Amazon renamed the operation and expanded its base to include book publishing. Step 1 for using createspace for publishing a print on. In the export to adobe pdf window that opens choose press quality from the adobe pdf preset menu at the top. For a detailed look at the selfediting process of an author who has sold more. If you are considering another company, ask them what software. This document contains pdf and metadata requirements to allow the best product for our customers. Press quality is a setting when you save a document as an adobe acrobat pdf file. Click properties, settings, or options naming depends on your system to check the pdf settings that will be used to create your pdf file. File tab, print and select adobe pdf office button, print and select adobe pdf. Createspace indie print publishing made easy acx indie audiobook publishing. Before submitting your finished documents, they will first need to be converted to pdf.
Createspace is bestknown as amazons pod service, but they also provide paid publishing services. Michael hyatt seems to think so as well as he just detailed why he will be putting ebooks back on the shelf if youre looking to add a printed copy option to your existing amazon ebook, or other digital books, then these services will make the process as painless as possible. So youll need to convert your word processor file to pdf in order to upload it. How to export to pdf from indesign retaining existing. Ive published eleven books and the quality of the finished books has been consistently excellent. How to get the best paperback cover you can with createspace. Pdf submission specifications createspace has provided specification requirements to enroll your title into the printondemand program. If you want them to give you an isbn, lulu wants to be the publisher, and wants exclusive publication rights. Yes, the postage is an issue, but with a 70% royalty option, theres enough money in the pot to reduce the price accordingly to make the book more. Assuming that you have acrobat dc installed, do the following. A stepbystep guide to publishing with createspace by lyn horner explains how to publish a book using createspace.
They are substantially more expensive to print, and the quality of the. In the export window that opens, name your file putting something like to print in the title is a good idea and choose adobe pdf print from the save as typeformat dropdown menu. Open the pdf or png file for the paperback book cover template in your. How to publish your book in paperback with createspace printondemand publishing services brought to you by tom corsonknowles and tck publishing. How to export to pdf from indesign retaining existing image compression. Design your cover in the design layer, using the template pdf or png file as the guide layer. But i was able to reupload a html file to kdp and still use the same cover exported from createspace. The default settings for press quality should be used. All books will be proofed and printed by them, im guessing. Convert and format kindle ebook,fillable pdf,createspace by. If your system allows, make sure the following settings are chosen. Createspace has now or is now transitioning to just kdp which originally stood for kindle direct publishing.
Createspace is a webbased service that provides selfpublishing services to authors. How to make a pressquality pdf file from an indesign cc file creative cloud 2017. The artwork should extend to the outside edge of the templates pink zone to ensure a white border will not exist within the printed work. Granted, i do all my own work from cover design to interior set up so the cost is zero. I looked all over createspace, but cannot find anything to tell me if the service is 100% free to use. When you are saving a word 2007 or 2010 file as a pdf, there is always a significant loss in image quality. The choices available for the size of the book as well as the. If modified follows press quality in the adobe pdf preset list, an option other than the default has been selected. Amazon kdp formerly createspace and ingramspark printon. What is the best service for print on demand books.
As all writers know, the process of selfpublishing a book is everfluctuating and evolving. What createspace wants from you establish an account this will include telling them how to pay you upload cover several free options for cover design pick one of their templates and fill it in supply front cover image and back cover image and let them do the spine submit a pdf of entire cover upload interior. Acrobat 5 compatibility is selected, and transparency isnt flattened. I read that some people paid for a printed copy to make sure there are no errors in the printing. I received an apology and my freedom of the press was restored but time. Since then, createspace has added audiobook publishing and other services to its offerings. Printondemand publishing through createspace mpublishing. How to self publish on createspace in three easy steps. Quality control at createspace posted on january 14, 2010 subscribe to blog ive been pulling my hair out with frustration at the poor quality of books received recently from createspace. Pdf settings that will be used to create your pdf file. Press quality output would be one of the highest outputs for quality.
How to publish your book on amazon using createspace. Createspace, one of the premier printondemand pod services for selfpublished authors, merged with amazons kdp print in late 2018. Handing off finalized content to the press in the form of a highresolution pdf is a common step in print workflows. There are a number of compelling reasons why a business or publisher might want to use createspace publishing to produce a printondemand pod edition of their ebook by most estimates print books are still 5080% of the market. The createspace publishing checklist how to save time. You can now manage your createspace content on amazons improved publishing services. Considering how long kdp had createspace under its control, you wouldve thought this would have been handled better. Go to the acrobat tab and, under preferences, set the conversion settings to highquality print. Creating a pdf for printby laurel, createspace prepress if youre planning to submit your own fullyformatted files to createspace for publication, youll first need to format your book document according to createspace specifications using our online submission guidelines. Many authors have bemoaned their createspace paperback quality, i. How to fix your ingram spark pdf with free pdf fix. Createspace specializes in enabling authors to move their unformatted manuscripts to a final format that is ready to be printed as a published book. Createspace provides detailed instructions for this method.
