I've just checked out the lulu web site. They do allow upload of Digital Media for sale (e.g. ebooks), and they take just 20% of the sale price (as opposed to the 65% that Amazon/Mobipocket take).
The drawback is that they only sell through the lulu.com web site, and the search facilities aren't brilliant, nor are the other formats linked to the book's main page.
But if Will made Mobipocket/LRF/ePUB versions of his book, he could upload them to lulu.com and sell them with no more difficulty than he's selling the PDF. And no DRM needed.
I'm very pleased to have found this thread, which prompted me to take another look at Lulu.com's digital media sales. Handling the storage, ordering and downloads for 20% seems a good deal to me.
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I think from reading his blog it is not so much the technical aspect of producing the book, but the order and fulfillment aspect. Lulu makes it easy with a PDF. He said he was going to check it out for the other formats.
I think this is a great opportunity for Lulu to embrace ePub as a format from which they can deliver all ebook formats and as a print edition.
BOb
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