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E-book formatting: one EPUB for Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo and Google Play
An e-book is not a picture of pages. The text reflows to fit each screen and each reader's font size, so the file has to be clean underneath. This page explains what a good EPUB contains and what you get.
EPUB is the file to make
Amazon KDP lists EPUB among its suggested formats, next to Word files and its own KPF format, and asks that it follow the Kindle Publishing Guidelines. EPUB is also the standard e-book format outside Amazon, used by stores such as Apple Books, Kobo and Google Play Books. One good EPUB serves all of them; check each store's upload page for its current rules.
Uploading the Word manuscript straight to KDP also works, and KDP says so itself, with a warning: files with more complex formatting convert less reliably. What you see on a Kindle is then decided by a converter you do not control.
What is inside our EPUB
- Each chapter is its own file, so every chapter starts on a new screen.
- A linked table of contents twice over: the one readers open from the menu of their device, and a contents page in the book.
- Title, author, language and a unique identifier in the book's data, which stores read on upload.
- Reader-friendly text: no fixed fonts or sizes, so the reader's own settings work; first paragraphs without indent; scene breaks marked with a centred ornament that survives any screen size.
- Footnotes as linked notes and images kept in colour.
- Validated with EPUBCheck, the checker the publishing industry uses. The result is in your report.
Upload your Word file and look at your own first chapter, typeset for print, before you pay anything. One book $39 per book · Three books $99 for three books. Refund within 14 days if it misses.
Show me my bookWhat it does not do
Fixed-layout e-books, where every page is a designed picture, are a different product, used for picture books, comics and cookbooks. We make reflowable EPUBs for books that are mainly text. We also do not upload the file for you: stores want you signed in to your own account, and we never ask for passwords.
Price
The EPUB is part of the $39 per book, together with the paperback interior and the cover template. There is no cheaper e-book-only price, because the work of reading your manuscript's structure is the same. For comparison, two formatting services whose price lists we read on November 12, 2026 charge $49 for an e-book of a short or simple book and more for longer ones. Details on the pricing page.
Upload your manuscript to see your first chapter typeset, free.
Questions
Do I still need a MOBI file for Kindle?
No. KDP's help page lists Word, KPF and EPUB as its suggested formats, and since March 2025 it no longer accepts MOBI for fixed-layout e-books.
Will the e-book look like the paperback?
It will read like it: the same chapters, the same order, the same emphasis. It will not look identical, because the reader chooses the font and the size and the page has no fixed shape.
Can I test the EPUB before I upload it?
Yes. Open it in Amazon's free Kindle Previewer, which KDP recommends, or in Apple Books or any EPUB reader.
Upload your Word file and look at your own first chapter, typeset for print, before you pay anything. One book $39 per book · Three books $99 for three books. Refund within 14 days if it misses.
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Sources (checked 2026-11-12): kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200634390 · kdpbookformatting.com/ · word-2-kindle.com/book-formatting-services/