Publish/Republish Your Book

It's true; books about the Manitou Islands or the Manitou Passage area have limited market appeal, so publishing costs are often a discouragement. Memoirs often go unpublished, and previously published books go out of print. If you are the author, or control the rights to such a book, ManitouIslandsArchives.Org can help. Here's how:

• You provide your materials — a manuscript, photos, and so on, or a scanable printed copy of your book.
• ManitouIslandsArchives.Org formats your book for production as a perfect-bound paperback publication, will prepare correctly formatted print-ready files for the interior and cover of your book, and upload them to POD (print on demand) partner Lulu.Com.
• Professionally published and printed copies of printed copies of your book will then be available as a public service in the Lulu.Com "Marketplace." The price for online purchases recoups Lulu's production costs only. A trade standard 6" x 9" x 120-page book, for example, will be available for $6.93. ManitouIslandsArchives.Org receives no compensation of any kind from sales of your book.
• ManitouIslandsArchives.Org will also make your book available in searchable form in its "Books Online" library as a resource for researchers and others interested in the Islands or Manitou Passage history and culture.
• ManitouIslandsArchives.Org charges you nothing for any part of this service.
• You retain full intellectual property rights.

If you feel your book has commercial potential, and wish to profit from its sale —

• ManitouIslandsArchives.Org will help you set up your own Lulu.Com publisher account.
• You can set the price of your book at whatever level you wish.
• Lulu.Com will then earn 20% of the net revenue from each sale, remitting the remaining 80% directly to you.
• Should you wish to distirbute your book to local book sellers, you may then also purchase copies of your book from Lulu at cost.
• ManitouIslandsArchives.Org will also make your book available in searchable form in its "Books Online" library as a resource for researchers and others interested in the Islands or Manitou Passage history and culture.
• Again, ManitouIslandsArchives.Org charges you nothing for these services, nor shares in revenue from sales.

To get your project started, or for more information, please write or email ManitouIslandsArchives.Org.