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SELLING YOUR EBOOK ON LULU.COM: Lulu is probably the best known and most successful website that is geared up to help people like you self publish and sell their books.
The great thing about Lulu is that there is no charge to put your eBook online. Once someone buys a copy, Lulu takes its cut and the remainder of the cover price (which you set yourself) goes into your account. And they will pay via PayPal too, so it’s all nice and easy.
Lulu adds 25% to whatever price you decide to sell your eBook for, so bear this in mind when you figure out your selling price. Let’s say for example that you want to receive $10 for each copy you sell. Lulu would add $2.50 to that sum (25% of $10 is $2.50), so the final selling price would be $12.50.
You might need to experiment with some different prices to make sure you get the result you want, but since Lulu doesn’t charge you for the privilege of using the site, this is a very pleasant split between them and you for every copy you sell.
You can also choose to sell your eBook completely free of charge if you wish. Remember what I mentioned about selling a freebie to encourage more interest in the real thing? Well you could certainly do that here if you wanted to. Just make sure that the freebie is worthwhile and offers real value, so that people will cross over to your website to find out more about the paid version.
PRINT ON DEMAND (OR POD)
Print on demand, or POD, publishing might sound like something from outer space, but it is quite a simple process and what’s more it can make your eBook even more attractive to potential buyers.
So how does it work? Well, whether you like it or not, not everyone likes eBooks. Plenty of people do, but there are also plenty of people who prefer to have a solid book in their hands instead of reading it on their computer.
In the past, if you wanted to transform your eBook into a proper printed volume, you would have had to spend a few hundred dollars on a set number of books up front. Most printers had (and still have, in some cases) a minimum print run, which means that you can only reduce your costs so far; if you don’t sell your book, and it doesn’t prove to be as popular as you thought it might be, then you could end up with a garage full of books that end up gathering dust for months and years to come.
Print on demand does away with this danger. Let’s suppose you go down this route with Lulu, for example. You can still sell your eBook as an eBook, but you will also be able to offer it for sale as a standard book. You upload your manuscript as an eBook, and it’s ready for download as soon as someone buys it in that format.
But what happens when someone wants to buy it as a standard paperback book?
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