5 x 8 in book templates
Novels, novellas and poetry. Light and easy to hold. Free templates with the bleed, margins and safe area already set, so your files are ready to print.
Word template
Page size (5.25 x 8.25 in with bleed), mirrored margins, chapter styles and page numbers, ready for your manuscript.
Download for Word (.docx)Inside pages guide
A PDF with the trim, bleed and safe area marked. Place it on a guide layer in InDesign, Affinity Publisher or Canva.
Download the PDFCover template
Your cover is one wide file: back, spine and front. The spine depends on your page count.
Count every page in your interior file, blanks included. If your page count changes, download a new cover template: the spine changes too.
The numbers for a 5 x 8 in book
- Page size with bleed
- 5.25 x 8.25 in
- Bleed
- 0.125 in on every edge
- Safe area
- at least 0.25 in inside the trim
- Inside margin
- about 0.625 in toward the spine
- Full-page art at 300 DPI
- 1,575 x 2,475 px
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