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Set up your book and reader experience

Prepare your print, ebook and audiobook formats, then build the experience readers find inside your book. A complete console walkthrough using Lew Sterrett’s demo book.

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Open your book’s console and start in Formats. Upload an EPUB or create an ebook from Word, add your chapter recordings or choose Narrate with AI, and manage the files for your print editions. Add another print format for a hardcover or other binding. Hand copies are author-ordered copies with their own interior QR code, which gifts digital access for the duration you choose.

Listing controls the description, prices, brand color, promotional video, endorsements and discovery placement. Page Studio manages the book page’s design and address. AI Assistant, Debriefs and Extras let you prepare conversations, chapter videos and questions, and companion resources. Check each one in the reader experience, including the QR links used by print readers.

Connect gives you several ways to welcome readers and invite a next step. The bookshelf personal message is a short note beside a book the reader already has. The reader invitation explains why to continue into your work, while its button names the action and opens the matching destination. Review contact sharing, access questions, the optional Welcome page, and Talk to the author too.

Use Editions for other languages or versions of the text, then review each format’s readiness in Publication. The optional experience features can be added as you prepare them. Before inviting readers, follow the complete journey from access to reading or listening, any debriefs and extras, and your invitation.

Frequently asked questions

No. Prepare the formats you want to offer and check their readiness in Publication. The experience features are optional, and you can return to add more as they are prepared.

Use Create ebook from Word in the digital workspace. Bring in your manuscript, review its organization and interior style, then preview the finished ebook. An existing book also has a Rebuild from Word action.

You order Hand copies to give people in person. Their separate interior contains a QR code that gifts access to the available ebook and audiobook for your chosen duration. They are not listed as another retail checkout option.

Use the bookshelf message for a brief welcome or starting point. Use the invitation paragraph to explain a relevant next step in your work, and give its button a label and link that match that action. Readers already have the book at this point.

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