How print on demand works

options offered

 Upload two files: a print-ready interior PDF and a full-wrap cover (back, spine, front) sized to your page count.

 See your numbers. The calculator shows the printing cost, BookMarket's print margin and your earnings per copy at the list price you choose.

packaging/receipt show BookMarket branding?

 You get paid for every copy, shown in your Author Studio.

What a printed copy costs, and what you earn

There's no setup fee for print. Each sale works like this: Earnings per copy = your list price − Lulu printing cost − BookMarket print margin −

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What changes the printing cost: page count (the biggest factor), trim size, paperback vs. hardcover, black- and-white vs. color interior, and paper type. Shipping is calculated at checkout and paid by the reader.

Choose your format

Paperback

Perfect-bound softcover, the

default for most novels and

nonfiction. The lowest printing cost

and the friendliest price for

readers.

Hardcover

For special editions, gift books,

poetry and nonfiction with shelf

presence. Costs more to print, and

readers expect to pay more for it.

options

Color interiors

For illustrated, children's,

cookbook and photography titles.

offered

Quality you can stand behind

Lulu prints on demand for authors and publishers across the US, and every copy is made to order. If a reader receives a damaged or misprinted book, they report it within 14 days of delivery and it's replaced or refunded. If policy. That protects your reviews as well as your readers.

File checklist

Interior PDF at your exact trim size, fonts embedded, with 0.125 in (3.175 mm) bleed if anything runs to the Cover as one PDF→ back + spine + front, with spine width calculated from page count (download the template

Images at 300 DPI at printed size

EDITORIAL NOTE

Formatting and cover wraps trip up most first-time authors. Our formatting/services/formatting and cover design/services/cover-design services deliver print-ready files.