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Understanding Book Layouts and Page Margins

by The Book Designer on September 14, 2021 78 Comments

Understanding Book Layouts and Page Margins describes typical margins for a standard 6 inch by 9 inch trade paperback, including CreateSpace book layout specifications

Filed Under: Book Design Tagged With: book design, book layouts, book production, CreateSpace, publishing a book, self publishing

Hackers Are Targeting Createspace Author Accounts

by Nate Hoffelder on November 12, 2018 19 Comments

Authors should go change their Createspace passwords immediately — and while they’re at it, they should also double check their payment details.

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Guest Posts Tagged With: CreateSpace, Nate Hoffelder

What’s Going On With CreateSpace and KDP Print? [Updated]

by Amy Collins on August 23, 2018 94 Comments

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.

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Contributing Writers Tagged With: Amazon, Amy Collins, book marketing, CreateSpace, KDP, KDP Print, self publishing

Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – June 2018

by Amy Collins on June 14, 2018 6 Comments

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.

Filed Under: Marketing, Contributing Writers Tagged With: Amazon, Amy Collins, CreateSpace, Ingram, IngramSpark

Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – February 2018

by Amy Collins on February 28, 2018 32 Comments

Amazon is changing things up again and is no longer listing books supplied from IngramSpark as “in stock.” Here’s what you can do.

Filed Under: Marketing, Contributing Writers Tagged With: Amazon, Amy Collins, CreateSpace, IngramSpark

My Top 7 Tools for Creativity

by Joel Friedlander on June 26, 2017 12 Comments

7 Tools for Creativity including Evernote, Scrivener, CreateSpace, Canva, Mind Jet Mind Manager, Joel’s Journals, iPhone

Filed Under: Self-Publishing, Social Media Tagged With: Canva, CreateSpace, Evernote, iPhone, Joel's Journals, mind manager, Scrivener

Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – April 2017

by Amy Collins on April 12, 2017 17 Comments

Three separate authors who launched books recently gathered together and shared some great stories. Use their tales and learn from their experiences!

Filed Under: Marketing, Contributing Writers, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Amy Collins, CreateSpace, IngramSpark, Laura Heffernan, Martha Miller, Melinda Martin

Monday Mailbag: ISBN, Copyright and More

by Joel Friedlander on October 31, 2016 11 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: Bowker, copyright, CreateSpace, ISBN, Q&A

Successful Print, Ebook, and Audiobook Publishing with Amazon

by Joel Friedlander on May 16, 2016 5 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Training Tagged With: Amazon, Audible, AuthorToolkits.com, bookdesigntemplates.com, Carla King, CreateSpace, Joan Stewart, Judith Briles, Kindle, Tracy R. Atkins

CreateSpace Title Information and the New Amazon Success Toolkit

by Joel Friedlander on May 9, 2016 9 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Amazon Success Toolkit, AuthorToolkits.com, CreateSpace, Kindle, Tracy R. Atkins

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