With print book distribution, you must also factor in the time it takes to actually print books before they can be distributed to the warehouse, retailer, or consumer.
Amazon offers two services to independent authors: Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) for e-book sales and CreateSpace
for print book distribution and sales.
Relying on the British site to take on some of the avenues
of print book distribution would free Amazon to focus more effort on its digital content, which the company has already announced outsells its print catalog.
You can rely on IngramSpark alone
for print book distribution (and it does fulfill orders coming from Amazon), but your profits will be lower than if you were to use CreateSpace.
Part of the reason is that I made the decision to switch
my print book distribution from CreateSpace to IngramSpark.
Print book distribution is not something we worry about.
That's right, upload it once and sell it everywhere — and, by the way since we're talking about awesome news,
our print book distribution service is Free!
Use ecommerce to build
a print book distribution company.
IngramSpark is both
a print book distribution service ebook aggregator.
Use IngramSpark to handle the rest of the ebook and
print book distribution, or...»
Interested in Bookmasters managing
your printed book distribution and sales but don't want to print your books with one book printer and then ship those books to Bookmasters to store / sell?
What I need to do, instead, is take the original text for the novels, format them appropriately for both ebook distribution and
print book distribution, and get new covers for them.
On its website, Lulu claims to offer «free» eBook and
Printed Book distribution.