http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:09:41 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/17/084932.php#comment-626086 Very informative and uplifting article. Thank you. Although I have two book printed by a conventional publisher (Touring the Giant's Rib: A Guide to the Niagara Escarpment, Boston Mills Press; Credit River Valley, Boston Mills Press), I opted to have my recipe book, Recipes of a Dumb Housewife, published through Lulu. I'll be releasing my historical novel, Shadow Song, this fall, also through Lulu. Found your comments on marketing quite useful. And the fact an agent contacted you after the fact, inspiring. Regards, Lorina Stephens 626086@blogcritics.org Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:09:41 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/17/084932.php#comment-623657 Faith - The only downsides I've had with Lulu is that their printing doesn't allow you to include color pages in a B&W print, so if you want color pictures, the whole book has to be in color which is expensive. Their B&W print is like most standard paperback books I've seen, very good for text and illustrations, but only ok for photos. I've done the text formatting myself on all the projects in Adobe InDesign and uploaded a PDF. You will want to format the text in Word at the least. There is a maximum # of pages per book, I think It's in the 700s. You will retain ownership of the rights to your book, and you can always cancel the project and take your book to another publisher if you wanted. Also, Lulu allows you to keep your book private until you are ready to release it. Or , if you only wanted to make copies available to your family, you can generate a private URL that is not listed anywhere but you can send it to people. 623657@blogcritics.org Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:18:59 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/17/084932.php#comment-612350 I am considering LuLu for my genealogy book. I have accumulated data on my entire family since 1630 (not just my branch of the family!). I played with the LuLu website and it was asking me to give them an estimate on the number of pages so they could send me a cost quote. I have no earthly idea how to estimate that. If I printed all the text data off my website onto 8x11 paper it would probably amount to about 1500 pages and that would not include pictures. Can you give me some tips? I think I would end up having to publish in volumes. Also, were there any downsides to LuLu I should be aware of? Their contract sounds pretty scary. Thank you! 612350@blogcritics.org Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:50:42 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/17/084932.php#comment-608276 Great interview :) 608276@blogcritics.org Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:55:03 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/17/084932.php#comment-603443 This article was very interesting and useful. I am wondering one thing. It appears key that in order to get reviewed you need to have galley copies (also then you can put review snippets on the book cover or back)...but I don't know if any POD companies allow for this. Did you need galley copies to get reviewed and were you able to get them? Michelle 603443@blogcritics.org Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:43:05 EDT