Lulu CEO Bob Young on The Telepathy Standard for authors imparting content to readers. Learn why telepathy is the gold standard by which authors transfer content to their readers and how we are getting closer to that standard every day using the internet. Related articles The Telepathy Standard (lulu.com) Digital Book Printing Forum to be…
Lulu Blog | Lulu Support and Connect Update
Lulu Blog » Lulu Support and Connect Update: “As many of you are aware, a couple weeks back we launched a new forum and knowledge base platform, Lithium. Since then, we have been monitoring the feedback from our users, and thus far the new platform has been received quite positively. In fact, we’ve even seen…
Lulu Launch New Connect and Support Functionality Pages
Lulu has been doing some spring cleaning over the past few months, and today, the fruits of their endeavors went live – Connect and Support. Both new online facilities bring a strong defining line between how Lulu users access ‘how-to’ resources and request customer support. Connect replaces the old Lulu Forums, and Support will now solely be the dedicated…
Lulu: From Rough Patch to Drain? | POD People
Emily Veinglory of POD People considers Lulu, and whether the DIY self-publishing service provider has overcome the ‘rough patch’ or is now ‘circling the drain’. Related articles Popular gorilla Lulu dies at Ohio’s Columbus zoo (seattletimes.nwsource.com) Author Story: “How I Went About Self-Publishing” (lulu.com) Popular gorilla Lulu dies at Ohio’s Columbus zoo (sfgate.com) Most likely the shortest…
Lulu Trying to Fox The Geese with Author Profiles
Have a look at the three book covers displayed and tell me which one was self-published. It wasn’t hard, was it? Yes, Bachelor 101 – Cooking, Cleaning, Closing was the self-published title. But what is interesting is that the author, Jamie Reidy, published his cook book, after Hard Sell, a book that has went on…
Lulu Launch Discount Manager
Lulu (254.65) has launched ‘Discount Manager’, a new service allowing authors to set a discount on their books. The discount will come off the listed price of a book, but cannot be set below the minimun cost of the book set by Lulu. Authors should be aware that this is really just a tool to…
Review of BBC Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine on Self-Publishing
Last week BBC Radio 2’s midday programme, presented by Jeremy Vine, discussed self-publishing in the UK. The programme featured Kim Cross, MD of Grosvenor House Publishing (POD Index – 244.16), a UK author solutions service, and Simon Crump, a mainstream published author, as well as a host of phone callers. Crump was one of the few lone voices not in support of…
…and Some Useful Information From an Author Solutions Service
Earlier today we posted an example of misinformation from an author solutions service that gets self-publishing a bad rap and underlines the stigmas already out there. Well, just to show some really good information and advice can come from an author solutions service; here is AJ McDonald, a Lulu Public Relations staffer, offering some thoughtful…
Outer Banks Publishing Group – Overview
You may not recognise the name Anthony Policastro. There is no particular reason why you should. You also may not recognise a new publisher on the block called Outer Bank Publishing Group. Why should you? Well, Policastro used to be a business analyst for Lulu and Outer Bank Publishing Group is his brain-child—a digital publisher…
BookLocker Move on Lulu Authors with $18 (save $149) Offer
Angela Hoy, editor and proprietor at BookLocker, late yesterday made an open offer to any unhappy authors with Lulu to switch their books to the Maine-based POD publisher. In a bold announcement on this week’s edition of Writersweekly, Hoy drew attention to negative comments in Lulu’s forum from its own self-published authors. In a piece…