design simple designs will include margins, typography, headings, include a copy page, title and half title pages and ISBN. For more complicated books they will need to have carefully place images, table of contents, etc.
Please note that stories of non fiction should have been fact checking.
Once design and proofs are approved by you we will be sent a PDF or if needed in specific situations we can send the publishing how a copy of the InDesign file.
We are currently not working on book covers unless you already have a vision for it and or a possible image. We would be more than happy to recommend our graphic designer friends of Word Garden to help and work closely with bot of us.
Once you have a pdf of your designed book you can submit it to Amazon KDP Print, IngramSpark, small of large presses, publishing houses
Self-Publishing for Electronic Books
Like printed books, one will need to format your story and prepare it into digital file (PDF, DOCX or EPUB) ready to meet a publisher’s requirements.
Digital books can be read on reader, tablet, or smartphone.
Most online companies that you will want to upload your digital file to sell will want a flowable EPUB, this is the format needed for Kobo,.. This format will allow your readers to read your book on tablets and smartphones and allow your reader to adjust their reading experience to what suites them best, be it a larger font or smaller margins.,users to take notes and add highlights on an eBook.
There is another form of EPUB digital file called fixed EPUB, this is a more complex file usually used for cook books, children book and books with lots of images that need to have all their interior elements fixed to a specific page.
Some personal websits like squarespace have an ebook section, for this you can use the pdf file used for your printed book. There might be some little adjustments needed but if this is something you would like, just let our team know and we will help.
once you pick the format that best suites your book, your file can be published on multiple devices and platforms
Different Styles of book formatting:
Manuscript – You will need this to…
PDF – You will need this for… the interior of the book will be carefully design with margins, chapter, etc..
EPUB – This format includes two difrent types for different necesities. There is the flowable .. and then there is the fixed for..You will need EPUB to submit to
MOBI
Enrich ebooks with audio, videos, images, and interactive elements
Integrate eBooks with your LMS using LTI interface and API with single sign-on access