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Most of the authors I speak with know very little about discounts and how they work. (LS allows lower discounts, and I have reason to believe Spark will in the future.)
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What To Compareĭetermining what to compare is a major consideration for a blog post. But for this post, we’re only going to deal with two options-CreateSpace and Ingram Spark. In Choosing a Self-Publishing Service, Mick Rooney and I covered quite a few possibilities, and Mick’s site The Independent Publishing Magazine has plenty of articles on those options. There is no ‘e’ in the name, just like there is no ‘e’ in the lightning that you see during a storm.Īnd to clear up a few other misconceptions-there are lots of options available to indie authors. Most of the confusion stems from misinformation or old information regarding the two biggest players in the indie author printing game-CreateSpace and Ingram (either Spark or Lightning Source).įirst, to clear up a simple thing that always bothers me-it’s Lightning Source, not Lightening Source. I have done a few posts on printing for the self-published author, but the more I play around with social media, the more confusion I see among indie authors. For a guide on migrating your CreateSpace books to KDPPrint, read this post by our Watchdog John Doppler.*** ALLi now recommends using KDPPrint and IngramSpark together to publish your paperback books. ***UPDATE: Amazon’s CreateSpace service has now been superseded by its new KDPPrint service.
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ALLi Watchdog Giacomo Giammatteo provides an invaluable detailed analysis of the two biggest print service providers for indie authors, Ingram (via its two different subsets, Lightning Source – for publishers of many books – and Ingram Spark – for individual self-publishers) and Amazon’s CreateSpace.