Hulu and Lulu

Hulu and Lulu are two of the most interesting websites I have seen in a while. They are both entertainment related, but serve entirely different purposes.

Hulu www.hulu.com/ is an online media service that features a great assortment of movies as well as many current network television shows. I just got caught up with recent episodes of Fox's Kitchen Nightmares and tuned into Eddie Murphy's classic standup movie, "Raw". There is no cost to sign up, and if you can endure about 3 minutes worth of commercials scattered throughout the broadcasts, you will enjoy them. It's like on-demand, without the cable company demanding money.

Lulu http://www.lulu.com/ is an online e-book and printed book sales site. They offer very reasonable rates for self-publishing if you are interested in saving on publishing costs. They also let you sell your e-book online, too and we have used their service to promote our first e-book called the "2009 Marketing and Promotion Calendar". Go to http://www.2009promocalendar.com/ for more information about our masterpiece. Lulu allows you to sell your work, and they only take a percentage of any sales created. It's a great feature to give your writing more exposure and there are no upfront costs.