LuluFail?

[jolantru]

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.

Comments

[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...