Category: CreateSpace

Amazon launches full language support for Traditional Chinese outside China, but is the 2007 Bezos vision of “every book ever printed, in any language, available in less than 60 seconds” still on the agenda?

by Mark Williams | May 24, 2019 | Amazon, Canada, China, CreateSpace, Ebooks, Global Publishing, The global book market | 0 |

It was November 2014 when Amazon last launched a new Kindle store, almost seven years to the day...

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Amazon’s CreateSpace goes out with a bang – cracks shortlist for prestigious French literary award

by Mark Williams | Sep 9, 2018 | Amazon, CreateSpace, Europe, France, Global Publishing, Print, Publishing News, Self-Publishing, The global book market | 0 |

CreateSpace is on its final legs as Amazon completes its absorption into KDP Print this month, but...

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KDP Print now offers author copies. Expanded distribution coming. How long left for CreateSpace?

by Mark Williams | Feb 2, 2018 | Amazon, CreateSpace, KDP Print, Print, Publishing Brief, Self-Publishing, UK | 10 |

This week Amazon has told indie authors they can buy “author copies” of POD paperbacks from KDP...

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Booksellers Association and the Society of Authors advise indie authors on how to get into bookstores

by Mark Williams | Jan 22, 2018 | bookstores, CreateSpace, Europe, Global Publishing, Print, Self-Publishing, UK | 0 |

In what must be the definitive acknowledgement that self-publishing is mainstream in the UK,...

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Amazon shutters LoveFilm, Amazon Wine, Heera and Anime Strike. Kicks ebooks out of AbeBooks. Will AbeBooks be next to go?

by Mark Williams | Jan 8, 2018 | Amazon, CreateSpace, Ebooks, Europe, KDP Print, Print, Publishing Brief, Retailer News | 0 |

Amazon this week announced its anime service Anime Strike, acquired just a year ago, is being...

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UK's fastest growing bookseller partners with Kortext

by Mark Williams | Dec 13, 2017 | Academic and specialist publishing, CreateSpace, Europe, Retailer News, UK | 0 |

The UK’s leading specialist and academic bookseller, Blackwell’s, has crowned a 30%...

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Insights from Data Guy prior to the imminent next Author Earnings Report

by Mark Williams | Oct 24, 2017 | Amazon, CreateSpace, Ebooks, Global Publishing, Publishing News, Self-Publishing | 0 |

When the Bowker ISBN report first emerged earlier this month The Passive Voice blog ran with the...

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The Hot Sheet Reviewed (second October 2017 edition)

by Mark Williams | Oct 22, 2017 | Aggregators, Amazon, CreateSpace, Global Publishing, KDP Print, Publishing News, Self-Publishing, The Hot Sheet | 0 |

The Hot Sheet is a publishing industry news-sheet for authors, produced every two weeks by Porter...

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