Just Received this B.S. from Lulu:

This is the second time I've been screwed over by a publishing company.  The first time was in 2003.  After getting my rights back, I put my books away and left them until November of 2020.  And here I am, once again being screwed over by a company that has been distributing saddle stitch books globally for decades and suddenly stops without notice.  I am giving up.  The Universe obviously doesn't want me to achieve anything in life.  Therefore, after two failed attempts, I concede. I will leave my books on Lulu so I may purchase them myself and donate them to our local libraries and grade schools, if they want them.  Other than that, they will sit there, unnoticed on Lulu's bookstore, as my first 2 books did for about 15 years, no matter how hard I tried to get anyone to look.  I am done. 

 I used Lulu's guidelines.  I downloaded all of the information available.  I published all of my books before Valentine's Day this year.  There was nothing in the guidelines about a change of global distribution.  I am not jumping through Lulu's hoops.  The company has gone completely downhill and I have had my fill of them.  They produce beautiful books, yet they are ridiculously overpriced.  They give many options for printing, yet the majority of them are unavailable when it's time to choose.  I was only given the options of saddle stitch or hard cover for 5 of my books and only hard cover for 1 of them.  It's absolutely ludicrous that believe that their little Lulu Bookstore is in any way able to compete with Amazon or Barnes & Noble.  In 15 years, I have only sold 3 books from their bookstore.  And I promoted them like mad.  NO ONE wants to go to Lulu Bookstore to buy a book, as they are not a trusted, giant bookseller.  Lulu is a small fish in an ocean of water.  The only reason I chose them is because they print beautiful books and they distributed all of their books globally.  I've had my fill.  I've been screwed over by two publishing companies now in 20 years time.  Enough is enough.  I will let my books sit on their little store site so that I may purchase them myself to give to our local libraries and grade schools, if they want them. 

Cheers.

Well, so be it.  It happened.  Yet, I cannot believe that Amazon, a company that sells everything under the sun, would suddenly stop selling a certain kind of bound book.  As I had a thriving Amazon business for the better part of a decade, I am quite familiar with their fervent desire to sell anything and everything they possibly can.  Therefore, I do not believe Lulu.  The company that has recently caused so many authors so much grief.  

Thank you for looking all this up and factoring it, but I'm packing it in.  What I have available is out there, and if someone happens upon it, then at least for a fleeting moment my works will be seen.  Thank you again.  

Benziger, excellent job.

Tyner:
Add a couple of pages at the back of your book mentioning your other books, with little blurbs and cover images. That will get your page count up as well as help in your advertising efforts.