If you can paste text, you can publish a real book. Starting at $39.

We've created a detailed comparison showing how PublishJockey outperforms the competition in features, pricing, and speed:

• 80+ Languages: We support Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, African languages, and more—while other platforms typically support only 1-10 languages.
• Unbeatable Value: All 3 formats (PDF, EPUB, Word) starting at $39 vs other services charging $147-$349.
• Lightning Speed: EPUB and Word exports in 5 seconds, PDF in ~30 seconds vs other platforms taking minutes to days.
• Complete Toolkit: Built-in editor, CSV table import, Word import, and cover generation—features competitors charge extra for or don't offer.
• Bookstore-Quality Formatting: Professional formatting technology that makes your book look like it belongs on the shelves at Barnes & Noble or any major bookstore.

Not at all! Just write your book using simple, familiar tools. Publish Jockey handles all the advanced typesetting and layout automatically, so your final book always looks clean, consistent, and professionally published.

Yes! Publish Jockey supports importing from Word documents (.docx), Markdown files, and Google Docs. Our smart conversion maintains your document structure while adapting it to our publishing format.

No problem—just use SplitDoctor (available for registered users). Follow these steps:

1. Upload your Word document from your desktop.
2. Ensure your chapters are marked using Heading 1 (H1) styles. These are used to split the document into chapters.
3. Click "Process File."
4. If processing is successful, you'll be able to download a ZIP file containing each chapter in Markdown format.
5. Unzip the file, then import each chapter one by one into the app.
6. Tables are fully supported and will be converted automatically.
7. Image placeholders will be inserted automatically. You'll need to:
   • Upload each image manually using the toolbar.
   • Delete the placeholder once the image is uploaded.
8. Centering and right-aligned content may not transfer correctly. To fix this:
   • Select the content in the app.
   • Use the toolbar to re-center or right justify it as needed.

No, there's no need to delete them. However, you're free to delete unused sections, repurpose (rename) existing ones, and add custom sections to fit your book's structure. The application is designed to be flexible—any sections you don't use will simply be ignored in the final output.

Yes, we highly recommend selecting your native language before creating your book project. Here's why:

• Book Structure: Your book outline (chapters, copyright page, etc.) will appear in your native language from the start.
• Copyright Generation: The copyright notice will be automatically generated in your language with proper legal terminology.
• Better Experience: All book sections and templates will be localized for your language.

• Your book outline will show in English initially
• You'll need to manually select your copyright language
• You can change your language anytime in settings, and the system will automatically correct the structure and copyright

This is a common problem with AI image generators. While they create beautiful cover designs, they often produce images at resolutions too low for professional publishing. That's exactly why we built ImageMagic! This tool automatically upscales your .png or .jpg files to meet the high-resolution requirements for Amazon KDP (and other publishing platforms). Simply upload your low-resolution AI-generated image, select a book size (or let it auto-detect), and ImageMagic will increase the resolution to 300 DPI - making your cover print-ready without any visible quality loss.

After you make your final edits in the PublishJockey system, your manuscript is generated almost instantly. PDF files typically take less than 60 seconds, while EPUB and Word documents are usually ready in under 5 seconds. Unlike other services, PublishJockey lets you immediately view your polished manuscript—so you know exactly what you're getting before you publish.

Yes! PublishJockey lets you preview your processed Markdown content in real time—either side-by-side with the editor or in a full standalone preview mode. This allows you to quickly see how your writing flows as you work.

Please note: certain formatting elements like tables, images, centered text, and right-justified content won't appear exactly as they will in the final export. However, rest assured—they'll display correctly in your finalized PDF, EPUB, or Word document.

Absolutely. Our export formats are specifically designed to meet KDP requirements. The PDF export is optimized for print publishing, and our EPUB option works seamlessly with KDP's digital publishing platform.

Publish Jockey supports exporting to PDF (print-ready with proper bleed and trim settings), EPUB (for e-readers), and Microsoft Word (.docx) formats. All exports are optimized for their intended platforms and meet industry standards.

Yes, there are a few minor limitations to keep in mind:

• Images and tables will need to be manually centered.
• An extra title page may appear and should be removed.
• The table of contents won't update automatically—you'll need to refresh it within Word.
• You can customize the heading levels as desired to control what appears in the table of contents.

