What is ebook formatting?

What is eBook Formatting?

Formatting is what’s under the hood of your ebook.

No mater how good your content is, if your ebook is poorly formatted, readers will struggle to get through it. Bad formatting—missing line spaces, confusing typography, jumbled text, bizarre line breaks, etc—will ruin your book and reflect poorly on you as the author.

To achieve a professional result, formatting must be done carefully, by hand. It requires expertise, especially for complex non-fiction genres like cookbooks and textbooks.

We specialize in taking complex non-fiction manuscripts and turning them into beautiful ebooks.

You’ll get error-free EPUB and MOBI (Kindle) files that look polished and professional on all devices…Kindles, Kindle Fires, Nooks, iPads, and all other tablets, laptops, and smartphones.

Your ebook will feature

  • hyperlinked table of contents for easy navigation and updates
  • active indexing, including text links
  • consistent stylesheets & layouts
  • correct paragraph alignment & justification
  • image optimization and correct placement of images
  • wrapped text
  • hyperlinked footnotes, endnotes & references
  • correct treatment of hyphens, en-dashes and em-dashes
  • active hyperlinks
  • bookmarks
  • correct formatting of all graphic elements, including (when applicable):
    • custom chapter title pages and
    • headings & sub-headings
    • bulleted lists
    • drop caps
    • quotations
    • pull quotes & sidebars
    • embedded photos, illustrations, tables and charts
  • audio,  video & animations—embedded or links
  • customized wide-format layouts

Our ebook formatting services for PDFs are included with your interior book design. And our ebook formatting services for ebooks (MOBI and EPUB files), are included with your ebook conversion.