I’m assuming you understand the benefits to creating buzz, momentum and extra visibility for your book before it’s officially launched, that’s why setting up an Official Amazon Listing in order to take pre-orders can be an effective strategy if used properly. The ‘Pre-order: Add to Cart’ button will transition to ‘Add to Cart’ button on your official release/publish day. Exchange rates can fluctuate quite a bit, meaning the price of your ebooks on international stores can also fluctuate, depending on the day that you publish your book. No one (or very few) bookshops will touch Amazon/CreateSpace, but through Ingram I potentially can get my foot in the door. If you get a cheaper ISBN you may have the number, but not the barcode image. The cheaper ISBNs may use their own publishing name, but it will still be less obvious than the CreateSpace/KDP connection. You might also find better keywords and search terms to use in your Kindle ebook metadata, especially for the title. Personally, I use IngramSpark as my "expanded distribution" to try and get into bookshops and keep Amazon purely on Amazon; that way the royalties will also be slightly better. This is fine if you only use Amazon, but if you are using both, you can’t have Expanded Distribution and sell individually on IngramSpark.

As I’d only published it on CreateSpace originally (as it was called then), what I did was to publish my revision on IngramSpark and also republish it on KDP as a new edition and use the same (new) ISBN across both platforms. On an ISBN-related note, this is worth being aware of especially as both KDP and IngramSpark offer multiple book formats which you can create (eg: eBook, paperback, hardback). On the next page, you can see an overview of the search results where you can click on individual results to see further details. To ensure a quality experience, we will add links to the CreateSpace member dashboard in phases so authors may see it at different times. India through 2019, it would actually cover 148 times the height of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa that has a total height of 829.8 metres. I updated my first book to publish a revised version to add a few new appendices, additional content and possibly a cover update. "Kindle Direct Publishing is Amazon.com’s e-book publishing unit launched in November 2007, concurrently with the first Amazon Kindle device… For my first manuscript, a simple Scotland Travel journal it took me hours (a few tears and hair pulling) to get it submitted.

Not that there was the Select option back then, but while other indies jumped into Amazon but couldn’t be bothered with all those waste-of-time smaller outlets, I took a different view. Hi Alexander,i liked your post.I’d like your opinion on this.First time author, non-fiction, will publish a book helping couples turn their weakened relationship around without counseling so they can get safe againwith each other and rebuild the bond they once shared.Don’t have back end products (yet)Intended to pre-launch and lead my own prelaunch campaign, offering my book for free download (as digital product) on my won website for a limited period of time in exchange for readers actually read the book and (when the book gets published on Amazon) going there and review it. I initially published my book on Amazon CreateSpace (now renamed as Kindle Direct Publishing) as that’s all I was familiar with at the time back in Dec 2017, but have since found many other platforms which are also similar. His statue, placed on the western facade of Westminster Abbey in London among the ten Christian martyrs of that time. And then there’s that pesky VAT problem.

There’s also a handling fee of $8/£8/€8 per check payment to authors who reside in the US, UK, or EU countries/regions where we offer direct deposit. Choosing direct deposit, also known as electronic funds transfer (EFT), as a payment method allows you to receive your earned royalties without a minimum threshold before the funds are released to you; in a more secure and environmentally friendly way than paper checks; and in your local currency. 2015 data released by the PEW Research Center showed interesting predictions for trends in religious beliefs in Russia. The book’s chapters revisit central themes of South Asian scholarship, like questions of personhood, marriage practices, public oratory, religious sentiments, or critiques of caste from the hitherto marginalized vantage point of radically secular and explicitly irreligious atheists. Cutting publishers from a 70% rate to a 35% rate simply because of price point is not just unfair, it is bullying. Basically this means that you can set the cost price retailers buy at in order to stock it, and the level Ingram offers is more in-line with traditional publishers (usually 30% or 55%, the latter being the retailer preference).