Is Lulu.com a good publishing alternative?

Question

I have written many book manuscripts and have tried to get them published; however, I apparently have had no success! Therefore, I am looking at Lulu.com, and I have also had many people read my manuscripts and love them. In addition to this, I would rather much love to become a publisher and start off publishing my own books and build my way up to publish more books. Is Lulu.com a good self-publisher for me?

Answer 1

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As vanity presses go, Lulu is better than some, in that they don't lie to their customers about possible sales and writing careers.

But I still think self-publishing fiction is foolish. You can expect to sell maybe 65 copies, total (including the ones you buy yourself), no matter how good the book is, no matter how hard you market it. 50 is more likely.

That's one percent of the modest success by an unknown author, who might reasonably anticipate sales of about 5,000.

I strongly recommend fiction writers not self-publish. Instead, spend the money and effort learning to write better books that people will pay *you*, and let someone else do the marketing.

Answer 2

as long as you do not have any color pages inside. Even one color page makes it so they charge the color amount for EVERY page. It's a bit spendy no matter what. I wouldn't expect to sell much on the site just because they have so many more people publishing than actually looking.
Be prepared to do your own legwork...or maybe instead of looking at lulu look at some really small publishing houses. You may not make much but if you get some good feedback you can always take it to a bigger house for another edition.

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Answer 3

Get a free web host and put it online. Then send your link to sites like http://newfreebooks.com People will read it and there is always a possibility that if it becomes popular a publisher will want to pick it up.