As for publishing tools, we get a simple editor with necessary formatting tools and templates. Pictures look blurry, weathered or soft quite simply unfit for a professional document. To help authors who might be short on time i have created a pdf summary of the createspace publishing checklist that you can download and use at a later stage as a refresher. With the ad file created, from the file menu, choose export. Any other settings should be left to default in most cases. Goodreads authorsreaders author resource round table. I highly recommend that option because it lets you see if there are going to be any issues that you can fix before you go through the trouble.
A stepbystep guide to publishing with createspace by lyn horner. Well have it back up and running as soon as possible. The stepbystep guide to formatting your print book for kdp. I think amazon plan to migrate createspace customers to kdp print i.
The cost for createspaces proofs was less and the quality was better. Createspace uses the adobe pdf format for the body of the book. All security should be removed from a file before you submit the file to createspace. Hi everyone ive also published through createspace and was amazed how professional the result looks. As createspace was one of the goto options for anyone aiming to print a selfpublished book, the switch left many in the lurch and confused. However, the pdf guidelines given do not fully prepare an author for troubleshooting, and state that each time an author has to reupload the file because its not correct. The cheapest and easiest option is to use your own photo, but image library photos are usually better quality. Createspace formatting checklist books by yael politis. The most popular online tool to compress pdf files into an email ready size. Preserve image quality when saving from word to pdf. Use this pdf preset for highquality commercial printing where the printer is comfortable receiving a pdf with live transparency. Are you publishing for friends and family, or do you wanthope to sell the book. It is very easy to create a pdf of your word file its matter of saving your word file as a pdf. Reduce file size while optimizing for maximal pdf quality.
If its just for friends, or for fun, then you can go with createspace for the editin. Free to use, without the need to register an account or email address. By colin dunbar formatting your pdf for createspace note. Flatten all layers, save the file as a press quality pdf, and upload the file via kdp. How to selfpublish a print book in this article, ill go through why you should selfpublish in print, the use of printondemand vs doing a print run, which printondemand companies are recommended, the files and information that youll need to print, how to use createspace and where to get more help if you want a company to do the work for you. Pdf files should be prepared according to createspace specs for interior pdfs and exterior pdfs. Its just not such a great friend of deep color unless you can have your book being printed by a more high quality, less busy press thats calibrated for thousands of prints at a time, i. Its one of the options you select and it means that you have set the quality high enough in the pdf for it to be ready to print on a professional printing press, rather than just a desktop printer. Color and grayscale images are downsampled to 300 ppi considered an industry standard for commercial printing. Well, ill be less critical than most answers here by saying it really depends.
What not to do on createspace celebrating independent. Prepublishing editing make sure your book has been professionally edited. Amazon launched kdp print in some countries and has this service with features now close to createspace. Dont get me wrong i have a load of perfectly good ones in stock in case youre thinking of buying one. Reduce the size of your pdf while maintaining its original quality and formatting offline. From the adobe pdf preset list, select press quality.
A stepbystep guide to publishing with createspace by lyn. However, not all software will create a pdf for use in print applications. I uploaded my pdf to createspace and made the cover using its cover builder template. Createspace started around 2002 as a dvdondemand company, called customflix, and was acquired by amazon in 2005. Creating a pdf from msword will vary slightly depending on the version of office installed on the computer. If available, select pdfx1a, highquality print or press quality from the list of presets. Then i tried to export that book to kdp with a single click. Selfpublish a book with createspace istudio publisher page. These requirements are specific to our manufacturing process to ensure the highest quality. Start with a page size equal to the magazine trim of 8. Select adobe pdf from the save as type list and click save. Such a pressready pdf file typically includes information relevant to highquality printingspot color data, fonts, trapping parameters, and overprint settings.
How to create a proper pdf for printing kendall press. As of august 2018, they have merged into one selfpublishing division of amazon, and will henceforth only operate as kdp print. The resulting pdf is then opened in adobe acrobat dc. The createspace publishing checklist how to save time and money before you publish on createspace. Settings for pdf for cover submission to createspace. Select press quality from the list to reset the options to the default. Download the createspace publishing checklist pdf here.
Be sure to save your documents before creating your pdf so that you can edit them later if you want. If available, select pdf x1a, highquality print or press quality from the list of presets. Not just the pdf that is used for printing, but the files we use to create the pdf. Self publishing and free distribution for books, cd, dvd createspace provides free tools to help you selfpublish and distribute your books, dvds, cds, video downloads and mp3s ondemand on and other channels. The objective of this site is to help your images look as good as. Users can print books from various document formats like word, html, pdf, or text files. The best predefined presets are high quality print and press quality, although they also downsample standard images. Creating a press quality pdf texas music educators. For many reasons, some authors decide to forgo the most popular path of publishing with amazons createspace and use the popular service at ingram sparklightning source. As a small publisher using createspace for nearly 10 years, the transfer to kdp has not been the rosy process we were led to expect. Note that createspace can provide microsoft word templates to help with your typesetting of the interior and a jpeg template for the cover, sized to the books page count and trim size.
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