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Share for free on these digital media pages:

• Digital Images
• ebooks
• Fonts
• Movies/Videos
• Music
• Ringtones
• Sounds and Midi files

Click the >Publish to share< button to upload nearly anything (except executable or archive files) in only one step!

The uploader pops up, requiring a Title and Author. Whatever file you upload is the same file your customer will download. Once the upload is complete, you receive a link to your content to distribute to your friends and neighbors or put up on your website.

Note: All content published through the one-page direct uploader carries a "direct access" rating.

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Lulu offers creators the opportunity to sell and share both ebooks and digital media downloads.

ebooks

Books offered in a digital file format, such as PDF, Microsoft Word DOC file, or even HTML, are ebooks. They may or may not also exist in physical print form. Like other books, they may be fiction, nonfiction, instruction manuals, cookbooks, etc.

Digital media

This term encompasses not only books but anything that can be transmitted digitally, such as software, audio files, images, compressed files — anything you can transmit digitally. If you have a type of file you would like to offer for download and want to recieve royalties for each download, you can offer it on your storefront using the digital media wizard.

In short, if you have a book, story, manual, or other textual content you would like to distribute digitally, it's probably best suited to the ebook wizard. Anything else, like music or software, is better categorized as digital media.

Note: ebooks and digital media, like printed material, are copyrighted unless the author specifically releases the content into public domain. Though they are often less expensive than printed material (there are no production costs), authors can still make royalties from their distribution.

Please respect creators' rights when you offer ebooks or digital media for download. Make sure that you have permission to sell or distribute that content.

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Our ebook files are PDFs (that is, "Portable Document Format"). Use Adobe® Acrobat® to read them. Find the free download for this common reader at Adobe's free PDF reader. (When you purchase a book in download format, we provide a link to the Acrobat download page beside the >Buy< button.)

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There are no production costs when you offer your work in download format. We host your published work for free.

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Lulu makes no claims that your digital content, once purchased through the Lulu marketplace, will be protected from duplication or digital piracy of any kind. It is your responsibility to protect your digital content, or to choose to offer your content only in hard copy format if you are concerned about digital rights management. (Remember that you cannot upload copy protected files for projects which you also plan to offer in print form). In no event shall Lulu be held liable for losses incurred through illegal piracy of your content by a third party.

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1. Buy the ebook on your home computer.
2. On your iPhone, log into your Lulu account.
3. Go to the My Lulu tab and click on My Downloads in the left navigation menu.
4. Find the ebook and click the orange >Download< button to the right of the title.
5. Once the ebook is open, bookmark the link for the next time you want to read it. You will have to log into Lulu before accessing the bookmark.

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Lulu does not charge you anything when you create your project or charge customers to download an item, so the price of a downloaded project is equal to the Creator Revenue that you set plus the Lulu Commission. There are no set up or production costs. If you choose to forego a Creator Revenue, Lulu waives its commission as well, and you can offer your digital media project for free.

This example shows the resulting selling price if you add a $2 Creator Revenue.

   $ 0.00   No setup charge, no production cost 
   + 2.00   Royalty 
   + 0.50   Lulu commission (25% of your Creator Revenue) 
   ======
   $ 2.50   Price

Price = Production Costs ($0) + Creator Revenue ($2) + Lulu Commission ($.50)

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