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Comparing CreateSpace to IngramSpark: 5 Production Considerations

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CreateSpace may dominate the market for POD (print-on-demand) titles from indie publishers, but they don’t offer hardback printing and color printing for large books is expensive. Authors of books with those requirements often turn to IngramSpark, the new indie-focused cousin of Ingram’s Lightning Source (LSI) launched in 2013. (Lightning Source has been re-positioned for medium […]

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IngramSpark vs. CreateSpace: When Color Printing and Hardcover Editions Are Important

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CreateSpace as a POD option for indie publishers is a great solution except when you need a color interior or hardcover edition. Color printing is usually cost prohibitive and CreateSpace just doesn’t offer a hardcover printing option. If this is you then a good solution to consider is IngramSpark, an author-friendly self-service option from book

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CreateSpace eStore: Pros, Cons and Why You May Not Want One

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A potentially nice benefit of using CreateSpace is that you can create a branded online CreateSpace eStore to sell your book. It’s fast and easy to setup, and it’s free. But I say potentially because there are a few things to know before you decide to funnel your shoppers to your eStore instead of the

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CreateSpace Dominating Self-Published Book Releases at the Expense of Incumbents (but Ignore the eBook Stats)

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A couple months ago Bowker, the company that has an exclusive contract to sell ISBN numbers in the U.S., reported sales figures for 2007 to 2012. These are ISBN numbers purchased for self-published book and eBook titles. Unfortunately they do not define a self-publisher nor do they share what percent of books are published by

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Does a print book make an eBook publisher legitimate?

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I want to share one finding I neglected to include in our 2013 eBook Self-Publisher Survey: In what format/formats have you published your books? My assumption was that most of the people taking the survey would answer “eBook only.” Looking at the graph it seems the opposite is true. Why might having a printed book

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5 Reasons to Create Your POD Book First, then the eBook

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Despite all the talk about eBook growth, print books still outsell eBooks and will remain an important reading format for years to come. Realizing this demand, and considering the marketing benefits of having a physical book, we are seeing increased demand for CreateSpace print-on-demand publishing services. Invariably the first question asked is which comes first

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