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ePub Conversion Services — EPUBCheck-Validated Files for Every Major Platform
Your book deserves to reach readers everywhere, not just on Amazon. Our ePub conversion services mean every file is hand-coded to pass EPUBCheck validation and display correctly on Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books, and the entire wide-distribution network. One file. Every retailer. Zero validation errors.
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What Every ePub Conversion Includes — No Extras, No Surprises
Need it in 24 hours? Rush delivery is available as an add-on at checkout for a flat $25.
Have You Ever Used an Automated ePub Converter? Then You Know the Nightmare.
Hitting "Save As EPUB" in Word, or running your manuscript through a free online converter, looks like the easy option. The results tell a different story.
Automated tools frequently misread a hard line break as a paragraph break, producing fractured sentences, broken tables, and missing fonts — with no one checking whether any of it makes sense before it reaches you. Apple Books and IngramSpark run some of the strictest validation checks of any retailer, and non-compliant code gets rejected outright, not flagged for a minor fix. Most tools also still only output EPUB2, missing what EPUB3 actually enables: proper accessibility support, embedded multimedia, and complex fixed-layout formatting for illustrated books.
Common EPUB formatting issues:
- ✗ Store rejections from Apple Books, IngramSpark, and other strict-validation retailers
- ✗ Fractured sentences and broken tables from misread PDF line breaks
- ✗ Fonts that disappear entirely on certain e-readers
- ✗ Drop caps that float off the page instead of sitting correctly
- ✗ Tables and columns smashed together illegibly
- ✗ Missing images or images in the wrong position
- ✗ Output stuck on outdated EPUB2 when EPUB3 features are what the book actually needs
None of this is a reflection on your manuscript. Whether you're converting Word to ePub or working from a PDF, it's what happens when a file is built by software guessing at structure, instead of a person who actually reads it first.
EPUB2 vs EPUB3 — Which Does Your Book Need?
EPUB2
The most widely supported version across retailers and reading apps in circulation today. If your book is straightforward text with standard formatting — a novel, memoir, or non-fiction title — EPUB2 is very likely what you need, and it's compatible with virtually every ePub reader available.
EPUB3
The advanced version of the current W3C standard. Supports embedded audio and video, more sophisticated CSS layout, proper accessibility markup for screen readers, and better handling of right-to-left languages. You need EPUB3 specifically if your book includes multimedia, requires accessibility compliance, or your distribution platform specifically asks for it.
We confirm which version your platform requires during your order — if you're not sure, tell us where you're publishing and we'll get it right before we start. Need EPUB3 conversion specifically for multimedia, complex layout, or accessibility compliance? Just tell us and we'll confirm the right approach before work begins.
Your Master Key to the Global Publishing Market
| Platform | How You Reach It |
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| Apple Books | Direct upload — strictest validation standard, handled as standard |
| Google Play Books | Direct upload — clean EPUBCheck compliance required |
| Barnes & Noble (Nook) | Direct upload |
| Kobo / Rakuten | Direct upload — strong international reach, especially Canada and Europe |
| OverDrive & Libby | Reached via wide distribution — the library and school system network |
| IngramSpark (eBook distribution) | Wide retailer and library network — distinct from our IngramSpark print interior service |
| Amazon KDP | Via our separate Kindle Conversion service — Amazon fully supports EPUB uploads, but recommends KPF as the format least likely to cause formatting issues |
What "retailer-ready" actually means: a valid EPUB structure, working internal navigation, correctly packaged metadata, and rendering tested against real reading apps — not just a file that technically opens.
Compatible with every major e-reader and reading app in current use — including Kobo, PocketBook, Onyx Boox, Nook, and the Apple Books, Google Play Books, and Kindle apps on Android and iOS.
Why ePub Formatting Services That Use Automation Fail — And What We Do Instead
What Automated Conversion Produces
Most automated converters produce files that pass a surface glance but fail in practice — a table of contents that links to the wrong section, footnotes that display as disconnected text, fonts that vanish on certain devices, code so far out of spec that Apple Books or IngramSpark rejects it outright. We have fixed thousands of these files. We do not produce them.
- ✗ Store rejections from strict-validation retailers
- ✗ Stuck outputting EPUB2 only, missing what EPUB3 enables
- ✗ No source files — you're locked out of your own book if anything needs changing later
- ✗ Missing or incomplete metadata — your book can become harder for readers to find in retailer search
What Ebookifi's ePub Conversion Delivers
We read your manuscript before writing a single line of code, then build your file by hand against the current W3C EPUB specification.
- ✓ Passes EPUBCheck with zero errors before it reaches any retailer's review queue
- ✓ Delivered in EPUB2 or EPUB3, whichever your platform actually requires
- ✓ Mastering the hard sources — PDF and Adobe InDesign files specifically require a human to extract and rebuild the structure correctly; software alone reliably gets this wrong. We handle both as standard.
