For my choice, I've chosen to review LuLu.com. This is a website designed to help people "publish, create, buy and sell their digital content on demand". They also sell other books as well, but their hope is to " have 1 million users that sell 10 books instead of 10 authors that sell 1 million books"
They are headquartered in North Carolina, but also have offices in the UK and Canada.
The site is pretty cool. You can publish everything from regular books, to eBooks, Wedding Books, Yearbooks and even Cookbooks. You can even do calendars. They have the templates and walk you through the process from start to finish. For instance, for a cookbook, you:
- Choose your binding (Hardcover or Paperback)
- Type in your recipes
- Add photos
- Publish
For authors they also offer the following packages:
- Pre-publishing service packages
- Marketing Packages
- Distribution packages
This month at the library we had a session entitled "Is there a book inside you?" If we decided to follow on with this theme and offer classes in "getting started on your book" we could also provide a list of valuable resources of which this is one.
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