Subject: RE: Self Publishing Example Lulu Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:32:48 -0600 Message-ID: <9BC6FA9E5F3D4142BF32F0CE10C623D9C4EB66@BCC-MAIL1.buffalocounty.com> From: "Historical" <historical@buffalocounty.com>
Sara,
The Buffalo County Historical Society did this for a
collection of writings from a prominent local historian. I used Lulu and
am very happy with the books. Probably the best feature for us, was that
we advertised and took pre-orders for the book at a $5 discount from
regular price. We set a deadline for pre-orders and told people the
books would be in 3 weeks later than that date. Then, we took all the
money we got from preorders and bought as many books as we could,
resulting in an order from Lulu of about 40% more books than we had
orders for. This gave us a stock to sell in our office while never
needing a single penny from our own funds to get the project started! If
you have any questions, feel free to call or email me!
Good Luck!
Mr. Kelly Herold
Executive Director
Buffalo County Historical Society
407 South Second St.
PO Box 394
Alma, WI 54610
608-685-6290
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From: localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu
[mailto:localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu] On Behalf Of Sara
Nuernberger
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 4:37 PM
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
Subject: Self Publishing Example Lulu
I am interesting in hearing from anyone who has self-published a book
for their historical society. We are currently putting together our
final draft for a book on the history of the one room schools in Taylor
County that we are interested in self publishing.
Has your organization done this?
Did you use Lulu or another of the online publishers?
Where you happy with the quality of the book?
Was it easy to use their service?
Was it more cost effective to self publish so you could order a smaller
quantity of books?
Thanks you.
Sara Nuernberger
Board Member
Taylor County Historical Society, Medford