I make correspondingly more through Amazon.com and even more if you buy through
my CreateSpace store.
You can create a coupon for
the CreateSpace store.
For my latest, retailing at $ 14.95,
the CreateSpace store pays me $ 8.64 for each copy sold.
Standard Distribution: It is recommended that you select all channels: Amazon.com, Amazon Europe, and
the CreateSpace Store.
I'm excited to announce that my crime fiction short story collection one bad twelve is now available in print at both
my CreateSpace store and Amazon.com for $ 11.99.
With Createspace you may use your own ISBN only for books you sell through
the Createspace store or to Amazon.
I'm waiting on the print proof of my first book published through CreateSpace and was wondering about the difference in royalties between Amazon and
the CreateSpace store.
For a 6» x 9», 350 - page book, assuming a retail price of $ 14.95, you'd receive $ 6.91 in royalties for sales in
the Createspace store, $ 3.93 for sales on Amazon, and 91 cents for sales via expanded distribution.
Whenever I advertise a book from Create Space, I try to send customers directly to
the CreateSpace Store — on a $ 9.99 book I make over $ 2 more there, than if Amazon sells it.
Amazon (= online) sales of the transferred title, including sales through
its CreateSpace store, stay as they were, with CS.
If you sell your book through
the CreateSpace store, then you do NOT have to pay to use Amazon's standard distribution channel but you do have to pay 20 % to use CreateSpace's store platform:
Not exact matches
CreateSpace's on - demand platform enables Unlimited Publishing to avoid the costs and risks associated with creating and
storing inventory because books are only manufactured after a customer places an order.
This means I have to lay out my books twice: Once in Jutoh for the Kindle
store, and again in InDesign CS2 for
CreateSpace.
As an indie author, I'm forced to create and sell two identical (same - ISBN) versions of each print book: 1) A
CreateSpace - printed version to sell online at Amazon (but no extended distribution) 2) A LightningSource - printed, Ingram - distributed version for Barnes & Noble retail
stores, indie bookstores, and the like.
The category listing will begin with either «Books» (the categories for
CreateSpace) or «Kindle
Store» (the categories for KDP).
CreateSpace sets these options as non-returnable and 35 % discount for
stores (so they pay $ 6.50 per copy and make less profit).
But we know the options, we know that if something suddenly happened to
CreateSpace, we would just continue right on publishing paper books and getting our books into
stores.
IngramSpark is the go - to distributor for Indies and small publishing houses because, unlike
CreateSpace, it is not in direct competition with the bookstores and libraries that order through them, which increases the likelihood of getting a physical book onto
store shelves.
As an indie author whose micro-publisher is in bed with Amazon, I can't get my books into such
stores, which refuse on principle because the telltale barcode and «printed in» on the last verso page of my books proves they were printed by Amazon's
CreateSpace — despite an independent imprint with its own ISBNs.
CreateSpace closed its online
store, now only allowing authors to sell through Amazon and its Expanded Distribution.
So my workaround is to distribute through both
Createspace and Lightning Source:
Createspace for the Amazon
stores; Lightning Source / Ingram for bookstores.
Often books are for sale via the Kindle
Store or physical titles using Amazon
Createspace, or even the audiobook edition via Audible.
I did not realize that the
CreateSpace Expanded Distribution would automatically place my title into the online Barnes & Noble book
store.
But with Kindle,
Createspace charges $ 70 and they take care of everything until it's uploaded to the Kindle
store.
Createspace — Amazon's POD publishing platform if you just want your book available on the Amazon
store.
Also, if you have previously published on Amazon with a
CreateSpace ISBN, you can purchase a new universal ISBN and publish the same book through IngramSpark in order to get your books in book
stores.
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.
While
CreateSpace guarantees plenty of Amazon exposure, Lightning Source makes that print book available in both the Amazon
store and in every Ingram channel — bookstores, libraries, and the like.
If you publish through
CreateSpace alone, odds are good your book will never be stocked on
store shelves, because no
store will want to buy product from their direct competitor.
Amazon offers two platforms for self - published authors, the first being the Kindle Direct Publishing site that helps authors post their works to the Kindle
store as ebooks, the second being the print - on - demand service
CreateSpace.
Createspace and many localized versions of its ebook
store have also hit different markets and its self - publishing program appeals to the entire range of foreign markets, including India.
When a graduate school professor contacted Rendall recently about that particular title's availability for the Kindles that were being distributed to all of the MBA students in the university's program, Rendall's book was not yet published digitally; it took no effort to have
CreateSpace convert it to an e-book because they already had the digital version
stored for print - on - demand purposes.
If you publish through
Createspace, your book will also be available for order through brick and mortar
stores.
ALso upload fo
CreateSpace so that indiebook
stores can order your book.
Ingram is a major publishing channel that serves many outlets,
stores and establishments, and
CreateSpace uses them to publish books created through their service.
CreateSpace distributes to other
stores, so it doesn't mean that your book will only be available through Amazon.
If you walk into the
store with a
CreateSpace book, you're likely not to be warmly welcomed.
Author Referral, BookBaby, Indie Author, Lulu, Lulu
store credit, Lulu.com
Createspace, make extra money, refer a friend, self - publish, tell a friend
KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) is Amazon's tool to get your ebook into the Amazon
store and
CreateSpace gets your paperback book into the Amazon
store.
You can reach bookstores through Amazon's
CreateSpace Expanded Distribution, and if you price it so the
store can make a profit of $ 2 or more, they might order it.
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.
Independent authors can generate print books through Amazon's
CreateSpace, but many bookstores won't carry those books in their
stores.
Whatever the reason, it happens, and so you will benefit from a one - on - one relationship with the Amazon.com
store via
CreateSpace.
Amazon has 13
stores for international Kindle products and only 6 for international
CreateSpace products (if I'm doing the math right — LOL!).
The
store carries titles from other publishers, so it isn't clear what percentage of the titles, if any, will come from the
CreateSpace program, but it seems likely that New York Times indie bestsellers would find shelf space at the
store.
And you can list for purchase at the online
stores at Amazon,
Createspace, Feedaread, Smashwords, Lulu, Nook, Kobo, iBookstore, Bookbaby and more
Six months later here is what we have: Look For The Hook (my wife's self help book) and Treachery In Turtle Bay (my mystery) are available on Amazon, On Barnes & Noble internet site, In Barnes & Noble
Stores (via Ingram \ Lightning Source POD through
CreateSpace In hundreds of other Book
Stores (again via Ingram \ Lightning Source POD through
CreateSpace) In Libraries via Baker & Taylor by way of
CreateSpace Direct POD In a Global E-Store provided by
CreateSpace (where by the way the royalty is higher than any other channel except direct sales) And, if you love the book and want a signed copy, it is available directly from the Author Page on the specific book's internet site www.lookforthehook.com, www.treacheryinturtlebay.com).
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