What a book costs. Stated before you start one.

One credit buys one finished book of up to 30,000 words: the print interior, the wrap cover, the ebook editions, the listing metadata and the preflight report. The limit is counted on the outline you approve, as the number of chapters times the words per chapter. An outline over it is refused, never charged more. Drafting and shaping the outline costs nothing. Buying is not open on this site yet, so these are the prices the checkout will open at, published now so they can be read first.

Start your book

The two ways to pay

Paid once

For the author with a book to finish, who has not yet decided whether there will be a second.

What it costs

$191 book
$453 booksWorks out at $15 a book

Renewal

Paid once. Nothing renews, and there is nothing to cancel.

What it covers

The interior, the wrap cover with its spine, the back matter and the listing metadata.
Every export format, and the preflight report that says what was measured against which revision of the KDP specification table.
Credits that stay yours. No monthly reset and no expiry date.

Studio, monthly

For the author publishing several books a year, who would rather not buy a pack each time.

What it costs

$29 a month3 books a monthWorks out at $9.67 a book

Renewal

Renews every month on the day you started, until you cancel.

What it covers

Three credits a month, and anything you do not use rolls over instead of being forfeited.
The same books, the same exports and the same preflight report as the one-time shape. No feature is held back for the subscription.

Buying is not open yet, so there is nothing to buy on this site.

The terms

The rules that do not change with the price

Billing is not switched on. These are the terms the checkout will launch with, published now so they can be read before anyone is asked to pay, and they are what the credit ledger is already built to.

Credits never expire: No monthly reset, nothing forfeited at the end of a period, and unused credits on the monthly plan roll over rather than disappearing. Credits you already hold stay yours after you cancel. The credit ledger is built with no expiry rule in it, which is the version of this promise that is hard to quietly reverse.
Unused credits are refundable for 30 days: Thirty days from the purchase, by writing to us and saying which purchase. Generation you have already spent a credit on is not refundable: the model and rendering costs are already paid by then, and we would rather tell you that here than at the checkout. That is our policy, and it is not a statement about the rights your own law gives you.
A book's credit is spent only when every chapter is written: One credit is held for a book when we start writing its chapters. If writing a chapter fails and our automatic retries do not recover it, and that happens before anything past chapter one is written, the hold is released and the credit comes back to your balance. If it fails later than that, the credit stays held for that book rather than spent: asking for the chapter again takes no second credit, and the credit is spent when the last chapter is written. Typesetting and the print checks take no credit of their own, so a failure there costs nothing more. If a failed operation looks like it took a credit, tell us and we will investigate it and correct the ledger.