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Lulu.com - A review

February 09, 2008 12:31 PM EST

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A while back, I used Lulu.com to self-publish some collections of short stories. My experience there was quite smooth and without any problems. I know a lot of these print-on-demand places catch a lot of flak because so many of them rip off writers with up-front fees for doing next to nothing, but Lulu.com is not like that. Basically, they just print the books for you and offer a place to do the sales. The rest is up to you, as the writer, and that's pretty much how it goes in the publishing world.

The link below will take you to my full (and lengthy) review:

http://www.epinions.com/content_185841127044

Thanks!

-Bill

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Amber D. Feb 9, 2008, 2:22pm EST

thanks for sharing.

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*LORA* M. Feb 9, 2008, 3:00pm EST

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J W. Feb 9, 2008, 3:55pm EST

thanks for sharing

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juley g. Feb 9, 2008, 3:58pm EST

Thank you for the review Bill!

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Rhetta A. Jan 27, 2009, 10:55am EST

I love Lulu! I have used CreateSpace, and that was a good experience, but does not give me the distribution that Lulu does, and now that Lulu also offers a free ISBN, I am planning to stick with them. But at ThinkPlaza at http://thinkplaza.boomja.com, there is a whole section on printers and print on demand where people can do some research and see what their options are.

I have done four books, two of them small and two of them regular 6x9, 170+ page books, and have not had a single problem. I did T'ain't Nobody's Business with CreateSpace, which is owned by Amazon, and had no problem there, either, except that I did not get the distribution to other online bookstores that I get with Lulu.

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