Behind the scenes, we use advanced publishing technology—the same approach used by large publishing houses—to ensure your book is formatted to the highest industry standards. You get beautiful results without worrying about the technical side.

While Word is great for writing, it wasn't designed for professional book publishing. Publish Jockey uses advanced typesetting technology that ensures consistent formatting, proper page layouts, and print-ready quality. Our system handles the complex formatting automatically, so you can focus on your content while getting results that match industry standards.

When importing documents (like Word files), image placeholders will be inserted automatically, but you'll need to manually upload each image using the toolbar. This approach ensures proper image formatting and optimal file size management.

Tables will be automatically converted to Markdown during the import process. However, we recommend keeping tables relatively small to ensure they display well within the limited space available in book layouts.

You can easily create tables by importing a CSV file into the application. It will be automatically converted into a Markdown-formatted table. For best results, keep your tables compact due to the limited real estate in printed books.

We're actively developing enhanced academic publishing features! While our current platform excels at general book formatting, we recognize the unique needs of academic publishing. Enhanced support for thesis, dissertations, and textbooks—including complex mathematical equations, advanced footnoting, bibliography management, and academic citation styles—is currently in development. Stay tuned for these exciting new capabilities!

PublishJockey uses an advanced XeLaTeX-based typesetting engine with a comprehensive library of professional packages. You don't need to know any of this to use the platform — it all works automatically behind the scenes. Here's what powers your book:

Typography & Layout

• Microtype — Subtle character protrusion and font expansion for optically perfect margins
• Lettrine — Beautiful drop caps at the start of chapters
• Setspace — Precise line spacing control
• Ragged2e — Smart text justification and alignment
• Hyphenat — Intelligent word hyphenation
• Enumitem — Professionally formatted lists and bullet points

• Longtable — Tables that span multiple pages automatically
• Booktabs — Publisher-quality table rules and spacing
• Tabularx — Auto-adjusting column widths
• Float & Caption — Precise image and table placement with captions
• Graphicx & Adjustbox — Full image handling with scaling, rotation, and cropping

• AMS Math & AMS Symb — Full mathematical equation support (imported directly from Word)
• Mathspec — Custom math fonts that match your book's typography

• Tcolorbox — Info boxes, warning boxes, tip boxes, and note boxes
• Color-coded problem boxes — Green, yellow, and red difficulty-tagged boxes (great for workbooks)
• Stop boxes — Highlighted attention boxes for important content

• Titlesec & Sectsty — 10 professional chapter title styles
• Tocbibind — Automatic table of contents generation
• Hyperref — Clickable links and cross-references in digital formats
• Etoolbox — Smart conditional formatting

• Fontspec — Full Unicode font support with 40+ professional typefaces
• Polyglossia — Native support for 80+ languages including Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Arabic, and African languages
• Bidi — Full right-to-left (RTL) support for Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu
• XColor — Full color support throughout your book

• URL & XUrl — Clean URL formatting with automatic line breaking
• Seqsplit — Long text and code wrapping

To add an image without a visible caption, simply enter a single space in the caption field when uploading or inserting your image. This will ensure that no caption text appears below the image in your exported book.

To resize an image, set the scale factor to a value less than 1 (for example, 0.7 to make it 70% of the original size). The default scale is 1, but this may be too large for some books. You can adjust the scale factor at any time—there's no need to re-import your image. We recommend exporting and reviewing your book to ensure images appear as intended, and adjusting the scale as needed for best print results.

Publish Jockey offers 10 publisher-inspired title styles to give your chapters a professional, elegant appearance:

• Standard: Clean, simple chapter headers
• Classic Literature: Traditional book styling inspired by literary classics
• Modern Minimalist: Contemporary, clean design
• Academic Press: Professional academic formatting
• Classical Ornate: Elegant decorative styling
• Technical Programming: Clean, code-friendly formatting
• Magazine Style: Modern publication design
• Luxury Fashion: Sophisticated, high-end styling
• Small Caps Elegance: Refined small capitals design
• Decorative Script: Artistic script-style headers

Drop caps are large decorative letters that begin the first paragraph of a chapter, creating an elegant, traditional book appearance. Publish Jockey offers 4 drop cap styles:

• None: Standard paragraph opening
• Traditional: Classic large letter design
• Raised: Elevated letter above the baseline
• Decorated: Ornamental styling with embellishments

You can choose to upgrade to a paid plan for unlimited exports, or keep your account and work on new projects with limited features. We'll never charge you automatically—upgrade only if you're ready!

