Now, nonfiction authors who used CreateSpace’s paid services must now manually monkey with their post-formatting book files in order to update their information and research for future readers.Īccording to an email recently sent to current clients, if authors who have used paid CreateSpace services want to make changes to their book files, those changes must be purchased and submitted no later than March 15, 2018, and completed by April 20, 2018. What’s more, if you’re a nonfiction author who routinely edits and updates the material in your books to reflect changing industry standards or simply to keep up with the needs of modern readers, you won’t be able to request these major changes through CreateSpace.
This heightens the need for strong professional editing help-as well as for conscientiously editing and proofreading your own work before it hits Amazon’s digital shelves.
If you spot a misplaced period or comma or deleted word in your ebook, it’s there forever-unless you yourself take the time to go back and fix it.
How CreateSpace’s Discontinued Author Services Impacts Youįirst, it must be said that if you’ve never used CreateSpace’s publishing services before, this change likely won’t affect you at all… unless you were planning to make use of these services for a future project.īut if you have used CreateSpace’s paid services before, this does affect you quite a bit-and in ways you might not realize at first.įor one, if you’ve ever made the mistake of failing to edit your books post-layout, you won’t have the luxury of getting CreateSpace editors to go back and polish your manuscript after it’s already been published. In the wake of this decision, one question remains: How will this affect indie authors? We will work closely with impacted employees through this transition to help them find new roles within the company or assist them with pursuing opportunities outside the company.” “After a thorough review of our service offerings, we’ve made the decision to discontinue CreateSpace’s paid professional editing, design, and marketing services. In a statement reported by South Carolina’s The Post and Courier, an Amazon representative said: Whether they were line editing, laying out a book, or designing book jackets, CreateSpace’s creative teams were well-regarded as prompt, thorough, and highly responsive-even if their services were quite expensive.Īs of 2018, CreateSpace will no longer offer author services. While CreateSpace is best known as Amazon’s efficient print-on-demand service, the platform also provided paid publishing services to participating authors: editing, interior book design, custom covers, Kindle conversion, and more.Īnd though these “author services” might not have been widely used, CreateSpace’s offerings did maintain a reputation for quality work. Not so long ago, Amazon’s CreateSpace was a haven for self-publishing authors everywhere.