Quick?
From the US branch I sent off my text and pictures on a Saturday night and got my book before the next weekend. (Other sites were promising your book in six weeks. I needed a book for a display table at a writer's conference. A typical writer - ENFP on Myers Briggs personality typing, I had procrastinated and left it to the last moment.) I must admit on a second occasion it took longer. You might have a bigger parcel and be out. You might have a national holiday making the total time longer. But now that they have a printing deal in the UK for us in the UK it should compare favourably with the USA.
After the book was loaded up, I could have it sent direct from the USA to a recipient in the USA in a hurry - quicker than posting it from the UK.
Cheap
Under £5 for a book. Assuming it's a simple black and white book. That's just the printing. You will pay extra for postage.
Remember your print cost is not your sale price. You have to cost in Lulu's commission, your profit, and the fifty per cent markup if selling through a regular bookshop or on line bookseller.
Control
You have complete control - you can decide the font, text size, cartoons, photos, number of illustrations.
Private Books
If you simply want a copy of your holiday travels, or your memoirs for your grandchildren or descendants - or yourself in later life, it's a fantastic deal.
Somebody at my Harrow Writers' Circle said it's cheaper than printing off a draft to proof-read, using your own paper, ink, plus your time doing it and collating.
