Linda, Thanks for all of the great information about Lulu! I hope to someday publish family information as well, but I know that it's going to be far in the future. Still, it's great to know a little bit about it now. - Jean Griesan :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Trent" <lindatrent@zoomnet.net> To: <ohlawren@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:25 AM Subject: Re: [OHLAWREN] Lulu was Turning data into a book > Yes, Lulu is the company I used. I was very pleased with the product. > They > have raised their prices just a bit, but they're still more reasonable > than > anything else I looked at. If you go to > http://www.lulu.com/en/help/book_pricing you'll see that the price per > page > is only 2 cents! With Lulu some of the advantages are: you upload your > PDF > file and they keep it (you can retire it whenever you want), there's no > money out until you buy a book, no minimum order, no books to sell, no > expensive publishing costs, the author maintains full copyright > priviledges > and can even put him/herself as the publisher. The only potential catch > is > they want the text in PDF format, and they want the text and photos > embedded. I took my Word document to a local computer person who did it > for > me for a nominal fee. > > I do suggest that people read any and all fine print before going with a > POD > (print on demand) company because they're not all the same. Lulu is one > of > the most nationally acclaimed PODs. They will give you a book number once > you send them your file and you can forward it to genealogy lists that > you're one to let interested people go straight to your book. An example > is > my own book http://www.lulu.com/content/966778 Lulu allows you, f or > free, > to have a preview of your book, give a description of it, and give key > words > to make it easier for people to find. Lulu allows you to set your own > price, they get only 20% of your profits! You can have your documents > made > into books, CDs, DVDs, or available for download. My book can be > downloaded > by anyone for a mere $4. > > I'm currently 3/4 of the way through my mother's lineage which is out of > Montgomery County. When I complete it I will take it to Lulu as well. I > have been more than pleased, and if only I hadn't purchased about 10 > copies > myself for libraries, including the one in Lawrence County (it contains my > Rice, Hixon and some other Lawrence County families), and genealogical > societies I wouldn't have had to paid anything except for my own copy. > > Linda. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHLAWREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >