By Shannon Yarbrough on November 13, 2008
Many of us are still boycotting Amazon due to the huge Booksurge/POD war that has been taking place this year. Many of us have moved forward and tried to find other venues for selling our books outside of Amazon. I hope it’s paying off for those of you out there pounding the pavement.
Posted in POD Diary, Sales, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon kindle, amazon.com, book royalty, kindle sales, lulu book review, POD, POD Diary |
By Shannon Yarbrough on November 11, 2008
While our fellow reviewer LK Gardner-Griffie was preparing for her WITW is MMC promo, she fell victim to Lulu’s price hike in production expenses, and she also pointed out to me that Lulu has increased its shipping expenses as well…
…my surprise over the increase in the shipping costs from a couple weeks ago to this is astounding…USPS media mail has increased from 3.95 to 5.90 for shipping one hard bound, so net increase of $4.95 over all. And gas prices have gone down. . . .go figure.
Posted in Opinions, Sales, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon shipping, barnes and noble shipping, book margins, book profit, book shipping, cost of shipping, lulu shipping, lulu.com, media mail, shipping books, UPS fuel surcharge, UPS shipping |
By Shannon Yarbrough on May 10, 2008
By now, most of us involved in the POD industry as authors have probably heard of Jeremy Robinson and his success story with self-publishing his first book on LuLu. Jeremy used his experience and success to also write a POD help book for other authors. It’s called POD People.
Posted in Getting Published, Marketing, Sales, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged jeremy robinson, Lulu, lulu.com, POD, POD People, print on demand, Self-Publishing |
By Shannon Yarbrough on May 3, 2008
Greetings all and welcome to May! Before we get rolling with this month’s reviews, I wanted to take some time out to discuss a few topics of the POD industry.
Although my Success tab at the top of this page has been extremely slow (hint…hint), it’s been nice to hear from some of you personally about the success of your Lulu books. When asked for advice, I seem to be saying the same thing over and over again…If you haven’t done so already, buy an ISBN for your book!
Posted in Getting Published, Sales, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged book distribution, ISBN, Lulu, lulu author, Lulu book, lulu book review, lulu.com, lulu.com book, POD, print on demand, Self-Publishing |
