Paste a list of facts,
publish a real book.
The Studio lays it out, you flip through it like a paperback, and the PDF is checked against KDP before you ever see it.
Build my next fact book →Cover & metadata
The other two things KDP asks for: a full-wrap cover PDF and your listing details. Spine width comes straight from your interior build.
- Build the interior first (Studio → 03 Publish). A paperback cover is one wide sheet — back cover, spine, front cover — wrapped around the pages, and the spine has to be exactly as thick as your book. More pages, wider spine. So the inside has to exist before the cover can be sized. This screen stays locked until it does.
- 01 Look — pick one of six colour palettes (covers print in colour even though the interior is B&W), a title style, where the title sits (top, middle or lower third), and an optional genre line — the small-caps strapline at the very top, e.g. "TRIVIA & HUMOR".
- 02 Art — the ✦ Generated backdrop is free for everyone and drafts itself from your title and facts. AI-painted art comes with the AI Content Engine upgrade. Either way the picture never contains text — your title is laid over it as sharp print type. Choose Framed plate (art in a frame) or Full background, and on full background whether the art covers the front only or the whole wrap including the back.
- 03 Back cover — a one-line hook plus a blurb. Auto-draft writes a first pass from your book; edit it to taste.
- 04 Publish — Build cover.pdf exports the full wrap (back, spine, front, with KDP's barcode zone kept clear), Build eBook cover makes the 1600×2400 JPG for the Kindle listing, and metadata.txt is your copy-paste sheet for the KDP form.
Which file goes where at Amazon: interior.pdf → the "Manuscript" upload. cover.pdf → the "Book Cover" upload (choose "Upload a cover you already have"). metadata.txt → not uploaded at all; open it and copy the title, subtitle, description and keywords into the KDP form. eBook cover JPG → only if you also publish a Kindle edition. The preview here is drawn from the same PDF bytes you download, so what you see is exactly what Amazon receives.
The picture never contains text — your title is laid over it as real type.
KDP prints its barcode bottom-right on the back cover — this layout keeps that zone clear.
- interior.pdf → KDP's Manuscript upload
- cover.pdf → KDP's Book Cover upload (choose "Upload a cover you already have")
- metadata.txt → do not upload it; open it and copy the title, subtitle, description and keywords into the KDP form
Studio
The whole book happens here: paste your list, watch it build, drag a page corner to flip, download. No other screen needed.
- Get your facts in — three ways. ✨ Draft with AI: type a topic, choose how many facts, press the button. Paste your list: from ChatGPT, a spreadsheet or your notes — numbered lists, bulleted lists and plain lines all work, and the app strips the numbers and bullets for you. Load a starter pack: 120 sample facts so you can watch the whole flow before writing a word.
- How many facts do you need? Amazon will not print a paperback under 24 pages. Measured on real builds, short one-line facts need roughly 45 for a Fact book or Casebook, 50 for an Almanac, and only 32 for a Journal, where the writing lines fill the page. Give each fact a line or two of explanation underneath and you need far fewer. The app warns you twice: at the size dropdown before you spend a credit, and in the Est. pages box, which turns red while the list is still too short.
- Want a big book? One draft tops out at 200 facts. To reach 365 or 500, just press Draft facts again — each run adds to the end of your list and the AI is told what you already have so it does not repeat itself. Eight runs of 50 gets you a 400-fact book.
- Read it like a buyer. Drag a page corner (or press Turn the page) to flip through; ⛶ Zoom goes full-screen. This is not a mock-up — it is the actual PDF you are about to download, so what you see is what Amazon prints.
- Edit anything under 01 Content → ✎ Edit list & title.
The list format, with an example:
Octopuses have three hearts.First line = the headline. Lines under it = the explanation. A line starting with > becomes a call-out box in the margin. A blank line starts the next fact. Press Done — build it and the book rebuilds.
Two pump blood to the gills, one pumps it everywhere else.
> It stops beating when they swim.
(blank line here starts the next fact)
Honey never spoils. - Style it under 02 Design. Trim size is the physical page size — 6 × 9 in is the standard for this kind of book, pick it unless you have a reason not to. Milestone card is how often a full-page feature card breaks up the rhythm. Chapters splits the book into named parts.
- Download under 03 Publish. Pages, spine width, file size and a royalty estimate update live, then Download interior.pdf. That file is your manuscript — the inside of the book. Next stop is the Cover screen.
If the export is refused, it is almost always the 24-page floor: add more facts, or write longer explanations under each one, and build again. Everything autosaves to My books on the dashboard, so you can stop and come back any time.
First line of each item is the headline; lines under it are the body. Blank line separates items. Start a line with > to turn it into a margin call-out box.
60% royalty − print cost, US paperback, B&W. Verify in KDP's own calculator before pricing.
