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The CreateSpace estore takes the lowest percentage, the "extended distribution" retailers the highest, and Amazon somewhere in between.

When you sell a book through Amazon or extended distribution, CreateSpace charges you only the printing fee.

When you sell a book through the CreateSpace estore, CreateSpace gets the printing fee and their "retailer" percentage.

The CreateSpace estore takes the lowest percentage (20% of list price), the "extended distribution" retailers the highest (60%), and Amazon somewhere in between (40%).

When you sell a book through Amazon or extended distribution, the retailer takes their cut (40% for Amazon, 60% for other retailers). CreateSpace charges you only the printing fee. And you get what's left over.

When you sell a book through the CreateSpace estore, CreateSpace gets the printing fee and their "retailer" percentage (20% of list price). You get what's left over.

No extra charge for additional distribution channels. CreateSpace will distribute your book through a variety of channels, and you have some choices about which channels they should use. They do not charge any fees for this, regardless of your choices.

But different distribution channels do impose lower limits on the price of your book. That is because the retailer wants a cut. And they also want the list price to be high enough that they could sell the book at a discount and still make money.

If you want to sell your book only through the CreateSpace store, or only by purchasing copies from them and selling or distributing them yourself, the minimum list price is equal to CreateSpaces's printing fee.

If you want to distribute through Amazon, you have to charge a higher list price so that Amazon can take their cut.

If you want to distribute through additional retailers, you have to set the list price higher still, because those other retailers get a larger cut than amazon.

Regardless of which distribution channels you choose, CreateSpace charges you only the printing fee, and the printing fee is based entirely on page count.

No extra charge for additional distribution channels. CreateSpace will distribute your book through a variety of channels, including the CreateSpace estore, Amazon, and "extended distribution" channels, which makes your book available through many, many book stores.

You choose which channels they should use. They do not charge any fees for this, regardless of your choices.

But different distribution channels do impose lower limits on the price of your book. That is because each retailer wants a cut. And the retailers want the list price to be high enough that they could sell the book at a discount and still make money.

The CreateSpace estore takes the lowest percentage, the "extended distribution" retailers the highest, and Amazon somewhere in between.

When you sell a book through Amazon or extended distribution, CreateSpace charges you only the printing fee.

When you sell a book through the CreateSpace estore, CreateSpace gets the printing fee and their "retailer" percentage.

Bar Code. You need not purchase a bar code. CreateSpace requires that you leave a blank spot on your cover. They will print the bar code there. They have a preferred spot, but you a bit of leeway about where you put the blank spot.

CreateSpace to Kindle. CreateSpace will offer to create a Kindle version for you. I have never chosen that option, because there is no way on God's Green Earth that an ebook translated automatically from a print PDF will ever look right.

For one thing, in the print books for my short stories, I include a teaser on the front page (about 1/3 of a page of text from inside the story). I also include both a title page and a half-title page. There is no need for that in an ebook. In print, I include a list of my books in the front and the back of each book. For ebooks I put that only in the back. If I ever have pull quotes in a book, I would want those only in the print book, and not in the ebook.

In general, for ebooks I greatly reduce the amount of front matter. The reason for this is that when Amazon creates a sample, the always start at the front of the book. Some of my books are short stories, as small as 3000 words.

My first Kindle book was a 5500-word short story with a bunch of front matter. The sample that Amazon extracted ended in the middle of the table of contents. Not good. So I reformatted the book to take out the front matter.