[FM Discuss] [IAEP] ISBN Numbers Summary.

[Janet Swisher]

2009/3/27 Anne Gentle <annegentle at justwriteclick.com>:

> How does FM get a book get stocked and sold by Amazon?
>
> Even if FM is publisher, a publisher still needs printed copies and a method
> of sending those to people who order them. In other words, the work flow as
> I know it currently is:
> 1.  FM/SL booksprint to create the content
> 2.  FM publishes the content to a PDF file.
> 3. FM uploads the PDF file to a place that prints books. Currently FM uses
> http://www.lulu.com/ for this step.
> 4.  Lulu (not FM) makes the content more widely available via resellers such
> as Amazon.
> Step 4 is the one that's black magic to me. :)

OOoAuthors does this, as mentioned in another thread. I know their
printing is through Lulu. I will ask Jean Weber about how she got the
books on Amazon.

--Janet