Amazon KDP Alternatives Uncovered: SHOCKING Allegations!

About this video

Dale Roberts reads brutally negative Trustpilot reviews of Amazon KDP alternatives — Draft2Digital, IngramSpark, Lulu, PublishDrive, and BookVault — and pushes back on most of them. On Draft2Digital (which he notes has a modest 2.4 Trustpilot rating he disagrees with), he defends the company against a reviewer stuck for months on the tax interview, arguing tax information is sensitive, the reviewer is an account holder rather than a paying client, and they should get help from a CPA or another published author. He mocks an IngramSpark two-star review written by someone who had not yet used the platform, while saying he loves IngramSpark as a print distributor despite some hang-ups. On Lulu, he agrees with Lulu’s own response that a blurry, skewed graphic novel was an author-controlled content problem, not a printing problem, though he personally dislikes Lulu’s quarterly payment structure. He defends PublishDrive against subscription and refund complaints, explaining its flat monthly fee per number of publications (with 100% of net profits to the author) versus the revenue-share model of Draft2Digital or StreetLib, and praising its clean interface. For BookVault, he disputes a three-star review claiming print costs more than twice other platforms, saying its costs are comparable, its UK print quality is excellent, and it uniquely allows mixing full-color and black-and-white pages in one book. The video is sponsored by Dibble Create, whose AI assistant Kip he demos as a way to clean up a garbled one-star KDP review.

Key takeaways

• Judge publishing platforms by first-hand experience, not one-star Trustpilot reviews written before the reviewer ever used the service.
• Tax-interview problems at distributors like Draft2Digital are the author’s responsibility; get a CPA or an experienced author to help rather than expecting phone support.
• Print-quality complaints can be author errors: Lulu is a creator-controlled tool where the author approves the content and presentation.
• PublishDrive charges a flat subscription based on publication count and passes through 100% of net profits, unlike revenue-share distributors — a model that favors authors with proven sales.
• BookVault’s print costs are, in the creator’s view, comparable to rivals, with strong UK quality and the ability to mix color and black-and-white pages in one book.

Episode details: published November 13, 2023 · 15:02 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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