Have You Published Your Work With Amazon.com or CreateSpace.com????
By singlemommy
@singlemommy (2955)
United States
March 6, 2012 9:11pm CST
I have wanted to publish my work into a book for a long time. I have looked into lulu.com but someone had told me before to look into Amazon.com which uses CreateSpace.com to publish books. I'm just wondering if anyone has used it before and if so, what are your experiences with it? I'm really wanting to get all my work completed and ready to publish, I just need to know if I should go this route or not.
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@Eskimo (2315)
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7 Mar 12
I haven't published a book yet, but I have one that is almost completed. I'm going to self -publish it firstly as a Kindle e-book on Amazon (.com & .UK), using digital rights management, then publish it with a different company for other e-books. 
Using CreateSpace for On Demand self - publishing is also an option for me, although as they only publish in U.S. at the moment, there is additional delivery charges for the book to be delivered to the U.K. (where I live). For printed books Amazon has a set charge for printing each book (depending on the number of pages).
With both e-books and On Demand (ie only printed to order when an order placed) you set your own selling price (and Amazon adds on their share) at the moment Amazon give you around 35% commission on your e-book price, however if you sell it at a specific price range ($4.99-$7.99 I think) then there is provision for the commission to be around 70%, but you then have a deduction for downloading charges which depends on the size of the e-book file. The 70% option is only available for sales made in specific countries.
If you have links to you book sold by Amazon on to your own website then you would get commission on any sales from your website as well. Amazon doesn't allow you to set discounts on your book (ie to people from a specific group or family / friends), it does allow you to give money off vouchers - which YOU have to pay for, but the vouchers can actually be used for purchasing any item from Amazon, not just your own.
I intend publishing on Amazon first, then Smashwords (for other types of e-reader), then possibly CreateSpace as well.
I hope you get your books published no matter what route you go.
ps if you want any more information then P.M. me.
Using CreateSpace for On Demand self - publishing is also an option for me, although as they only publish in U.S. at the moment, there is additional delivery charges for the book to be delivered to the U.K. (where I live). For printed books Amazon has a set charge for printing each book (depending on the number of pages).
With both e-books and On Demand (ie only printed to order when an order placed) you set your own selling price (and Amazon adds on their share) at the moment Amazon give you around 35% commission on your e-book price, however if you sell it at a specific price range ($4.99-$7.99 I think) then there is provision for the commission to be around 70%, but you then have a deduction for downloading charges which depends on the size of the e-book file. The 70% option is only available for sales made in specific countries.
If you have links to you book sold by Amazon on to your own website then you would get commission on any sales from your website as well. Amazon doesn't allow you to set discounts on your book (ie to people from a specific group or family / friends), it does allow you to give money off vouchers - which YOU have to pay for, but the vouchers can actually be used for purchasing any item from Amazon, not just your own.
I intend publishing on Amazon first, then Smashwords (for other types of e-reader), then possibly CreateSpace as well.
I hope you get your books published no matter what route you go.
ps if you want any more information then P.M. me.
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