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<blockquote data-quote="D_Sinclair" data-source="post: 1951400" data-attributes="member: 21823">There is one way via Lulu.com to sell directly to a store with their current configuration. The idea occurred to me while reading their forums, a post about separating the downloads and print offerings into two separate storefronts. The trick is to establish two Lulu.com storefronts. The two storefronts list the same products, except the one you advertise is for consumer use to buy stuff at retail price, and the other one is for retailer use with discounted prices. One a group of publishers has done this, they can band together and publish a retailer pamphlet which lists their wholesale storefronts, then mail the pamphlet out to a database of retailers. The retailer can then go in, start a Lulu.com account to buy, and just order from the various wholesale storefronts. They'd get charged for everything from multiple publishers all at once and their order would show up in one package, just as it would if they had ordered from a regular distributor. Only significant differences would be the lack of the &quot;x-Day Net&quot; payment grace period and a smaller discount.Anyway, to answer the thread topic, ARP did 22 products last year, including two by freelancers. This year, we're aiming to do at least 25 in-house products and 10 freelancer-driven products. We also plan on putting 15 of the products in our current lineup (and an undetermined number of 2005 products) into print via Lulu.com as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="D_Sinclair, post: 1951400, member: 21823"] There is one way via Lulu.com to sell directly to a store with their current configuration. The idea occurred to me while reading their forums, a post about separating the downloads and print offerings into two separate storefronts. The trick is to establish two Lulu.com storefronts. The two storefronts list the same products, except the one you advertise is for consumer use to buy stuff at retail price, and the other one is for retailer use with discounted prices. One a group of publishers has done this, they can band together and publish a retailer pamphlet which lists their wholesale storefronts, then mail the pamphlet out to a database of retailers. The retailer can then go in, start a Lulu.com account to buy, and just order from the various wholesale storefronts. They'd get charged for everything from multiple publishers all at once and their order would show up in one package, just as it would if they had ordered from a regular distributor. Only significant differences would be the lack of the "x-Day Net" payment grace period and a smaller discount. Anyway, to answer the thread topic, ARP did 22 products last year, including two by freelancers. This year, we're aiming to do at least 25 in-house products and 10 freelancer-driven products. We also plan on putting 15 of the products in our current lineup (and an undetermined number of 2005 products) into print via Lulu.com as well. [/QUOTE]

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