A production manual for anyone printing a book through Kindle Direct Publishing or IngramSpark.
Most guides to self-publishing teach the upload wizard. This one teaches what silently goes wrong: the defects that pass validation, pass review, reach print, and sit on live listings for months while every dashboard reports that everything is fine. A hardcover spine printed upside down. A title plate missing its final letter. A cover published broken because a spreadsheet said it was acceptable.
Drawn from the defect log of a working catalogue of more than seventy titles across both platforms, it covers interiors, paperback covers, hardcover case geometry, IngramSpark setup field by field, and the verification methods that outlast any particular specification. Thirty three chapters in seven parts, with twenty scale diagrams, four appendices and an index.
Every figure is drawn to the measurements it illustrates. Every number was taken from a real file or a live record. The corrections are left in the text on purpose, because a rule that was wrong and got fixed teaches more than one that was right all along.