YouTube to book
Turn your YouTube channel into a book.
Paste your channel link or @handle. We read every video — transcripts, the lot — and craft them into a book you’ll be proud to own: chapters, front matter, your voice.
Public channels only · PDF and EPUB · your files, yours to keep
How a channel becomes a book.
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Point us at your channel
Paste the channel link or @handle. Public channels only — your own, or one you have permission to preserve. No passwords, no OAuth, nothing to install.
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We read every video
Every video is fetched and transcribed end to end, then the shaping begins: episodes become chapters, themes become sections, and spoken language becomes readable prose.
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You direct the final cut
The formats, the samples to follow, the tone to keep — your call. You see drafts along the way and nothing is finalised without your sign-off.
What lands in your hands.
Reading PDF
Laid out like a real book — proper typography, running heads, page numbers — sized for screens.
EPUB
For Kindle, Kobo, and every other e-reader. Your channel, in the pocket of whoever keeps your work close.
Print-ready PDF
For print-on-demand services, so the book can exist as an actual object — on your shelf, or someone else’s.
The apparatus of a book
A real table of contents, chapter openers, an introduction that sets the scene. Front matter, done properly.
What it costs.
There is no fixed shelf price, because no two channels are the same size. A quote depends on how many videos need reading, whether translation is involved, whether screenshots from the videos need analysing and editing, and any extras you bring.
The structure is simple and it is quoted before anything starts: a small 30% service fee on top of the charges for the AI and other services used on your book. Submit your request and you’ll get the best possible quote — then you decide.
Four real books, made this way.
Not mock-ups. Every one of these is a finished book, made from a public YouTube channel, with its full build story and sample pages on its own page.
Questions, answered.
Can I turn any YouTube channel into a book?
Any public channel — yours, or one you have permission to preserve. Private, members-only, and deleted videos can’t be reached, so the book is built from what’s publicly available.
Do I need to download my videos or send transcripts?
No. Everything comes from the public channel itself — the videos and their transcripts. You don’t hand over passwords or files, and nothing is posted anywhere without you.
What exactly do I receive?
A reading PDF, an EPUB for e-readers, and a print-ready PDF — all as files you keep. Along the way you also receive sample drafts, so you can see the book take shape before the final run.
How long does it take?
Usually one to two weeks from brief to delivery, depending on how many videos there are. The process is manual and collaborative: you review sample drafts and give feedback, and the last round of work only starts once everything is confirmed.
Will it sound like me, or like a robot?
Like you. Your phrasing, jokes, and asides survive the edit — the work removes filler, not personality. You can also hand over samples or references for a particular tone, and the edit matches it.
How is it priced?
Quote first, no obligation. Pricing depends on the number of videos, whether translation is involved, whether screenshots need analysing and editing, and any extras you bring — a small 30% service fee on top of the AI and tool charges. You see the number before any work begins.
Last page
Make your book.
Paste your channel and tell us how you want it read. You’ll get a quote before anything begins — public channels only, nothing posted without you.
your channel
Screenshots
Screenshots are the least reliable part of this. Many videos rely on animation, and on-screen text rarely lines up with the moment it is spoken — so a frame can show a chart the narrator has already moved past. Where a chart, report or diagram matters, we will capture it.
This is optional for now — you do not have to decide everything today. Add whatever comes to mind, or leave it blank and share your instructions later. Nothing here is final, and the details can be changed any time before we start building.
Working out your book…
Provisional estimate
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This is a provisional estimate. The final price can change after we verify the content and the amount of effort the finished book will take. It’s priced at $25 per million tokens of estimated channel text, so treat it as a ballpark rather than a quote.
Once your brief is in, I’ll come back with the best quote I can — based on the tools and processing the book needs, their charges, plus a small service fee.
Last step
Get your quote
Your estimate is done. Leave your email and press Get Quote — the request goes straight to us.
- A manual job. Your book is made by hand, personally, by the creator of YouTube Book Maker — not run through an automated pipeline.
- One to two weeks. The full flow takes 1–2 weeks, depending on how many videos need to be processed.
- Everything over email. From here on, we’ll talk at the email address you give below.
- Payment after we talk. When you’re ready to go ahead, we’ll send the job’s payment link after our discussion.
- Then the work starts. Once payment is made and we agree on the timeline and what to expect, work begins — drafts will be shared as they’re ready, for your feedback.
Request sent.
Your request is with us. We'll reply to from [email protected] — usually within a couple of weeks. If anything changes on your side, just write to us there.