Everything you need to turn a manuscript into a finished book.

Import your manuscript, arrange your chapters, choose how the book looks, preview every page, and export as often as you need. Save your choices as a reusable design, and every book after the first is faster to format.

Import

Bring in your manuscript

  • Bring in a manuscript from Word, Pages or Google Docs, into a new book or one you’ve started
  • Detect chapters, headings, and section breaks
  • Import and preserve common inline formatting where possible
  • Bring in a revised manuscript later and replace what’s there
  • Keep Book Details separate from the source document

Editing

Format your words

  • Bold and italic emphasis
  • Heading and subheading levels for book structure
  • Inline links and reference links
  • Block quotes, pull quotes, callouts, and takeaways
  • Scene breaks, ornamental breaks, and section breaks
  • Keeps your italics, bold, and special text through import and export

Blocks

More than plain paragraphs

  • Tables, text-message conversations, and verse blocks
  • Letters and diary entries in a handwriting style, or plain
  • Checklists, images, and ebook-only social profile links
  • Shared images you upload once and reuse in any book
  • Buy links for an Also by list, using one universal store link per book

Structure

Arrange your chapters

  • Drag-and-drop chapter and section ordering
  • Group your pages into the front of the book, the story, and the back
  • Add, rename, reorder, and remove sections
  • Mark sections as ebook-only or print-only
  • Word counts and section status indicators
  • Reusable book part templates

Book parts

Pages around your story

  • Title page builder with curated layouts and ornament control
  • Copyright, half-title, dedication, and epigraph pages
  • Foreword, preface, introduction, prologue, and epilogue
  • Part dividers, afterword, acknowledgements, and endnotes
  • About the author, also-by, glossary, and bibliography
  • Appendix, reader guide, book-club questions, and custom blocks

Book Details

Your book’s details

  • Title, subtitle, author, and publisher/imprint fields
  • ISBN, publisher, copyright, and publication details
  • Book description and publishing details
  • Cover upload and project cover management
  • Series name and volume number fields
  • Keep Book Details available across ebook and print outputs

Styles

Ready-made designs

  • Professional presets for fiction and nonfiction, across genres
  • An Accessible preset for large print editions, set in 16pt Atkinson Hyperlegible
  • Every preset is a starting point, not a locked template
  • Customise any preset per book with live preview
  • Save your own presets for a consistent author brand

Design

Make the design your own

  • Curated chapter openings with combinable heading rules and labels
  • Title page, part divider, and table-of-contents layouts
  • The pages around your story heading styles and ornaments
  • Typography, spacing, drop caps, and scene-break ornaments
  • Table styles with a shaded header, striped rows, or a full grid, tinted to your accent colour
  • Custom font and ornament uploads

Print

Set up the printed book

  • Trim size selection for common paperback formats
  • Inside and outside margins with a binding gutter
  • Header and footer configuration
  • Page numbering and blank page handling
  • No lonely single lines at the top or bottom of a page (widow and orphan control)
  • Large print type sizes up to 16pt, meeting large print standards

Ebook

Make the ebook

  • An EPUB that passes the checks the stores run, with accessibility information built in
  • Table of contents generation
  • Ebook-friendly section ordering
  • Your cover and book details included
  • Reader-safe typography and spacing defaults
  • Pre-export checks for common ebook issues

Preview

Read every page first

  • Flip through the whole book like an e-reader, page by page
  • Preview on Kindle Paperwhite, iPad, and iPhone screens
  • Ebook reading preview and paperback print proof
  • Share a private read-only preview link with editors and beta readers
  • Jump to any chapter or section as you review
  • Fast updates after manuscript or style changes

Export

Download your files

  • Export EPUB, Print PDF, and DOCX (Word) files
  • Bulk export several books in one run and download them as a single zip
  • One book in, an ebook and a printed book out
  • Send review copies safely (eARCs) for your reviewers
  • Unlimited exports on Koberger Pro, with no per-export credits
  • Pre-export checks for common file issues

