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Lulu.com - Self Publishing For Free
Despite the TV, DVDs and the Internet, books are still among us in huge numbers, and nothing seems to kill them off. Nowadays any book is easy to find, and due to globalization, books don’t become national bestsellers, they are now worldwide bestsellers.
But how can you find an unpublished book by an unknown author? There’s certainly no bookshop or library which provides these. Here is where Lulu appears. This site works as a huge virtual bookshop, with the exception that the books offered by the site aren’t physically in existence. So, how do you actually get any of the books offered by Lulu? The site offers a sort of double faced service; it offers and publishes the books, although they firmly maintain they are not a publisher. All you need to do is to order a book from their database, and they print it just for you. The site is free every step of the way, except for the purchasing. If you wish to submit a book that you have written, all you need to do is to sign up to the site for free, upload it, and wait for someone to buy it ti get your revenues. The site’s benefit appears only when a book is purchased, obtaining a small percentage in commission.
Lulu.com In their own words
“Lulu is the web's premier independent publishing marketplace for digital do-it-yourselfers. It's the only place on the web where you can publish, sell and buy any and all things digital — books, music, comics, photographs, movies and well, you get the idea. We simply provide the tools that leave control of content in the hands of the people who created the content. You see, Lulu is a technology company, not a publisher. So you can use Lulu to publish and sell any kind of digital content, and no one here is going to ask you to change anything. Ever. Your vision is entirely YOURS.”
Why Lulu.com might be a killer
The service offered by the site may be of great help for anyone interested either in selling their unpublished books or buying relatively unknown books. The concept created by Lulu is totally revolutionary, granting the opportunity to be the next big thing in online book selling. There are lots of people interested in selling their book, but no publisher accepts them, so the potential users and audience of this site may be humongous.
Some questions about Lulu.com
Shouldn’t they also provide books which are currently published? If publishers choose not to publish these books, will readers choose to purchase them? How will the quality of the books printed by Lulu compare to the quality of a book published by a proper publisher? What differentiates Lulu from its competitors?
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