CreateSpace, Lulu and Lightning Source authors discussion

Hello everyone! I am Sara Naveed. I am an emerging writer from Pakistan.
I've just finished with my first book and now I am waiting for some publisher to turn up and publish my book. I wish I could follow the conventional route but if that doesn't happen, I have to opt for self publishing. So which one is better? Createspace or LULU?
I need some really honest reviews!

Thank you! :)

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I highly recommend CreateSpace. It's inexpensive and easy, and if you can't do the formatting yourself, there are plenty of folks who can do it for you (I'm one of them) for a reasonable fee. The manufacturing costs differ wildly between the two. For example, if you take the same specs and plug them into the calculators on CreateSpace and Lulu to determine the manufacturing cost, the Lulu version costs about two times more--plus Lulu takes another $2 on top of that! This means that the same book produced through Lulu will have to be priced $8-$10 higher to give the author the same profit.

If you're interested in doing your book through CreateSpace, I've got a step-by-step document on my blog. If you have a good understanding of headers, footers, section breaks, and styles in Word, you can definitely do it yourself. Or as I mentioned above, you can find someone to do it for you.

Thank you so much for the help, Dana. I will surely read out the step by step document of yours and will let you know if I need help from you.

Sara wrote: "Thank you so much for the help, Dana. I will surely read out the step by step document of yours and will let you know if I need help from you."

I hope it helps! :)

Dana wrote: "Sara wrote: "Thank you so much for the help, Dana. I will surely read out the step by step document of yours and will let you know if I need help from you."

I hope it helps! :)"
I will let you know :)

I made paperbacks with both companies and on quality alone Createspace was better. Lulu images were slightly blurred. Blurred enough for me not to want to use them again.

Paul wrote: "I made paperbacks with both companies and on quality alone Createspace was better. Lulu images were slightly blurred. Blurred enough for me not to want to use them again."
Thanks for the help! :)