Where Everyone Gets a Book Deal

Where Everyone Gets a Book Deal

Where Everyone Gets a Book Deal

Vanity publishing isn't just for third-rate Hemingways anymore. Cheap, online print-on-demand services have enabled everyone from amateur photographers to Web-savvy chefs to turn out high-quality masterpieces. After you've composed your opus, upload the files and your would-be best seller - whether it's a flip book or the next great American novel - will be manufactured and mailed to you, often within a few days.

4 Sites That'll Help You Self-Publish
FlipClips
www.flipclips.com
This innovative service lets you turn home movies into mini flipbooks of up to 150 pages (30 seconds of motion). Upload a focused, well-lit, MPG or AVI clip of your sister's wedding or baby's birthday, and in two weeks you'll get a full-color book of memories. Sizes vary.
Price: $9 and up per book

Lulu
www.lulu.com
Lulu's low-cost printing makes it perfect for highly personalized one-offs. Submit a Word document along with JPEGs for cover art, choose your binding - spiral, perfect-bound (with glue), or saddle stitch (folded and stapled) - and bam! your cookbook has just kicked it up a notch.
Price: About $4.50 per book, plus 2 cents per page

Café Press
www.cafepress.com
Submit your story as a PDF, and Café Press will produce high-quality copies, plus manage all your online sales. The comépany caters to geeks: Some of its most popular titles are graphic novels and bound editions of blog musings. One-week turnaround makes it a great choice for last-minute gifts.
Price: $4 to $7 per book, plus 3 to 5 cents per page

iUniverse
www.iuniverse.com
Novelists who want a hard cover and hard editing should log on here. Send the pros at iUniverse your text, and they'll offer suggestions for improvement. Then they'll work with you to design an original jacket. Buy an ISBN, and your book is ready to sell on Amazon.com.
Price: $300 to $800, depending on how much help you need

- David Downs

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