We have talked a lot about the benefits of digital print on demand technology and the benefits for authors wishing to self-publish, but less about the benefits POD has offered many global organisations. One of those organisations is ARO, a Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist tradition, a non-profit charity principally concerned with transforming the experience of everyday…
John Edgar Wideman: The New Lulu VIP Literary Genius?
Award winning American novelist, memoirist and short story author John Edgar Wideman has been a part of the literary publishing establishment since the late 1960’s. He has published books with Harcourt, Henry Holt and he has had a long-running contract with Houghton Mifflin. Those books have brought Wideman two International PEN-Faulkner Awards (1984, Sent for…
Lulu Launch Open Publishing Platform For Developers
Lulu used the last day of the O’Reilly Media Tools of Change conference in New York, where they are a sponsor, to announce the launch of an open publishing platform for software developers, publishers or any company wishing to use Lulu’s publishing engine. This will allow a company to develop, build and integrate their own…
Lulu Reinstate Live Chat Support
Last year Lulu chose to withdraw their ‘Live Chat Support’ service and this drew a great deal of criticism from Lulu authors. Recently, Lulu’s forum has been full of much discussion about the poor response times from Lulu support by email. Well, it appears the penny has finally dropped with Lulu and they have decided…
Pulling Your Hair Out With Formatting?
If you are having trouble with formatting your book for DIY self-publishing sites like Lulu and CreateSpace, and have pulled out most of the hairs on your head, then click over to Cindy Bauer’s excellent step-by-step guide to formatting in MS Word on Visual Arts Junction. Some sites will allow you to load up your…
The Late Night Lulu Show with – Nick Popio
piZap.com free online photo editor HERE’S…… NICK!! [Loud Audience Applause as Nick walks out on stage] “…I don’t know about you, but my favorite price is always free. Love and ideas are some of the greatest things in life, and both are completely free. They are also the main components in creating a book. When…
Selfpublishing.com – Reviewed
Selfpublishing.com has the name every author solutions service would love to have got their hands on. Company founder Ron Pramschufer, a veteran of the print and publishing industry and author of the widely popular self-publishing guide, Publishing Basics – a Guide for the Small Press and Independent Self-Publisher (Navigating the Self Publishing Minefield), proved to…
2010 May Be The Time For Lulu To Drop The Self From Self-Publishing
Lulu are looking to continue in 2010 where they left off last year with a sustained attempt to address and improve all facets of their website and publishing services, and perhaps gain back some ground they lost to their rival competitor CreateSpace. Though Lulu did strengthen their marketplace in-house and with outside affiliations, as well…
2009: The Year That Was (Sept – Dec)
SEPTEMBER Bob Miller, President of HarperStudio, shared some pertinent views in September on the future of publishing with PublishingPerspectives.com on how he saw the need for the relationship between publisher and author to become more of a partnership of commitment. […]”I believe that publishers and authors should be equal partners, sharing profits fifty-fifty, as we…
2009: The Year That Was (May – August)
MAY Amazon announced the launch of its Kindle DX in May featuring a larger 9.7 inch screen, more memory and wireless facilities. It will be available later this summer. We got the chance to interview Eileen Gittens, CEO of Blurb, on POD, Self Publishing & Independent Publishing, and you can read that interview here. Amazon…