Sell your self-published book on Amazon, the Ingram Network, and more. Lulu’s Global distribution service reaches over 40,000 book retailers and schools around the world.
With Global Distribution your book will be available for purchase on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com as well as online retailers around the world in as little as 6-8 weeks. Once your book is approved for distribution, book data is sent to major bibliographic databases, including Nielsen and Bowker. Additionally, brick-and-mortar bookstores can order and stock your title at their discretion through Ingram.
You will receive retail revenues on all books sold through Global Distribution partners. Sales made through Global Distribution listings are credited to your account approximately 6-8 weeks after a customer purchases your book. Payment from these sales is distributed according to the payment settings in your Lulu.com account.
Important: Lulu’s ebooks qualify for Global Distribution if they are in English only and in EPUB format.
To be eligible for Global Distribution, your book:
- Must have an ISBN. You can get a free ISBN from Lulu or use one you have purchased and registered.
- Requires a retail markup.
- Must be an eligible language in non-Latin characters.
What happens if you remove your book?
After you retire your book, it can take 6-8 weeks for its retirement request to be fully processed by our retail partners. Once your book’s retirement is processed, you may see listings for it on our retail partners’ websites, such as Amazon. These listings will remain active as this information may persist to support activities such as sales of used copies through their marketplace. That said, no new copies of your book will be printed.
If you think this is a great option for you, you can go back to our SAP page to compare with the manual distribution plan, get a quotation on how much it will cost to publish your book with this plan or book this service outrightly.