Upload your Word manuscript or a finished PDF. Get an interior and a cover that meet your printer's rules, and a plain list of anything it had to change.
Join the waiting listFor indie authors and Etsy, Shopify and WooCommerce book sellers.
A margin a few millimetres off, a missing font, a cover that doesn't match the page count. Each one costs you a day and a re-upload. TrimBound is built to remove those.
Pick Gelato or Lulu and the page size, margins, bleed and cover layout follow that printer's published rules.
You get a short list of what was fixed and what could not be. If a file can't be repaired safely, it says so and why.
Formatting is sold in packs with no monthly fee. Re-format a book as often as you like, and download your files whenever you want.
No design software and no templates to learn.
Start a book, pick your trim size and whether it goes to Gelato or Lulu.
A Word manuscript or a finished PDF, plus your cover images and ISBN if you have one.
Download the interior and cover PDFs and upload them to your printer.
Give it the book you have. It fixes what a printer would reject and tells you what it changed.
Pages are set in your chosen trim size, with correct margins, page numbers, contents and a title page.
Embeds fonts, adds bleed where it is needed, and converts colours for print. It refuses a PDF it can't fix safely and says why.
Back, spine and front are laid out as one sheet, sized to your page count, with an ISBN barcode if you add one.
Turn a 3D preview of your book around on screen before you order a single copy.
Built on each printer's published rules, so you pick a printer and the files match it.
Planned launch prices in Australian dollars. The more books in a pack, the less each one costs.
Try it on a real book first.
Tell us what you need and we'll quote you.
What one book includes: unlimited re-formats of that book, unlimited downloads, and your files kept for 12 months.
These are planned launch prices and may change before launch. Tax details will be confirmed before launch.
We'd rather you know now than find out after you've paid.
We follow each printer's published rules, but the printer makes the final call on whether a file is accepted. Always order a proof copy before a big print run.
TrimBound is early. Features, printers and prices may change, and we'll keep this page honest as they do.
Yes. Downloading is the point: you download the interior and cover PDFs and upload them to your printer.
It is used to produce your files. We don't sell it or share it. Files are kept for 12 months with every book.
No. Formatting is a one-off payment per pack of books. Printing and shipping plans may come later and would be optional.
Gelato and Lulu to start. We build each one from its published file rules.
Printing and shipping with live rates, orders arriving from your shop, and tracking emails. The waiting list below is how we'll tell you.
Tell us a little about how you sell. We'll email you once when TrimBound opens, and not before.
You're on the list. We'll email you when TrimBound opens.