My New Journey with Publishing in This Ever Changing Business (Createspace)
One thing is certain, it is that nothing remains the same, change is inevitable. With the advancement of technology on a daily basis, this especially rings true within the business world.
The publishing world has changed so dramatically over the last five years that it's caused me to abandon some ideas. For instance I've always been against utilizing third party publishers to self publish. But with the invention of amazon kindle and other ebook technology, one would quickly get left behind if they failed to not let go of yesterday and focus on the changes of today.
The creation of Createspace an Amazon company totally shocked me. What took me by surprise is how convenient and affordable the process is. Not to mention the fact that the publishing platform provides authors with all the benefits they would possess publishing their books under their own venture. There is even an option which allows one to utilize their own ISBN so the title(s) will be listed under their own company not Createspace. Through the Expanded Distribution program authors will not only be able to make their titles available within the Createspace store, and on amazon.com, but the title(s) will also be available within the Ingram and Baker and Taylor system. Making them available to bookstores and libraries. The only downside I've seen is that in order for the books to be available to the libray market it needs to possess a Createspace ISBN. Then again this may not be a downside at all. Publishing via Createspace frees the author from a lot of the backend duties they would be forced to undertake publishing under their own company.
The thing which really caused me to take notice of the Creatspace program, is their author copy purchase program and royalties. Authors can purchase copies of their own books to keep or sell. As an author/publisher who has dealt with printers in the past, I pretty much have a ballpark figure of how much copies cost based on quantity and page count. I found their figures to be better than a lot of printers. This is especially so if one is to purchase in small quantities.
The royalty program is great. A business book I've written priced at $12.00 will receive $5.05 from amazon.com sales, and $7.45 from the creatspace store, expanded distribution will net $2.65-which is still over 20%. This is a whole lot better than publishing with a traditional publisher whose royalties usually range from 7%-10% for paperbacks.
All in all I find Creatspace to be a sound program for any author looking for an opportunity to retain rights to their work and also obtain a substantial royalty. Self Publishing under this program allows the author to be able to focus on writing, and marketing.
Witnessing almost every platform of publishing under my own ventures, i've now decided to publish under Createspace. The main reason being flexibility and the abilitiy to be able to get the most out of publishing as if it was being done under my own venture.
My focus now can be on writing, more writing, marketing and other ventures. Who knows now with this flexibility I may decide to move overseas for a few years and expand awareness of my works and ideologies in other countries. This thought has always been in the back of my mind since i first self published. I always wondered how i was going to find the freedom to do it.
The Secrets of self Publishing 2 and All You need to Know to Become An Entrepreneur will be available in paperback version by Thursday.
Here at my amazon.com author central page you can read articles from my blog, as well as book title(s). You'll also be able to see when a new book is released. Over the next 3 weeks i'll be releasing all of my previous titles, as well as a few more new ones besides the one's at top mentioned.
The publishing world has changed so dramatically over the last five years that it's caused me to abandon some ideas. For instance I've always been against utilizing third party publishers to self publish. But with the invention of amazon kindle and other ebook technology, one would quickly get left behind if they failed to not let go of yesterday and focus on the changes of today.
The creation of Createspace an Amazon company totally shocked me. What took me by surprise is how convenient and affordable the process is. Not to mention the fact that the publishing platform provides authors with all the benefits they would possess publishing their books under their own venture. There is even an option which allows one to utilize their own ISBN so the title(s) will be listed under their own company not Createspace. Through the Expanded Distribution program authors will not only be able to make their titles available within the Createspace store, and on amazon.com, but the title(s) will also be available within the Ingram and Baker and Taylor system. Making them available to bookstores and libraries. The only downside I've seen is that in order for the books to be available to the libray market it needs to possess a Createspace ISBN. Then again this may not be a downside at all. Publishing via Createspace frees the author from a lot of the backend duties they would be forced to undertake publishing under their own company.
The thing which really caused me to take notice of the Creatspace program, is their author copy purchase program and royalties. Authors can purchase copies of their own books to keep or sell. As an author/publisher who has dealt with printers in the past, I pretty much have a ballpark figure of how much copies cost based on quantity and page count. I found their figures to be better than a lot of printers. This is especially so if one is to purchase in small quantities.
The royalty program is great. A business book I've written priced at $12.00 will receive $5.05 from amazon.com sales, and $7.45 from the creatspace store, expanded distribution will net $2.65-which is still over 20%. This is a whole lot better than publishing with a traditional publisher whose royalties usually range from 7%-10% for paperbacks.
All in all I find Creatspace to be a sound program for any author looking for an opportunity to retain rights to their work and also obtain a substantial royalty. Self Publishing under this program allows the author to be able to focus on writing, and marketing.
Witnessing almost every platform of publishing under my own ventures, i've now decided to publish under Createspace. The main reason being flexibility and the abilitiy to be able to get the most out of publishing as if it was being done under my own venture.
My focus now can be on writing, more writing, marketing and other ventures. Who knows now with this flexibility I may decide to move overseas for a few years and expand awareness of my works and ideologies in other countries. This thought has always been in the back of my mind since i first self published. I always wondered how i was going to find the freedom to do it.
The Secrets of self Publishing 2 and All You need to Know to Become An Entrepreneur will be available in paperback version by Thursday.
Here at my amazon.com author central page you can read articles from my blog, as well as book title(s). You'll also be able to see when a new book is released. Over the next 3 weeks i'll be releasing all of my previous titles, as well as a few more new ones besides the one's at top mentioned.
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