Samples
Look inside six books, at their real trim size
Spec sheets are easy to write and hard to believe. These six books are laid out at their actual page size — margins, bleed, spine and cover wrap included — and each one has an interior excerpt you can download and print.
The six
Different trims, different rules
Christmas Coloring Book
30 bold line designs, single-sided
- Trim
- 8.5 × 11 in
- Pages
- 66
- Print cost
- $2.84
- Kind
- coloring
The Little Lighthouse
A 24-page picture book with one locked cast
- Trim
- 8.5 × 8.5 in
- Pages
- 24
- Print cost
- $4.20
- Kind
- childrens
The House Between Tides
A novel excerpt — chapter one
- Trim
- 6 × 9 in
- Pages
- 284
- Print cost
- $4.41
- Kind
- novel
KDP Launch Workbook
A 10-chapter workbook with exercises
- Trim
- 7 × 10 in
- Pages
- 120
- Print cost
- $3.04
- Kind
- workbook
Winter Coloring Book
24 designs, no seasonal overlap with the Christmas title
- Trim
- 8.5 × 11 in
- Pages
- 54
- Print cost
- $2.84
- Kind
- coloring
Pocket Puzzle Book
120 pages of crosswords and word searches
- Trim
- 5 × 8 in
- Pages
- 120
- Print cost
- $2.44
- Kind
- puzzle
These samples are typeset by hand with the same layout engine the builder uses. They are not AI-generated customer books — the builder is still being built — and each PDF is a short excerpt rather than the full book.
Why samples
The three things a sample proves that a spec sheet cannot
Margins that survive the trim
A page that looks fine on screen can lose its last line to the trim. Every sample page is laid out inside the printable box, with bleed only where the design reaches the edge.
A spine that matches the page count
The cover wrap widths on these pages come from the same formula KDP uses. Change the page count and the spine changes with it.
Typography at the real size
A 5×8 puzzle page and an 8.5×11 colouring page need different leading, margins and line weights. Seeing them side by side is faster than reading about it.