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A print-ready PDF meets one print company’s published requirements, and this guide covers what those requirements are and which faults you can still fix...

How to choose between footnotes, endnotes, and a bibliography-only setup for your self-published book: genre norms, reader experience, printing cost, and ebook behaviour.

What separates a trade paperback from a mass-market paperback, and why print-on-demand always produces the trade format.

What a professional book formatter actually needs from you: final text, original image files, and clear notes, with page design left to them.

Where to get fonts for your book safely, and how to spot the "free" downloads whose licences do not cover a book you sell.

Where the bibliography goes in your book, how to alphabetize and indent the entries, and what details each source type needs.

Your word-processor page count is not your final book page count. Here is how to estimate it from trim size, font, and line spacing...

An ebook reflows to fit any screen while a paperback is locked to a fixed page. Here is what changes between the two formats...

You don't need InDesign for a text-only novel; Word works. InDesign earns its place on image-heavy books that need precise layout and print-file control.

Word quietly reduces your images to 220 ppi by default; here are the exact Windows and Mac settings that stop it, and the PDF...

Images that contain text print blurry when they hold too few pixels for the page. Here is why it happens, and how your original...

How to format paragraphs in a print book: when to indent the first line, how deep the indent should be, and whether to justify...