We offer both flexible single-book licenses and subscription options for frequent authors or small publishers. You can purchase individual books as needed, or choose our annual subscription for multiple projects.

Yes! Our Free plan lets you try most of Publish Jockey's core features. You can create one book project and export with a watermark to see the quality of our system before upgrading to a paid plan.

Yes, ebook subscription plans have a 10,000-word limit per book to ensure optimal quality and performance. This gives you approximately 40 pages of content—perfect for most ebooks! If you exceed this limit, the export will be disabled until you reduce your content. Print subscription plans have no word limits.

You always retain 100% rights and ownership of your books and content. We never claim any publishing rights or royalties—everything you create belongs to you.

While we provide KDP-ready files, you will need to upload your manuscript and cover to Amazon KDP yourself. We include step-by-step instructions and resources to make the process easy, and our support team is happy to answer questions.

Absolutely. Our export formats are specifically designed to meet KDP requirements. The PDF export is optimized for print publishing, and our EPUB option works seamlessly with KDP's digital publishing platform.

We're building a community of self-publishers and indie authors—watch for links to our Discord/Facebook group soon!

Yes! We're constantly improving based on user feedback. Currently in development: enhanced support for thesis and dissertation formatting with advanced academic features including bibliography management, citation styles, and complex document structures. Share your suggestions with us—your vote matters!

Absolutely! We have public sample links—see our Amazon book listing or download a free epub sample to check the real output quality.

Your projects are stored as long as your account is active. You can export or delete your content at any time, and request complete data removal for privacy.

Your manuscript security is our priority. All data is encrypted both in transit and at rest. You maintain complete ownership of your content, and we never share your manuscripts with third parties. The Annual Subscription plan also includes additional backup options.

Yes, our platform is global! We support multiple currencies and common book formats accepted by major platforms worldwide.

Publish Jockey supports multiple languages for both the user interface and document export. Here's our current language support:

Interface Languages (UI):
• English (en) - Primary language
• Spanish (es) - Español
• German (de) - Deutsch
• French (fr) - Français
• Italian (it) - Italiano
• Russian (ru) - Русский
• Arabic (ar) - العربية
• Hebrew (he) - עברית
• Yiddish (yi) - יידיש
• Indonesian (id) - Bahasa Indonesia
• Hindi (hi) - हिन्दी
• Tamil (ta) - தமிழ்

Document Export Languages:
• Latin-based languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Indonesian
• Cyrillic languages: Russian
• Right-to-Left (RTL) languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish
• Devanagari script: Hindi
• Tamil script: Tamil

Each language has optimized font support and proper text direction handling for professional publishing.

Yes, there are important limitations for Right-to-Left (RTL) languages:

Pure Language Content: For best results with Arabic, Hebrew, and Yiddish, we recommend using pure language content only. Mixed content (English text, URLs, email addresses) may not display correctly in the exported PDF.

Font Selection: RTL languages use automatically selected fonts optimized for each language. Font selection is limited to ensure proper rendering.

Text Direction: These languages are automatically set to right-to-left text direction in exports.

Recommendation: If your content includes mixed languages, consider creating separate documents or using Latin-based languages for mixed content.

Font availability varies by language group. Note: Our platform uses professional Linux-based fonts rather than Windows/Mac fonts you might be familiar with. These fonts are specifically chosen for their quality and cross-platform compatibility.

Latin-based languages (English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Indonesian):
• Professional Book Fonts: Latin Modern Roman (high-quality academic typography), Nimbus Roman (similar to Times New Roman)
• Standard Fonts: Liberation Serif (Linux equivalent of Times New Roman), Liberation Sans (Linux equivalent of Arial), DejaVu Serif, DejaVu Sans
• TeX Fonts: TeX Gyre Termes, TeX Gyre Pagella, Linux Libertine

Russian (Cyrillic):
• Liberation Serif (Cyrillic), Times New Roman (Cyrillic), DejaVu Serif (Cyrillic)

Arabic:
• Noto Sans Arabic (automatically selected)

Hebrew:
• Noto Sans Hebrew, Noto Serif Hebrew, Noto Rashi Hebrew (automatically selected)

Yiddish:
• Noto Sans Hebrew, Noto Serif Hebrew (automatically selected)

Hindi (Devanagari):
• Noto Sans Devanagari (automatically selected)

Tamil:
• Noto Sans Tamil, Noto Serif Tamil (automatically selected)

Why Linux Fonts? Our platform uses professional Linux fonts because they offer excellent quality, are free and open-source, and provide consistent rendering across all devices and platforms. Latin Modern Roman and Nimbus Roman are particularly excellent for book publishing and academic work.

