Lulu Photo Books Review & Giveaway

Product:
Lulu Photo books

About Lulu:
It’s easy to create your own photo book online using Lulu Studio, our free online photo book creator. You can choose from a range of sizes, cover types and make use of our free professionally designed templates. Photo books are a great way to save and share your digital photographs instead of ordering photo prints. Convert your digital photo albums into beautiful, high quality printed photo books to keep, sell or share with friends and loved ones. Are you an artist publishing your portfolio photo book? A young parent creating a baby photo book? A newlywed making a wedding photo book? Or perhaps you are just feeling creative? Now you can publish and sell your photo book using our online tools. Lulu print on demand publishing makes it easy and affordable to publish and sell your custom photo book. Want to get it done quickly and easily? Lulu Studio makes it easy to use your pictures from Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket, SmugMug, or just upload them from your computer. Our photo books use a custom print on demand process and ship within 3 days of receiving your order. Buy in larger quantities to save money on each book you order. Looking for ideas for your photo book? Take a look here for inspiration and learn more about how to publish a photo book.

Options:
Photo books come in either hardcover or paperback, your choice. There are several sizes to choose from. I chose to get the 5.25 x 3.5 compact set of three. These are perfect for Grandma’s purse!! She will love these cute little books! They are very affordable. You can get a 8×11 letter sized paperback book with 20 pages for only $15.95 for 20 pages!!! Hardcover is only $10 more.

The Review:
Lulu is a very unique place to create your photo book! My wife loves to take photos. Every special event or vacation that we have my wife creates a photo book. For families like mine, Lulu is great because we

have two sets of parents as does my wife so if we bought everyone a book we would go broke! With Lulu you just create and publish your photo book and your family members can buy their own book! This way parents get the photos of their precious grandchildren without breaking your bank… brilliant!
The Pros:

• Lulu is very affordable. Prices start as low as $9.99
• Lulu is a publishing company so your friends and family can buy your photo books as well
• The quality is wonderful. My mini books turned out great!
• Lulu has many other options for your photos like cookbooks, portfolios (my wife wants to do this because of her love for photography) and calendars which also make great gifts.

The Cons:

• The help center is a bit confusing. The only help I could find was from Lulu members. It would be nice if a Lulu representative could answer questions. My question was: Can family members change the size of a photo book that you have published? I still don’t know the answer.
• While the templates seem plentiful the page layouts are lacking in my opinion. I wish there would have been more choices.

I like Lulu. It is really a great place to turn your photos into lasting memories.

Where to purchase: Lulu Photo Books

The Discount:
Now through August 31st, Lulu is offering a 25% discount on photo books with a max savings of $100 exclusively for Coupon Dad readers.  Use the code coupdad25!

The Giveaway:
The great people at Lulu are also offering  one lucky Coupon Dad reader the opportunity to create their very own 8.5×8.5 square hardcover photo book with 20 pages! A photo book valued at $19.99!

The Details:
The giveaway will end at midnight CST on Sunday, August 15th  2010. I will draw the winner using random.org and notify them early in the week by email (make sure to give a good email address when leaving the comment). The winner will have 48 hours to respond to claim their prize.

To Enter: (Main required, then up to 3 more entry opportunities)

Main Entry:
For the main entry leave me a comment on how many digital photos you have on your computer instead of a beautifully bound Lulu Photo Book? I would guess my wife has around 10,000 (give or take a few hundred) LOL!!!!!

Other Ways to Enter:

1) “Like” Coupon Dad or LuLu on Facebook:

Head over to Facebook and “like” the  Coupon Dad fan page or “like” the  Lulu Fan Page ….If you want say hi while you are there and don’t forget to let them know Coupon Dad sent you.

Make sure to come back here and leave a comment that you did.

2) Subscribe to any / all of the Coupon Dad websites:

Subscribe (verified) to the any of the four Coupon Dad feed options (or more is cool too….I think they are all great!)

Then come back here and leave a separate comment telling me you have done so.

3) Twitter

Follow Coupon Dad on Twitter and LuLu on Twitter and then Tweet about this giveaway. Make sure to copy us on your tweet by adding @Coupon_Dad. Also comment back on the post that you have done this.

Thanks and good luck!