http://self-publishingwithlulu.com Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:14:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I found another great tool for designing your book covers, courtesy of Lonesome Moose of Lulu, who wrote the ebook I recommended in my last post. His cover wizard script not only creates an exact measurement, based on your calculations and book size, but a barcode as well. All you ... http://self-publishingwithlulu.com/2008/01/12/one-piece-cover-wizard-for-photoshop-cs3/ Creating front and back covers for your book becomes second-nature after several practice runs. There are two things I've come to appreciate with this feature: the automatic calculation of the spine and the automatic inclusion of the barcode on the back cover. One-piece covers are a bit trickier to create because ... http://self-publishingwithlulu.com/2007/12/29/creating-my-first-one-piece-cover/ The reason I have neglected this blog is quite simple . . . I was publishing my book, testing out the one-piece cover feature. I'll post about that later, but I wanted to let you know that this blog hasn't died. I've just been extremely busy these past several months. Hope ... http://self-publishingwithlulu.com/2007/12/24/explaining-my-absence/ This week, I decided to veer away from book publishing altogether to experiment with some of the other features Lulu has to offer. As you know, I published my second photo book. I also tested out the calendar publishing feature and experienced similar setbacks. Another frustration I had was the ... http://self-publishingwithlulu.com/2007/10/20/publishing-a-calendar-with-lulu/ Lulu has made some good improvements with the latest upgrade, especially for digital scrapbooking fans. I had at least fifty photos to upload, which took about an hour with a DSL connection. The earlier version took about two hours, had a general clunky feel, and mediocre templates. Although the new ... http://self-publishingwithlulu.com/2007/10/19/publishing-a-photo-book-with-lulus-new-studio-wizard/ If you have an account with Lulu, then you have already received this message. If not, then this will be useful to you if you are planning on publishing photo books or books with the 9x7 dimension. Dear Lulu User, In our ongoing efforts to provide you with the most cost-effective ... http://self-publishingwithlulu.com/2007/10/15/lulu-20/ From Karen: How does Lulu pay royalty payments? Do they send a cheque? Are they other options such as paying directly into a Paypal account? Yes to both. Lulu pays royalties in US dollars, euros and pounds sterling either by check or PayPal. To set your payments, click on the My Revenue ... http://self-publishingwithlulu.com/2007/09/26/how-does-lulu-pay-out-royalties/ Lulu markets itself as the publisher who publishes for free. That's not quite true because they want you to order a proof of your book before you make it available to the public. A loyal reader wanted to know just exactly how much will it cost to publish through Lulu. ... http://self-publishingwithlulu.com/2007/09/17/how-much-does-it-cost-to-publish-a-book-through-lulu/ Karen writes: I didn’t like the fact that you couldn’t say where the title or author’s name were to be situated on the page. And…when I downloaded one of their covers to play with, I couldn’t get the font large enough so I still wasn’t happy. I ended up letting Lulu put ... http://self-publishingwithlulu.com/2007/09/10/design-software-for-book-covers/ I received a pleasant surprise when I uploaded the Lulu site to find that they have upgraded their interface. When I saw that they upgraded their photo book feature as well, I decided to check it out. I was disappointed with this feature back in March because the Java script ... http://self-publishingwithlulu.com/2007/09/05/some-changes-for-lulu/