In recent days we have seen how Amazon is conducting a lot of testing with its services, expanding them or creating some new ones like Prime Reading , but we have also seen how some services will be permanently joined.
Several KDP users have reported a merger of services between KDP and CreateSpace , an option called KDP Print that allows users to publish in print or create books with their ebooks and purchase them at a reasonable price without having to use large print runs.
Until now, this feature was only available through CreateSpace, an Amazon company. This publishing service offered print-on-demand books, which is quite useful for authors who publish ebooks and want to print a small number of books.
Amazon's CreateSpace will follow after KDP Print, although it may also disappear
According to several users, a tab called KDP Print appears in their KDP panel that seems to offer the same as CreateSpace or at least links to CreateSpace services. This is for the moment only for certain users, but it seems that it will be the near future if Amazon does not have problems with this new implementation.
In any case, many warn that CreateSpace could continue since many writers use it despite not publishing with Amazon KDP, with the consequent advantages for the company and for users, but Amazon could also make it disappear so that writers stop using its self-publishing service and leave the services of the competition.
Personally, I think this unification of services is logical and expected; Amazon's trend is to unify everything under a single screen and service to make it easier for writers who aren't usually tech-savvy. But will Amazon really succeed in getting writers to switch to KDP Print? Will this new service actually be interesting? What do you think?