First impressons - lulu

As before, please keep in mind - anything I say in my first impressions is only an impression before actually committing to anything -including the upload of the actual manuscript. Results will be reported on down the line. I'm still in the process of deciding on things.

Lulu's been around for more than a decade now and seems to be doing really well. Publishing with lulu is free and is available both in digital as well as print format, distributing books on their own website, Amazon, B&N and Ingram from what I could gather. I'd say it could be considered a high-end self-publishing service, as it allows the user to purchase almost any service from formatting through editing to promotion. If you do decide to go with the purchase of such services, you will quickly realise that publishing a book on a professional level is very expensive. I don't really blame lulu for this - it's a very time consuming job that demands a lot of expertise and high prices for such are not uncommon. Thus to help you out, they do offer service packages that can get you the basic services at a much lower cost, which for a limited time seems to include limited promotion in the form of a press release that is send to a plethora of news agencies.

Sadly, the bundles don't apply to me well, becase I've already invested time and money to get the basic formatting done already, thus the packs are much less viable for my purposes.

... but some of the promotional tools still look tempting.