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

25 July, 201825 July, 2018Amazon, POD9 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...

Is Amazon Bugging Authors Into Moving From Createspace to KDP Print?

12 June, 201821 June, 2018Amazon10 Comments

Launched in late 2016, KDP Print is Amazon’s solution for a single publishing portal that covers both print and digital books (audiobooks are probably on the...

KDP Print Now Offers Author Copies

18 November, 201721 June, 2018Amazon, POD, Self-Pub8 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...

Amazon Releases Word Doc Templates for Making Better POD Books

9 June, 201721 June, 2018Kindle (platform), POD7 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...

KDP Print Enters Public Beta

15 February, 201721 June, 2018Kindle (platform), POD10 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...

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

8 October, 201621 June, 2018Kindle (platform), POD12 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...