[Janet Merza]

I found Smashwords really helpful, although it's true that it takes longer to get on the premium catalogue - there's so many brilliant authors out there, obviously!
I don't know about Lulu, but another big advantage of Smashwords is that it gives you a much bigger slice of the sale price than Amazon. It also makes it really easy to offer your books for free for limited periods and to specific people through its coupons - I used a coupon to send my book to reviewers and it worked really well...