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Posted by Thomas Retterbush on Sunday, September 19, 2010
Under: Publishing
The Lulu Marketplace of 700,000 Published Titles includes the works of Bestselling Author John Grisham!
You too could be a Lulu success story!
Lulu is not just for print on demand books, it's also a widely-respected ebook publisher. For ebook writers who don't want to start and market their own website for their ebook, using Lulu is a viable option. The requirements on formatting are strict, but the commission fees are reasonable and Lulu gets a lot of traffic from interested ebook buyers.
Selling a Book through Lulu
Lulu publishes both books and ebooks, and ebooks are priced by the writer at whatever price point he chooses. So as you can see, you hold all the cards. You pull the strings. You make the decisions.
No Fees
There are no fees charged to the writer by Lulu to host the book or set up the account. Hosting is free!There is only a commission fee for sales.
Writers have the option of giving away free ebook downloads for promotional purposes. For some writers, this is a valuable for their portfolios. Lulu charges no commission for such cases!
Writer Sets Price
When a writer sets a price for an ebook, Lulu charges the industry standard 25 percent commission fee. However at Lulu, there is also the option of making the ebook available on a print-on-demand basis!This is not required, but it’s nice to have the option to also be able to offer your book in a “hard-cover”, printed version if need be.
What to Publish on Lulu
There are no requirements when publishing a Lulu book, as to what you may or may not write. Lulu publishes fiction, nonfiction, reference materials, calendars, photo or picture books. To get a feel for what ebooks are popular through the site, take a look at the Lulu best sellers.
There is no minimum page length, so it is possible to publish short stories, novellas, essays, even series through Lulu.
Marketing a Lulu Book
Lulu does wide-range, extensive marketing to bring in book and ebook buyers, however to elevate sales, many writers engage in their own marketing. This can be anything from blog and social media postings, to article marketing, to search engine marketing. Some writes even use Google pay-per-click ads to draw interested buyers to the purchasing page.
Lulu is quickly becoming a publishing name associated with major players like Amazon and Barnes & Nobel, even taking 1st Place at the Web 2.0 Book Awards*
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As you may know, Google is making an effort to scan every book in the world. The goal is to create a giant online database of every book that can be searched.
One small problem is the fact that Google is violating copyright laws.
Copyright Google argues its book database doesn't violate copyright laws. The company suggests it only shows short passages and accompanies the text with ads showcasing where the full books can be purchased.
Of course, the ads are Google Adwords from which the company makes a tidy profit. On Tuesday, the search goliath rolled out stand-alone book search services in 14 countries. The same day, the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA) became the latest publishers' organization to call Google's opt-out strategy backwards.
Authors, Publishers and publishing associations are not happy. While Google only publishes the full text of books in the public domain, it is still copying entire books for which it has no permission. Google claims it can do this because the books are being scanned from versions owned by public libraries. Fearing an avalanche of lawsuits, Google backed off.
In August, Google stopped scanning copyrighted books in public library collections. At the same time, it gave publishers the right to submit lists of books the publishers didn't want scanned. As you can image, publishers still aren't happy.
The Arrogance of Google
Once viewed as the underdog to giants such as Microsoft, Google continues to act like the local school bully.
In this case, the company has taken such an arrogant approach that lawsuits are inevitable. Google is going to take a beating in the lawsuits and here is why.
Consider the neighborhood you live in. What if a local crime syndicate informed every household it was going to steal everything in each household. Undoubtedly, there would be calls of outrage. In response, what if the crime syndicate then suggested you could send a list of items in your house that you didn't want stolen? This is exactly what Google is doing. Google's decision to scan every book in the world is idealistic, but laughably simple minded. At a time when the recording industry is suing teenagers for file swapping, one would think Google would get a clue.
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