Comments on: Bring On The Pain #5: CREATESPACE

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:45:32 +0000

The big WTF in the whole thing is I just want the streaming bit to work. Like I said, it can probably be worked out but not right now.

By: Church

Church — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:33:36 +0000

OK, read it twice and still not sure what the problem was exactly (yeah, yeah, multi-disc. That never happens. Nobody could have anticipated that when trying to set up the mother of all distribution systems…)

Looking forward to the next installment (also, crossing my fingers.)

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:26:36 +0000

My interest was in digital distribution, not the make-packages-super-cheap aspect. But thanks.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:01:30 +0000

I just learned about CreateSpace the other day and was wanting to look into it further for book publishing. In that medium, at least, it seems like the simplest way to get POD published and listed on Amazon; apparently, Lulu.com’s means of getting you on Amazon cost a lot more, so people have been self-publishing through both sites simultaneously. Get more money from direct sales through Lulu, but listed cheaply on Amazon through CreateSpace.

Such a PITA, but it might be worth it… maybe. Have you looked into Lulu before? They do DVDs as well, but I haven’t yet done any business with them so I can’t say whether their service is better or not.

By: Simon Strandgaard

Simon Strandgaard — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:11:58 +0000

bureaucracy sucks. I’m sad that you have to go through this pain. Here is my hypothesis why customer service can drop so low.

Maybe it’s because the supporters are without any power to resolve this kind of issues and they are paid too little and not interested in making the companys reputation any better.

Same in a supermarket, nobody cares, only the guy who owns the store.

Good luck with the distribution.