You can change the interface language in two ways:

From the Navigation Bar: Look for the language selector in the top navigation bar. Click on it to see all available languages and select your preferred language.

From Settings: Go to your account Settings page and find the 'Language & Font Settings' section. Select your preferred interface language from the dropdown menu.

The language change takes effect immediately and will be remembered for future visits. Note that changing the interface language does not affect the language of your document content.

Here's how language switching works with your book's chapter structure:

New Projects: When you create a new book, the default chapter names (like 'Chapter 1', 'Title Page', etc.) will automatically appear in your selected interface language.

Existing Projects: For existing books, the chapter structure is loaded based on the language you had selected when you first accessed the project. If you want the default chapter names to appear in a different language, you should:

1. Select your preferred language first (from the navigation bar or Settings)
2. Then load or create your project

Language Switching After Loading: Changing the interface language after a project is loaded will not automatically update existing chapter names. This is by design to preserve any custom chapter names you may have added.

Custom Chapters: Any chapters you've added or renamed yourself will always remain unchanged, regardless of language switching. Only the default system chapter names are affected by language selection.

By creating an account with PublishJockey, you agree to the following terms:

Usage Rights
PublishJockey grants you a limited, non-transferable license to use the platform for the purpose of creating, editing, and exporting manuscripts for personal or commercial use, subject to the terms outlined herein.

Intellectual Property
You retain all rights to the content you create or upload. However, by using the platform, you grant PublishJockey the right to process, display, and temporarily store your content for the sole purpose of providing the publishing service.

Fair Use Policy
The platform is designed to support a fair number of manuscript creations and exports per user, particularly for individual authors or small publishers. Users on free or basic plans are expected to operate within reasonable publishing limits.

Abuse of the system—such as attempting to bypass plan restrictions by repeatedly editing and republishing the same project to create multiple unique books—may result in limitations, account suspension, or removal from the platform.

We reserve the right to implement automatic and manual safeguards to protect the integrity of our service.

Account Responsibility
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. If you suspect unauthorized access, you must notify us immediately.

Service Changes and Availability
We reserve the right to modify, pause, or discontinue any part of the platform with or without notice. We will do our best to notify users in advance of any major changes that affect core functionality.

Data Storage and Privacy
We do not store your complete manuscript files. Only your original Markdown input and any uploaded images are retained while your account is active. You may request account deletion and data removal at any time.

Agreement to Terms
By registering or creating an account, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms.

The Fair Use Protection notice is a system that helps maintain the integrity of our platform. Here's what it means:

Purpose: Our AI-powered system monitors book content to ensure compliance with our fair use policy. Each license purchase entitles you to create and publish a single book.

Book Changes: Making substantial changes to transform a project into a completely different book will require an additional purchase. This ensures fair usage of the platform across all users.

Manual Downloads: For security reasons, files must be manually downloaded by clicking the download button after export.

You'll see a compact version of this notice in your dashboard to remind you of these policies. This helps us maintain a sustainable platform while protecting the rights of all users.

Publish Jockey provides comprehensive language support, but users have important responsibilities:

Content Responsibility: You are responsible for ensuring your content is appropriate, accurate, and compliant with all applicable laws and regulations in your target markets.

RTL Language Limitations: For Arabic, Hebrew, and Yiddish, we recommend using pure language content only. Mixed content may not render correctly. This limitation is clearly communicated in the export interface.

Font and Rendering: While we optimize fonts for each language, final rendering may vary depending on the viewing platform and device. Test your exports thoroughly before publishing.

Cultural Sensitivity: Ensure your content respects cultural norms and sensitivities of your target audience. We provide tools but cannot guarantee cultural appropriateness.

Professional Review: For important publications, we recommend having your content reviewed by native speakers or professional translators.

Platform Compatibility: Different publishing platforms may have varying support for certain languages and fonts. Verify compatibility with your chosen publishing platform.

By using our language features, you acknowledge these limitations and accept responsibility for your content's appropriateness and accuracy.