Of course companies like
CreateSpace offers editing packages and other options, but it is easy to not get those.
For print books,
Createspace offers free templates — all you have to do is copy and paste your manuscript into them.
CreateSpace offers services for both digital and print.
CreateSpace offers free ISBNs for every print - on - demand book created using their service.
After I used up the 10 I bought from Bowker, I started using the free ISBNs
CreateSpace offers.
CreateSpace offers its Expanded Distribution program for a $ 25 a year fee.
The lease expensive way to get into the publishing game is via the eBook route or the minimalist version that Amazon's
CreateSpace offers.
CreateSpace offers options including the Amazon store (automatically set up there through a one - button click), direct sales through CreateSpace (where you buy your own copies of the book at lower cost) and bookstore and library distribution.
Createspace offers you a free ISBN number that you are free to use.
Since I've not heard that Amazon's
CreateSpace offers something similar, it's yet another reason to release your books through both.
I recently suggested it to an Australia author who was realizing that he needs to source his books in more channels than
CreateSpace offers.
A key difference between IngramSpark and CreateSpace:
CreateSpace offers a range of paid services to help you prepare printer - ready PDF files.
While KDP only allows your paperback to be available on Amazon,
Createspace offers expanded distribution and will place your book online at Barnes & Noble, Books a Million, and Indiebound.
For example,
CreateSpace offers at least fifteen trim sizes — as well as the opportunity to create a custom trim size (within certain parameters).
Createspace offers no such option.
For self - pubbing in POD,
Createspace offers the best pricing structure for writers who want to buy and resell copies.
I've appreciated the constant support
CreateSpace offers.
CreateSpace offers industry - leading royalty rates, broad distribution to thousands of sales channels, an engaged peer community and complete creative control while content creators continue to own the rights to their work.
The only drawback to the Pro Plan is that if you go with extended distribution,
CreateSpace offers a 40 % discount to the booksellers.
With low setup costs (about $ 60 per title) and total distribution through the Amazon store,
CreateSpace offers an easy do - it - yourself approach to publishing.
Owned by Amazon,
Createspace offers independent publishers direct access to availability on Amazon.
CreateSpace offers high - quality printing at very reasonable prices.
Many of the vanity publishers are rip - offs or scams, especially when charging a huge fee for boxes of printed books instead of print - on - demand (which Amazon's
CreateSpace offers).
If you want libraries to be able to catalog your book properly,
CreateSpace offers to get your book an LCCN and submit to the Library of Congress.
CreateSpace offers a cover creator, but it creates very basic, very template - looking covers.
CreateSpace offers a number of distribution options, but you can treat it as just a printer, too.
CreateSpace offers a wide range of sizes, I usually pick the Industry Standard sizes so I can take advantage of the widest distribution.
CreateSpace offers expanded distribution channels, which means access to all the major channels from Barnes and Noble to colleges and libraries, Amazon, etc..
If you do thorough homework on finding a third party, it may turn out better than what
CreateSpace offered.
Not exact matches
I looked at Lulu but also at
CreateSpace, and I decided upon
CreateSpace since it
offered more things for a smaller fee.
Another question is whether Amazon's
CreateSpace will provide a similar
offering, so publishers can produce matching books from both printers.
alekhouse — I found
Createspace is a good company, in fact I found that they
offer templates for all your writing, and you will simply send it to them in a word format should you choose.
CreateSpace, Canva.com and others
offer free, easy - to - use covers, complete with images and handful of font choices.
Most printers (
CreateSpace, IngramSpark, etc.)
offer these barcodes free of charge.
The new agreement leaves the door wide open for a company like
CreateSpace to step in and open a local printing hub for print - on - demand books to be printed in Australia, or for an Australian printing company to
offer a print - on - demand publishing service and leave D Publishing out of the deal.
CreateSpace, on the other hand, has been
offering its entire range of trim sizes for color printing as well as for black and white.
The workshops took a practical approach, covering such topics as editing; publishing with various digital tools
offered by sponsors, including Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing and
CreateSpace; CompletelyNovel; Nook Press; and Kobo Writing Life.
An indie author is an author who maintains complete creative control by self - publishing his or her book through companies such as
CreateSpace or Book Baby, both of whom
offer editing, proofreading services - for - hire, along with cover and page design services or do - it - yourself templates.
DO NOT register for Extended Distribution on Amazon's
CreateSpace for Your Book
CreateSpace has an option in their distribution page that
offers to make your book available to bookstores and libraries.
But, now that KDP Print is slowly implementing changes and benefits
CreateSpace doesn't
offer, it has many indie authors wondering, should I move my
CreateSpace book to KDP print?
CreateSpace, ACX, and KDP Select do
offer publishers / authors nonexclusive options.
We
offer professional print formatting for
CreateSpace, Lulu and IngramSpark.
You've heard that you should
offer your print book for pre-order, but
CreateSpace does not support pre-order so you need to use IngramSpark.
We know how important it is to maximize your book royalties, which is why we
offer a unique service among self - publishing companies: print - on - demand distribution through both Ingram and
CreateSpace.
I recently did a cost analysis of their $ 999 package — what they
offer you, versus what it costs for you to do it yourself (and where to go, like
Createspace and Smashwords).
Few know that
CreateSpace uses IngramSpark to
offer the books in this program to...
He's included in the book an outstanding glossary of Amazon goods and services
offered to indie authors from Kindle Direct to their print division
CreateSpace to Amazon Author Central plus too many others to mention here.
This tends to happen when an author has had some good success with their eBook sales and would like to create a print book using the POD programs
offered by LSI and / or
CreateSpace.
And honestly, the distribution services
offered by
CreateSpace have been wonderful for the indie publishers to get paper books out into bookstores.
An eStore
offers the highest royalty per book sold, since
CreateSpace only takes 20 % on each sale.