The short answer
Yes — your book can become a screenplay, and the working pipeline is simpler than the folder of material suggests. Start from your Bindery book or upload the manuscript. Claude reads everything, proposes the book's structure, drafts and revises it with you with the whole manuscript in context, and typesets a live proof of the actual book as you go. One manuscript, four editions: print, audio, translation, adaptation — each sold from the same storefront.
The rest of this page covers the craft decisions specific to this conversion, the exact mechanics, real print specs, and honest pricing.
Getting your book into the studio
Your book is already the input. If it was written in Bindery, everything below is one tap from the studio. If it lives elsewhere, upload the manuscript first (Word, PDF, or EPUB — converted to an editable manuscript on arrival) and Bindery treats it as its own.
The book is the beginning
A finished manuscript is an asset most authors under-use: the same book can be a printed edition, an audiobook, a translated edition, a screenplay, an album. Each derivative reaches readers the original couldn't — listeners who never sit down with print, readers in other languages, producers who only read scripts — and each compounds the others, because every format links back to the same storefront.
The practical advantage of deriving them in one studio is that the derivations stay faithful: the audiobook pronounces the invented names the way the text intends, the translation keeps terminology consistent through one style sheet, the screenplay adaptation knows the whole plot when it compresses. That's a property of holding the entire book in context while working — the same property that made the studio good for writing it.
How it works
1. Open the book Start from your Bindery book, or upload the manuscript (Word, PDF, or EPUB) and it converts into an editable book on arrival.
2. Adapt and export Set the adaptation's spine with Claude, draft scene by scene in industry format, and export to Final Draft.
The screenplay adaptation
Adaptation, not export: Claude works through the book and drafts a screenplay in real industry format — scene headings, action, dialogue, transitions, all set to the conventions script readers expect — with a Final Draft export at the end. Because the whole book stays in context, the compression decisions (what merges, what's cut, whose arc carries the second act) are made with the full story in view rather than chapter by chapter.
You steer the big choices the way an adapting screenwriter would: what the spine of the film is, which subplots survive, where the book's interiority becomes action instead. The screenplay becomes a companion work on your shelf — pitchable, shareable, and a different way for the story to travel.
What it costs
Free to start — no account needed to try, no credit card, and a monthly allowance of AI credits on the free tier. The typeset, watermarked proof of your book is always free. Metered work (like transcription, translation, or narration) shows its price in credits before you confirm, so there are no surprise charges.
When you want clean files — press-ready PDF, EPUB, Word — that's a $49 one-time per book unlock, or free with Bindery Pro ($39/month (or $390/year)). One-time credit packs start at $12. Printed copies are priced per copy at order time, printed and shipped by Lulu.
Start free, see the proof
Bindery — the book studio inside Infinite Library — is where this whole pipeline lives: one place that reads your book, writes with you, typesets as it goes, and ends in a screenplay instead of a file you still have to figure out how to publish. It's free to start with no account needed to try, the watermarked proof is always free, and every metered step quotes its price before running. The fastest way to know if this works for your material is to bring a piece of it and watch the first chapter appear.
Frequently Asked Questions
My book wasn't written in Bindery. Can I still use this?
Yes — upload the manuscript (Word, PDF, or EPUB) and it converts to an editable book on arrival. From there every door on this page works the same as for a Bindery-born book.
Do derivative editions share the storefront?
Yes — the book's free storefront sells the editions side by side (paperback, ebook, audiobook), with royalties paid via Stripe. Translated editions stand as their own books beside the original.
Is the output a real .fdx file?
Yes — the screenplay exports to Final Draft format, the industry's standard interchange, alongside a typeset PDF of the script.
How faithful is the adaptation to the book?
As faithful as you decide — fidelity is a dial, not a default. Claude proposes the compression (books overflow screenplays several times over), you rule on what stays, and the draft executes those rulings consistently because the whole book is in context.
Do I keep the rights to my book?
Yes — authors keep ownership of their work. Publish it anywhere, sell it from your free Infinite Library storefront, or keep it entirely private. The platform never takes your copyright.