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Reedsy quoted my friend $4,200 to edit her novel.
Then $800 to proofread it.
Then $400 to format it for Amazon.
She paid $5,400 to fix a manuscript that wasn't broken — just unfinished.
Most authors don't have $5,400. So they skip it. They publish a rough draft. Sales suffer. They blame the market.
We rebuilt the whole stack with AI. Same passes. Same outcome. $79.
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DOCX. Google Doc. Paste from anywhere. We don't care where you wrote it.
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Plot holes. Repeated words. Inconsistent dialogue. Margins that'd get rejected by KDP.
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Reject what isn't. Export print-ready files. Done.
We're the only row with all of these.
| Feature | BookPolish | Vellum | Atticus | Reedsy | Grammarly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI editor (line + copy) | $1,500+ human | ||||
| AI proofreader | $500+ human | partial | |||
| AI dev edit | yes (Pro) | $2,000+ human | |||
| Print formatter | |||||
| KDP-ready zip | partial | partial | |||
| Indic typography | |||||
| Legacy Punjabi → Unicode | |||||
| Mac required | |||||
| Price | $29–79/book | $249 once | $147 once | $5,400+ | $144/yr |
The Indic Moat
Walk into any Punjabi publisher in Amritsar. They have decades of books in proprietary ASCII Gurmukhi fonts — unsearchable on Google, unreadable on Kindle, broken on every modern device.
We convert legacy ASCII Gurmukhi and Devanagari to Unicode automatically. Per book. Same for Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Urdu.
Vellum is Mac-only and English-only. Atticus is web-based and English-only. We're the only formatter that handles the billion-reader Indic market.
Got a legacy catalog? Talk to us about bulk pricing →
Same outcome. Pick the wallet that fits.
Refund if KDP rejects your file for a formatting reason.
You could still be "almost done."
Or you could be holding the book.
We can't make you finish. But we can make sure "I couldn't afford an editor"isn't the reason you didn't.
The stuff people email us about before signing up.