IngramSpark

Publish to Kobo and keep your rights

Kobo Writing Life publishes to Kobo free and leaves you the rights, digital distribution rather than print into the retail chain.

Print and sell a book with no minimum order

Lulu also prints books on demand with no minimum order and lets you sell them, a simpler route when bookshop and library distribution is not the goal.

Ebook distribution with no cut of royalties

PublishDrive distributes ebooks without taking a cut of royalties, on subscription from $13.99 with a free tier, for authors whose priority is ebook reach rather than print.

Self-publish to Kindle and keep 70 percent

Amazon KDP is the easier, cheaper route when the book only needs to be on Amazon; it pays up to 70 percent on Kindle, but its printing does not reach bookshops and libraries on IngramSpark's terms.

Print books and magazines one copy at a time

Blurb prints books and magazines one copy at a time from $3.99 a copy, suited to small runs rather than feeding the retail supply chain.

Ebook distribution that states its cut up front

StreetLib at $99 distributes ebooks and states its cut up front, which is the number IngramSpark makes you work out from the fees.

One upload, every ebook store

Draft2Digital sends one upload out to every major ebook store, the wide-distribution counterpart for ebooks where IngramSpark's reach is print retail.