Word

Send it to an editor in Word

  • Word (DOCX) export with a clickable table of contents, Word heading styles, and a page break before every section
  • Choose Word line spacing, from single to double, for editors and beta readers
  • Images, ornaments, and imprint logos carry through to your Word file
  • Buy links stay clickable in ebooks and Word, and print as a QR code, a readable address, or both

Revision

Keep working after you publish

  • Your book stays editable after you export it
  • Update Book Details, sections, styles, and files as a book evolves
  • Made for going round again, not for getting it right first time
  • A history of your changes, so you can put any section back the way it was
  • Find and replace across book content
  • Useful for backlist refreshes and new editions

Book links

Send readers to every store

  • A free book link for each book, like koberger.app/b/your-book, with your cover, blurb and a button for every store
  • Readers get their own country’s Amazon and Apple Books
  • Readers can remember their favourite store, and Kindles go straight to Amazon
  • Use it in your books, on your website and in your social bios, and shared links show your cover
  • QR codes for bookmarks, posters and events
  • See views and store clicks, counted without cookies
  • Free on every plan

Team

Nothing to install

  • Runs in a modern browser on Windows, Mac, and Chromebook
  • Nothing to download and nothing to buy first
  • Your books live in your account, on any computer you sign in from
  • Improvements arrive on their own, with nothing to update
  • It formats your book, it doesn’t write it

Check it all before you publish.

Decide what goes into each edition, and let Koberger catch the problems a store would send back, before you upload.

Control every section

  • Edit section titles, subtitles, and headings
  • Show or hide chapter numbers, titles, and subtitles
  • Include or exclude any section from ebook or print

Catch problems early

  • Flag missing Book Details, cover, or ISBN before export
  • Check every image and flag any too low-resolution for print
  • Review your table of contents structure
  • Spot print layout issues before you upload

Keep books consistent

  • Reuse your saved designs across a series or your older books
  • Keep author, imprint, and publisher details consistent
  • Make every format from the one book

Built for authors who publish more than once.

Write your author bio once

Save any section once and reuse it in every book, images included. Linked sections stay the same across every book, so changing one changes them all.

Export all your books at once

When book four changes the Also By page in books one to three, select the lot and regenerate every EPUB, print PDF, and Word file in a single run, then download them as one zip, ready to reupload to your stores.

Keep a series looking the same

Apply one design across a whole series, run a consistency check, build collections of several books, and find and replace across every book at once. Made for a backlist, not just a single title.

Shareable preview links

Send a private link and your editor or beta reader can read the formatted book right in their browser. No account, no download, nothing to install, and you can revoke it any time.

Made for how you actually publish.

Works on the computer you have

Koberger runs in your browser. Nothing to install, and it works the same on Windows, Mac, and Chromebook. No Mac required.

More than plain paragraphs

Tables, conversations, verse, callouts, buy links, handwritten letters, and ornaments are built in and render in ebook and print. Align a block left, centre, or right, force a page break, and link from one place in your book to another.

Your structure stays yours

Split a chapter in two where you changed your mind, merge one into the chapter before it, or add chapters from another file without replacing what’s already there. Koberger works out your structure on import, and you can change every part of it afterwards.

Footnotes that land in the right place

Write a note once. In the print PDF it sits at the foot of the page it belongs to, numbered as the book is laid out, and it follows its paragraph when you revise. In the ebook it opens as a popup on Kindle and Apple Books, so your reader never loses their place. Notes in an imported Word file come across on their own.

Send review copies safely

Export watermarked eARC EPUBs for reviewers and your launch team, so you can share advance copies with more peace of mind.

Large print editions

Publish a large print edition from the same manuscript, set in 16pt with high legibility letterforms to meet large print standards.

Bring one manuscript. Build every format from there.

Start a book, see how it will look, and keep exporting as your proofing pass improves the book.

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