Lulu is a company that provides superior self-publishing services including numerous formatting, sales, and marketing options. The Lulu website is easy to use with extensive support information and options necessary to self-publishing a book. 

 

Account Set Up

Setting up an account with Lulu is easy and free. Click the sign up link located at the top of the computer screen. The only information needed to start an account with Lulu is a first and last name, email address, name for the storefront page, and a password.

 

Book Format Options

Lulu offers numerous book format options such as hardback, soft back, eBook, and a PDF download.

 

Download Files

Lulu provides the ability to download multiple files allowing the ability to create and design a unique book. The downloaded files are converted by Lulu into one readable PDF file.    

 

Design Cover

Lulu provides tools to personally design the front, spine, and back cover of a book with pre set designs, colors, and fonts. Personalized pictures may be downloaded for customized book covers created from any photograph.

 

ISBN 

The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is a set of numbers that is unique to each book published which provides a means of identifying, listing, and tracking. An ISBN is provided by Lulu at no cost with all published books.

 

Public or Private Availability

All books may be made available to the public which are available through specific websites and multiple online search engines, or books may be kept completely private and unavailable to any third party.     

 

Amazon

Books published through Lulu are provided a free sales page on the Amazon website. The Amazon sales web page becomes available after the book is approved for final distribution.

 

Book Pricing and Profits

All book pricing and publishing profits are decided by the person who created the book and owns the rights to the Lulu account.

 

Publishing Cost

There is no cost for the self-publishing tools available through the informative, easy-to-use Lulu website.

 

Book Changes

Changes to the internal portion of the book or the cover design may be made at any time and there is no limit to the number of changes that may be made to a book.