How to Sell Your Book with Lulu Print on Demand
If your want to sell your book with Lulu print on demand you need to make the eBook available in this format to begin with. This is very easy to do, thanks to the wealth of information and advice that Lulu gives you in its help section. Check out this Lulu section on formatting. This is broken down into stages so that you can easily access the parts you need. You can also pay Lulu to perform the editing for you and prices range from $200 for light editing to $500 for heavy editing.
Lulu also provides design prices for covers here where prices range from $80 for a custom eBook cover to $1,000 for a deluxe cover. The only thing to bear in mind with print on demand via Lulu is that you have the cost of actually printing the book to think about. There are still no upfront charges though – you won’t have to pay a thing until you make a sale. Check out their demo here. You can also see what they charge to print books here, just scroll down and the pricing tool is on the right.
At the time of writing Lulu has broken down the fees into two main types. First, there is a flat fee which they call a base cost. This is the same regardless of the type or size of book you want to publish. Second, there is a printing cost, which varies depending on how many pages your book has, and whether they are in color or black and white. Basically this is a flat fee per page, which is made in cents.
Lulu itself still takes a cut of the proceeds from each sale, but as with eBooks when you make a sale, you will simply receive your portion of the cover price in your account. Simple, eh? And if there is anything you aren’t sure about, you can bet that Lulu will have answered your question already in their help section. Although, they do also have a live help facility where you can speak to someone directly if you need to.
There’s also plenty of info about ISBN’s as well (remember those?), and it will benefit you to read it. If you just want to make a hard copy of your book available on Lulu, then you don’t need to worry about getting one if you don’t want to, but as we found out before, it is necessary if you want it available to 60,000 bookstores and libraries including Amazon and Barnes and Noble so that anyone can find out about it. You can also sell your products on CD through Lulu.
And since I’m assuming you want to be selling as many copies of your books as possible, you’ll probably be only too pleased to do whatever is necessary to make that happen.
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