The Best Book Formatting Software 📚 How to Format a Book

The Best Book Formatting Software - How to Format a Book // So what's the best book formatting software? In this video, I talk about some of the different software you can use to format your book for ebook in print. I go through some of the downsides of the most common book formatting software, Microsoft Word. Adobe InDesign is my favorite book formatting software and I now offer a book formatting course so you can learn how to easily and affordably format your print book and ebook. This course will teach you everything you need to know in order to format your book: chapter headers, drop caps, page numbers and so much more! Learn how to create a professionally-formatted book easily by using Adobe InDesign.

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Mandi Lynn published her first novel when she was seventeen. The author of multiple books, Mandi spends her days continuing to write and creating YouTube videos to help other writers achieve their dreams of seeing their books published. Mandi is the owner of Stone Ridge Books, a company that works to help authors bring their books to life through cover design and digital book marketing. She is also the creator of The Book Launch Planner, a planner designed to help authors publish and market their books. When she’s not creating, you can find Mandi exploring her backyard or getting lost in the woods.

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[westmaatita]

Every publication that I worked for used Adobe InDesign. From coupons, newspapers to magazine and books. It's the industry standard. And it's the simplest Adobe program to learn. I can't believe folks actually try to lay out a book in Microsoft Word

[philinelehmann]

Thanks for posting this video. I'm just getting started on my KDP journey and always had a love/hate relationship with WORD from the time I was a student writing papers. Formatting was always an adventure. I had a draft of my first book written in WORD, but bought Atticus and uploaded it and LOVE IT! I'm still learning and playing around until I get the book to look the way I want it to, but this is just an amazing program!

[droidfan]

I just bought the course and will try to apply it to Affinity Publisher (I am interested in the principles - the tools I know can be translated). It seems the author is in partnership with Adobe (not a critique at all, kudos for it!) which is why I don't think an AP course would be viable in the near future. The thing is that Adobe is actually not as affordable for people literally starting with writing/designing books (I am more inclined to the design part). Affinity is not paying me btw haha but it's just 1 payment of $55 to anyone interested, and their suit of programs are giving Adobe a run for their money. Thanks to Ms. Lynn for all the info she kindly provides. We'll see how it goes for me now :)

[jeanpolhamus]

I have memoirs and varia running to multiple volumes and upwards of half-a-million words, which have been hanging fire for at least ten years. I have until now been stumped by Word and how to format for private publication. Your course and recommended softward sound like just the tools I need to get them into hard-copy for my family and for the general record. I'll be taking your course!

[martybauer]

Thank you very much for these explanations! So far, the price of InDesign had deterred us a bit. But now I see the difficulties with Word. Thus, we will probably subscribe to the software.

[authorashleynicole]

For those purchasing the course now, if you ever do any updates to the course do we get those or will we have to repurchase?
Either way, I'm super excited for this course! I've been formating my own books in Word, but I do have InDesign (just no clue how to use it 😅)

[oneeyewitch]

This couldnt have come at a better time. You are doing my cover (Tarot witch book 1. havent made the name of the book public yet) Going to enroll in this course

[warrioreverandnow]

I am glad I came across this video. I have been searching for a book writing program I could use to add images but I could not find any. I have tried using Atticus; it is not designed to add multiple images.

[ElliotScottDating]

This is going to sound stupid but I am wanting to get your formatting course. It's for people like me who write the book in Microsoft Word and then format it in Adobe Indesign correct? Also, how do I go about fitting the cover and all that for my book? Or does it explain it all in the course?

[hqggpqz]

Hi Mandi, Thank you for the video. I want to create a poetry book. Having the ability to play with the look/effects/shape/sizing of imported images on the pages to accompany the text is important to me. Is Adobe In Design good for this sort of creativity? Some of the other software is very limited in this regard. Word is actually so much better for messing around with images, but I know from experience that your comments are spot on about how frustrating it is to format multiple pages in Word.

[a.k.manning]

Have you done the layout for a textbook? It seems like it would be far more complicated than a novel, for example.

[ChelSierra_Remly]

What's wrong with using Microsoft Publisher or Scribus?

[nvsilverlady]

so glad I found your tutorials so inspiring.

[LetuliTui]

Aloha Mandi, I finished writing and formatting my book in Word and after watching your video… now I’m at a roadblock. Which is the best way to move forward since can publishing this book and next move to Adobe InDesign etc.

[samdieter]

Will the course show us how to format book covers, spine, and back cover or is it just going to show us how to format the word novel part?

[reemasingh]

Hey Mandi I went to purchase your formatting course but the only way to buy the course is by Cards there no option to pay via PayPal. The problem with cards are you've to have the card with international payments allowed which takes a lot of time to get permissions from banks. Please add PayPal as a way to buy the course I'm very much interested in byy the formatting course.

[barbecuekat]

I found the course on your site. Thanks.

[AtticusShaner]

I just finished my first rough draft. A 93k fiction novel. It is written in Google Doc. Can I upload a Google Doc into Adobe End Design?

[dawnkravagna]

Hi. Looked at the course. But Draft2Digital doesn't take pdfs for upload. Do you explain other outputs, also? Thank you.

[dr.sandramarstondscptfaaom]

Does your course teach how to put the cover design on there/ like complete project? In other words can it go
From yout program right to Amazon or Ingram and be print ready? Or are other programs and systems needed