- ✓ Complete metadata embedded — title, author, ISBN, series, and subject categories, so your book is indexed correctly in retailer search from day one
"73% of our ePub conversions are delivered within 48 hours. The 72-hour window is our guarantee, not our average."
See It Pass EPUBCheck's Own Validation
- ✓ EPUBCheck validation passed — zero errors, zero warnings
- ✓ Table of contents and internal links tested
- ✓ Clean heading hierarchy — proper H1/H2/H3, not faked with bold text
- ✓ Consistent CSS styling throughout — no random formatting drift
- ✓ Images optimized and correctly anchored
- ✓ Metadata included and verified
- ✓ Rendering tested on the reading apps and devices your readers actually use
This is one part of our full quality process — see our Quality Standards page for the complete six-stage check every file goes through.
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Authors Going Wide
Don't limit yourself to one platform — sell your book everywhere your readers already are.
- ✓ Standard reflowable ePub, perfect for novels, memoirs, and non-fiction
- ✓ Dynamic, clickable table of contents
- ✓ Fast turnaround so you hit your launch date
Publishers, Academic Presses & Corporate
Complex conversions, handled properly.
- ✓ InDesign and PDF to EPUB conversion — we extract and rebuild legacy print files into clean, responsive digital assets
- ✓ Fixed-Layout EPUB3 — essential for illustrated children's books, cookbooks, and graphic novels
- ✓ Accessibility (WCAG compliance) — semantic tags, alt-text, and ARIA roles coded correctly, mandatory for many academic and government distributions
PDF and InDesign Files Need a Human, Not Just Software
Word documents carry their own paragraph and heading structure that a converter can at least attempt to read. PDF and Adobe InDesign files don't work the same way — a PDF is a page of positioned text with no real structure underneath, and InDesign's print-first layout logic doesn't translate to reflowable ePub on its own. Converting either one properly means a person extracting the actual content and rebuilding the structure by hand — not a converter guessing at where paragraphs are supposed to break.
How ePub Conversion Works
Order → Upload → Hand-Code → Receive. The same simple process for every service — full detail, including exactly how we handle special requests and revisions, is on our How It Works page.
ePub Conversion Pricing — Simple and Transparent
| Manuscript Size | Price |
|---|---|
| Up to 50 pages | $30 |
| Up to 100 pages | $50 |
| Up to 150 pages | $65 |
| Up to 200 pages | $80 |
| Up to 250 pages | $95 |
| Up to 300 pages | $110 |
| Up to 350 pages | $125 |
| Up to 400 pages | $140 |
| Up to 450 pages | $155 |
| Up to 500 pages | $170 |
| More than 500 pages | Contact us → |
Standard 72-hour delivery included at these prices. Need it in 24 hours? Add a flat $25 for rush delivery.
Page count at standard Word formatting — 12pt font, double-spaced, standard margins.
If your book contains complex elements or layouts — tables, equations, heavy footnotes or endnotes, many images, or text in more than one language — please use our custom quote form so we can price it accurately before you order.
Every order includes: Hand-coded ePub · Complete source files · EPUBCheck validation · Cover image · Full metadata · One revision pass · Lifetime warranty
Also publishing on Amazon Kindle?
Add Kindle Conversion and Save $20–$160
One manuscript. Both formats. One delivery within 72 hours.
Word to ePub, PDF to ePub Conversion — We Accept All Formats
Source File Formats We Accept
- ✓ Microsoft Word — .doc and .docx — any version
- ✓ Adobe PDF — standard, print-ready, and scanned
- ✓ Adobe InDesign — .indd and .idml
- ✓ Apple Pages — .pages
- ✓ Open Office and LibreOffice
- ✓ HTML files
- ✓ Scanned physical books (with OCR)
Content Types We Handle
- ✓ Fiction — novels, novellas, short story collections, poetry
- ✓ Non-fiction — memoir, biography, self-help, business, history
- ✓ Academic — research texts, theses, journal collections
- ✓ Technical — manuals, guides, footnotes, tables, and equations (MathML rendered as real text, not flattened images)
- ✓ Children's — illustrated, fixed layout
- ✓ Multilingual — Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and other scripts
Publishing non-fiction or academic work? See our Book Indexing service — a linked, navigable index for your finished ePub.
