Selling photobooks on Amazon? [ Edited ]

[simonralli]

Hi - I am thinking about producing a photo book.  Can these be sold on Amazon? It appears not but I'd love to!

Previously I have made personal ones using [edit - a different company], but I have an idea for a book I can sell.

Cheers

Simon

[Ken Anderson]

Read this http://connect.lulu.com/t5/ISBN-Distribution/What-Products-are-Eligible-for-Retail-Distribution/ta-p...

[simonralli]

Cheers Ken

You rlink seems to just be for paperback or hardbacks and not photo books or portfoliios.  When I did the costing for a colour book, it came out around £50 on Lulu **Edited for content**.

I am sure Lulu will be cheaper on the photo books, but it seems that these can not be sold on Amazon?

[kevinlomas]

They can be sold on Amazon if you sell them yourself on Amazon and buy them from Lulu, but Lulu's ISBNs will not get it beyond Lulu because Lulu Photobooks cannot have one.
The way around it is to not use the Photobook Wizard but to create a file of pages on your PC and upload that to one of the other 'normal' book Wizards.

http://connect.lulu.com/t5/Video-Tutorials/tkb-p/video_tutorials%40tkb

But I think you already know how to do that :-)

[simonralli]

Yeah - I did investigate that but as I said, it just isn't viable and Lulu comes out twice as expensive.  I'd love to do it though.

[kevinlomas]

I wonder when "and Lulu comes out twice as expensive" will be deleted?
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