I think down deep in my heart I'm always wanted to be a published author, writing that "super exhilarating, can't put it down" spy novel or some deep thinking manuscript that everybody must read. Well this morning while I was looking around Twitter I came across a book publishing site called LuLu. This site helps you to put together your idea for a publication, put it into a format that can be distributed and then provide a distribution path for that publication. Whether you have created your epic spy novel, delicious cookbook, eye popping calendar or photo book, whatever your idea, they can help you to produce itm print it and distribute it.
This is also great for making short run for technical books for your company, catalogs, or brochures. They can produce hard back books or paperback, perfect bound, saddle stitch or spiral bound books. They can be in full color or just black and white. Or they can just be electronic, to be distributed through the Internet.
It's free do sign up, and until you use their service for publication you can work on the development of your publication and then pull the trigger when you're ready. They provide a site for you to manage your projects, and help you to manage the selling your masterpiece. This includes using their online shopping cart system to collect the funds for your sold works. This is all pretty neat stuff and I have a couple of projects in mind already.
Links: http://www.lulu.com/