1. How technology is changing the educational
The next chapter in textbook creation, publishing and social discovery.
How technology is changing the educational
landscape.

2. Are you happy with your textbooks?
“Are you frustrated with the costs and processes of traditional textbook publishing?”
“How many educators utilize more than half of their primary textbook during a given year? 60%? 70%?”
“How many people here have created their own course material?”
“Of the people who have created course material, how do you distribute it?

3. Technology breeds Innovation
“Lulu.com was founded in 2002 to circumvent the bottleneck associated with traditional publishing”
Technology breeds innovation
Print on Demand
Control of YOUR content
Copyright
Royalty
Brand
World’s largest and fastest growing self publishing website

4. Lulu.com, where YOU are the publisher
Turnkey publishing solution
Publishing tools
Branded Storefront
Full eCommerce capabilities
Students purchase direct
Bookstore through purchase orders
Sales Stats and Royalty Reporting
Sales numbers updated daily
Royalty payments made monthly

5. Lulu.com, where YOU are the publisher
Lulu.com is home to:
Artists Students
Musicians Photographers
Authors Businesses
Programmers Non-Profits
Educators Illustrators
Administrators
“You, your students,
your colleagues,
your college”

6. Lulu.com, where YOU are the publisher
“Today, Lulu.com is the destination for authors and creators of all types across the globe.”
Home to a community of over 3 million users
150,000 unique visitors per day
Over 1.4 million pieces of content available
*numbers based on combined volumes from lulu.com and weRead.com

7. What is the NISOD Community Press?
The NISOD Community Press (NCP) is an innovative partnership between NISOD and Lulu.com.
NCP is a two tiered program offering. For the first time, the ability to create a virtual, institutional press and an online community for educators to collaborate, share and exchange ideas is being made available in a dedicated marketplace.

8. Your Institutional Press
Central online resource hub for internal and external materials
Complete Control
Branded e-commerce experience
Print on demand
Real time revisions

9. How does it work?

10. NCP Marketplace Community of knowledge sharing
Browse and buy content created by colleagues
Forums for information exchange
Marketplace for quality, educational content

11. Participation Unlimited access to all faculty and staff
60-80% royalties on all items sold
Complete copyright control
Real time updates and no minimum orders
$ for the first 2 years

12. Social Discovery and Community Platform
weRead founded in mid-2006 by two ex-Amazon execs
#1 book community on Facebook, mySpace, Orkut and Hi5
3 languages and more than 150 countries
Merged with Lulu in mid-2008
Private, established 2002, no debt
HQ: Raleigh, NC
R&D: Bangalore, India
90 full time employees
Multiple access points: social networks, destination URLs, widgets, portable delivery

13. (quizzes, leaderboards,
weRead Technology at a Glance
Virtual Bookshelf
Community Apps
(quizzes, leaderboards,
bookchuck etc.)
Book Clubs
Author’s Corner
Recommendation
Engine
Community/
Social Graph
weRead

14. For Authors/Publishers
Author’s Corner
For Members
Extensive author information
Interaction with favorite authors
Book previews
Author fan clubs
For Authors/Publishers
Connect with loyal readers
Exposure for 1st time authors
Cut out publisher middleman
See who your readers are
Targeted marketing campaigns
Ideal platform for eBook sales

15. Winter 2009: weRead Book Clubs
What are Book Clubs?
Provides a place for users to connect with other users who have similar interests.
Users recommend books to each other and place titles on the Club bookshelf for other users to read.
Provides a place to discuss different titles and to critique them within the Club environment.

16. To learn more about Lulu’s functionality in the educational space
Questions?
To learn more about Lulu’s functionality in the educational space
Contact Sandra Parker at
(919) x245 or