alternative to Amazon CreateSpace!

Looks like IngramSpark's LightningSource might be a viable alternative to CreateSpace. It's through Ingram, which is one of the (if not the) major book distributors, so I get the distribution Lulu doesn't give me. Setting up a book looks more complicated and is definitely more expensive—$49/title setup (unless there's a print order of fifty or more copies in the first sixty days, in which case that $49 is refunded) and $12/title/year to distribute, I have to provide (which means buy) my own ISBN instead of relying on CreateSpace to get one for me, and I have to provide a JPEG of my completed ebook cover or a PDF of my completed print cover instead of being able to fiddle with CreateSpace's Cover Creator. But that may just be a price I'm willing to pay.

crossposted from conallpublications.com