Lulu - a revolution?
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- wrongtest
Is this revolutionary for publishing? It seems like a fantastic idea..
- ********0
hmmm,
it looks revolutionary...
but i'm afraid we'll see a lot of crap coming out...
"Authors are rejected not because the book is terrible but because the publisher thinks the book will not sell enough," says Mr Young.
This is the twisted principle of Tabloids: if people eat shit then it's ok. It's a wrong view, pretty common in eager people.
Publishers are usually people knowing about books, etc. and they sort of filter stuff. I'm not sure that's bad.
- ********0
but it's a fantastic new niche, no doubt.
- rasko40
hmm they do need to have some kind of filtering to maintain the signal to noise ratio, but no doubt it would mean that a lot of potentially good authors who perhaps break the mould will get a chance to get noticed whereas before they would be unheard of, and this can only be a good thing.
they would definately have to have some good reviewers or some good way of letting you find your kind of thing amidst what could potentially be an enormous selection of books/authors you have never heard of.
- zaven0
and is a good chanche also to discover really bad writers and create a sort of B-books market
- Bluejam0
i'll give it 2 months before dezigners give up the downloadable pdf magazine format and go for this...
- ********0
Isn't this old news?
- ********0
true for new potential authors with no connections. It's hard to get in.
but imo it's bound to deepen the cleavage between self-publishing and publishing houses.
furthermore, the samples i've seen look like powerpoint slides.. and who the hell is going to buy a book that reads "publish by LULU"?
wtf? lu-lu?
they could have come with a better name.
but this is my first impression.
- wrongtest0
I really have to applaud the idea.. And if the system works as thorougly as it seems then it'll be incredibly popular.
Clearly, as you all say, they'll be a huge amount of stuff, and they'll need to be some way to filter through it - reviews and so on...
It's a great opportunity for just getting your stuff out there in some way..
- wrongtest0
Witt - you can upload the whole publication as a PDF so you in theory can set it all exactly as you want..
However they also will take word docs and print them, so that's probably what a lot of people without design skills/software will do...
- ********0
It's a very interesting thing no doubt.
I haven't got into any specs though. You know, the details.
- ********0
Cafepress.com has offered this for a year now...
- ********0
- wrongtest0
Fair play theTick...seems like they do do a similar service... It's certainly all very interesting, but I guess the advantage of the Lulu thing is it looks like it's specifically geared around publishing.
Will look into the cafepress stuff though.
- ********0
If they take uploads from word its amazing they can print anything at all....... Some of these books must look terrible.
- ********0
There was anoyther company too that started doing this like three or four years ago in the States...
i think they're the oldest doing this...
- Engage_London0
wow... sounds great... you could offer people to buy a portfolio from your site... really neat!
- ********0
Does Lulu do color interior pages?
- wrongtest0
TheTick - Lulu does full colour across the whole book.. I think that's one of the advantages... They seem very well geared up for doing this. Cafepress - everything seems a little hidden... iUniverse looks a bit less thorough..
But it's good to see despite what I though today, there is nothing new in the world!