Product Types You Can Make On Lulu

Print Book

Make a hardcover, paperback, coil bound, or saddle stitch book. Create your book using a wide range of paper, color, trim size and binding options. The most common print-on-demand book, perfect for a variety of projects.

Photo Book

Preserve memories or create a lookbook of your work with a hardcover photo book. Featuring the highest quality paper and rich color ink, our photo book products highlight the best of Lulu's print options.

Notebook

Create a custom notebook, journal, or planner with our preformatted templates. Or design your own unique notebook for yourself or to sell to your fans.

Wall Calendar

Create a 12 to 18-month wall calendar with our free calendar tool. Upload images and create custom holidays and events to build your calendar or upload an original calendar design.

Comic Book or Graphic Novel

Traditional comic book size with paperback binding or graphic novels. Bring your art to life with printing in black & white or rich color, including on the inside of the cover.

Magazine

Create beautiful magazines in full color. Features paper stock designed for magazines, paperback binding and printing on the inside covers.

Cookbook

Share your favorite recipes with a cookbook with Lulu's print-on-demand. High-quality ink and paper options will have your recipes looking as good as they taste!

Yearbook

For schools and institutions, a print-on-demand yearbook means flexibility and customization while saving money. Enjoy the best printing and binding at a fraction of the cost.

Ebook

Create an ebook from your PDF, DOCX, or EPUB file ready for viewing on an ereader, tablet, or smartphone.

Book Sizes

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Pocket Book

4.25 x 6.875 in | 108 x 175 mm

The smallest Lulu format, used for fiction as well as references and poetry collections.
Pocket Book (4.25 x 6.875 in | 108 x 175 mm)

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Book Design Templates

Select your book size and download a free design bundle. The bundle includes book page and cover templates for InDesign, Photoshop, and Word, as well as our Book Creation Guide.

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Use our Pricing Calculator to see print costs and download a custom cover template using your exact page count.

Book Bindings

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Paperback Perfect Bound

32-800 pages

The industry term for traditional paperback binding, perfect bound is the most cost-efficient and popular way to bind on-demand products. Suitable for most projects.

Interior Color Options

Standard Black & White

Standard black & white printing for novels, memoirs, and other text-heavy books.

Premium Black & White

Heavy ink coverage great for books with black & white images, graphs, or other graphics.

Standard Color

If your book is predominantly text but has a few color images, standard color is the right option for you.

Premium Color

The best color printing on every page with rich colors and heavy ink coverage.

Paper Types

60# Cream

Uncoated


Traditional cream paper most frequently used for black & white novels and workbooks.

60# White

Uncoated


Versatile and economical white paper commonly found in a wide range of books.

80# White

Coated


Ultra-smooth, high opacity bright white paper used for photo books, magazines, and comic books.

100# White

Coated (Calendar Only)


The heaviest available stock, used to create durable, vibrant calendars.

Cover Finish

Glossy

Stiff cover stock with a glossy coating finish. Glossy covers withstand wear and tear well while emphasizing the cover imagery. Glossy finish is commonly used for gifts, textbooks, and art books, but is appropriate for a variety of projects.

Matte

A matte finish gives your cover a more subdued, natural look. Used most often with novels and notebooks, matte finish withstands scratches and wear better than any other cover finish.

Hardcover Linen Wrap Color Options

Linen is a cotton-poly blend, with a protective acrylic coating that is wrapped around the cover boards of your book. Text is foil stamped on the spine of your book cover.

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Navy

Black, Gold or White Foil Stamp

Ebook Formats

Pick from the most popular formats for your ebook. Publish an EPUB or PDF ebook for free with Lulu.

EPUB

Create your ebook using our Word DOCX to EPUB converter or bring your own EPUB. Sell your ebook on Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Scribd, and more!

PDF

Upload your PDF and sell as an ebook. Retailers don't currently accept PDF ebooks, but PDFs can be sold on the Lulu Bookstore!

Book Pricing Calculator

Quality book printing at a reasonable price. Check pricing, format variations, retail pricing, and shipping for custom books or calendars.