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Ingram Spark makes it difficult to set up books now

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Mark Gardner:
I was helping a friend set up her paperbacks with Ingram Spark, and made her pretty interiors print ready for ingram and KDP.

Ingram now forces new titles to use their sh*tty book builder crap software. No way to upload print-ready interiors, so no custom font size or spacing. plus their book builder crap produces, well, crap.

Eric Thomson:
It is crappy alright, but I wasn't forced into a shi*ty book builder crap when I began setting up my newest title in PB and HC yesterday. I reached the upload print-ready interior and cover page...

Edited to add: just successfully uploaded my print ready pdfs - interior and jacket

But my is the new process bad. Bad, bad, bad. If anyone from IngramSpark is reading this:

FAIL! MASSIVE FAIL!

Fire your developers, get a few who can actually write clean code and imagine what the end user needs. Then hang the project manager that oversaw this nightmare.

Mark Gardner:
Did you already have titles with ingram? I ask, because I was able to upload an interior to an existing book, but my friend was brand new to Ingram. (I warned her about there predatory shipping policies.)


--- Quote from: Eric Thomson on August 22, 2020, 01:55:37 AM ---It is crappy alright, but I wasn't forced into a shi*ty book builder crap when I began setting up my newest title in PB and HC yesterday. I reached the upload print-ready interior and cover page...

Edited to add: just successfully uploaded my print ready pdfs - interior and jacket

But my is the new process bad. Bad, bad, bad. If anyone from IngramSpark is reading this:

FAIL! MASSIVE FAIL!

Fire your developers, get a few who can actually write clean code and imagine what the end user needs. Then hang the project manager that oversaw this nightmare.

--- End quote ---

Eric Thomson:
I have several dozen titles with them.

alhawke:
It's a confusing system. I noticed a glitch this week when entering prices. I had to keep resetting the system.

I'm lucky, I guess, because they accepted my PDF this last past week. I create pdfs with vellum and it hasn't effected me ... I hope. I haven't checked the proof.

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