Publishing on IngramSpark

Steps

1. Create an account and buy or bring an ISBN that is registered to you.
2. Add a title and choose trim size, binding and paper.
3. Upload the interior PDF and the full wrap cover PDF, sized for your exact page count.
4. Approve the electronic proof.
5. Set your price and the wholesale discount bookshops will get, then publish.

Watch out for

• Reaches bookshops and libraries, which KDP Print does not. Needs an ISBN you own, and a wrap cover at the exact spine width.
• You need your own ISBN; a free KDP ISBN cannot be used here.
• The wrap cover must match the spine width for your exact page count and paper.
• IngramSpark binds hardcovers from 18 pages, where KDP needs 75 — the place for a short hardcover.

How StoriesDen helps

• Format makes the print-ready PDF at your trim size, checked against the trim sizes Amazon KDP and IngramSpark publish.
• The wrap-cover tool lays out back, spine and front at your spine width.
• The print publishing manager tracks the listing and what it still needs.

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