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  • 51 of 51 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 KarenUK

    Member since 08/07/2000

    Reviews written: 1115

    4 Stars Now I Am A Published Author! 25/09/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages You can publish your own work - and just how you want it!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Have to buy own copies, American, can take a lot of time to upload.

    I have written things for as long as I can remember - stories, articles, poetry, half-novels, etc. but have found the whole area of publishing at best daunting and at worst soul-destroying. I have had some things published - poems, articles, that kind of thing - but the whole process is quite negative. You get rejected repeatedly; it's not great for a writer's fragile ego. If you do get accepted, you also sign over your work to someone who might wish to change it. So, how does it sound, if you had complete editorial control over your work? If you could publish it, edited as you wish, with your ... more
  • 33 of 33 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 2 bananamanuk

    Member since 25/02/2007

    Reviews written: 16

    4 Stars You Make Me Wanna Shout! - Lulu.com 23/09/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Good quality, Available to anyone, one to multiple prints, intuitive uploads

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Limited calendar options, quite expensive, low returns if product to be affordable, slow uploads.

    OVERVIEW If you have a creative flair that you would like others to enjoy then Lulu.com could be the place for you. It's an online self publishing website. I actually stumbled across it about a year ago, but only recently went back. It's changed a bit since I first used it, and now they will publish all manner of products on your behalf such as photos, calendars, books, photo books, brochures, posters and much more besides. This review accounts for my recent experiences using lulu.com which I hope is useful for others. WHAT IS IT? As outlined in the overview above, Lulu.com is a self ... more
  • 28 of 28 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 4 amytheduck

    Member since 07/02/2007

    Reviews written: 80

    4 Stars Become Your Own Publisher 24/02/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Publish your book, user-friendly website, the final product is great

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Preparing the book for publication can be quite a laborious process

    Lulu.com sounds like a dream come true for aspiring authors: a website that allows you to become your own publisher. But is it as good as it sounds? I have limited experience with Lulu - I've never been able to actually finish a novel, let alone consider going down this publishing route! Nevertheless, I have recently published a book for my sister's friend's birthday present, and it is this experience upon which I shall base my review. **So, what exactly is Lulu.com?** Lulu.com is one of the most well-known "Print on Demand" self-publishing web services for aspiring authors, photographers ... more
  • 61 of 61 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 2 lulucyole

    Member since 22/03/2006

    Reviews written: 9

    5 Stars Publish your work for free and sell it on Lulu.com 22/10/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages They now print from Europe, anyone can publish their stuff, it is free for everyone to use, excellent customer service

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Addictive website, makes you always want to create more things!

    I would like to share with all of you my experience of an online marketplace that functions a bit like e-bay, except that you actually sell your own work ! So you no longer have to search in your attic for old things to sell, but search instead in your imagination or hard drive for stories to tell, calendars, photobooks to create or songs to sing. SO WHAT IS LULU? No, it's not just the name of the famous uk artist who sings 'the locomotion', it's the only place on the web where you can publish, sell and buy any and all things digital - books, music, comics, photographs, calendars, films, and ... more
  • 82 of 82 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 donf18

    Member since 30/11/2000

    Reviews written: 808

    5 Stars Get yourself OUT THERE 26/10/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Free and perhaps profitable

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not seen any yet

    Since the early 1970's I have been writing poetry and have been fortunate enough to have had a few published. I have also had the honour of publishing a few here and getting an extremely positive feedback. I have on several occasions thought about publishing a book, but the expense and hassle proved to much, so I just kept them here on my old PC for private use. Recently I had cause to read a review about writing on that website on the other side. I was most intriguing and lead me to investigate further. There were two or three different sites mentioned for publishing your own work, but the ... more
  • 34 of 34 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 87degrees

    Member since 17/11/2005

    Reviews written: 164

    4 Stars So you like writing? 06/09/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Publishing, lots of variety, easy menus

    Disadvantages Disadvantages A lot that's not so good, shipping from America

    Lulu.com is a self-publishing website. If you have a book idea that you want to sell, but haven't managed to find a publisher or agent for it, you can put it on Lulu. Lulu works on the idea that people read the first few pages online and then buy a printed version or download the whole thing if they like what they've seen so far. It's not just for books either. Lulu sells magazines, calendars, music, videos and images. It's a good place to find things and it's a good place to sell things. ~~~ Buying ~~~ You can browse the different categories of Lulu in much the same way, so I will use just ... more
  • 26 of 26 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Frank1979

    5 Stars How to cook a Book 28/10/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Free publishing, easy to use

    Disadvantages Disadvantages you will have to do everything on your won, from start till end

    Hello dear friends, dear Ciaoaner, dear Buddies, and dear amateur authors, Here´s today my first review for you. Its automaticcly translated, and if not everything is O.K. don´t bother please. Its not so easy to translate such a huge review in your Language. So if you read it, please know that my english isn´t the best Here and today I would like to you to reports why my C sharp lately no more was redeemed, and why I myself have inserted artificial break short even if! Guilt for it is just the side www.LuLu.com For long now I already write short stories, books and poems. Unfortunately, I have ... more
  • 8 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 2 dbarcl10

    Member since 07/11/2007

    Reviews written: 22

    1 Star Lulu.com Publishing 14/08/2008
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages None

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Non delivery of goods, customer service unhelpful

    Lulu claims to allow you to publish books that you have wrote, whether you just want one copy for yourself, or if you want to start selling your own stories through the internet. Their site seems professional, with a choice of book types available, ranging from paperback to hardback, with or without dust jackets, colour printing, black and white, basically everything you could think of. I put together a book or my partner's peotry, and included some lyrics from favourite songs and famous sayings to pad the book out a bit. As a US site I expected the delivery to be slow, but having waited over ... more
  • 7 of 8 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 J3ster

    Member since 07/11/2008

    Reviews written: 2

    5 Stars Lulu - Publishing Carnage 11/11/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Easy to use - gets you out there

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None so far

    I found this site to be very easy to use and extremely useful. I wrote a book that I recently finished - I'm really happy with the work and wanted to publish it exactly how I wrote it before publishers messed around with it so I di here at Lulu. http://www.lulu.com/content/4801547 Lulu gave me the chance to do this and people are now buying the copy on-line. It's good for me as it allows me to publish exactly how i want to, it could also be good for people buying the copy as in time to come once published and stripped these copies may be worth a bob or two. I think the site is great and you ... more
  • 9 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 EthicsTrading

    Member since 01/10/2007

    Reviews written: 5

    5 Stars Lulu - Print to demand. 15/12/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages No cash up front, good quality, easy to use.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Complicated for full ISBN packages, still very American.

    I'm a Lulu self published author and the owner of an eco friendly business. I firmly believe that digital print to demand technology is the way forward for the publishing industry. Lulu provides this on so many levels and now they have a UK based printer they're even better. If you want just a few copies of a book for you, your family and friends you can do that or if you want to get a distribution package and try to tout it round shops and libraries then you can do that too. There are some drawbacks. You have to do ALL the work. You have to edit, proofread, format and sort layout. Unless you ... more
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