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]

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.