KDP Print vs Create Space

Trying to figure out whether you should print your book through KDP print or use CreateSpace. Or maybe you're already with CreateSpace and you're considering moving over to KDP Print. Stick around. I'll tell you what I think about the choice. Hey, I'm Julie the Book Broad with Book Launchers. If you're an entrepreneur or professional who wants to write, publish and sell a book that builds your business, we have a powerful team to help you do that and achieve great results. Contact me@booklaunchers.com Letsch all right, this is a video viewer question. Actually, it's been coming up a lot lately, so let's just get to the heart of it. KDP Print is a newish program that Amazon has announced where you can print your books through the same interface you use to upload and monitor your Kindle titles. The great news for you is this is one dashboard for your print books and your Kindle makes things a lot easier than going into Create Space and then going into KDP for each of those things. When this first rolled out, I couldn't really see why any authors would use it because it was missing some key features, including the ability for the author to buy print copies at wholesale prices. They've since updated the service and guess what? It's now available. So with that change, plus a big overhaul to the KDP accounting system, which makes it much easier to use than it was before, especially if you're like many authors doing an entire year of accounting work in one sitting, not naming any names, it's much better. Here's my take. Amazon's not going to have a huge redundancy in their services like this forever. I mean, they have KDP Print and CreateSpace and they're printing out of the same facilities. And I mean lots of places, you know, the Sell More Book show. Lots of great forums. Kindlepreneur there's so many places that are talking about this. Everybody's expecting for it to either be a merge or for all authors to be required to move over. So whether they move us over or we have to do it ourselves, I think it's pretty clear we're all going to be using KDP Print in the very near future. Now me, I'm not doing doing anything with my books just yet, but if you're new, go ahead and upload your print book to KDP Print. The only exception in my mind is if you want to create a special sized book like a miniature book or a hardcover book. This is for standard paperback books only. But there's a really good selection of the standard sizes. I'll put a link below to the spot that tells you all the sizes that they can print for you. The only real drawback to KDP Print was that it didn't have international or expanded distribution, but that just changed. Here's the thing though, even with expanded distribution, I don't recommend KDP or Create Space for expanded distribution. Bookstores don't want to buy from Amazon and the prices aren't favorable for them to do so anyway. So if you want expanded reach, you're much better off going with IngramSpark for everywhere but Amazon.com check out this fabulous video right here about IngramSpark versus CreateSpace. That said, here's what I suggest. KDP and KDP print for Amazon.com distribution plus IngramSpark for everywhere else, including Barnes and Noble, Chapters Indigo if you're in Canada or your favorite independent bookstores, and beyond if you're an existing CreateSpace client. I don't see a reason to move your books over right now, but you certainly can. I think we're all going to be over there soon enough anyways. A couple of differences to note. CreateSpace currently pays out every 30 days. KDP Print pays out every 60. But with KDP you're going to have one interface for everything. One deposit, one payment, one place to go. Update your book so it simplifies a lot. It might be worth the trade off. So as of summer 2018, this is my recommendation. Things are always changing, so if you've got an up to or opinion, please post it below in the comments. Smash that like button so YouTube knows that you like this content and subscribe to the channel so we can hang out every Friday when a new video comes out. See you on the next video.