Publishing at lulu is so easy

Thank you. Do give a try even if you have never published before, it's much easier than you think. And children story is the easiest to write. Everything is possible, even to ask the sun to come out from the west.

Belated welcome to mylot. Hope you enjoy yourself here. Many of us are very busy posting and commenting during this time of the month, hopefully to earn enough to reach payout by the end of the month. Just a tip to you, post longer comment (about 7 lines), and you should be able to reach payout every month. Enjoy yourself and make a lot of friends here.

Hi Sunmoonandstars, I agree that Lulu.com is more better for people who own their businesses. Lulu.com even allows using traffic exchanges to channel traffic. That's something that cannot be done at many article submission site. Please keep us posted on your adventure with lulu.com

Mine is in ebook format, publication is almost instant. If you want to sell your book in physical and online bookshops, you have to acquire the IBSN number, which you can access from lulu. There are some writers who choose both option, the print copy (mostly in paperback) is much more expensive than ebook format. Some writers even let readers enjoy free download of ebook. Even a 1,000 words article can be converted into ebook and sell for a few bucks.

If you tell me one year ago to write and publish children story, I will say I can never do so. Now that I have tried and successfully published, I feel it's the easiest thing to do. Children have lively imaginations (so do I, I'm only 5 years old at heart) and everything is possible. The whole story is less than 1,500 words, if I can make $50 from it, I will be very happy.

Hi Oceanzealot, thank you. The Taoist temples are really artistics, with a lot of beautiful wall carving and paintings. Those really bring me into fairyland. I like the easy publication system in Lulu. There is no need to wait weeks to publish. Plus I can quote my own price. The only thing I do not know is the marketing part. I'm still learning and reading the forum.

Hi Roxanne, you do not need to pay lulu anything for publishing the book. Lulu earns when you earn. If you put your book for sale at $1, Lulu commission is 25%, meaning $0.25, so the buyer will have to pay $1.25 to download your book. The minimum payout from Lulu is $5 and pays direct to your paypal. Publishing is very easy, everything is automated. Upload your story in word format, the conversion to pdf takes just a few seconds to a few minutes (depend on the length of your file). You do not even need to write a thick book. Some writers make their ebook available for free, the length is only a page or 2. Some sell for a few cents. It's quite an experience, encourage you to give a try. The difficulty is in the marketing. I have not learnt how to market my book yet.

Hi Canellita, sold only two books so far, I didn't really spend time to promote the books, just let it be. I didn't even bother to do a writeup for the storefront, to make it searchable! I wonder where the buyers come from. Considering that the writings take just an hour or so per book, and they are children stories, I am quite happy with the earnings. I read in the forum in lulu.com that most ebooks in business and finance sells very well, poetry and children books are at the bottom of the list.

Hi Canellita, lulu.com is one of its kind, hardly have any website comparable to lulu.com. It's through the discussion thread in mylot that I get to know lulu.com. Some writers here published fantasy tales or poems, and self-published in lulu.com. I doubt they did enough marketing, however, they did enjoy the writing and sell a book every now and then. The best about lulu.com is that you can use whatever marketing method you want, traffic exchange is acceptable. According to the discussion in the forum at lulu.com, some writers use a few traffic exchanges to generate traffic to promote their ebooks, and nearly shut the whole lulu down. Even then, it's ok with lulu.com, since lulu earns commission of 25% on sales.

This is so very interesting! I wonder what I can think of to create an ebook from. What made you choose lulu?

Hi Vidhyaprakash, it is hard to promote your books. This place is not like those writing sites where people read for free. You have to get people to buy the book, and the site keeps part of it as their revenue. If you are writing business books, you have a chance to sell a few copies. But not for stories, you will not make much money.

I have been meaning to ask you about Lulu. I guess now I have my answer :-)

My book is not a story book, it is about online earnings and paypal issues, hope i will sell some books. What about your experience? did you sold any of your books? in what ways you are promoting your books.