Amazon KDP VS Blurb VS Ingramspark - Self Publishing Books Quality Review

Hello! The last book from Blurb with premium color, what type of book is that, the photo book or trade book? Would you say the paper it good for journaling?

Initially signed up for Ingram spark for my novel but now I want more creative control and I found blurb to be a better choice. I'm I wrong?

Thank you so much. Loved seeing the quality of each book publisher.

New author here and let me tell you I was overwhelmed with the self publishing options out there. Thank you so much for taking the time to clear the muddy waters for me. ❤

I'm writing a thriller. So you are basically writing books too LOL...nice to know and also thanks for this video about different publishers...it was quite instructful :)

Very informative and fun to watch!

Thank you baby I just wanna hug you for your help and honesty 🥰

Great video, Mey! Thanks so much for sharing all of the products and quality. Super helpful!

If you buy your own ISBN you can use it on different market places. The book has to be exactly the same though (dimensions, color or black and white, number of pages). The ISBN is linked to the book not to the marketplace.

If you buy your own ISBN you have to buy it in your country of residence. In my country (the Netherlands) they are rather expensive, in Canada they're for free.

Oh my goodness, you would doubly not appreciate the LC book I just bought from myself. Someone spilled floral scented laundry detergent on it! It was sudsy when I washed it. Literally a headache producing mistake because I am allergic to so many chemicals in scented products. 😵‍💫 (The matte cover is fine after being cleaned with rubbing alcohol.)

Another great comparison video, Mey! Question for you….with your ‘’The Perfect Pattern’’ KDP book, how were you allowed to print on just one side and leave the back blank? I thought KDP allows very few ‘’blank’’ pages and will require you to edit the book to have fewer blank pages. It’s obviously important to have blank pages for a pattern book like you made, as well as for coloring pages where bleed through the page ruins the back side of the page. This is a message from KDP to someone who posted on reddit: ‘’We allow no more than two consecutive blank pages at the beginning or middle of a manuscript file and/or 10 consecutive blank pages at the end.” So I’m confused!

Would love videos on Blurb, KDP, Procreate

Love the scrapbook pattern book idea. Also love that you test with a variety of different product ideas (photos, colouring, designs, fonts, etc) within the one book. You bring so much value in your videos Mey. Thank you again.

Doesn't Blurb do distribution to other platforms also like Lulu? So you could sell your books on Amazon also? ( I'm new to this, just researching and finding out about these options ). Looking forward to your future videos!! :D

One can definitely publish their low content book on multiple platforms. The only time you cannot is if you entered into an actual agreement limiting your use of other publishers . . . but it's not against the law as a given. As well, one book can have more than one ISBN . . . it's not illegal.

Hi Mey, loving your work, as usual. Thank you. If this can help you, in the future, I live in the UK and if you need to use a UK postal address, you can use mine and I would forward on to you. I sent you a FB friend request to your personal acc, for privacy of addresses. Also I have an idea for a book but as I can't anything similar, I'm not sure what catergory it would come under, I don't want to explain here as these comments are public. Would love to help if needed. Andy