I have just gone through putting a book on Create Space and found that it is pretty easy. You have to buy proof copies at cost plus shipping (about $10 a book if you only need one proof) but other than that there is no cost.
There are several advantages to Create Space over Lulu: 1). Your book can get a free ISBN number. 2). Your book is sold on Amazon automatically, as well as Create Space. You can pay to have it listed in a couple of other channels so it can be sold in regular bookstores too. I'm not going to bother with that, though. Lulu books are only sold on Lulu.com. I don't have any way of knowing how my book sells there, since I don't get the royalties, but I'm sure it will sell much better on Amazon. 3). Amazon will (eventually) link my printed book to my e-book, and set up my printed book for Search Inside The Book. They haven't done it yet, but eventually they will. The books I plan to do this for are: Make Your Own Sugar Activities! Como Hacer Una Actividad Sugar E-Book Enlightenment The cover for MYOSA will be based on a scan of the existing Lulu cover, and I'll probably adapt that for the other covers as well. I'll price the books at $1 (or so) above the minimum price Create Space specifies, so they might be cheaper than the Lulu versions as well as easier to find. I do not plan to share profits because frankly I don't expect there to be any. My e-book career has made me less than $20 in royalties, total. "Como Hacer" has yet to sell a single copy on Amazon, although it has been a popular download on archive.org (455 downloads so far). James Simmons _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
