Make a magazine people keep.
Tell the editor what's in this issue — or paste the stories you already have. Bindery sets it as a real magazine: a masthead cover, a contents page that builds itself, features, news pages, a calendar and ads. Then print it, full colour and stapled like the newsstand.
No card, no account needed to begin — the first issue is a guest book until you sign in.
The pages you get
How an issue gets made
- 1Start with what you have. A sentence about the magazine is enough. Or paste the stories you already have, drop in Word files and photos, or give the editor your notes in any state.
- 2The editor fills the issue. It asks the magazine's name, this issue's number and date, and what's in it — then writes and sets the editor's letter, the cover story, the short news, the Q&A and the calendar. It never invents news, names or quotes: where something is missing, it asks.
- 3Every page is designed. A masthead cover with cover lines. A contents page that builds itself. Features that open on a colour or photo page, then run in two columns with a drop cap, pull quotes and a sidebar. Ask for anything — “make the accent green”, “add a page of letters”.
- 4Print it — then start No. 2. Full colour, folded and stapled at 8.5 × 11 in, any quantity, the exact price before you pay. When it's out, one tap starts the next issue with the same nameplate, design and departments.
Made for
- Neighborhood & community magazines
- Club & society journals
- School & alumni magazines
- Company & staff magazines
- Church & parish magazines
- Family annuals
- Event programmes
- Zines
What it prints as, and what it costs
- Size & paper
- 8.5 × 11 in (US letter), full colour on coated paper.
- Binding
- Saddle stitch — folded and stapled — for 4 to 48 pages, in multiples of 4. Thicker issues print as a perfect-bound colour paperback.
- Printed copies
- Priced live by page count, any quantity — the exact total before you pay.
- Files
- A watermarked proof PDF any time, free. The clean print-ready PDF (and an EPUB) is a one-time $49 per issue, or included in Bindery Pro.
- Contributors
- A link anyone can use to send articles, photos or a voice note — no account needed. Co-editors write in the issue with you.
- Every issue after
- “Next issue” copies the nameplate, design, departments, staff box and ads into No. 2, numbered and dated, ready for new stories.
Questions
Can Bindery really make a magazine, not just a book?
Yes. Start from the Magazine design and the issue opens with a masthead cover, a contents page that builds itself, an editor's letter, news pages in three columns, features that open on a colour or photo page and run in two columns with drop caps, pull quotes and sidebars, plus a Q&A, a calendar and ad pages. The editor writes and sets every page with you, and you change anything by asking.
How many pages can an issue have?
A saddle-stitched magazine (folded and stapled, like the newsstand) runs 4 to 48 pages, in multiples of 4 — the editor plans the issue to fit. Past 48 pages it prints as a perfect-bound full-colour paperback, the way thicker magazines bind.
Do I have to start over for the next issue?
No. When an issue is done, tap “Next issue” beside the title (or type /next-issue). Bindery copies the nameplate, the design, the departments, the staff box and the ads into No. 2, moves the issue number and date on, and the editor asks what's in the new issue and replaces the stories.
Can other people send in articles and photos?
Yes. Share → “Collect contributions” makes a link anyone can use with no account: they send their piece, photos or a voice note, and it lands in the issue's folder for the editor to set. Co-editors can also write in the book with you.
Can I run ads?
Yes — full-page and half-page ads from the advertiser's own file (PDF, PNG or JPG), or set ads the editor typesets from a few lines of copy. Ads carry over to the next issue until you say otherwise.
What does it cost?
Making the issue and its watermarked proof is free to start (a free account gets 800 AI credits). Printed copies are priced live by page count — and you see the exact price before you pay. The clean print-ready PDF to email or post is a one-time $49 per issue, or included in Bindery Pro ($39/month).
Can I turn a newsletter archive into a collected issue?
Yes. Paste a Substack, WordPress, Beehiiv, Ghost or RSS address and Bindery gathers the last 50 public issues into one collected volume, set faithfully with a dateline per issue.
Is it right for a glossy, design-heavy magazine?
It's made for the magazines most people actually make — community, club, school, alumni, parish, family and company magazines, programmes and zines. Pages are set from a design system rather than placed by hand, so a fashion glossy with a bespoke layout on every spread is still a job for a designer with InDesign.
Your first issue can be on the page in a few minutes.
Free to start. Have a newsletter archive instead? Turn it into a collected volume.