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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Interesting. I have assumed otherwise for some reason.
Helen
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Probably because a lot of the POD talk at reader sites is about Expresso, not CREATESPACE or LIGHTNING SOURCE.
For example, most everybody knows that Amazon owes a lot of the goodwill and clout with indie publishers to their friendly KDP and KDP Select terms and services. A bit less seem aware that Createspace is the third leg of Amazon indiepub services and that it allows indie publishers to expand into pbooks and indie store distribution. (Ingram's LIGHTNING SOURCE also.)
https://www.createspace.com/AboutUs.jsp
https://www1.lightningsource.com/default.aspx
A third "POD" approach more successful indie publishers and small presses have access to is dealing with the actual chinese presses for small batches of conventional books. Orders in the low 4 figures can be commissioned for about $5 or thereabouts. That is cheaper than the other two approaches but you then have to find a distributor to get the books on the catalogs and into the stores. Which is not impossible, just riskier.