CreateSpace News: Merged or Not?

About this video

Dale Roberts updates viewers on the troubled CreateSpace to KDP Print merger, saying some authors migrated easily but a great majority, including himself, have had issues. He says Amazon presented the choice as ‘move, or be moved.’ In the interim he offers two options: continue uploading to CreateSpace if the account has not yet been fully merged, since CreateSpace was still accepting uploads at the time of recording though for how long was unknown, or learn to upload on KDP Print despite its problems. He argues KDP Print is improving but still feels like a beta product, and questions why Amazon was forcing the migration before it was ready. He recounts his own experience editing keywords and slightly changing a description on an already-published KDP Print book: on saving and moving to the next step, the system demanded he redo the interior and claimed unfinished work, looping for nearly an hour before it went through. Because he believes there are no automated crash reports for such failures, he urges viewers experiencing upload problems to use the Contact Us link in the KDP dashboard and report them in specific detail — what they were doing and what happened — so Amazon can fix the platform and make it as efficient as CreateSpace had been. He closes by inviting viewers’ thoughts on the merger in the comments.

Key takeaways

• Amazon’s framing of the CreateSpace migration, as Dale presents it, was ‘move, or be moved’ to KDP Print.
• Until a full merge is done, authors could keep uploading to familiar CreateSpace, though Dale notes that window’s duration was uncertain.
• Dale describes KDP Print as improving but still beta-like, with intermittent upload and editing problems.
• His example glitch: a simple keyword and description edit triggered a demand to redo the interior, looping for nearly an hour.
• Report KDP Print problems via the dashboard Contact Us link with specific step-by-step detail, since Dale believes no automated crash report is sent.

Episode details: published September 6, 2018 · 3:50 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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