Niche Vault
A hand-researched vault of fact-book niches ranked by demand and competition — 100, yours to keep. Vault Club members get 20 more added every month. Stop guessing what to write about.
- Read the two signals. Every niche shows a demand and a competition rating with the reasoning written out — high demand + low competition is the sweet spot, but read why before you commit.
- Check the date. The vault header shows when it was last refreshed; research describes the market at that date.
- Filter with the search box to match your interests — a niche you actually enjoy researching produces a better book.
- One click to Studio. Use in Studio opens a fresh book with four things already filled in for you: the title, the subtitle, the AI topic, and the fact count that matches the title — pick "365 Food Facts…" and it sets the draft to 365. All you do is press Draft facts. Every field stays editable; the vault is a starting point, not a cage.
The vault is research, not a promise of sales — ranking well still takes a good book, a good cover and a good listing. The other three are what the rest of the app is for.
AI Content Engine
Your licence already drafts fact lists with its starter credits. This upgrade adds +1,000 AI credits and unlocks AI cover art.
- One credit = up to 50 facts. A 100-fact draft costs 2 credits, 200 facts cost 4. Your live balance shows next to every draft button, and the app tells you the cost before you spend anything.
- Draft from anywhere. Use the box on this page, or — usually handier — the ✨ Draft one with AI bar inside the Studio's list editor, which drops the facts straight into your book. Topic suggestion chips are there when you're stuck.
- Skim before you publish. Drafts are starting points and AI can be wrong — you are the author. Cut weak facts, fix wording, then Done — build it.
- AI cover art (this upgrade) lives on the Cover screen under 02 Art: describe a scene or leave the prompt blank and it drafts one from your book. The art never contains text — your title stays sharp type.
- If the model is busy, wait a minute and hit the button again — free AI models have rush hours. The app automatically tries backup models first.
Credits never expire and don't renew monthly — the balance is yours until you spend it. Running low? A ⚡ Buy more credits button appears next to the balance and tops you up on the same account.
Drafts are AI-generated and can contain errors — you are the author: skim and edit before publishing.
Design Pack
Five more complete book designs for the same list: Casebook dossiers, ruled Journals, hairline Almanacs, Broadsheet dispatches and full Encyclopedias.
- Switch styles in the Studio — open any book, go to the 02 Design tab and pick any of the five next to the three your licence already has. The whole book re-lays itself out in seconds; nothing else to set up.
- Same list, different product. Every style reuses your existing facts: Casebook turns them into dossier panels, Journal puts each fact above ruled writing lines, Almanac sets them with hanging numerals and hairlines, Broadsheet files each one as a dispatch with its own headline, and Encyclopedia sorts the whole list A–Z under headwords.
- Each style is a different length. Measured off the same 116-fact list: Fact book 48 pages, Casebook 48, Journal 74 (ruled lines take room), Almanac 26, Broadsheet 32, Encyclopedia 26. So a list that clears Amazon's 24-page floor as a Journal can fall under it as an Almanac. The Est. pages box accounts for the style you have chosen, and the Publish tab always shows the real number after a build.
- Covers follow along — the Cover screen reads whichever style you built last, so rebuild the interior first, then export the cover.
One fact list can ship as eight separate KDP products — same research, eight listings.
Publisher Licence
The right to build books for paying clients — and the paperwork to start charging this week: what to price, the gig copy to paste, a quote, an agreement, an invoice and the delivery checklist.
What unlocks here
- The commercial licence itself — the right to build books for paying clients and charge for the work.
- A pricing sheet with three packages and two add-ons, and the rules for quoting them.
- Your gig, written — Fiverr title, description, three packages, FAQ, and an Upwork first message.
- A quote email, a one-page service agreement and an invoice, ready to fill in.
- The delivery checklist that keeps a file from bouncing back, and the handover message that earns the second job.
One client at the low end of the going rate covers the price of this upgrade. The kit is what gets you that first one.
- The books were always yours. Anything you build in this app is yours to publish and sell under your own name, on any licence tier. That never needed permission.
- This adds the right to sell the work itself. Building books for other people, for money — formatting as a service — is what the Publisher Licence covers. It is per-person, not per-client: take as many clients as you can deliver.
- What you may not do is resell, share or give away access to Fact Book Studio itself, or run it as your own competing product. You sell finished books; you do not sell the press.
- Start with the kit below. Set your prices, paste the gig, take the first client. One job at the low end of the going rate covers what you paid here.
