Have you published anything on Lulu.com?? How was your experience?  

I only heard it today from you and I haven't check the site yet. I actually a newbie in writing field, i start to learn how to write in english in the right and attractive style since i will write my research degree work in english. For the time being I started to join a site that pays the write for their site. I guess to write a book is still too far for me. Anyway, thank you for the site,..at least i learn something here

I haven't self-published but I will be curious to hear from others. I think that the self-publishing route is ok if your work is in a niche market that only a limited number of people would read, but you still have to do all the marketing and selling of the book yourself. My question is why, if you have a mainstream novel or nonfiction work, you would want to self-publish? If you can't get your work published by an established publishing company, shouldn't that be telling you that your work is not good enough? I am just curious. I am not trying to be negative, and as I stated at the outset, there is a value for self-publishing when you have a limited audience, and a publishing company could not sell enough copies of a book to make it viable commercially. With all the books being published every year by real presses, what advantage do you have by self-publishing?

If you self-publish, how do you get royalties from your book, assuming someone's interested in buying? I ask, because I see online some e-book sites require you to join their site before gaining full access to the book's entirety.

I am a Christian and an author and translator of the Word of God from Greek to English.

I have already published GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS (Greek-English), THE WILL New Testament (Greek to English), ELEMENTS of SALVATION, The Right Way, GOD, ORIGIN, TRANSFER into PERFECTION, GREEK-ENGLISH (Grammar & Vocabulary), WORDS in THE WILL New Testament, and others shown at

http://www.lulu.com/arseniajoaquin

I have not spent even a single cent in publishing all my books at lulu.com It's easy to follow instructions. There are no set up fees and authors are not even required to buy a copy of their own book. I hope that you'd be able also to publish there.

I don't have any personal experience, but I've heard really good things.

Kelly

I have never but it sounds like a wonderful idea. I think though you need to be careful of copyrights and ownership.

what is this lulu.com is all about never heard about it

I published a volume of adult stories using lulu and found it great fun to do. I've done other forms of self publishing in the past, doing everything myself right down to the printing, but this was so much easier. You have nothing to lose, you can even modify your book later as they only print what is actually ordered, so give it a go and see how you get on.

I just know about this site, i never heard about it. I write sometimes and i think that i would finish my book some day :), just joking, i try a lot to finish my book but always i have to fix somethings.
thanks for the link

I've never published from LULU. It looks good, but do they help you with a book cover or do your books get converted to e-books. I would like the option of having my would-be books become hard copies because most of the people who would want to buy one would most likely prefer a traditional hard copy book in their hand.