Lulu: Self Publishing For Free
In the first tentative steps of making Spike:The Book happen, I’ve been investigating various Print On Demand companies over the last few months. At the moment I am very stuck on Lulu.com as the place to publish Spike The Book. Not only is it super cheap to get it up and going, but I like the fact of having complete control over everything - the cover, the font, the spacing, the pictures - everything. This is because Lulu are a technology company, not a publishing company per se. They are a platform, not a provider. They want to make it easy for you to publish your book, whatever it is. And to do it all yourself, just as you want it. Reading the FAQs, I’m impressed with how well-written they are - simple, straightforward, understandable - and how free of bullshit they are. Lulu clearly Get It.
Moreover, once you’ve done one book through them - and been through the unavoidable pain of learning how to set up page templates etc - doing the next will be far less painless. A thousand small publishers could launch on the back of Lulu. I feel the idea of Spike Publishing emerging Alien-like from my guts at this very moment. Help me.
More on self publishing:
Spike | Google | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Wikipedia
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- Self Publishing: Lulu vs Publish And Be Damned
- Spike The Book
- SF Writers Sting Supposedly Traditional Publisher
- Publish And Be Damned
- Book Publishing: Don’t Give Up The Day Job
