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CreateSpace Dramatically Lowers the Costs of Publishing for Authors and Publishing Professionals with New Pro Plan Pricing
Wednesday 26. March 2008 - CreateSpace, part of the Amazon.com, Inc., group of companies (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the CreateSpace Pro Plan, a new program that provides self-published authors and publishing professionals with access to lower book printing prices and increased royalties on Amazon.com and other channels via the CreateSpace Books on Demand service.
“Pro Plan gives authors and publishers easy, self-service access to the print pricing they want without all of the hassles of managing inventory and distribution. They also get the best possible availability on Amazon.com,” said Dana LoPiccolo-Giles, co-founder and managing director for CreateSpace. “Now authors and publishers are no longer forced to make a tradeoff between the convenience of no-inventory, on-demand fulfillment and better economics for their books.”
Members who want to self-publish using the CreateSpace Books on Demand service now have two options: they can continue to sign up at no charge using CreateSpace’s Standard pricing plan, or they can take advantage of the new Pro Plan pricing model by paying a $50 one-time setup fee per title to gain access to increased royalty payments and deeply discounted print pricing. The program works on a title-by-title basis. Members can upgrade from Standard to Pro Plan at any time, allowing them to test demand for their book with Standard pricing and upgrade to Pro Plan pricing.
With both Standard and Pro Plan, CreateSpace members can distribute both black-and-white- and color-interior books on Amazon.com, their free CreateSpace eStore and their own website. Furthermore, members retain all copyrights to their work, set their own list price and have the option to use their own imprint name and ISBN or be assigned a free CreateSpace ISBN.
“The sales for my first book have been amazing and I couldn’t have done it without CreateSpace,” said CreateSpace Pro Plan member Michelle L. Long, author of “Successful QuickBooks Consulting.” “I’m a CPA, and wrote the book to support my consulting business and enhance my reputation. I am extremely busy and liked how easy it was to set up my book on Amazon and my own website using the CreateSpace service. Soon after I set it up, I was making thousands of dollars a month in royalties without having to deal with shipping books to customers. Signing up for CreateSpace Pro and making even more money was simply a no brainer!”
To find out more about CreateSpace Pro Plan pricing or to download a free price comparison calculator to determine which plan is right for your book, please visit http://www.createspace.com/Products/BooksPrices.jsp.