Self-publishing Amazon Print on Demand (POD) Paperback Books (Udemy.com)

This was essentially a useful course. Brian J has a very pleasant manner and gives clear instructions. Personally, I found three stumbling blocks. (1) In the introduction he does warn us that two sections (about one hour) are irrelevant because CreateSpace has been taken over by Amazon KDP. He describes the wrong sections. As I'm unfamiliar with all of it I was somewhat confused at first. (2). This is an American course dealing with US sized books. I am used to metric measurements. (3) This course is based on MS Word 2010 (for PC). I am using MS Word 2016 (for Mac). Brian J says that he 'hopes' things will be similar for Mac. Yes, it was possible to find the equivalent features on the Mac program, but it made the whole learning experience more complicated and arduous. I would still recommend this course but please be aware of these potential problems.

excellent course which I enjoyed. I have already published my book on KDP (using his kindle course) and wanted this course primarily for formatting my title for POD. So, although much of this course was familiar or not totally relevant to my efforts I still found it to be worthwhile completing entire course and I did pick up tidbits and tips in practicly evey video.

It's great to go at your own pace. Short modules meant I could fit learning in spare moments of my day. After completing the course, I feel confident I can upload books by myself, without having to incur costs for experts. A really great experience.

He takes you through the formatting and Createspace setup step by step, which is great. There were a couple of pieces of information that he mentioned but didn't know that he should include (like what ISBN means). Maybe discuss why you would put an author bio on the back of the book.

Good basic stuff. Author often states "I don't know why that is" when he comes across unexpected things happening. This is annoying, and he has done this often in his other courses. Not what I would expect...

Because I like the flow, organization ot this and the information imparted. One improvement I would like to see is. How to setup headers for the individual chapters. IE., the first page of a chapter would have no header or be blank. Second or even remaining pages of chapter would have a chapter header. The third and remaining odd pages of a chapter would have book title and subtitle if any. I would one achieve that?

Excellent and very thorough. Highly recommend! Could use an update since the CreateSpace interface has changed. The options are pretty much the same, you just have to look for them because the pages don't look like the Interface in the training course.

I have taken several of Brian's courses and learned so much from all of them. This course was no exception. Brian is great at covering the tiny details that make all the difference in getting something done right while also providing the big picture. I was stalled with CreateSpace for a couple of years. Thanks to Brian, I'm taking the leap. I love this guy!!

Going into this course I had no experience using the Createspace platform. This course provided the perfect presentation of information for a beginner such as myself. The course provides step-by-step instructions with the examples as you watch the instructor perform the steps. By the time the course is completed the steps have gone from initial layout of your manuscript format to the actual submission of your print-ready book. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone who wants to submit to Createspace.

I was able to get my book published on create space, although it wasn't as simple as the course implied. The couse was good and well organized, but it did not cover the more complex formatting issues that come up when you use styles in Word. Production quality was good. Instructor did respond to questions.