POD

Createspace DVD/CD Production is Shutting Down, With Accounts Moving to Amazon Media on Demand

25 July, 2018 // 4 Comments

Amazon just hammered another nail into Createspace's coffin. The retailer sent out an email this morning to select Createspace users, informing them that Createspace's disc production unit was [Read More ...]

KDP Print Expands Its Distribution Network to Include US Bookstores

10 July, 2018 // 3 Comments

Amazon just eliminated one of the few differences between its two POD platforms. Yesterday they announced that authors and publishers who use KDP Print can get their print distributed to US [Read More ...]

Has Anyone Heard that Amazon is Merging Createspace into KDP Print (?)

21 June, 2018 // 13 Comments

Amazon is about to throw a wrench in authors' carefully made plans. Reports are coming in that some time in the next month, Amazon will be sending Createspace users an email informing them that [Read More ...]

Book Printer File For Bankruptcy, Stiffs Customers on Outstanding Orders

8 June, 2018 // 1 Comment

When book printer Edwards Brothers Malloy announced last week that it was winding down its operations and would complete all outstanding jobs. It's with heavy hearts we announce that Edwards Brothers [Read More ...]

Hackers Now Targeting Author Accounts on Createspace

17 April, 2018 // 6 Comments

If you have an account on Createspace then you might want to change your password - and while you're at it, double check your payment details. There has been no public discussion yet, but I have read [Read More ...]

Amazon’s CreateSpace Provides a Safe Haven for Textbook Scams, Money Laundering, and Rampant Piracy

13 April, 2018 // 13 Comments

Amazon is destroying the Kindle Store from the inside out by letting broken algorithms run the show, punishing innocents while letting major scammers off scot-free. Createspace, in comparison, would [Read More ...]

Amazon’s Createspace Now Home to Money Laundering Operation

20 February, 2018 // 3 Comments

The Kindle Store is rife with scammers who publish spam ebooks and cheat their way to the top of the best-seller lists, and apparently Createspace has its own problems. Brian Krebs brings our [Read More ...]

Createspace Getting Out of Publishing Services?

16 January, 2018 // 11 Comments

Createspace is best-known as Amazon's POD service, but they also provide paid publishing services. Or at least they used to. South Carolina's The Post and Courier reports that Createspace will be [Read More ...]

KDP Print Now Offers Author Copies

18 November, 2017 // 6 Comments

Launched into a closed beta last summer, KDP Print is Amazon's solution to all the indie authors that release ebooks but not print editions. It is a more limited version of Amazon's POD service, [Read More ...]

CreateSpace to Close its Web Store

13 October, 2017 // 5 Comments

Amazon's POD service Createspace is going to shut down its eStore at the end of the month, and in the future will be directing all sales queries to Amazon. Amazon should be sending an email to [Read More ...]

Amazon Releases Word Doc Templates for Making Better POD Books

9 June, 2017 // 7 Comments

When Amazon first launched KDP Print in beta last year, it asked publishers and authors to trust that Amazon could take any ebook and turn it into a good-looking POD book. Now Amazon is offering a [Read More ...]

KDP Print Enters Public Beta

15 February, 2017 // 10 Comments

Historically speaking Amazon has had two distribution platforms, Createspace (for POD paper books) and Kindle (for ebooks), but starting last summer Amazon has been beta-testing a combined platform [Read More ...]

Is Anyone Using Amazon’s Other, Non-CreateSpace, POD Service?

28 November, 2016 // 11 Comments

We've known Amazon has been deeply interested in recruiting authors and publishers to use its print-on-demand service ever since it used blackmail to compel publishers to sign up with BookSurge in [Read More ...]

KDP Print – Amazon is Beta-Testing a Combined Kindle and POD Dashboard

8 October, 2016 // 11 Comments

For the longest time Amazon has offered two distribution platforms for books. Publishers could use KDP to sell ebooks in the Kindle Store, and they could use Createspace (and before that, Booksurge) [Read More ...]

Do Indies Have to Do Print?

3 August, 2016 // 19 Comments

Editor's Note: Will O'Neill kindly agreed to share his experiences with print-on-demand, and help indies decide whether they need release a POD edition, or participate in B&N's vanity press. [Read More ...]

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