Book proofreading is the last look at designed pages, not a raw Word file. Once the interior is formatted, new problems appear: bad breaks, uneven spacing, missing folios, and errors that only show up in layout.
Our book proofreaders review the PDF or print proof for language leftovers and production issues — widows and orphans, stacked hyphens, running heads, table of contents accuracy, and chapter opener consistency.
This is the pass that protects you from discovering a typo on page 214 after a thousand copies have already been printed.
We mark a single annotated proof so your formatter can apply every correction in one round. Style decisions stay aligned with the earlier edit.
Schedule this service after formatting and before you click approve on KDP, IngramSpark, or your printer. It is the quiet step that makes a book look professionally produced.