Bowker released their statistics charting ISBN-carrying self-published print and ebooks for 2018, showing continued strong growth for CreateSpace, which has eaten nearly the entire, still-expanding market (regulators, take note). CreateSpace issued 1.416 million self-published titles in print-on-demand editions in 2018 — up more than 52 percent from 2017. With that growth, they went from 85 percent of the market in 2017 to 91.5 percent share in 2018. As we have noted previously, Bowker does not have counts for the Ingram Spark program, since Ingram directs customers to register for their own ISBNs directly. That’s likely included in the miscellaneous “small […]