B&N Partners with Lulu to Add Self-Pubbed Books

[L.J. Sellers]

This brief story appeared in Shelf Awareness today. Good news for indie authors using Lulu.
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A new partnership between online self-publisher Lulu.com and Barnes & Noble is designed to help writers publish and distribute their works to owners of Nook e-reading devices.

Bob Young, founder and CEO of Lulu, called the deal "another step in our passionate effort to help Lulu creators reach more readers and sell more books."

"We are excited to partner with Lulu.com to bring its catalog of fantastic e-books to our rapidly growing community of millions of Nook owners and readers," said Jim Hilt, v-p of e-books at B&N, adding that the company is committed "to bring readers new and unique e-books by great authors that can be found with partners like Lulu.com."

http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1567