Lulu.com TutorialCreated by Elizabeth Quigley

What is Lulu.com?Lulu.com is self-publishing, book printing and eBook publishing

website Founded in 2002 20,000 titles published per month Authors are able to keep the rights to anything published with Lulu For eBook publishing, Lulu has partnerships with Apple and Barnes & Noble so

authors can sell their work to any consumer with a Nook or iPad

Why should librarians useLulu?

With more libraries incorporating eReaders intotheir library collections, librarians need tohave an understanding of every aspect of thetechnology. Also, librarians can use Lulu to

publish their own eBooks with informationabout the library, it’s services and

resources, etc. directly onto eReaders in thelibrary.

This tutorial willteach you how to

publish your own eBook!

Getting started with Lulu

Lulu can be used on any browsercurrently installed on your computer

Lulu’s website is:www.lulu.com

On the Lulu homepage sign up for an account:

ClickHere!

Fill out required information andclick Sign Up button

When you log in to your account forthe first time you will see your

dashboard

On your dashboard,you can see how manycopies of your bookhave sold as well as

the revenue

This section notesbooks you have

ordered from otherLulu publishers

Click on Start a New Project in theMy Recent Projects to begin

Under books click on eBookto begin

Add a titlefor your book

Don’t forget yourname!

Pick a medium tosell your eBook

Click here whenyou are done!

Browse and upload yourdocument here

Click here onceyour file is

uploaded

Look! Lulu is turning your documentinto a file for publishing!

After your document is turned into an eBook file, you canchoose how you want it to look. Choose a theme, add

pictures or text; just make it your own!Check out this great post on Lulu’s blog about creating a

book cover if you need help! http://www.lulu.com/blog/2010/10/15/4384/

Before finishing your eBook makesure to set a price (it can be free

too).

Congratulations you are now apublished author!

Want to learn more aboutLulu?

Lulu’s blog:http://www.lulu.com/blog/

Lulu’s YouTube Page:http://www.youtube.com/user/LuluEnterprises

Review of Lulu’s eBook services:http://reviews.cnet.com/how-to-self-publish-

an-e-book Blog post from a Lulu author:

http://absolutewrite.com/novels/lulu.htm Article on Lulu’s eBook converter tool:

http://www.piworld.com/article/lulucom-launches-free-lulu-epub-converter-tool-word-processing-formats/1#