Ozzie Rozzie In Print

I decided to start with something I had prepared earlier (see previous post) and this morning I published Ozzie Rozzie on Lulu.com, which seems upon inspection a lot better than Café Press, although agonisingly slow. I set up my “storefront” there – http://www.lulu.com/funk/

However, at a cost of $35 I bought ISBN number 1-4116-6420-5 to make the book into real product and get it into Amazon, which means that I am now down over 100 US dollars. Still, this is all part of my drive to increase (read: begin) profits , and thus I hope worth it in the long run.

Lulu offers the chance to upload preview files, so I recorded some of chapter one and uploaded it as an MP3.

How exciting!

Despite this brave foray into self-publishing, in which I took the advice of Realgem, Karma and Liz, there are limits. I’m certainly not going to charge anyone to read anything published on Blog of Funk. That would not be funky. I am thrilled just to have readers. I put search facilities in early on, so that people could search the blog and read laterally if they wanted. Technorati seems quite good, I kind of like their take on things slightly more than some of the Megatechalithic corporations.

I should really tag my pages rather than try to squeeze bucks out of blog readers! Still, it’s not as if I don’t have a plan. It’s been an enjoyable and memorable day – the day I got my first ISBN, and the day my PPL Application Pack arrived.