Comments on: Lulu Lens: What Features Do You Need To Make Your eBook a Success?

By: ruaninvestor

ruaninvestor — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:47:26 +0000

I think the best innovation Lulu.com can do is more than only have our ebooks available in the most popular readers formats is open the possibility to sell them as audiobooks or videobooks.

By: Charlie vanBecelaere

Charlie vanBecelaere — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:24:21 +0000

I think DRM is a red herring. As mentioned in a few other comments, it’s inherently anti-consumer, and it’s also pretty ineffective at preventing piracy anyway.
I think having a reasonable variety of formats available, as well as being able to sell them at other bookstores (Amazon, iTunes, etc.) would be a requirement for any reasonable system.
In general, it would be nice to move beyond the pdf format to accommodate all the new ebook readers out there.

By: Schuhe

Schuhe — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:08:55 +0000

I have many things to sell, but I am still learning how to utilize this website. I hope soon I will start.

By: Anna Logan Riversby

Anna Logan Riversby — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:07:15 +0000

I believe guys at lulu should make all best efforts to pre-include all the mst popular features re e-books so we artists dont have to think about it much…it interfears with artistic process…:-) Thank you Lulu, withouth you i wouldnt publish my e-book…i already have 2 copies sold…and i published yesterday!

By: Julie Williams

Julie Williams — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:36:46 +0000

I have a book which I have been selling quite succesfully as a hard copy on Ebay. The topic is quilting and it illustrates a revolutionary way of quilting which is totally unique. I would like to publish it as an ebook on lulu but I need to protect it from being downloaded and freely copied. I know of a program called EBook Gold which protects my pdf file from being copied, cut and pasted etc and provides links to paypal for purchasing etc and provides a means of refund which at the same time wipes the bought copy off the buyer’s hard drive so he cannot hang on to his bought copy after obtaining a refund. I wonder if I created my e book with this program whether it could be donloaded onto Lulu.

By: Dusk Peterson

Dusk Peterson — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:04:17 +0000

I did a survey of my readers to see which e-book formats I preferred, and nearly all of them wanted PDF or HTML. I’m currently publishing HTML e-books through Lulu, using the digital files (multimedia) option (which I very much hope you’ll keep, because one of my e-books has multiple files and is therefore sold in zipped format). ePub is another format I’ve considered, since it’s gaining ground. Support for downloading to mobile devices would be a handy feature. As for licensing/copyright protection, all of my writings are Creative-Commons-licensed, and I do *not* sell DRMed versions of my writings – so I’d like the ability to opt out of any DRM.

Also, I’d like to be able to choose which formats my books will appear in – so if six formats are offered, I’d like to be able to say “no” to particular ones.

What has held me back from using e-book seller sites like Smashwords is two things:

1) Detailed requirements for formatting of the source file. I don’t want to have to spend as much time on formatting as I did on writing the e-book.

2) The inability to sell e-books in the exact formatting that I upload. That is, I can’t upload an HTML e-book that I’ve formatted myself and know that it won’t go through some sort of re-formatting procedure. Automatic re-formatting is fine as an option, but I’d like to be able to turn off that option if need be.

By: S.Jagannatha

S.Jagannatha — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:00:50 +0000

I do not know much about marketing. I would like to sell my poems with colourful graphics online that’s all. I want to send you the whole stuff in PDF format.You are now telling that PDF is not safe. If it is not safe, could you please suggest me any alternative method.

By: Jean Lewis

Jean Lewis — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:38:25 +0000

Yes protection is very important as is as many formats as possible. With devices like Sony Reader support is not really necessary as all the required software comes with the device and I have found ebooks very easy to download in all formats.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:11:11 +0000

Why don’t you guys RAISE THE UPLOAD LIMIT. I want to use DVDs as an alternative format option, but a DVD is two gigabytes and the limit is 100 megabytes. My only other real option is to turn to Amazon for DVDs even though I’m currently selling my book through lulu!

By: Natasha Hanisi

Natasha Hanisi — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:34:49 +0000

I would like ability to:
1. add files (like video/voice clips) onto my ebook
2. have full protection like can’t print/copy/transfer/forward particularly if you have a refund policy of 3 days
3. many distributable formats