See the Craftsmanship — Real Formatting Examples
| Chapter Headings:
Chapter heading styles stay consistent with your manuscript throughout — font, size, and color set to match what you need. |
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| Dropcaps:
We can retain drop caps from your original print version, as well as create and style new ones while formatting your ebook version. |
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| Box Stylings:
Borders for headings, quotes, or anything else worth setting apart — styled in whatever font, size, and color the content calls for. |
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| Footnotes Linking and Styling:
Footnote links go both ways — readers can jump to the note and back to their place in the text. |
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| Sidebars:
Ebookifi can style sidebars with background shading to break down or highlight relevant information in your ebook. |
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| Cookbook Formatting:
Cookbooks keep their original formatting intact — nothing restyled or simplified in the conversion. |
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| Nested List Stylings:
Even complex nested lists — numbers, bullets, mixed-case letters — come through readable, not flattened. |
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Recent ePub Conversion Examples
Some of the Authors We've Worked With
Amy Griffith
Author - The Breastfeeding Twins Guide
Anthony Goulet
Author - Street Outreach: Love, Service & Leadership
Ashlin Teebaran
Author - Sinister Spells
Becky O'Donnell
Author - Healthy Meals, Snacks and Swaps
Brittaney Powell
Author - Honeybees & Wallflowers
David Hale
Author - If I Were An Eagle
Helen Murphy
Author - Feliz Navidad
Janet Shaughnessy
Author - The Truth About Transcription
Kurt Norton
Author - My Life with Audree
Laurent Grenier
Author - Meditation Time
Nadine Lalich
Author - Evolution
Norman Whaler
Author - But The Sparrow Stayed
Pamela Nigro
Author - Poems Among the Trees
Thomas Mason
Author - The Aleri Encounter
Tiffany Morelli
Author - How to Create Lifetime Cash Flow Through Multifamily Properties
What Authors Say About Our ePub Formatting Services
I am very pleased with Ebookifi's eBook conversion service. My book is a long Simplified Chinese novel with more than 100,000 Chinese characters, so accurate Chinese formatting and a reliable reflowable EPUB were especially important to me. The team was patient, responsive, and professional throughout the project. They carefully addressed my technical questions and revision requests, including EPUB 3 formatting, metadata, fonts, and a final cover replacement. What impressed me most was their attention to detail: even with a last-minute cover correction, they made the requested change quickly without disturbing the already finalized content and formatting. The final EPUB 3 is clean, well organized, and professionally presented. I appreciate not only the quality of the work, but also their excellent communication and service attitude. I would be happy to recommend Ebookifi to other authors who need professional eBook conversion.
From your website, it was clear to me that your company knew what they were doing. My book is long and complex, but I was pleasantly surprised by the quotation I received, so I decided to go ahead. I was completely blown away to have the completed job returned to me finished within about 24 hours! I would have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending Ebookifi for your epub or Kindle conversion, and I will certainly be employing their services again in the future.
My sci-fi/fantasy manuscript is several hundred pages and has footnotes and other formatting challenges. They created a Table of Contents and hyperlinked the footnotes as endnotes, allowing the reader to read them and return to their place. Files were approved immediately by Ingramspark.
ePub Conversion Services — Frequently Asked Questions
Whichever your platform requires — we confirm this with you before starting, and it's covered in detail in the EPUB2 vs EPUB3 section above.
Yes — every file is validated against EPUBCheck, the W3C's official ePub validator, with zero errors and zero warnings before delivery. This is standard on every order, not a premium add-on.
Depends on the format. Reflowable ePub adapts to the reader's font size and device — it will not look pixel-identical to your print layout, by design. If exact visual matching matters (illustrated books, cookbooks), fixed-layout EPUB3 is the right fit instead — see the EPUB2 vs EPUB3 section above.
Yes. PDF to ePub conversion is more complex than Word because a PDF has no real document structure underneath — just positioned text. We extract carefully and rebuild the structure by hand. For scanned PDFs, our OCR process includes a human reviewing every page, not just automated text recognition.
Title, author, ISBN, series, language, publisher, and subject categories — fully embedded so your book is indexed correctly by every retailer from day one.
No — the same properly built ePub file works across the wide-distribution network. These platforms are typically reached through an aggregator rather than a direct individual upload, but the file itself doesn't change.
Send us the rejection notice. If it's caused by our conversion, we identify the exact error and fix it at no charge — included in every order, not a separate service. Already have a file with a different issue? See our Validation & Repair service.
72-hour standard delivery, 24-hour rush available, one revision pass included with every order — full detail on our How It Works page and in the pricing table above.
ePub conversion starts at $30 for manuscripts up to 50 pages and rises to $170 for up to 500 pages. Longer manuscripts are quoted individually. Every price includes the hand-coded ePub file, complete source files, EPUBCheck validation, one revision pass, and the lifetime warranty. See the full pricing table above.
Your Book Deserves to Reach Every Reader — Not Just Amazon's
Professional ePub conversion services from $30. EPUBCheck validated. 72-hour delivery. Lifetime warranty.
Also publishing on Kindle? See our Kindle Conversion service — or save $20–$160 with the Kindle + ePub Bundle.