FONTS
The fonts that Lulu recognizes natively are:
Arial, Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Century, Courier, Garamond,
Palatino, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Verdana, Symbol
You should be able to use any of them without a problem, and I know
of no kind of size restrictions.
LISTINGS
If you bought the ISBN package which you should, and need to do, the
book will be listed in due time. It took a few weeks for mine to show up
on Barnes & Noble. It gave a retail price and when it would be available.
When that date came, the book listing only said not available at this time
and showed no price. A few days later it appeared again with a price and
2-3 day delivery time. As for B&N, I did upload a picture of the cover,
but not the content since it didn't appear on other books. As for Amazon,
I ordered the ISBN Plus Expanded Distribution on Nov 16, 2003. As of Jan
3, 2004, the boo has yet to be listed. I will update.
Purchases-What To Expect
Here is how it should work. All they need is the ISBN #. If a person
buys your book at Lulu, the royalty owed will show up in your account.
The person pays Lulu directly, and then you are paid the royalty assuming
you get one. If a person logs onto a bookstore site, or walks into a store,
it is slightly different. Someone walks into a bookstore or logs onto a
web site. They order your book, the retailer orders it from lulu your POD,
the retailer pays lulu which in turn pays you, the book is sent to the
retailer, the retailer sells it to the customer, and the retailer keeps
the difference in price.
Royalties
This was a bit confusing to me so I think it needs some explanation.
Initially when you set the price of the book at Lulu, you do exactly that.
Set the price. What I did not know was that the initial price DOES NOT
include the royalty. When you get done at Lulu at the Lulu Pricing &
Availability section, at the bottom, should be your royalty. In my case,
I wanted $3.00 for each book, so I entered the $3.00 directly in the royalty
box and it calculated the rest. Done wrong, and you will recieve nothing
for your work. I didn't realixe mine was wrong until I noticed no royalty
was added to my account after ordering 2 copies so please, make sure you
have it right before ordering or worse yet, telling all of your friends.
The process is similar when you fill out the ISBN section. It will ask
for the retail price which is seperate from Lulu's price. Again, I just
entered my royalty, and it calculated the rest. Hope this helps.
Approving Your Book For Print
When you get the proof copy, or you decide at some point something
is wrong, you have 2 choices. Either deny the entire book and start all
over, or upload what needs fixed. If you deny the entire book, it should
throw it back into "draft" status, so you see the same thing you saw when
you first started. You delete the previous content, make changes in your
original document, and upload it all over again. Once that's done, you
can recreate the spine, edit the cover, and publish again. Make sure you
retire your first edition so that no one else will buy it. Then when someone
clicks on it, they will get the new one instead.
Copyright Protection (Thanks to CD Moulton From Lulu.com)
One thing people do is make copies of the music/book or whatever, put
them in a sealed envelope, one that in no way can be tampered with unless
they tear it, and mail it to yourself. Do not open it and put in in a safe
place. If your work is ever stolen, you will have proof it is yours.
That copyright method is not acceptable in court, because there is more
than one way to open an envelope, regardless. It has been demonstrated
that content can be added to and taken from an envelope without opening
it enough to show.
I've found a very good way, that will be accepted in court at this
point (I doubt not that a way will be devised to get around it) is to e-mail
ALL your work to yourself. NOT as an attachment. Cut and paste the ENTIRE
document into the body of the e-mail, then use the "save as text" feature
to save it to your hard drive. IMMEDIATELY put the work on a CD-R, NOT
a CD-RW, as that can be altered. Put the ENTIRE save, including all headers
and so forth, on the CD.
This has been shown to be effective in establishing the first date
of publication, thus copyright (E-mailing it is publishing it).
It is true that any of the information in the headers etc. can be changed,
but the message ID can't, because checking with the server will give the
date and time, to the second, the e-mail was sent. If you change that,
you change the date and the content description will no longer match. That
is the point that has been accepted in court twice that I'm aware of. You
have the material and the date in the message ID plus the recording date
of the CD plus the date in the headers.
Also Free Advice's copyright law information
Here