Comments on: New Lulu eBooks are Here!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:54:04 +0000

I have a question about the ebooks – if we have, say 10 ebooks available for purchase with Lulu is there a way for us to also offer a free one to our customers through Lulu?

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Be iPad Ready with Lulu | Lulu Blog — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:47:12 +0000

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By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:44:42 +0000

Bring back the 99 cent non DRM PDF option!!! I have some older stuff I don’t feel is worth $1.49, as well as some really short stuff.

Make Paypal an option if you’re worried about credit card fees!!

By: Jayha

Jayha — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:02:05 +0000

does this take effect on the 3rd of november or are you guys retroactively imposing the 1.49 fee…which now gives you guys almost 50 percent of revenues for ebooks…

the reason so many of us independent authors went with lulu is b/c twenty percent is so doable…it is cheaper to post our books on ARE which takes forty percent…

By: Hugh Ashton

Hugh Ashton — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:54:41 +0000

Daniel

Here’s a suggestion for Lulu: Work with Lexcycle (Stanza developers) to get Lulu into the Online Catalog list of suppliers for the iPhone app. BooksOnBoard, Fictionwise, O’Reilly, etc. are there and there are payment mechanisms in place for those retailers that you can adopt, adapt, improve in order to facilitate payment (PayPal would be most acceptable to me, personally, but YMMV).

This would be a great way to get Lulu content into the iPhone etc. market.

A question – how compatible will Lulu ePubs be with the B&N nook? Can/will Lulu-sourced eBooks be distributed through B&N?

By: Atrus

Atrus — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:52:26 +0000

Yay for more formats but, DRM, really? From advocates of the CC license to friends of the digital lock?

I must admit, I’m not really enthusiastic of having to pay a higher (very high!) base fee for downloads so you can support a “feature” that goes against pretty much everything I believe to be honest and right in the world.

By: Hugh Ashton

Hugh Ashton — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:52:47 +0000

May I add my voice to the applause for support for ePub? It took me some time to work out how to make it work properly from InDesign, and there are still a few rough edges to my implementation, but I can now distribute my work on iPhone, etc. If anyone needs technical assistance with ePub, I may have time to help.

Giving us the choice to DRM or not is great – I chose not to, but it’s good that there is the choice. Thank you, Lulu.

By: John M

John M — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:52:24 +0000

Stamping each PDF page with the purchaser information (name/email) generally creates more value for publishers than does Lulu’s current approach.

Such a scheme is a strong incentive to not share content widely, as marking done properly is non-trivial to remove from a PDF. At the same time, it doesn’t reduce sales the way direct and indirect ways that “encrypted content” viewers do.

(Note: I previously worked on DRM strategy projects for a large tech company.)