What to charge
Price the deliverable, never the hour. Your build takes minutes, so hourly billing punishes you for being fast — the client is buying a finished book, not your afternoon.
| Package | What the client receives | Suggested |
|---|---|---|
| Interior | Print-ready interior PDF from the list they supply, in their chosen trim size | $45 |
| Book | Interior PDF plus the full-wrap cover PDF, spine sized to the real page count | $85 |
| Book + listing | Both PDFs plus the Amazon listing sheet — title, subtitle, 7 keywords, 2 categories, back-cover blurb | $125 |
| Add-on — we write it | They give you a topic, you draft the fact list in-app and edit it | +$60 |
| Add-on — rush | Delivered inside 48 hours | +50% |
- Check the market before you fix these numbers. Search “book formatting” on Fiverr, sort by best selling, and read what the top three sellers actually include in each package. Price at or just above the median.
- Never take the cheapest slot. It attracts the clients who argue over revisions and leave the worst reviews.
- Half up front with a new client, balance on delivery. Repeat clients can pay on delivery.
- Two revisions included, then billed. Say so in the quote, before the work, not after the third round of changes.
- Raise your price every fifth client, not on a calendar. If nobody has flinched yet, you are under-charging.
Your gig, written for you
Paste this into Fiverr or Upwork and change the name. Everything it promises is something this app produces.
Gig title — pick one
I will format your fact book interior and cover for Amazon KDP I will turn your list of facts into a print-ready KDP paperback I will design and format your trivia or fact book for Kindle Direct Publishing
Gig description
You have the facts. I turn them into a book Amazon will actually print. Send me your list and I return files you can upload to KDP the same day: - A print-ready interior PDF, properly typeset, with chapter openers, call-out boxes and milestone pages so it reads like a designed book instead of a numbered list - A full-wrap cover PDF with the spine width calculated from your real page count, and the barcode area left clear the way KDP requires - Your listing sheet: title, subtitle, seven keywords, two categories and a back-cover blurb, ready to paste into the KDP form Every file is checked before delivery: even page count, 24-page minimum, fonts embedded and subset, correct trim size, clean barcode zone. If KDP rejects a file I formatted, I fix it free. Trim sizes: 5x8, 5.5x8.5 and 6x9. Turnaround: 3 days standard, 48 hours rush. Two rounds of revisions included. Do not have the facts yet? I can research and draft the list for you as an add-on. Message me with your topic and I will tell you honestly whether it is worth a book.
The three packages
BASIC - Interior Print-ready interior PDF from your list, in the trim size you choose. Delivery: 3 days. Revisions: 2. STANDARD - Complete book Interior PDF plus full-wrap cover PDF with the spine sized to your page count. Everything you need for the paperback. Delivery: 3 days. Revisions: 2. PREMIUM - Book plus listing Both PDFs plus your Amazon listing sheet: title, subtitle, 7 keywords, 2 categories and a back-cover blurb written for you. Delivery: 4 days. Revisions: 3.
Gig FAQ
Q: What do you need from me to start? A: Your list of facts as plain text, one per line, plus your book title and the name you want on the cover. That is genuinely all. Q: How many facts do I need? A: Amazon will not print a paperback under 24 pages. For a fact book that is roughly 45 short facts, fewer if each one has an explanation under it. Send me what you have and I will tell you before you pay. Q: Do I own the book? A: Completely. You are the author and publisher, you upload it to your own KDP account, and you keep every penny of the royalties. Q: What if KDP rejects the file? A: I fix it at no charge. My files are checked against KDP print requirements before they leave me. Q: Can you write the facts too? A: Yes, as an add-on. You give me the topic, I draft the list and edit it before it goes in. You review everything before publication.
Upwork proposal — first message
Hi [NAME], I format fact and trivia books for KDP - interior, full-wrap cover and the listing sheet. Three things worth knowing before you shortlist anyone: 1. I check every file against KDP print rules before delivery: even page count, 24-page minimum, spine width from the real page count, barcode zone clear, fonts embedded. Rejected files are the usual reason these projects run late. 2. You get the source list back as well as the PDFs, so a second edition does not start from zero. 3. If you have not settled on a topic yet, I will tell you honestly whether the one you are considering is worth the print run. For [THEIR PROJECT], the [PACKAGE] package fits: [PRICE], [N] days, two rounds of revisions. Happy to format five of your facts as a free sample spread first, so you can see the typesetting before you commit. [YOUR NAME]
The free sample spread is the closer. It costs you one build and it is the single fastest way past “why should I pick you”. Offer it in every first message.
The quote
Send this after the first conversation and before any work. Fill in the square brackets.
Subject: Your book - quote and timeline Hi [NAME], Here is what I would do and what it costs. WHAT YOU GET - Print-ready interior PDF, [TRIM] trim, approximately [N] pages - Full-wrap cover PDF with the spine sized to the final page count - Amazon listing sheet: title, subtitle, 7 keywords, 2 categories, blurb [- Fact list researched and drafted from your topic] WHAT I NEED FROM YOU - Your fact list as plain text, one per line - The book title and the author name for the cover - Your trim size, if you have a preference - otherwise I will use 6x9 TIMELINE [N] working days from the day your list arrives. PRICE [AMOUNT] total. [Half now, half on delivery / Payable on delivery.] Two rounds of revisions are included; further changes are [RATE] each. WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED Uploading to your KDP account, and anything to do with sales or marketing. You publish under your own name and keep all royalties. Say yes and send the list, and I will start. [YOUR NAME]
Agreement and invoice
One page each. Enough for freelance work; not a substitute for a lawyer.
