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Great article. Thanks for posting, Theodore. Hugs

Theodore wrote: "https://www.indiesunlimited.com/2019/..."

Roger, that. Considering the cost, etc., etc., I'll stick with KDP. At this point in my life, writing has become a labor of love.

I think they have a typo. The title setup cost for print + ebook on IngramSpark is $49, not $98. (See https://www.ingramspark.com/features.) But also, Ingram does periodic promotions for free title setup. I've set up my 3 novels for no cost using the NANO promo (which ends at the end of March).

I like the fact that Ingram is more store friendly and offers hardcover book production, if decide to go that way, but it all depends on your situation and your plans.

Thanks, Ted. Great info.

Carmel wrote: "Thanks, Ted. Great info."

I thought so. Thanks.

FYI, the author acknowledged she'd made an error (I thought it might have been a typo) on the price. Apparently she read the information wrong and thought it was $49 for the print edition plus $49 for the ebook edition (making $98 total). It's $49 for the print edition, but you can also get print plus ebook together for $49. And if you catch one of their coupons, it will be free.

I think IngramSpark may have got the better of me. Every time I sit down to enter two of my books I get called into something else. Then I can’t remember what I was doing. It’s not as straight forward as D2D or KDP. I wish D2D would get a move on a offer POD. I haven’t read the article yet...

Ok question: how does the expanded distribution of POD on KDP work? Do I republish with my own ISBN and tick a box on KDP?

Seriously thinking of just sticking with KDP. I don’t have the time to learn another system at the moment.

I think you can't have the same ISBN for expanded dist on KDP and Ingram Sparks. KDP sells it's wholesale ( mass distribution) books on Ingram so it's just duplicated. If I want to do KDP mass dist- I do one ISBN for them and a separate one for IS. If I am just doing mass dist on IS- then I use the same ISBN for both KDP and IS- does that make sense?

Yes I think that makes sense. Thanks.

I think the process is a bit too much for me to get my head around given the time frame. I've got too much 'other life' stuff going on this month.

I'm really counting on D2D coming in with a simple procedure this year for POD. I can cope with their system.

It's easier when you can do everything in one spot- but they do say, that Imgram is the largest distributor in the world. I actually sold more mass distribution with Createspace, but made much less.

D.J. wrote: "Ok question: how does the expanded distribution of POD on KDP work? Do I republish with my own ISBN and tick a box on KDP?

Seriously thinking of just sticking with KDP. I don’t have the time to l..."

You don't need separate ISBNs. I was rather surprised by that, because I had them originally through our own little company. But all you have to do is set up your print book and your epub, and Ingram sends it to Amazon. Amazon converts it to Kindle format and assigns an ASIN. The ISBN ends up being the same for both epub and Kindle editions.

The one issue I have run into is that my original KDP editions didn't automatically link up with the new Ingram editions. So I had to use the Amazon Author Central help form to ask them to link them up. Once I did that, my reviews appeared on all editions, then I unpublished the KDP editions and all was well.

For new books, of course, that won't be a problem. I'll set them up on Ingram and they'll flow through to Amazon without trouble . . . I hope! But the Author Central people are pretty good at helping out if there is a problem, at least in my limited experience.

Another small issue I discovered with Ingram. You can enter a series title and number for your books, and on some seller sites (B&N for one) they will create a series page for your books. Amazon does not. For reasons that make no sense to me, they only set up series pages for ebooks if they are published through KDP. You can go through Author Central support to get a series page created for print books, but that doesn't give the ebooks a series page. Also, it seems (I may be wrong about this, but it's how it worked for me) you have to specifically ask to be directed to Author Central support, otherwise you'll end up at KDP support and they will tell you you have to ask Ingram to set up the series page, which Ingram can't do because they (obviously) don't have any control over the Amazon website.

I lost a little more hair over this before I got it resolved...