Free tools for authors, all in one place
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R. S. Breed Founder
Bervet now has a page of free tools for self-published authors: https://bervet.com/tools
There are 18 of them, grouped by the job you're doing:
- Plan and price: print royalty calculator, KDP royalty calculator, trim sizes by printer, ISBN planner
- Print books: spine width calculator and print file checker, book margin calculator, cover image to print PDF, RGB to CMYK converter, ISBN barcode generator
- Ebooks and book files: manuscript to EPUB and print PDF, ebook cover checker, ebook cover resizer
- Your store listing: metadata checker, blurb checker, description formatter
- Launch: ARC launch timeline, book launch checklist
- Audiobooks: audiobook file checker
A few things that matter:
- Your files stay on your device. The tools that open your cover, manuscript or audio run in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to Bervet and nothing is kept.
- The calculators need no account. The tools that work on your own files are free for members, which is a free account (it keeps bots out).
- Every platform number has a date. Each tool page says where its figures come from and when they were checked. Platforms change their rules, so if you spot something out of date, tell me in this thread and I'll fix it.
I'll post about each tool separately over the next while, with what it's for and the mistakes it catches. Questions about any of them, ask here.