Markdown-to-Book – Convert Markdown to KDP Ready PDFs and EPUBs
Author here. I'm a software engineer who started writing hard science fiction on the side. I built this tool because I wanted to write in plain Markdown and go straight to Amazon KDP without touching Word, InDesign, or Vellum. The workflow: I write stories in .md files, one heading per chapter, --- for scene breaks. When I'm ready to publish, I run one command and get a paperback PDF, hardcover PDF, and Kindle EPUB with correct margins, typography, and scene breaks. The tool wraps Pandoc and XeLaTeX with a custom LaTeX template and a Lua filter that handles the scene break conversion.…
Markdown-to-Book – Convert Markdown to KDP Ready PDFs and EPUBs launched on March 6, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,631 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Markdown-to-Book is a command-line tool that converts Markdown files into print-ready PDFs and EPUBs for self-publishing on Amazon KDP. Writers organize their stories in plain Markdown with chapter headings and scene break markers, then run a single command to generate paperback PDFs, hardcover PDFs, and Kindle-formatted EPUBs with proper margins and typography. Built by a software engineer for authors who want to skip traditional formatting tools like Word and InDesign, it wraps Pandoc and XeLaTeX with custom templates and minimal dependencies.
written from the facts on this page · October 2026
From the sources
A command line tool to convert markdown text into epub and pdf ready for publishing ( Amazon KDP etc) - vpuna/markdown-to-book
A CLI tool that converts Markdown files into print-ready books for Amazon KDP. One command can produce paperback PDF, hardcover PDF, and Kindle EPUB with margins, typography, front matter, and an optional table of contents. Built for self-publishers who want to write in plain Markdown and skip the formatting hell of Word or InDesign. cd app npm install The only Node dependency is Commander.js for CLI parsing. Conversion is done by Pandoc and XeLaTeX (and unzip / zip for EPUB cleanup). You can run node convert.js , npm run convert -- , or use the book-convert bin from package.json if linked globally. # All three outputs (paperback + hardcover + EPUB), with a contents index node convert.js…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Author here. I'm a software engineer who started writing hard science fiction on the side. I built this tool because I wanted to write in plain Markdown and go straight to Amazon KDP without touching Word, InDesign, or Vellum. The workflow: I write stories in .md files, one heading per chapter, --- for scene breaks.…
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