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IngramSpark prints on demand and lists the book where bookstores and libraries look. You need your own ISBN. Setup and revision fees are real. The wholesale discount and the return flag decide whether a shop can order, and whether a return becomes a bill.
Why this printer
KDP expanded distribution is not a substitute. Bookstores order from Ingram. Ingram also offers trim sizes and a dust jacket that KDP hardcover, which is case laminate, does not. The tradeoff is the account: your ISBN, a title setup fee, and a fee when you replace a file after it has been approved. We freeze the interior, calculate the spine, then build the cover. We do not discover the page count on the third revision.
A 55 percent wholesale discount and returns enabled is the pair that makes a bookstore order possible. It is also the pair that can invoice you when a shop sends unsold copies back. A lower discount protects the royalty and tells many shops not to bother. We pick with you from the list price and the print cost, not from a blog post that treats 55 percent as a personality.
Order of the work
What we watch
A revision because a chapter moved is an expensive way to proofread. We proof before the upload that starts the clock.
What Ingram will measure
The spine width for the same page count can differ by paper. We use their number.
Decisions
Right if bookstores and a jacket matter more than an Amazon-only speed run. You still set the Amazon listing through the catalog, and the royalty path is different.
Possible with your ISBN on the same print edition, if the files match. Do not use a free KDP ISBN on one and a bought ISBN on the other for the same paperback. That is two books.
An Ingram reason to exist. We only build it once the interior count is frozen and the jacket template is the one they issued.
House rule
Ingram charges for the second try. We would rather wait a day.
Before the title is opened
Ingram is the wholesaler. IngramSpark is the account an independent publisher uses to put a book into that system. We set up Spark. We do not claim a separate deal with the warehouse.
It can make the book orderable by them. It does not place it on a table. Store placement is a buyer decision, and we will not sell it as a feature.
You do, from your account. We will tell you the setup and the likely revision cost before the title is created.
If bookstores are the point
We will quote the setup before anyone builds a spine. Call (833) 688-4166 or write [email protected].
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