Custom Calendars Prove to Be Popular Gift Ideas

Custom Calendars Prove to Be Popular Gift Ideas

Lulu Offers 'Make Your Own Calendar' Publishing to Individuals and Organizations

RALEIGH, N.C., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Homemade gifts do not usually spring to mind when someone mentions Internet Christmas shopping. But this year people are doing both by using Lulu ( http://www.lulu.com/ ) to make custom calendars as gifts for their friends and families. Lulu is the same company that offers easy to use, print on demand publishing for books.

On the cover of one Lulu calendar, a miniature rabbit stares at the camera, his ears flopping quizzically on either side of his head. The calendar title is Brambley Hedge Rabbit Rescue, and all the proceeds from its sale go to benefit a rescue shelter for unwanted rabbits in Phoenix, Arizona ( http://www.lulu.com/bhrabbitrescue ). In another offering on Lulu, an online community of toy camera enthusiasts has collected favorite photos from its web site into a beautiful, artistic wall calendar ( http://www.lulu.com/toycamera ).

Most of the calendars are made by regular people -- parents, grandparents, and even kids -- taking advantage of the digital cameras that have become so popular. Creating and publishing a calendar is as easy as choosing a template and uploading an image for each month. You can even create your own customized set of holidays.

"Anyone can create a calendar," explains Henry Hutton, one of Lulu's directors of operations. "What we see over and over are parents creating calendars from photos of their kids to give to extended families as gifts, or people creating calendars of pet photos for friends."

A twelve-month, full-color photo calendar costs $11.45. Calendar creators are free to add a royalty to the price of their calendar and sell it to others online through Lulu storefronts. Details on Lulu calendars are available here: http://www.lulu.com/static/on-demand-calendars.php

The Lulu marketplace contains over 16,000 books along with thousands of independently published images, songs, and calendars. Publishing on Lulu is free and publishers set their own royalties on products. Books and calendars purchased on Lulu are printed on demand.

About Lulu ( http://www.lulu.com/ ): Lulu provides independent publishers with free access to on-demand publishing tools for content, including books, e-books, music, images, calendars and more. Contact: pr@lulu.com


Source: Lulu

CONTACT: Britt Carter for Lulu, +1-919-313-4813, carterb@fleishman.com

Web site: http://www.lulu.com/
http://www.lulu.com/bhrabbitrescue
http://www.lulu.com/toycamera
http://www.lulu.com/static/on-demand-calendars.php


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