LuluFail?

May. 27th, 2009 11:59 am
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Apparently, Lulu.com has opened up a third-party store at Amazon's marketplace: here. Many independent publishers on Lulu.com (including me) have received an email stating that our books have been selected to be placed on Amazon's marketplace with a 30% increase in price. So, the title Wolf's Voice is now apparently $19 something - expensive. I have already emailed Lulu support to remove the title. I want to opt out.

Now, for independent publishers, exposure is always good, but at the expense of exorbitant prices? No. And worse, Lulu has not made any announcement to its users that it would put their titles and books on Amazon's marketplace.

Lulu, you fail when it comes to user relations and marketing.

Date: 2009-05-27 05:40 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] siren_echoes
*nods* I haven't heard much about Lulu, but a similar publisher has had a similar abyssmal track record, according to a friend of mine. Publish America published her book, gave her two checks, and nothing more, though she knows for certain that she sold books to particular people she knows well after those checks were cut. They also are overpriced. I hope you can find a better publisher.... It seems a lot of these automatic-or-easy publishers are little better than a scam, unfortunately...

Date: 2009-05-27 08:53 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] siren_echoes
Oh yes, after what Sammie went through, I'll never go through them to publish any of my work. Rather stab myself in the foot.

I've been curious about self publishing, online especially. It's a venue I've thought about using for some of my graphic novel work. The marketing would be up to the author (and any friends/family of the author that are inclined to help promote), but if one can find decent resources, it could be a decent venue. There are some sites which give free samples of fiction, and charge a fee to read the rest. I'm not sure where they are (bookmarked on my old computer, which crashed), but they may be worth looking into. There are also several e-zines which would publish original short or serial fiction. Google is quite useful for writers ;) Print publishers, though, I don't really know much about, except evidently what to avoid...lol...

Date: 2009-05-28 06:05 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] siren_echoes
Wonderful; I'll point them out to her. She's still gunning for traditional publishing, I believe. She came close to having one of her novels published as a serial in a magazine once, but she declined due to them wanting to remove a key scene that she felt was necessary for the character. That seems to be one of the downfalls for traditional publishing... you lose creative control of your work.

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