Service agreement
BOOK FORMATTING AGREEMENT
Between: [YOUR NAME] ("the Formatter") and [CLIENT NAME] ("the Client")
Date: [DATE]
1. THE WORK
The Formatter will produce: [LIST THE DELIVERABLES]
from content supplied by the Client.
2. WHAT THE CLIENT SUPPLIES
The fact list, title, subtitle and author name, in plain text. The
Client confirms they have the right to publish this content and that it
does not infringe anyone else copyright.
3. PRICE AND PAYMENT
[AMOUNT], [half on signing and half on delivery / payable on delivery].
Work begins when the deposit and the content have both arrived.
4. TIMELINE
[N] working days from that point. Delays caused by late or incomplete
content extend the deadline by the same amount.
5. REVISIONS
Two rounds are included. Further rounds are [RATE] each. A revision
means corrections and adjustments to the agreed work, not a new design
or a different book.
6. OWNERSHIP
On full payment, the Client owns the finished book files outright and
may publish and sell them under their own name. The Formatter keeps no
claim on the Client content or royalties. The Formatter may show the
cover and a sample spread as portfolio work unless the Client asks in
writing that they do not.
7. WHAT IS NOT PROMISED
The Formatter delivers files that meet Amazon KDP stated print
requirements at the time of delivery. The Formatter does not guarantee
sales, rankings, approval by any retailer, or the factual accuracy of
content supplied by the Client. Where the Formatter drafts content, the
Client reviews and approves it before publication and is responsible
for what is published.
8. CANCELLATION
Either party may cancel in writing. Work completed to that point is
payable; any deposit covering work not yet done is returned.
9. LIABILITY
The Formatter total liability is limited to the amount paid for the work.
Signed:
Formatter ______________________ Date __________
Client ______________________ Date __________Invoice
INVOICE
[YOUR NAME]
[YOUR ADDRESS]
[YOUR EMAIL]
Invoice number: [001]
Date: [DATE]
Due: [DATE - on receipt, or 7 days]
Bill to:
[CLIENT NAME]
[CLIENT EMAIL]
DESCRIPTION AMOUNT
Book formatting - [PACKAGE NAME] [AMOUNT]
Interior PDF, [TRIM], [N] pages
Full-wrap cover PDF
Amazon listing sheet
[Fact list research and drafting [AMOUNT]]
[Rush delivery [AMOUNT]]
[Less deposit paid [DATE] -[AMOUNT]]
TOTAL DUE [AMOUNT]
Payment: [PayPal / bank details / platform]
Reference: [INVOICE NUMBER]
Thank you.Before you hit send
Run this every time. The app checks the print rules; this catches the things it cannot see.
The app has already checked
- Page count is even and at least 24
- Spine width calculated from the real page count
- Barcode area left clear on the back cover
- Fonts embedded and subset
- Cover trim matches the interior trim
You check
- The client name is spelled right on the cover and the title page. This is the mistake that costs you the review.
- Open the exported PDF itself, not just the preview, and turn every page.
- Read the back-cover blurb aloud. It is the only text on the files a buyer reads before paying.
- Spot-check five facts against a source. If you drafted the list, say plainly in writing that the client must verify before publishing.
- Check the title matches across cover, spine, title page and listing sheet.
- Confirm the trim size is the one the client asked for.
What to send
Hi [NAME], your book is ready. Three files attached:
interior.pdf - upload this as the Manuscript
cover.pdf - upload this as the Book Cover, choosing
"Upload a cover you already have"
metadata.txt - do not upload this one. Open it and copy the title,
subtitle, description and keywords into the KDP form.
The cover was built for [N] pages. If you add or remove pages, the spine
width changes and the cover has to be rebuilt - send it back to me and I
will redo it.
Two rounds of revisions are included, so tell me anything you want changed.
If this one does well, the same list can become a poster book, a card deck
or an almanac - a second and third product from research you have already
paid for. Happy to quote.
[YOUR NAME]That last paragraph is your repeat business. One list, four designs, four products — the client already owns the expensive part.
Account
Your licence, what you own, and your password.
- Licence
- Tier
- Features
Your first password was generated and emailed to you, so it is sitting in your inbox in plain text. Change it now.
Admin
Buyers, upgrades, settings and logs — everything support needs. Every action is written to the admin log.
The password is generated and emailed to the buyer — it also shows below once, in case the email fails.
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Saved values apply immediately — to the next webhook, email or AI call. No redeploy.
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