Markdown to EPUB
Markdown to EPUB, with your typography intact
bukpress exports a Markdown manuscript as a reflowable EPUB that carries your typefaces, colours and heading styles, with your uploaded artwork as the book's native cover. It reads correctly on Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo and anything else that isn't paper — and the same file exports as a print-ready PDF at the same time.
How to convert
Markdown to EPUB in three steps
Write once, in Markdown
The same file produces both formats. Your headings become the book's structure, so the EPUB is navigable rather than one long scroll.
Design the book
Typefaces, sizes, colours and heading rules carry into the EPUB; cover artwork you upload becomes the file's native cover image.
Export EPUB alongside the PDF
EPUB export is on the Pro plan. Queue it and the reflowable file lands in your exports next to the print-ready PDF.
What a reflowable EPUB actually means
A PDF has fixed pages: page seven is page seven on a phone, a laptop and a printing press, which is exactly what you want for something that will be printed or handed out. An EPUB has no pages until it is opened — the text reflows to the screen and the type size the reader chose, so a book read on a phone at large type is not a PDF being pinched and dragged.
What survives that reflow is the design decisions that aren't about position: your typefaces, your colours, and the rules that make a chapter heading look like a chapter heading. That is what bukpress carries into the file, so an EPUB you export still looks like your book rather than the reading app's default.
PDF or EPUB — which do you want?
| EPUB | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pages | Fixed A4 | Reflow to the screen |
| Best for | Print, lead magnets, handouts, workbooks | E-readers, phones, selling as an ebook |
| Your typefaces | Embedded | Packaged with the file |
| Cover artwork | First and last pages | The file's native cover |
| Page numbers | In the footer | Not applicable — there are no fixed pages |
| Available on | Every plan, including free | Pro and Foundation |
You do not have to choose: one manuscript exports both, from the same design.
Where the file works
EPUB is the format the ebook world agreed on. A file exported from bukpress opens in Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books and the other major readers, and can be sent to a Kindle. If you are publishing to a store, EPUB is almost always the file it asks for.
Your draft is already a book.
It just hasn't been set yet. Paste it into bukpress and export the finished file today.
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