Manuscript → book
Manuscript formatting, minus the middleman
The last step between a finished manuscript and a published book is formatting — the step where authors stall, pay hundreds, or ship something that looks homemade.
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What formatting a manuscript actually involves
Turning a manuscript into a book is hundreds of small decisions: where chapters start, how the opening line sits under a drop cap, how front matter is ordered, what belongs in running heads, how wide the gutter must be for your page count, when a scene break needs an ornament. Formatting services charge per book because the work is exacting — but it's also mostly mechanical, which makes it exactly the kind of work software should do.
How doc2epub does it
Upload your Word manuscript (or .doc, .odt, .rtf, Pages, Markdown). Chapters are detected automatically — with optional AI chapter detection on Pro for manuscripts whose structure resists the rules, and a promise either way: your writing is never used to train AI models. You review and correct the result, never the other way around. Choose trim, typeface and matter pages, watch a live preview of real typeset pages, and generate a store-ready EPUB plus a print-ready PDF interior. Found a typo after? Fix it in the app and rebuild free, as often as you like.
doc2epub is built for English-language manuscripts — novels, memoirs, nonfiction, poetry and story collections.