So I was reading this article which was talking about a book exchange site I frequent, and one of the other websites they were talking about seemed like something I should bring up in here.
Quoted from their article:
Doing some fiddling with their pricing system, it seems like you can get a novel-sized, perfect-bound, black-and-white paperback printed for as little as $5.17 for a 32 page book, and $19.33 for a 750 page book, with per-unit discounts on bulk ordering.
Seems like a 200 page novel would run about 7 bucks, and once it's uploaded, you can order as many copies as you like, at any time, and then "distrubute through 60,000 retailers, schools and libraries"
Quoted from their article:
Lulu
Lulu is a DIY publishing house. You write your book, upload it to the site, choose your cover, fonts and binding. Hey, presto! You're a published author. With no editors, Lulu has tiny overheads. Bob Young, Lulu's founder, says, "In traditional publishing, selling less than 20,000 copies isn't profitable. We thought there had to be a way to create a publishing opportunity for speciality authors who would only sell a few thousand copies a year."
Hence Lulu publishes anything, technology textbooks to "the world's largest collection of bad poetry". Lulu has produced more than half a million titles, and there are more than 100 writers on the Lulu roster making a full-time living from the royalties. Lulu's bestseller, with 70,000 copies sold, is a how-to book for cancer patients facing chemotherapy called Putting the "Can" in Cancer.
Lulu's website has a recommendations system much like Amazon's. "On Lulu, you might find the only book ever published on the planet on a given subject," says Young, "because we make money, and the author makes money, on a single copy of a book."
www.lulu.com
Lulu is a DIY publishing house. You write your book, upload it to the site, choose your cover, fonts and binding. Hey, presto! You're a published author. With no editors, Lulu has tiny overheads. Bob Young, Lulu's founder, says, "In traditional publishing, selling less than 20,000 copies isn't profitable. We thought there had to be a way to create a publishing opportunity for speciality authors who would only sell a few thousand copies a year."
Hence Lulu publishes anything, technology textbooks to "the world's largest collection of bad poetry". Lulu has produced more than half a million titles, and there are more than 100 writers on the Lulu roster making a full-time living from the royalties. Lulu's bestseller, with 70,000 copies sold, is a how-to book for cancer patients facing chemotherapy called Putting the "Can" in Cancer.
Lulu's website has a recommendations system much like Amazon's. "On Lulu, you might find the only book ever published on the planet on a given subject," says Young, "because we make money, and the author makes money, on a single copy of a book."
www.lulu.com
Seems like a 200 page novel would run about 7 bucks, and once it's uploaded, you can order as many copies as you like, at any time, and then "distrubute through 60,000 retailers, schools and libraries"
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