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CreateSpace and KDP to Become One Service CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) are becoming one service--making KDP the single place to publish and manage your print and digital books. To learn more about the move, see the topics below. Lulu.com has their own take how this merger may impact the independent publishing world and it doesn't look too favorable.

It's Black Speculative Fiction Month! This month we celebrate the Black Fantastic by supporting our creators and their events throughout the Diaspora! If you've never read a Sword and Soul, Steamfunk, Afrotuturism, Africanfuturism, African Fantasy, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Urban Fantasty, Horror book or graphic novel by a Black author, this is your month. I encourage all my friends to read, support an author by writing a review, attend a Black Speculative Fiction event, share a book, event, and/or an author with friends. This is our month, so let's celebrate!

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Hi @Valjeanne Jeffers, anything that helps booksellers helps book sales. The most common comment I get about this list is from people who were unaware of the stores that support black writers in their city.

Hey @Valjeanne Jeffers please visit your page on AALBC and let me know if I'm missing any titles. Of the three categories let me know which one would be best to put your book in.

Hey Milton, I'll looking for more titles to highlight in the "Top 10" lists I'm compiling. You mentioned the following categories: Sword and Soul, Steamfunk, Afrofuturism, Africanfuturism, African Fantasy, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Horror You or anyone is welcome to post prospective titles for the lists. Also, share some of your Horor titles on the Lipstick Alley book forum where there was recent conversation on horror books. I posted about Sumiko Saulson, you'll find some additional potential readers there. Happy Black Speculative Fiction Month!

Your conclusion is flawed. To say white women voted for a white man instead of a white woman is an example of racial solidarity, is ambivalent and incongruous. What an ignorant false equivalency argument that is! And admitting that you are just mouthing off, not saying what you actually believe, certainly confirms that everything you express is a lot of empty blather. The biggest joke of all is what appears at the bottom of all your posts where you pompously quote yourself :"I pledge allegiance to the TRUTH" -Pioneer1. A lie, if there ever was one! You've never let the truth get in the way of your pontificating. And you wear the fact that you are not college-educated as if this is a badge of honor that makes you naturally smart. When it comes to you, however, it's just a case of your being an uneducated fool.

That should be "complement" not "compliment". Did the proper diet transform you from "Slender Man" into the "Incredible Hulk" in the fantasy comic book world in which you have cast yourself as the hero? 💀... 🤢 Complement: n. a thing that completes or brings to perfection: v. add to (something) in a way that enhances or improves it. Compliment: n. a polite expression of praise or admiration. v. politely congratulate or praise (someone) for something

How do you know it has nothing to do with privilege and wealth? 53 percent of the women who voted may have rejected Hillary Clinton, but who knows what percentage of the millions of women who didn't bother to vote, would've voted for Trump? Your argument that "Caucasian women who unconditionally stand by and stick by each other even against their own best interests" doesn't hold water because it doesn't take into consideration the 47 percent of white women who did vote for her, and you are also ignorant in regard to whether or not maintaining their financial interests and lowering their taxes were the reasons certain white women voted against Hillary.

Well according to the stats over 53% of White women voted for Trump and support him. As far as I'm concerned he's a monsters THEY created. This has less to do with privilege and wealth and more to do with Caucasian women who unconditionally stand by and stick by eachother even against their own best interests.

Trump and his administration is giving the world a window into privilege.

God only knows the brutality this woman witnessed that was perpetuated by white men against Black people... Clearly. I'm largely ignoring the whole Kavanaugh affair. But even though I'm not actively pursuing information, I'm fairly apprised of the situation since it is being covered 24/7 by a media driven by controversy -- you'd have to be off the grid to not follow this story... a pure spectacle of American dysfunction.

@Troy I just saw this on Ingramspark distribution page - "Entering into exclusive deals with Amazon and beyond limits your distribution and your book’s potential reach. While Amazon is a very large part of overall book sales, it is not the whole marketplace and we recommend not wagering your book’s future by ignoring every other retail option. Doing so could be turning your back on potential sales." 😄 Seriously, I'm so glad that aalbc is in the printing business too - because amazon is on some crazy ish! @Troy when I had a kindle book through amazon, I didn't enter any agreements that required them to have exclusive rights. For example, if an author agreed to the rent a book type program, I think it's called "Amazon prime reading" then you had to give amazon exclusive rights to your digital book. There was another program they promoted too but I can't remember the name. Needless to say I said "no". I don't give away my rights to anyone. ( I barely like writing "work for hire" lol). Anyway, I removed my books in 2014 or 2016, I think, because I didn't like the path Amazon was heading down.

Yeah this process will jack up a lot of indie authors. The video (below) makes the transition it look simple, but even a simple process that is unfamiliar will cause a lot of frustration for the less than super tech savvy. Of course there will be no shortage of professionals to help authors make the transition. I already see that CreateSpace Cover Creator designs aren't compatible with Cover Creator on KDP. What is MOST amazing is the "Amazon Royalty." Here is where Amazon gets you and their own price calculator make the very plain. I will write more about this when i get a second. But here is the gist: For a 240 page book if you print with me (AALBC Prints Books) the unit cost is $3.87 per book (assuming a 200 book print run, less for larger print runs). If you sell the book you will make $11.13 (ignoring shipping). Now if you print and sell the books via Amazon, the pricing cost is $3.73/book, but Amazon wants an astonishing $5.27 or $7.54 (with expanded distribution) that is 2/3's of the profit of the book! @Mel Hopkins I gather KDP requires that authors give Amazon the exclusive right to sell their books -- unless the author pays for expanded distribution. Is that right? Amazon can get away with this because they monopolize the online sale of books. For Black books, they essential monopolize the sale of ALL book bt electronic and physical ebooks.