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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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. |
The third approach sounds a bit expensive as well, taking into account that the stores as well as the authors want to make money and no guarantee the books will sell.
There are no bookstores where I live, they are not even sold in the small grocery store, so I can't go look for myself. (Only one small bookstore in the entire Yukon, AFAIK)
Helen
edit: I meant to ask is this third approach happening?
Helen