E-Commerce: Lulu Self Publishing

Lulu is a self-publishing service that allows users to upload content, design publications in various formats (e.g., paperback books, photo books, calendars, etc.), and sell their products online. Some schools have used services like Lulu to publish collections of student work such as poems or short stories. A school could design an interdisciplinary project where students in Business or E-Commerce courses developed a business or marketing plan, and worked with students in Language Arts and/or Art to publish student works through Lulu. A school could designate any profits generated from the sale of publications (what parent wouldn't buy one!) to school needs such as computers for participating classrooms. Students in Accounting courses could maintain the books and project profits.