Understanding Book Layouts and Page Margins describes typical margins for a standard 6 inch by 9 inch trade paperback, including CreateSpace book layout specifications
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Hackers Are Targeting Createspace Author Accounts
Authors should go change their Createspace passwords immediately — and while they’re at it, they should also double check their payment details.
What’s Going On With CreateSpace and KDP Print? [Updated]
Are you curious about all of the changes going on at CreateSpace and seeing new offerings being announced at Kindle Direct Publishing? I have been, too.
Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – June 2018
More and more authors are seeing that the ADD TO CART button does not place an order with the author/publisher like it used to. For this month’s DO THIS NOT THAT we will focus on the Amazon ADD TO CART button and what we can do.
Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – February 2018
Amazon is changing things up again and is no longer listing books supplied from IngramSpark as “in stock.” Here’s what you can do.
My Top 7 Tools for Creativity
7 Tools for Creativity including Evernote, Scrivener, CreateSpace, Canva, Mind Jet Mind Manager, Joel’s Journals, iPhone
Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – April 2017
Three separate authors who launched books recently gathered together and shared some great stories. Use their tales and learn from their experiences!
Monday Mailbag: ISBN, Copyright and More
Time for another installment of our long-running, intermittently-published question-and-answer roundups. Yes, it’s another Monday Mailbag in which we gather questions from my email inbox, from the comments on the blog, and from strange calls in the middle of the night from distraught authors wondering just where they went wrong. Once again I’ve reached deep into […]
Successful Print, Ebook, and Audiobook Publishing with Amazon
Last week we introduced our new Amazon Success Toolkit, a collection of guidelines and productivity tools for publishers using CreateSpace, Kindle Direct Publishing, or Audible, all portals for Amazon. The response has been impressive, and I can see why. Keeping track of all the policies, procedures, and programs at Amazon is more than most of […]
CreateSpace Title Information and the New Amazon Success Toolkit
Is there any subject that excites so many emotions in indie authors than Amazon? From its ever-changing programs for self-publishers to its shifting positions on book reviews, Amazon is both the democratic gateway to the biggest market of book buyers in the world, and the 800-pound gorilla overshadowing our world. Trying to figure out the […]
