I published my Axiom book on Lulu. Absolutely minimum hassle. I uploaded a PDF and some cover artwork, ordered a copy and it arrived. I purchased the ISBN number which makes it somewhat harder to change but implies that Amazon will carry the book.
I priced the book about $1 over the minimum cost, total about $14. I receive checks occasionally but I don't plan to retire on the income. On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Axiom-1-Tutorial-Timothy-Daly/dp/141166597X (new $22.51 used $29.84) On Lulu http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/axiom-volume-1-tutorial/190827 (download $14.36, paperback $24.64) It is quite amusing to me that the used copies are worth more than the originals. I also ship the source latex and the PDF with Axiom and on Wikipedia so I guess I'm undercutting my own sales. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_computer_algebra_system Overall I'm very satisfied with Lulu. Tim On Sep 14, 8:03 pm, Marshall Hampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Printing the color-highlighted docs in B&W doesn't work very well. > Its legible, but the lighter colors come out faint and hard to read. > > You can replace the PDF fairly easily. > > If you buy 25 or more copies, the price per copy falls a lot. > > Apart from the color-highlighting issue, I have been impressed by the > quality of the lulu books I've ordered. > > -Marshall > > On Sep 14, 6:15 pm, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am curious about anyone's experience with lulu.com. Does anyone > > purchased the sphinx Sage tutorial printed at lulu.com: > > >http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/sage-tutorial/5375513 > > > ? Does it look good? I guess it will be black & white when printed, do > > the examples and section headers look ok (they are colored in the > > sphinx pdf). > > > I use sphinx for my notes: > > >http://certik.github.com/theoretical-physics/book/ > > > so I am curious if I can just get it printed at lulu.com. > > > Also, let's say you find some typos after it is up at lulu, is it > > possible to just upload a fixed pdf in there? And as to the cost, I > > read the lulu's FAQ, but it wasn't clear to me, I just upload it, and > > then buy one copy (e.g. around $7 + shipping for the sage tutorial), > > approve it to lulu.com that it looks ok and that's it? > > > I think that's very exciting, if it's that cheap to publish any books. > > > Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
